Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Sports is Life Described in About 3 Hours

Twitter brings out a ton of personalities and I happen to follow some of the best fans in the world.  After the Warriors lost Game 1 of their Western Conference Semi Final game vs the San Antonio Spurs, I thought about unfollowing Keith.  Why Keith?  Well, honestly I met him in person a few times and he is a great guy, but at the same time what disappointed me is that his tweets are completely not him.  Sometimes I believe that what he says on twitter is not what he says in real life.  I personally think he is doing too much politicking, so let's take a look...


Keith is talking about the umpire doing the Athletics/Indians game and is completely criticizing a man who is paid to officiate a game between "grown men".  He really needs to give the guy a break.  He is trying his best and all Keith does here is criticize about how terrible of a job he is doing.  Major League Baseball has some of the best athletes in all of the world and this man is one of the best at doing his job trying to make a living to feed his family.  Why can't Keith understand that?  Noooo, he cares about the team he is rooting for to win and not giving this man the benefit of the doubt.  Can you do a better job Keith?  Where do you work?  What if this man talked crap about what you were doing at your work today? The man is trying to make a living you know!


The one thing that pisses me off about Keith is that he "claims" to call himself a Sacramento Kings fan and he personally wants them to stay in Sacramento, but he throws this tweet up there.  In all honesty, I don't think Keith cares about basketball at all.  He takes photos of himself at these basketball games, but my biggest issue here is he flip-flops his ideals more than a politician does.  Look at Keith's profile photo on twitter when you have the chance.  He does that kind of garbage to get on television.  I think he is just an attention whore to try and be noticed.  Check out the next tweet about what he said to me to set off this chain of events...


Out of all the people I trusted on twitter to say really nice things to me on twitter, it was Keith who did. It's like really?  This pissed me off.  When I texted him and asked why he said this, all I got was a huge middle finger and he started rattling off reasons why I was doing this.  Yeah, I sent him a ton of Social Reward tweets on twitter, but was that what set him off to say these things about me?  Maybe it was my fault for sending the Social Rewards tweets.  He never really said to me he didn't want me to send them.  In fact, he made fun of me for sending them out, so I jokingly sent him all of the tweets.  He never told me he didn't like them, so really?  This was completely uncalled for.  This is definitely rights for an unfollow.

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For those who watched the Warrior game or sports in general do you feel better now?  I completely berated a friend on twitter in three tweets and overanalyzed what he said.  I took everything out of context like a fan would do with their sports team on twitter.  My point is that losses hurt because we care about our favorite teams and I get that.  As I wrote in my last post, Sports are Humbling.  At times you can be on the highest of highs and then the next day the lowest of lows.  There are also middle grounds at times where you are just playing .500 at life.  Some things are bad in life and somethings are good, but when stuff gets bad, its all about how you rebound.  Oh and thank you Keith for helping me prove a point.  You are an awesome friend.

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You are putting together an awesome presentation that will get you a huge offer of a million dollars for your company.  You desperately need that raise and have been at the same job for 3 years waiting for your huge break.  This is the time for you to shine and everyone in the office says that your company will definitely get the contract over the competition, as you are favored to win.  Unfortunately, while putting the final touches on the project, your competition is rumored to make a huge comeback and will take the job instead.  Instead of finishing the project with the way you have been working on it for the past 6 weeks, you tense up and barely beat the deadline.  Your co-workers and boss are turning skeptical and wondering if the project that was so much in hand earlier is going to happen now. At the big meeting the client reads your proposal and your competitions.   The client realizes that you both need to show something else to get the offer.  You are frustrated at yourself that you should have gotten this job done easily and now you have to put in more hours at the office.  Your last minute mistakes have cost you as you realized you made some big ones that have messed up your calculations.  This extra time has now set back about four to five other projects that you have put on the back burner, but you realize that you need this project and must convince your client to take your proposal.

One week passes by and the client still needs to see more from both you and the competition.  Two weeks go by, then three. Now its been a month and the client needs it done now.  You have completely worked your ass off on this project and you don't want to fail.  Neither does your competition, but at the same time you found out the competition started out late, but is finishing really strong because of experience.  Self doubt creeps into your mind and you are really wondering if you are going to get this project.  Countless hours could be all for naught.  You panic, you hyperventilate, you can't breathe. You are just hoping you have got the project.  A month and a half ago this was in your grasp and now, it's gone...

The client has decided to go with your competition at the last second.  No specific reason why other than that their project was just "better" than yours. Your initial reaction is anger, frustration and you probably want to throw something at the wall at this point.  All of your work completed and you absolutely blew it.  You start thinking about that raise you were going to get which is not going to happen anymore.  The new car you wanted? Gone! The new video game? No No No Not Today!  What do you do?  Do you learn from the experience and move on or do you just quit right now and realize you are finished.  You think you will never ever become big time in your company.  Your co-workers who thought you had the project "in the bag" are now doubting how you perform under pressure think you are never going to recover from the mishap.  Their view changes about you and you start hearing your name going around the office as a big "choke".  You failed them as much as you failed yourself.

A little resiliency and hard work pays off
By the end of the week, your boss has realized that not getting this project has affected you to the point to where you are being unproductive at the office.  You are missing deadlines on everything and the potential that the Hiring Manager/Boss saw in you is going to waste.  Your mental toughness is gone and you are getting upset and snapping at people to the point where everyone has lost respect for you for choking the project away.  Two days later, the boss has seen enough and you are fired from your job.

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You wake up in your bed and check your clock and are sweating bullets.  It is 4 AM and you have realized it was just a bad dream.  You realize how much you have done in the past week and how you got your company the project.  The million dollars is yours and everyone at the office is happy for you.  You finally caught your big break at work and you have seized the opportunity under pressure.  The competition although experienced took the lead on you, but you were able to snatch it back.  You were resilient in the face of everything.  Even when your co-workers seemed to doubt you to be able to get the project done, you did and you got the deal.  Everyone is happy for you and says you have taken a big step in the company hierarchy.  "Thank goodness it's Saturday morning" you think as you go back to sleep for another few more hours and wondering what car you are going to get once you get your raise next week...

By the way, the office scenario I just described to you was pretty much on point how the Warriors game went tonight.  Ponder that thought for a while next time you say a team is finished...
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