Saturday, May 01, 2004
Junk, Survival, Paradigms and stuff
You know that “survival of the fittest” theory?
OK. So what if we compare Junkyard Sports like Fryingpan Baseball and Hoseball Golf to official Arena Sports like football, soccer,?
Here's something chart-like:
Junkyard Sports:
Play with anything
Play with anybody
Play anywhere
Play any way you all want to
Arena sports
Play only with the right stuff
Play only with the right people
Play only in the right place
Play only according to the rules
Think of each kind of sport as a different kind (like a species, as it were).
Which species do you think (he asks rhetorically) is more likely to survive the long haul?
Think of what it means to be a team when you play Junkyard Sports, vs what it means to be a team when you play the other kind.
Which kind of team is more likely to thrive (he asks toungue-in-cheekily) when things start changing, things like roles and rules and goals and boundary lines?
Which leads me to the conclusion that Junkyard Sports is an opportunity to present a different paradigm for both workplace and fireplace, a paradigm that is radically different from that of traditional sports, and yet I'm thinking more accurately describes how they really experience themselves and each other when they really work as a team.
Whaddya think?
OK. So what if we compare Junkyard Sports like Fryingpan Baseball and Hoseball Golf to official Arena Sports like football, soccer,?
Here's something chart-like:
Junkyard Sports:
Play with anything
Play with anybody
Play anywhere
Play any way you all want to
Arena sports
Play only with the right stuff
Play only with the right people
Play only in the right place
Play only according to the rules
Think of each kind of sport as a different kind (like a species, as it were).
Which species do you think (he asks rhetorically) is more likely to survive the long haul?
Think of what it means to be a team when you play Junkyard Sports, vs what it means to be a team when you play the other kind.
Which kind of team is more likely to thrive (he asks toungue-in-cheekily) when things start changing, things like roles and rules and goals and boundary lines?
Which leads me to the conclusion that Junkyard Sports is an opportunity to present a different paradigm for both workplace and fireplace, a paradigm that is radically different from that of traditional sports, and yet I'm thinking more accurately describes how they really experience themselves and each other when they really work as a team.
Whaddya think?





