You never go into a season thinking you're going to strike out 200 guys or that you would have the most double-digit strikeout games in the big leagues, or anything like that. You just try to win, and the outing becomes what the outing becomes.
Soccer is a man's game, not an outing for mamby-pambies.
I don't believe in outing people. It's up to the individual, but there's nothing wrong putting the pressure on.
You can't really hit or miss on one outing.
Talent renders the whole idea of rehearsal meaningless; when you find something at which you are talented, you do it (whatever it is) until your fingers bleed or your eyes are ready to fall out of your head. Even when no one is listening (or reading or watching), every outing is a bravura performance, because you as the creator are happy. Perhaps even ecstatic.
Outing is brutal and it should be reserved for brutes
Outing someone is like ripping a butterfly from its cocoon. You can damage them for life and rob them of THEIR life changing experience of liberation. For a successful emergence THEY have to struggle through the cocoon of fear and shame. THEN they can fly.
When you start a game, you don't think to yourself, "well, OK, I'm going throw a one-hitter today. " It just becomes an organism, your outing becomes an organism and it grows.
All in all, I wouldn't call it a bad outing. It was a short outing.
