What he said...Your not in High School anymore, so you don't have to meet him at the bridge... However, if he persists, you need to kick him in the balls and run...
I know how the punks are. We play in a co-ed indoor RECREATIONAL soccer league. Our team is mostly over the hill (35-55) and many times we play a bunch of 18-25 year olds. Needless to say we get beat quite often. The younger punks treat these games like they are life and death. They can also be winning 10-1 and still trying their darnedest to score with 5 seconds left. There are even times when the goalie comes screaming down the field in the last 30 seconds of a blow out trying to score. A couple of occasions I was playing goal when a goalie did that and I simply stepped off to the side and let him score. I told them that if it was that important for them to score, I'd let 'em.
The sad thing is, you would think there would be a little more civility and respect in a military base league. Is this guy in the service? If so, that's sad.
UPDATE: Tonight I had another game and after seriously thinking about not going, I went any way as my team wanted me in charge of the substitutions. The guy that I got into it with on Tuesday was playing the game before my game. After his game was over, he sat on the bench on our side. I had this feeling he wanted to talk to me. So, after shooting some lay-ups (which I don't know why since I didn't play but that was my choice), I walked over to him. I extended my hand towards him and said, "Hey man, I'm sorry about the other night." He looked at me, shook my hand and said, "I'm sorry too - it was all my fault." He told me it was a heat of the moment thing and I told him that I provoked him. But we were both happy that everything was cool. Then my team wound up beating one of the 2 undefeated teams. So, it was a good night - at least recreational basketball league wise.
I once played in a church league. The teams weren't very good. Mostly just a bunch of middle age guys that were having fun. One guy on our team was the Pastor and he would lose it at the refs and the other team. One time I asked him about what kind of message that showed -- he didn't take the question well and told me that I shouldn't question him and I should be in submission to him. I didn't hang around at that church very long after that.
Manny; I'm glad to hear eveything worked out well for you. I know what you mean about punks and that is one of the reasons I don't play pickup ball at the park anymore. I used to get sick of games being held up when two punks would start jawing at each other rather than playing. My solution to any punks messing with me is that I don't talk much on the court when I do its usually self-critical comments. I also go out of my way to keep things light by making self-depracating comments like once I was playing 21 with some homies and they were going on and on talking like "I'm gonna Kobe on your @ss" so I told them "I'm gonna Fred Hoiberg on your @ss" which they got a kick out of. The other thing is I will complement other players even people I'm playing against when they make great plays. Of course sometimes you just have people who are so competive / agressive there's nothing you can do to keep it friendly. I once was playing pickup ball at college against a guy who played really agressive / dirty. He would practically tackle players on my team. On one play I jumped for a rebound and he grabbed my arm and pulled me down so on the next play when I was near him and he went for a rebound I foot swept him so he fell flat on his @ss. I did it fast enough and sereptitiously so to everyone else it looked like he just slipped and fell but he didn't foul me again hard.
Tell me about it. These days pretty much some part of my body is hurting every day. The last time I was 100% was when I was 27
