End of the summer season...

[parrothead]

And my team was first by a long shot! The icing on the cake was that I was the #1 player in the league. It is the first time playing in leagues that a team I was on has placed more than 2 from the bottom. I have to say I am elated and had to share with you all. :) :D

[dags_lax]

Kudos to you Parrothead. League MVP is quite an accomplishment. I've done it a few times my self. For me it was always a something of a bittersweet award. In my heart I knew that there were a few players that were better than me and, but for a few lucky breaks on my part, they could have ended with a better average than me. These awards have had the effect of leaving me feeling undeserving because, even though I had the best average, I knew in my heart that my best game wasn't out there week in and week out. This has resulted in a dedication to try and prove myself worthy the next season.

Pool is a something of unique game in as much as your opponents are yourself and the table. Even though you are competing against someone else the only flesh and blood opponent you face is yourself, and the measure of your success should be measured in not the games you won, or your average, but in how you fared against that opponent!

An honest person will admit to himself that, even though he won, there was always someplace he could have done a little better. The players with the plaques and the trophies realize this. They know that they need to continue to strive for perfection. This drive for perfection, to try and prove themselves worthy is why they have the awards and will continue to fill up the trophy case as the years go on.

Now to get a little metaphysical. The ancient Greeks had a word for pride. Hubris. And they considered hubris a sin. They realized that, while it should be strived for, perfection in the mortal world could never be attained. Thus any accomplishment, no mater how great, is not perfection. Therefore any pride taken in that accomplishment will be a false pride in as much as any accomplishment is not perfection.

I think that any person that has reached the pinnacle in whatever endeavor they have chosen realizes that they haven't done as well as they could have. While they may have a sense of pride in their accomplishments only a fool thinks that he is the best. A wise man realizes that he is not the best because he himself has room to grow, to become better. There fore what that man he has yet to become, but he never will become, is the best.

So to you Parrothead, to my self, and to all the readers in this forum, know that whatever your successes in the past, today, or in the future, the goal, and it is an impossible goal, is to achieve perfection tomorrow. Know that while your best today may have been good enough there is no pride to be taken in those accomplishments because you know that tomorrow it is possible for you to do better.

[Neil Fujiwara]

Congrats!!

[Cardinal_Syn]

Congrats...MVP wow...was your team the underdog?

[parrothead]

Congrats...MVP wow...was your team the underdog?

Not really the underdog, but no one expected us to finish first.