Friday afternoon kicked off the spring sports season at Blair. But what it also kicked off is the trash talking between baseball and lacrosse players. Last year, my first in high school, I was taught early on by the upperclassmen on the baseball team that I should hate lacrosse players and everything they stand for. I didn't really have an issue with lacrosse, and even had some friends on the team. But somehow, it became engrained within me that I should dislike the sport. The same thing happened to many of my teammates, and there's no doubt in my mind that the lacrosse kids developed a dislike for us, too.
The rivalry itself was usually limited to occasional trash talking in the locker room before practice, or just making fun of each other in the hallways. But then, this happened.
It's probably not very clear what's actually going on in this picture. Basically, at the beginning of the season, someone on the baseball team had the dumb idea to make a kid carry around this plant for a week if they made a mistake in a game. No one on the team actually cared about it, and it was rare that someone was actually assigned to carry it around. But the JV lacrosse team apparently thought they we liked the plant, or something, and stole it. Then, they took the picture above, with the caption: "YOLO! We stole it!" This was stupid for a multitude of reasons:
1) We didn't want the plant.
2) It was a punishment for us.
3) The caption said "yolo".
4) It's a potted plant.
But some kids on the baseball team took it as an act of war, and decided to get revenge. One guy on our team went over to the lacrosse field early in the morning one day, and tied their goals to the fence using zipties. The lacrosse team got understandably salty, and the relationship between the two sports only suffered more. But as this spring gets started, I was thinking about the rivalry. It's sort of dumb. I can understand some of the slights against baseball, and there's definitely some silly things about lacrosse. But they're both fairly difficult sports, and I think that instead of spreading the hate this spring, the two sports should come together. And instead of teaching the current freshmen to despise the other sport, like what happened to us, we should teach them to appreciate it. But some friendly teasing between the two sides is chill and natural.
After all, lacrosse still sort of sucks. <3
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