>>Now there brings up an interesting point. (I can talk about baseball all day). Everyone likes to criticize athletes in general when they don't perform well. But I firmly believe, with rare exceptions, it's not because they aren't trying. They try. Things just don't always work out. One of the best comments I have read about this was from Joe Torre, who is in his perpetual hot seat despite leading yet another Yankee team (spit!) into the playoffs. He said the reason he can relate to players is he hit .360 one season and .270 the next and knew he was trying just as hard both years.
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>There isn't much in any sport that is harder to do than to hit a baseball for a base hit against a pitcher whose job it is to see that you don't. Imagine in any sport where you could average 1 success out of ever three attempts and be considered excellent at your job.


Angling (fishing). Sometimes you may have to cast your bait 100000 times to just catch one fish.:)