Running Up the Score

At the youth sports level...
Running up the score in youth sports (up through high school) is usually a classless act by an egomaniac coach. In any case, it's actually a good thing because it gives us a great opportunity to teach our children (and by "our children" I mean all the kids besides those of the offending coach) how to handle victory and defeat by large margins. Neither team should ever be compelled to stop trying but you shouldn't intentionally try to embarrass the other team. At the same time, you can't really complain if someone is running the score up on you because you look like a, for lack of a better term, whiny bitch.

In professional sports...
You are getting paid a lot of money... suck it up and practice more.

In adult recreation sports...
You are doing it for cardiovascular exercise... running up and down a court chasing players who are superior to you while being motivated by the potential for embarrassment seems like a great way to burn calories. Suck it up.


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