<p>RSABach. Mod block this user hahah. RSABach, I’m sure Bach is not happy with you 
I’m a swimmer and also play piano well. I think you have never been involved in sports, geting up at 6 am, swimming 3 kilometers, than at 4pm again swimming 5 kilometers, plus running and training in the gym. uhhh and after this you say that sport is overvalued?</p>
<p>Maybe nobody uses fists in your neck of the woods but let me tell ya 'bout them East Texas folk! lol</p>
<p>Sorry to say this, but a monkey can throw a ball around.</p>
<p>I give more respect to a person who plays sports than a person who plays instruments.</p>
<p>sports = has character, can work hard (not just patience), actually sees the light of day once in a while, actually enjoys DOING THINGS, guaranteed not to be sedentary for most of the day, competitive, and probably feels good most of the time</p>
<p>music instrument = if its a band instrument 99% of the time its due to overbearing parents forcing the instrument on the child and demanding repeated practicing in his/her room so child can become next Beethoven child prodigy (no chance in hell) or perhaps to look good on college apps (this parent is WAY too involved). Usually spending hours practicing in a fortress of solitude is considered antisocial as well as obsessive-compulsive, while the team sport player is gaining a lot more social and interpersonal skills.</p>
<p>Note: Yes, a musician can indeed be physically active and have the atrributes of a sports player. But with the sports players it’s guaranteed. And have you seen America lately? Fattest country in the world. Blowing a tuba all day in your room doesn’t help matters.</p>
<p>but can he serve it 100 miles an hour? sorry don’t think so. Thats the difference between me and you/ monkeys : )</p>
<p>That’s an idiotic comment and you know it. A monkey can throw a ball around, that’s true, and they can also blow into a horn. But a monkey can’t play a symphony and a monkey can’t execute a 50-yard Hail Mary Mary pass. If sports are so easy and such an advantage for college, why aren’t you playing them?</p>
<p>I’ve seen dolphins shoot basketballs through hoops.</p>
<p>wait who is that directed to?</p>
<p>But did they dribble?</p>
<p>And cheetahs can outrun any man in the world.</p>
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<p>A three-year-old can dribble.</p>
<p>Lots of people can serve a ball 100 mph…but most can’t put it where they want it to go. I assume you meant with accuracy when you said that, though.</p>
<p>I can serve pretty darn hard myself, but my serving’s <em>very</em> sketchy (as in maybe one in ten go where I want them to at my hardest) so I have to stick with the not-so-hard-but-not-pansy-either serves. Those work just fine for just playing with my friends, anyway.</p>
<p>Your childish puns and delayed comebacks don’t answer the question. If sports are so easy, why don’t you play them? I honestly doubt you’re a muscled midfielder who simply prefers a scholarly tuba to a game of soccer.</p>
<p>i play like 5 sports… and I do music any idiot can do lots of ec’s…</p>
<p>and the serve doesn’t count unless it’s in.</p>
<p>My farts sound better than your school orchestra.</p>
<p>They smell better than your orchestra, too.</p>
<p>Sports are one of the ways people can get into college without being smart. It adds a new dimension to college.</p>
<p>Don’t think it’s unfair. Only the very best of the best get into college on sports; alot more get in on academics (Thousands of people versus ~100+). </p>
<p>They probably spend more time on their sports than all of the time an academic spends on their studies. They deserve to get a good education for their hard work.</p>
<p>Besides, when was the last time your math team raised enough money to buy a building?</p>
<p>“I assume you meant with accuracy when you said that, though.”</p>
<p>I’ve already exaplined…why argue over something that’s already been said by the person you’re arguing with?</p>
<p>If you all think that playing a sport is just so easy and that just any old person could do it, why don’t you just try out for one of your school’s sports teams yourself? I’d like to see how long you’d last at ONE day of tryouts, and how you felt after being humiliated after being compared to everyone else with talent and put in a LOT of time into their sport. You don’t just wake up one day and magically become an athlete. It takes TIME to develop skills, coordination, endurance, and not to mention muscle, so I hardly doubt any of you would last one day with any other real athletes. You all need to realize that you are sadly mistaken in even considering that music is just as much physiaclly enduring as athletics.</p>
<p>agree with Taishaku</p>
<p>HAHAAHAHAHA, OMG dude are you joking me? Yea, great it takes time and effort to play a piano. How long do you practice per day? Maybe it’s easy to make a varsity sports team at a bad public school, but not at my school, or any other school that competes for the Norcal and State championship almost every year in basketball. I’ve been playing bball since I was 3 years old. It takes MORE time and MORE effort to become a starter and captain on a good varsity basketball team than it does to play the piano. We practice for almost 3 hours, 6 days a week, 10 months out of the year. Don’t tell me sports are overrated. However, certain sports should carry more weight because they are harder to compete in. </p>
<p>Oh, and I don’t know maybe sports show you have some athleticism, coordination, and are actually in shape. BTW, if you think sports are overrated maybe you should take a look at the De La Salle football team (you know the team that hadn’t lost a game for 13 years or something like that). They take 2 weeks out of the year off.</p>