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Message: [QUOTE="Bayareahusky, post: 2357366, member: 2136"] It still amazes me that the outcry is still out there.... that Parker got shafted and a tremendous injustice was done..... I understand the national consensus that she is one of the top players in the country. I wonder, trying to reason somewhat rhetorically what made Candace's Olympic omission so egregious and wrong? Was it her stats and game figures? Past performance in international competitions? What was it that made the coaching committee such a bunch of blithering idiots and analytical ingrates for not choosing a person who by most accounts DESERVED to be named to the team? People are still up in arms more than a year later.... Even Candace will not let it go..... she says she has but she brings it up still..... When choosing players for a basketball team, at the playground level or at the Olympic level.... the process is not like "we all know that is on the list to be named to the team" That is why they call it "choosing" the team members.... If Bird or Augustus wasn't chosen there would be surprise, perhaps even shock, but bottom line would be they were not chosen. It should be the same thing here with Candace. But instead, the fix was in. The committee, or someone influencing the committee, played their chip to deny Candace of what was her destined spot on the team..... her rightful spot..... someone, some group of people, or the American populous had predetermined that whoever was named to the team, it went without saying that whoever was named to the team was going to be playing with Candace. After all, she was an automatic. When the final puzzle of Wheel of Fortune comes, the puzzle reveals (what is it) the SAME GIVEN 4 consonants and a vowel....... before the contestant makes his/her supplemental choices...., Candace ... for whatever reason.... was widely seen as a GIVEN in the makeup of this team. She was a GIVEN by Jane Q. Public. And she did not make the cut. And the committee is not to blame, the ones charged with choosing the team, the blame lies with the coach of the team. When it comes to personal choices and personnel decisions, these decisions are made by people. Not everybody will agree. Mitch Trubisky should start for the Bears this Sunday. Anyone who doesn't think that obviously has a screw loose. Verlander should be Houston Game 1 starter. Yankees should only use Chapman in relief in the last inning and for no more than 1 inning. Some of these things are debated furiously ... some are not. Remember the NFL draft a few years ago.... when Ricky Williams of U Texas was by far the predominant running back in the draft, and the Colts came to declare their draft pick.... they needed a running back badly. and the commissioner came to the podium and announced the Colts pick. It was Edgerrin James of the U of Miami. How could this be?!!! An incredible shocker if you remember.... and it cost Williams a bunch of money - perhaps millions - not being the first running back taken in the draft.... Such is the nature when you have people making decisions, and not a groundswell of perceived consensus. This whole Candace issue has for me been nothing more than a lot of noise..... and I have stayed out of the fray and out of the discussion for well over a year now..... but I sincerely find it FASCINATING that people are still harping on this subject so long after the fact. As soon as I say it will go away in time, I remind myself that for many .... the Civil War is still being uncivilly fought .......only 150 years after history has told us that it ended. [/QUOTE]

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