What I really think

[Jason Southwick]

It gets complicated, all this thinking, but we can always try, again, to break it down to what we really think. It's a worthwhile exercise. I'll try to implicate everybody.

It's about how to approach disc golf as an entity, figuring out what it is, who it attracts, and what to do.

Certain people agree about fundamentals. People like Steve Dodge, and me and Pat Brenner and Steve Pearson of Quest and a bunch of people. Deep down we want to open it up, be fair and cool and inclusive and yes and donate. We also deep down have Mikey Kernan AND a bunch of Southern National guys, and all of us agree that Mikey is funny, insightful, outrageous, and a very big communist goofball. Our southern brethren use other phrases.

On the other side of the frisbee spectrum is the evil corporate empire known collectively around the world -- and at human sacrifices -- as the PDGA. Just sitting anywhere near that throne automatically makes you possessed by the devil, but not a cool Linda Blair devil where you say the rudest thing about a priest's mother, while twisting your head around, but a much more sleep-inducing "We're working out the important details right now and will get back to you, and then never get back to you about the hard questions, like where's the money go?" kind of devil.

And it doesn't help that we still don' know whether David Gentry's salary and expenses are more than all the top ten player's winnings, or just the top five. See, it gets complicated, particularly in the absence of such information.

We herewith ironically thank the PDGA for making the Wheel, maybe the strangest new disc, one of our biggest sellers. How dumb is it to ask a manufacturer not to submit a disc because you first have to write the technical specs so it won't pass? Wait, that's not dumb. That's that weird evilness again. How did the PDGA become so evil? And stoopid? It boggles. You guys also did a bang-up job with the Turbo, which still remains popular in our store. And, finally, let's not even talk about beer at C-Tiers.

Listen, we're infants. We know nothing. We shouldn't block ideas from making their way into our game. We shouldn't block new discs that can't put an eye out or cut your head off. Make the tech standards just about safety, and let the market and the game figure out what a disc is. Cause frankly, you guys aren't smart enough to figure that out for all of us, not at this early stage in our growth.

[blacktideao]

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Master Southwick kickin arse and takin names