The Roster - An Introduction

Everything in my life revolves around sports. You can relate any situation in life to sports. Sports and life are both competitions, there are winners and losers, you have to train to succeed, and you have to play by the rules or risk a penalty.  Dating is the ultimate sport. You gotta recruit (meet people), you gotta have tryouts (get to know your recruits), there's cuts (Step up or step aside gentlemen), there's franchise players (we're talking MVP good), contract negotiations (your needs/wants from the other person), it's a system built on strategy. And if you don't play the game right, you will not have a winning team. Everybody wants a championship team. Nobody wants to be the 2008 Detroit Lions (0-16). I don't care who you are or what your thoughts are on sports, winning is everything in life, and winning in love, is the Super Bowl of life.

The Roster is the ultimate way to use the principles of sports in love. A strong roster ensures a strong love life and keeps you sane throughout the dating process; but only if you follow the rules and work a good strategy on and off the playing field. Much like an NBA team, the roster has a starting five. These are the best players on your team with number one being the team captain. Also just like in sports, you need a second string, or some players on the bench that are there for you when you need them. These are your three bench players. That puts you at a team of eight. Any more than eight and you're fielding a less than talented team. It's like having the dream team playing for you and then calling up the local high school and asking if a few of their kids would like to pinch hit in a world series game. You don't sacrifice quality. You may have less players at times in order to preserve the quality, but you need to have a minimum of three in play or the roster becomes ineffective. Less is not more ladies, less is less, less is what got you to where you are today. Less does not win you a championship ring.

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