THE YIPS

Micheala Schiffren has the Yips. I can only wonder about how that feels. I have never achieved that level of pretty-goodness to have ever experienced the yips. But it must be a thing because I read a book one time about a pitcher in baseball who suffered from the Yips. It seems to be common to sports,  where the player is under the strong gaze of the fans. Pitchers, mostly. Football players don't seem to suffer from the yips. Skiers, ice skaters, boxers, MMA, maybe even Crickett, though nobody seems to know how it's played; is it the bowler or the bowlsman? Or the batsman and Robin? I don't know, most people have fallen asleep before the match is completed.

Do the yips have legs? Is stage-fright the yips? Writers Block? Do ballet dancers get the yips? Imagine the male member of the duo with a big catch in the program. Knowing that in a few measures of the musical score he's going to catch the ballerina as she leaps in some pas de du, or whatever it is, into the outstretched arms of her partner in dance. What if his concentration is drawn to that little belly roll in her Dance-skin. Could that cause the yips?

What of the hapless writer on deadline. Do they get the yips? They've had all week to come up with a column and nothing appears. No inspiration pops into their desperate mind and, as the hours count down they may start looking in the bottom of the whiskey glass. It won't be there, but many's the writer with a name who has gone there out of desparation. Politicians do not seem to get the yips. How can JD Vance show his face in public knowing how desperately the world , not just us, hates him. Or Marco Rubio, a Cuban-American claiming his Spanish heritage so he can hate other brown people who happen to be from Central or South America, or Americans with brown faces denied Due Process. If anyone deserves the yips, it should be those two. 

Good news, Macheala Schiffren won her 3rd gold medal yesterday. She overcame her yips and won by an eyelash. When you win by an eyelash is that by the length of an eyelash or the thickness of an eyelash. Is that eyelash a normal human eyelashor one thickened by mascara, or even one thickened by mascara and drawing attention to the fat botox lips of a Republican woman hanging around Mar a Lago? I'm pretty sure that Vice-President Vance's mascara is not worthy of measurement. By history or any other discipline. Perhaps he is learning from his Mango maga guide not to care that people hate him here, and in the world. Perhaps the yips only affect you if you seek to exceed your former greatness.

Whatever the reason Republicans are immune to such things, I have found the solution to this week's writer's block. Whether that is the yips, or an exercise of grandiosity I 
 do not deserve, I overcame the yips by writing something about them.

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