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the tommy lasorda experience - sometimes you win and still lose lyrics

in february of 2014
i played in the new jersey state amateur chess tournament
i hadn’t played in a long time, just went there cold
it was a multi+day tournament, so i got a hotel room
there were maybe 250 players there
i won the first five games that i played
against highly ranked opponents
i was unranked, having not played in a tournament in years
by the time i sat down the sixth game
there was a legitimate shot of me placing in the tournament
probably not an outright championship
but certainly top 5
and then i played the sixth game
chess is not age bracketed
so you can end up playing against a 12+year old
it’s not uncommon. and i drew a kid for my final match
he likely antic+p+ted placing in the tournament too
he had probably won all his games, which is why i drew him
they tend to match undefeated against undefeated in the finals
we drew for the pieces, and he got white
he pushed the king’s p+wn e2 to e4, pretty standard
and i decided to try the blackburne shilling gambit
which was fairly popular in the 1850s a chance you’ll lose
and losing in 7 moves in a tournament can be humiliating
the kid burst into tears. he wouldn’t shake hands with me
he got up from the table and ran out of the room
after a few minutes, i went out to the lobby
where he was sitting on the floor and sobbing
i wanted to tell him that it was just one game
i wanted to tell him that he was a good player and these things happen
i wanted to offer him an unofficial rematch
right there in the hallway
i sat down on the floor next to him
and his mother laid into me
her final shouted words in heavily accented english
were “haven’t you done enough?”
i skipped the awards ceremony
i got on the garden state and drove home
that was over 10 years ago
i haven’t touched a chess piece since

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