Proposed Second Edition Additions
 
Question from prospective buyer Fi Cheng:
Does your second book cover the odd and persistent cases of disc theft?

Answer: Disc theft, especially involving poaching my rare 2004 "I Helped Send Esther Warren to Worlds" disc, is inexcusable. Those that steal discs, specifically my discs, should either trade those discs immediately or barter them for cold beers on warm tournament day.

Idea from loyal reader Jon Campbell:
What do ultimate players do with themselves once they are too old (50s, 60s, 70s) to play ultimate? Do they pick up other semi-active hobbies? Do they continue to hang out with ex-ultimate players? Do they have trouble finding a purpose?

Answer: There isn't much data available to indicate what these people will do since Ultimate has only been around for 40 years. But we can extrapolate from the few 60-year old players like John Garb, Alexander "Sas" Peters or Gary Sundin that many will still be playing Ultimate. They may stop flinging the Wii controller however, and they will probably be either single or divorced. Additionally, I would surmise that the elderly of Ultimate will be the non-conformists in the nursing home.

Emails and Such from Loyal Readers: Addendums and Notes to be Noted

an email from Matt Weiss, one of the spiritual leaders of Pittsburgh's
mixed team The Muff'n Men, explaining the origin of one of the cheers in the book:

Tony, Good to meet you at Bell Crack. Thanks for the books. My wife and I
stayed up late reading. It was a definite kick to see our culture lovingly skewered
by someone who knows it so well, and also to find out the I'm "a local oldster,
even if [I] don't think so." Ah, well.

There's a cheer in there I'm pretty sure I wrote with Dave Williams and Dave
"Weasel" Lionetti back at CMU. It's the "our mother was a handler" cheer.
I remember it as a response to Rutgers' regular psych-up cheer that said
something about how dirty and disreputable their progeny was and ended with
them saying, "We came here for the sex; we'll play Ultimate instead." (thus the line about writing checks to get you sex). I heard it from CMU's current team at a Buffalo mostly-college tournament my masters team wormed its way into last year and went over to tell them I was one of the authors. I was probably lying, but at this age, I'll believe anything I say. I am definitely a local oldster.

Good job, man. Matt Weiss
 
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