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 and gentleman, less is less, less is what got you to where you are today. Less does not win you a championship ring.
So why a roster? Well, why do women spend so much time talking about men? Seriously, I want to know (most likely because we are taught that if you're single, there's something wrong with you). Don't get me wrong, I love men. They're great to look at (Nobody actually knows what happens in Criminal Minds, we just know that for the better part of an hour we will get to watch Shemar Moore be gorgeous) and some men even have great things to say (You're right BAE, the Giants pitching lineup is a lost cause right now), but am I the only woman that wants to slap 85% of the women I talk to today? I completely understand why he doesn't want you, you have nothing to offer to the relationship because you only talk about him. Have you not heard of shoes? Football? Baseball? Happy Hour? There are so many shiny objects, delicious drinks, and shoe stores that I've never even seen. Stop obsessing about what he thinks, what his words mean, and why he hasn't called you. If he wants to see you, he will. If he wants to call you, he will. If not, he won't. And in the end if all you did was spend your time worrying, analyzing, and talking about him, you won't have anything to be more happy about when it doesn't work out (because you're crazy). I can't remember most of the men I spent time worrying hours on end about, but I can tell you what shoes I wore to Delta Gamma spring formal in 2005 (gold strappy Steve Maddens), who won the 2010 world series (GIANTS!), when the super bowl is this year (February 5, 2017), and how much the big bottle of Patron costs at BevMo ($79.99). The purpose of the roster, is to prevent you from becoming a crazy obsessive person by shifting your focus and dividing it up amongst your team. I guarantee you, your Facebook stalking, your praying he will text you, and your accidental run ins at his gym are getting you no place but in court for a restraining order. Simply wanting something is not enough, Joe Montana didn't wake up in the morning and think, I want to win the Super Bowl and it's done, he developed a plan, he trained, and he molded his whole life to achieve that goal. In order to get your number one, you need to do the same. Think of this as spring training for your life, let's see if you can make the big leagues. And as always, there's no crying in baseball.