Several things today:

Let's start with the final exhibition game for the Milwaukee Bucks.

They lost, but that's not what caught my attention.

After the game coach Larry Krystkowiak said, "It was really a pathetic effort. I thought it was a horrendous effort."

Mo Williams chimed in, "We didn't have the effort. Plain and simple."

Effort is the act of trying. You can have good effort and bad effort. But effort is all about trying.

It's not like this is unique to the Bucks. I've heard athletes in every sport say the same thing.

And you've got to ask yourself, "How in the world can a professional athlete not try?"

They make gazillions of dollars. They have people do everything for them, with the possible exception of going to the bathroom and having relations with their wives or girlfriends. They have nothing to worry about. They only work a couple of hours every few days or so.

How in the world can they not try? Lord knows that the evidence is clear that the harder you try in sports, the better the results, usually.

You can blame the players and you can blame the coach. But I will never, ever be able to figure out why professional athletes don't try.

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The other day I was listening to WSSP and they had a very intriguing subject that really made me think.

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