> From: Rajive Nathan[SMTP:Rajives@hotmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2000 3:18 PM > To: midcc@egroups.com > Subject: [midcc] About what makes Water Assignment! > > All, > > After some experience of handling this assignment, I have arrived at a few > > insights. Further suggestions welcome! > > What is expected when you are assigned to do the Water Duty: > > 1. Enough reasonably cold water AND cups. > Enough depends on: > A. Heat/Aridness of the day > B. The team we are playing against. (Generally, games between teams > that are equally balanced tend to be longer and therefore more water is > required: Much better teams like NWK or horrifyingly despicable teams > like > ICC require lesser water). > Having said that, I would still expect around 4 Gallons of cold water or > the > Team's water can fully filled and plus! > > 2. The person assigned to water duties would also be responsible for > sending in Water to the Batsmen who are at the crease. You could delegate > > if you are the batsman at the crease at the time. But remember, the > responsibility is yours. > > 3. Garbage Bags: It is eventually your responsibility to collect used > cups > into a garbage bag for disposal. This would include collecting the > Zarda/Pan Parag etc. sachets left behind by some of your honorable team > mates. Also, the cigarette stubs left behind by even more honorable team > mates, around where we sit, need to be collected! However, everyone must > HELP in the cause so that every unwanted item is centrally collected (or > better yet, doused and thrown in the garbage bag) to assist the Water duty > > assignee! Your turn will come too, so take this seriously. This one is > so > that we dont look like a bunch of thankless, uncouth louts. > > 4. If you are taking the team's water can, for the purpose, please > thoroughly clean it BEFORE filling water and ice. No one wants to see > strands of hair or even earthworms crawling in their cups. Cans must also > > be devoid of any (green - green and yucky) algae! Look all over please. > {Just to make my point: The ICC water can (bless the team), was effusing > the > worst stench of concocted spices or some other totally unacceptable odor} > > Please spare me and the rest of your pals! > > And this is the kicker: There are no points or accolades for the job. > Selection too is not guaranteed for 'exceptional performance' of the > chore. > However, it reflects your care for fellow players and the environment that > > we need to help sustain. > > Second round of assignments is just round the corner. Brace yourselves. > > Rajive Rajive, I think you missed a couple of important pointers, so I wanted to add a couple of helpful suggestions. It's up to you if you want to implement my suggestions or not. 1) "Reasonably Cold" is too subjective. We need to standardize the temperature and establish some guidelines. Ideal drinking water should be somewhere between cool and tepid. The temperature can range from 63-68 deg F. If the ambient temperature is high (anything above 85 deg F) and relative humidity in the uncomfortable range (anything above 50%), then recommend going with slightly colder water maybe 60 deg F. On the other hand, if it is a bit on the cooler side (anything below 70 deg F), we can go with 70 deg water. Whoever the water bearer is for the day, should bring a FDA approved, properly callibrated thermometer to ensure the water stays in the proper range throughout the game. Needless to say, an extra container of ice should be brought along in case the water gets out of range as the day progresses. I don't know if we neccessarily need some sort of a heat source handy just in case the water is too cold (somebody accidentally adding too much ice) but that is probably carrying the matter a bit too far. I am flexible either way. 2) Supplying the water to the batsmen is a great idea. However, I feel that the closer the water person is to the batsmen, the better it is, maybe keep him as a leg umpire???? until it is time for him to pad up. Also how do you plan on making sure the water stays in the proper temperature range as suggested in paragraph 1). Should the leg umpire be equipped with heating and cooling capabilities as well? Also, I can forsee a problem when the official water person can not handle this duty and has to delegate the authority. How do we make sure that certain people are not targetted for this job and everybody is given a fair chance. Perhaps a comittee needs to be elected for making sure nobody is unfairly targeted. Also, how about when our team is fielding? Should the water person still be responsible for bringing water to everybody as needed or should the whole team take "official water breaks" or should we make the person fielding at the closest boundary to the water be responsible for the water (Again we need to keep in mind, fair treatment and proper rotation for this one). 3) Garbage bags - Please mention the proper size. you know how cheap some desis can get, they are going to bring whatever bags were on sale, the previous weekend. I think we need to avoid this problem by specifying the manufacturer and size. Also, in reference to picking up cigarrette butts and such, I don't think it's fair to ask people that didn't contribute to the mess to have to clean up. I think we should require everybody to clean up their own mess. We should designate a trash detective for each game to keep track of who's making what mess and make sure at the end of the day they clean up whatever they made. I think the water and trash duties are too much for one person to handle, plus that gives too much power to one individual therefore making it possible for them to abuse this power. I think we need to seperate these two responsibilities. If you'd be kind enough to do so, I think you should expand your duties beyond R&D and take over clean up duties as well. 4) Cleaning up the water container - I don't want to get too picky but without specifying the type of detergent to use and whether or not a brillo pad should be used, we are leaving too much to chance. I think we need to come up with the proper cleaning procedure and to make sure it is followed, we may need to designate a quality inspection person to check the cleanliness of the container BEFORE it is filled. I am not insinuating that our team mates are not trustworthy but I believe being on the careful side is the best thing we can do. Cleanliness is Godliness and we cannot slack in this matter. Rjaive, I think you are doing a heck of a job as the R&D chairman and I for one do realize the importance of an "excellent performance" in this matter and don't mind patting some one's back for a job well done. I will try to do a better job in commending somebody that takes his water duties beyond what is required and puts in the extra effort. Respectfully, Pratap.