View from the cheap seats
A weekly perspective on sports
Casey Krautkramer Reporter The Record-Review
On Tuesday night, I dreamt that I made the winning shot in my Marathon varsity basketball team’s victory against Stratford.
It was certainly wishful thinking because Stratford’s boys basketball squads were always so good that there’s no way a bench player like me would’ve seen time on the floor against the Tigers.
I only played at the end of our varsity boys basketball games against bad Marawood Conference teams like Pittsville and Rib Lake at that time in the mid-1990s, after we had an insurmountable lead that I and the other bench players couldn’t mess up for the squad.
That’s because we unleashed all our energy from sitting on the bench for the majority of the game onto the court by playing a fast-paced game with lots of shots and fouls against our opponent.
I still remember the basketball officials shaking their heads in disbelief because they just wanted the long game to end. I’m sure us bench players would’ve also tired out my uncle, Andy Krautkramer, who loves officiating varsity high school basketball games.
Stratford had the one-two punch of the Schmitt twins, Paul and Wally, in the mid to late 1990s which made the Tigers awfully difficult to defeat, so there was no way I’d receive playing time in these games. I also played basketball against a tough Edgar squad with star players Nathan Lehman and Ryan Bargender, who both are now school superintendents in the area.
Bargender is the Abbotsford School District superintendent and Dr. Lehman, currently the Mosinee High School principal, will start his new job on Friday, July 1, as the Stratford School District superintendent.
This week I met a new friend from Colby who works with Edgar native Eric Totzke at Packaging Corporation of America (PCA) in Marshfield, which was formerly located in Colby.
Totzke was another good player on the Edgar basketball team that won the school’s first state championship in 1997, which was the year after I graduated from Marathon.
I conducted a Google search to discover the interpretation of having a dream about swishing the winning shot in a basketball game. I learned online that winning a sports game or prize in a dream often signifies an emotional satisfaction or feelings of success.
My online research said maybe I had this type of dream because I’ve made progress with my personal development or reached a big goal, and now I feel more confident than I did in the past.
I feel that I’ve definitely developed into being a much stronger person since getting divorced from my wife two years ago.
It’ll be interesting to see if I have more dreams of sinking the winning basket for the Red Raiders.
