I am sad about this post. I get in these moods where I just wish the season would be over. I don't know why though because once I get to the games I have a blast with my teammates. Now that the season is over I wish it was still going and I have a couple of complaints.
First I will talk about the tournament from last night. We played a team that we beat in the regular season at 7:00 last night. We won the coin flip to be the home team so we got to be in the field first. As they were hitting the kept finding holes and scored 4 runs the first inning. When we got to out dugout we said lets get those 4 runs back and then some trying to pump ourselves up. Next thing you know we scored 10 runs and we were all excited. Over the next 3 innings my team scored 17 more runs and the team we were playing scored 4. The game got called after they hit in the 5Th inning because of the mercy rule. My team couldn't believe we scored 27 runs while only hitting 4 times. Our game ended after about an hour so we walked over to the other field so we could see who we would be playing.
After the other game was over we found out we would be playing a team that beat us during the regular season by 1 run. The game went by very fast. The final score was 4-3 with them winning. The funny part was what happened in the game not the final score. Our umpire was HORRIBLE!!!!!!!!!! We have asked for this guy to not ump our games anymore but they couldn't find anybody else. After we got a runner out at second base the guy who got out started talking crap to our shortstop. They went back and forth for about a minute and then the umpire asked our shortstop if they were done. He replied yes and the umpire told us that this is a church league and we shouldn't act like that. A couple played later they scored a run and the guy who scored did a flip over home and hit our pitcher in the back of the legs. After our pitcher got upset the umpire told him to calm down and didn't say a thing to the other team. When we came back up to bat we asked the guy who runs the league to calm the other team down. The umpire came and told both teams that if anything was said or found to be unsportsmanlike they would automatically be thrown out of the game. I think the umpire cause us the game but you never know. The game was funny in how the umpire kept taking the other teams side on everything even though they were always the ones who initiated the situation.
My only complaints about our season is that it is to short. We only played 8 games during the regular season. I wish that we could either get more teams to play so that we can have more games or just play everybody 2 times so we could play 16 games. The if everybody has a problem with playing that late in the summer we should start the season at the end of April instead of the end of May. Those are really the only things I can complain about and I'm just sad that the season is already over.
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Monday, June 30, 2008
Random
I have been training to try to get a job with the local police department down here in Savannah. I have been running, doing push ups, and doing sit ups for the physical fitness test. I finally passed the fitness test at the beginning of June and was awaiting an answer to see if I could get into the academy in July.
I called and spoke with one of the recruiting officer's last week and was told that my application was still in processing and that the July academy is full. He said that most likely as long as everything checks out okay on with all the paperwork I will be able to get into the academy that starts in October. I am keeping my fingers crossed that I will be able to get in then. Until then I am going to keep training and see about finding a part time job to hold me over for the next couple of months.
On another hand, Our tournament for softball was pushed back a couple days due to a ton on rain last week. We won our first game by the score of 14-7. We finally got to play our second game on Friday night. We were missing alot of the key players on our team. We lost and I'm not sure what the score was but it was bad. The weather was horrible. The wind was so bad that the pitchers would have to start throwing the pitch behind the batters just so it might get blown across the plate. There was walk after walk after walk for both teams. After it was all said and done however we lost pretty bad. Luckily for us the tournament in a double elimination format so we get to keep playing. We are supposed to play tonight at 7 and if we win that game we play again at 8:30. I hope the weather will hold up enough so that we can play but I'm not sure. It is pretty dark and is supposed to rain this afternoon.
I will give an update tomorrow as far as what happens on the softball front tonight.
I called and spoke with one of the recruiting officer's last week and was told that my application was still in processing and that the July academy is full. He said that most likely as long as everything checks out okay on with all the paperwork I will be able to get into the academy that starts in October. I am keeping my fingers crossed that I will be able to get in then. Until then I am going to keep training and see about finding a part time job to hold me over for the next couple of months.
On another hand, Our tournament for softball was pushed back a couple days due to a ton on rain last week. We won our first game by the score of 14-7. We finally got to play our second game on Friday night. We were missing alot of the key players on our team. We lost and I'm not sure what the score was but it was bad. The weather was horrible. The wind was so bad that the pitchers would have to start throwing the pitch behind the batters just so it might get blown across the plate. There was walk after walk after walk for both teams. After it was all said and done however we lost pretty bad. Luckily for us the tournament in a double elimination format so we get to keep playing. We are supposed to play tonight at 7 and if we win that game we play again at 8:30. I hope the weather will hold up enough so that we can play but I'm not sure. It is pretty dark and is supposed to rain this afternoon.
I will give an update tomorrow as far as what happens on the softball front tonight.
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Softball
I am playing softball this summer with my mom and dad's church. This is my 5Th summer of playing. We playing in a league with only 9 teams all of which are church's from the group of islands that we live on.
We have always had a pretty good team. This year though the league has become more competitive and our team just hasn't been able to get it together. We finished the regular season with a 4-4 record. In the 4 games we won, we won by big margin's. The closest game we won was by 7 runs. The 4 games we lost though we by 1,2,4, and 6 runs. All of those games could have been wins if we would have hit better or played better defense.
Our post season tournament started last night. We played a team that beat us in the regular season. We hit the ball great as a team. Some players didn't get any hits and some players got a hit every time they stepped to the plate. We played flawless defense and won the game 14-7. We play again on Thursday night at 8:30.
I went 2-3 with 3 RBI's last night. That is an ok night hitting for me. In our 8 regular season games I only had 1 game with less than 3 hits. The last 3 games of the season I went 10-11 with 8 RBI's. I also played great defense. I caught 4 fly balls and also helped other outfielder's catch another 5.
Our team if going to go into the game tomorrow night knowing we have already beat the team we are playing and hope for the best. I will post again after the game to tell all the results.
We have always had a pretty good team. This year though the league has become more competitive and our team just hasn't been able to get it together. We finished the regular season with a 4-4 record. In the 4 games we won, we won by big margin's. The closest game we won was by 7 runs. The 4 games we lost though we by 1,2,4, and 6 runs. All of those games could have been wins if we would have hit better or played better defense.
Our post season tournament started last night. We played a team that beat us in the regular season. We hit the ball great as a team. Some players didn't get any hits and some players got a hit every time they stepped to the plate. We played flawless defense and won the game 14-7. We play again on Thursday night at 8:30.
I went 2-3 with 3 RBI's last night. That is an ok night hitting for me. In our 8 regular season games I only had 1 game with less than 3 hits. The last 3 games of the season I went 10-11 with 8 RBI's. I also played great defense. I caught 4 fly balls and also helped other outfielder's catch another 5.
Our team if going to go into the game tomorrow night knowing we have already beat the team we are playing and hope for the best. I will post again after the game to tell all the results.
Wii
OK last Thursday was my mom's birthday. She wanted a Wii so bad she couldn't stand it. She was putting in bid's at silent auctions and looking for one to buy every time her and my dad would go out shopping. My dad decided to buy her one for her birthday. This was the greatest invention of all time.
I have never seen my mom and dad being so active and having so much fun in a very long time. Every night this week there has been a bowling tournament at night when everybody is starting to wind down. It has been a blast to see both of them acting like kids running around the den and acting like they are at an actual bowling alley.
The kids decided to buy our mom Wii fit for her birthday to go along with her Wii because she has been trying to find different ways to exercise. This is my favorite game out of all of them. Yesterday alone I worked out with the Wii fit for 1 hour and 45 minutes along with playing a 7 inning softball game. My mom is also working out with this game at least 30 minutes a day.
I will post the results of how the Wii fit is working as far as weight loss over the next couple of weeks.
I have never seen my mom and dad being so active and having so much fun in a very long time. Every night this week there has been a bowling tournament at night when everybody is starting to wind down. It has been a blast to see both of them acting like kids running around the den and acting like they are at an actual bowling alley.
The kids decided to buy our mom Wii fit for her birthday to go along with her Wii because she has been trying to find different ways to exercise. This is my favorite game out of all of them. Yesterday alone I worked out with the Wii fit for 1 hour and 45 minutes along with playing a 7 inning softball game. My mom is also working out with this game at least 30 minutes a day.
I will post the results of how the Wii fit is working as far as weight loss over the next couple of weeks.
Sunday, June 22, 2008
Ashamed
I feel ashamed. As I should. I call myself a Christian. I say that I go to church and praise God. I have an older brother who is a preacher and I tell him those things about me. I tell my parents and my sister those things as well.
I went to church this morning. Last night I decided to stay at home and not go out because I made up my mind that I wanted to go to church this morning. I had a calling when I got home from a fun day of drinking cold Bud Light and sun in the boat with two of my closest friends. They both called and wanted me to go to dinner at our favorite Mexican restaurant and head downtown to drink and dance at some of the local clubs. It was extremely enticing, one of my favorite things to do is dance at the club. I tried to explain to myself that I would go but not drink. I knew if I did that I still wouldn't get home until somewhere between 4 and 7 in the morning.
After debating in my head I stayed at home, ate pizza watched college baseball, and played Wii with my mom and dad. The best decision of the day. I went to sleep around 10 last night and slept until 8:30 this morning. When I woke up I had a feeling God was telling me that was him that gave me the power to stay at home and be ready to worship him. I had never had the urge to want to sleep and get up for that in my life.
Our senior pastor at my church seems to know me better than anybody in this world other than God. It feels like he knows when I'm going to be at worship and plans his sermons and music so that it slaps me right between the eyes. Today he talked about how the Lord wants us not to work ourselves to much and how he wants one of our days of rest to be his day. I know I am not working myself to much right now but I seem to do a pretty good job ignoring the worship him part. This summer I have only gone to worship 2 times (the past 2 weeks).
Sunday is our boat day's. That's when we go in the boat with everybody we know and just relax. I realized this morning during worship that I was in the place I needed to be. I felt ashamed that I was putting boating as a higher priority that my Lord and Savior. I was sitting in the 3rd row almost in tears about my horrible decision. I told myself and God in a prayer to myself that I was going to do my best to start living for him. I found out that I am a Sunday christian. I will go to church and that is it. I am always moved while I'm there and then I leave and back to my bad self and drinking and staying out to all hours of the night.
No more my life is going to start with quite time with my Bible and God. From the beginning to end I'm going to do my best to live for him. Until then I am going to be ashamed with myself for the lie that I have been living. God needs to be my top priority and starting today he is going to be.
I went to church this morning. Last night I decided to stay at home and not go out because I made up my mind that I wanted to go to church this morning. I had a calling when I got home from a fun day of drinking cold Bud Light and sun in the boat with two of my closest friends. They both called and wanted me to go to dinner at our favorite Mexican restaurant and head downtown to drink and dance at some of the local clubs. It was extremely enticing, one of my favorite things to do is dance at the club. I tried to explain to myself that I would go but not drink. I knew if I did that I still wouldn't get home until somewhere between 4 and 7 in the morning.
After debating in my head I stayed at home, ate pizza watched college baseball, and played Wii with my mom and dad. The best decision of the day. I went to sleep around 10 last night and slept until 8:30 this morning. When I woke up I had a feeling God was telling me that was him that gave me the power to stay at home and be ready to worship him. I had never had the urge to want to sleep and get up for that in my life.
Our senior pastor at my church seems to know me better than anybody in this world other than God. It feels like he knows when I'm going to be at worship and plans his sermons and music so that it slaps me right between the eyes. Today he talked about how the Lord wants us not to work ourselves to much and how he wants one of our days of rest to be his day. I know I am not working myself to much right now but I seem to do a pretty good job ignoring the worship him part. This summer I have only gone to worship 2 times (the past 2 weeks).
Sunday is our boat day's. That's when we go in the boat with everybody we know and just relax. I realized this morning during worship that I was in the place I needed to be. I felt ashamed that I was putting boating as a higher priority that my Lord and Savior. I was sitting in the 3rd row almost in tears about my horrible decision. I told myself and God in a prayer to myself that I was going to do my best to start living for him. I found out that I am a Sunday christian. I will go to church and that is it. I am always moved while I'm there and then I leave and back to my bad self and drinking and staying out to all hours of the night.
No more my life is going to start with quite time with my Bible and God. From the beginning to end I'm going to do my best to live for him. Until then I am going to be ashamed with myself for the lie that I have been living. God needs to be my top priority and starting today he is going to be.
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
What Would You Do?
I have a friend that I went to high school with that we will call A. He is a 25 year old guy who has a small daughter from his ex-wife. Over the past two months I have seen and hung out with him a lot when he isn't working. I got a phone call from another high school friend that said they talked to him and he said that there is a possibility that he has prostate cancer.
I ran into him a couple days later and he told me the same thing. As we were talking he got emotional about what would happen to his daughter if things were to turn bad with the possibility of having cancer and it turning bad. I tried to comfort A the best I could but didn't really know what to say. I tried to say everything that came to my mind but nothing seemed to be working. A told me that he told his family and that they were all really disturbed by the fact this was going on with him especially with him only being 25 and this type of cancer is usually only found in older males.
After he calmed down enough to talk A told me that his brother had been rushed to the hospital due to kidney failure. He was getting off of work to go to the hospital to see him. Later that night I got a phone call that his brother had to have one of his kidney's removed and that he was being put on a transplant list to have a new one because the doctor's didn't know how long his 2ND one would hold up.
After hearing that I sat down and prayed to God that he would give A's family the strength to make it through this tough time in their lives.
What would you do if 2 of your 3 children were going through medical problems like this at the same time while both of them are still in there 20's? I don't know what I would do. I can't even imagine the pain his parents are going through. All I can do is pray for the family and pray both A and his brother can get back to full health.
I ran into him a couple days later and he told me the same thing. As we were talking he got emotional about what would happen to his daughter if things were to turn bad with the possibility of having cancer and it turning bad. I tried to comfort A the best I could but didn't really know what to say. I tried to say everything that came to my mind but nothing seemed to be working. A told me that he told his family and that they were all really disturbed by the fact this was going on with him especially with him only being 25 and this type of cancer is usually only found in older males.
After he calmed down enough to talk A told me that his brother had been rushed to the hospital due to kidney failure. He was getting off of work to go to the hospital to see him. Later that night I got a phone call that his brother had to have one of his kidney's removed and that he was being put on a transplant list to have a new one because the doctor's didn't know how long his 2ND one would hold up.
After hearing that I sat down and prayed to God that he would give A's family the strength to make it through this tough time in their lives.
What would you do if 2 of your 3 children were going through medical problems like this at the same time while both of them are still in there 20's? I don't know what I would do. I can't even imagine the pain his parents are going through. All I can do is pray for the family and pray both A and his brother can get back to full health.
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
My Mother-My Hero
This post was supposed to be done on Sunday but I could never get to the computer to get it done. Yesterday I stayed so busy with I couldn't even tell you what that I couldn't do it then either.
My mom is my hero. I sit around all the time thanking GOD for the mom him gave to me. Since the day I was born she has had a pretty hectic life. She has 3 children, a loving (but sick) husband, and a family that just goes all over the place.
My mom had mad so many sacrifices in her life to better her family. She has gone through a roller coaster of a ride with me and my siblings and my father.
My dad got sick when I was in the 5Th grade. At the time nobody knew what was wrong but he was sick. This was a very emotional time for me (I'm pretty sure for my brother and sister) and I know for my mom. She has been living with the pain of knowing her husband is sick every since always being strong and holding her emotions inside (I guess until she is alone) and always standing beside us when our emotions let loose. I can't imagine what it feels like to live knowing that your husband is sick, goes to the doctor or rehab at least 2 days a week and if he gets the slightest cold it can turn into something so big.
I have definitely not given her any breaks in my life. When I was 16 I was stupid and got into a car (after lying about where I was) and we got into an accident where we flipped over. I went flying out of the car and my head slid over the dirt where we were. Me and two of the guys that I were with got scared and called another friend to come pick us up. I ended up at home a couple hours later scared what was going to happen to me. My head was scraped on the right side and I was extremely dizzy. The police came to my house looking for the teenage boy who was involved in a accident. My mom was upset but ended up standing by me and showed me how much she loved and cared for me.
Over the past two years my life was a roller coaster of emotions and great pain. The entire time my mom never turned on me. When I moved back home at the end of November 2007 she was there for me. Always wanting to talk and trying to help me figure out ways to let my emotions out so I could start living a better life.
My mom is my hero for what she has endured in her life. I love her so much and I am so glad she is my mom and my hero.
My mom is my hero. I sit around all the time thanking GOD for the mom him gave to me. Since the day I was born she has had a pretty hectic life. She has 3 children, a loving (but sick) husband, and a family that just goes all over the place.
My mom had mad so many sacrifices in her life to better her family. She has gone through a roller coaster of a ride with me and my siblings and my father.
My dad got sick when I was in the 5Th grade. At the time nobody knew what was wrong but he was sick. This was a very emotional time for me (I'm pretty sure for my brother and sister) and I know for my mom. She has been living with the pain of knowing her husband is sick every since always being strong and holding her emotions inside (I guess until she is alone) and always standing beside us when our emotions let loose. I can't imagine what it feels like to live knowing that your husband is sick, goes to the doctor or rehab at least 2 days a week and if he gets the slightest cold it can turn into something so big.
I have definitely not given her any breaks in my life. When I was 16 I was stupid and got into a car (after lying about where I was) and we got into an accident where we flipped over. I went flying out of the car and my head slid over the dirt where we were. Me and two of the guys that I were with got scared and called another friend to come pick us up. I ended up at home a couple hours later scared what was going to happen to me. My head was scraped on the right side and I was extremely dizzy. The police came to my house looking for the teenage boy who was involved in a accident. My mom was upset but ended up standing by me and showed me how much she loved and cared for me.
Over the past two years my life was a roller coaster of emotions and great pain. The entire time my mom never turned on me. When I moved back home at the end of November 2007 she was there for me. Always wanting to talk and trying to help me figure out ways to let my emotions out so I could start living a better life.
My mom is my hero for what she has endured in her life. I love her so much and I am so glad she is my mom and my hero.
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