Ludington
In August.
Perfection.
In August.
Perfection.
Last night we played two innings before the storm hit. I went 2-2 with a three run homer. We were ahead 6-1.
Season totals: .428, 12 HR
We play tonight in Bremen. Then I play with the Outlaws Thursday at 4:00 p.m. at Belleville complex in South Bend in the ASA Men’s Major.
Strategic
Learner
Ideation
Intellection
Context
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I had a rough day hitting-wise on Saturday. I went 3-13 with an inside the park homerun as we went 2-2 with my pick-up squad. Virtually every time I hit the ball hard it went right at someone. I have a theory about this: it evens out over the course of the whole season. I have stretches where almost everything I hit finds a hole, too. Maybe I’ll have one of those stretches during the last month of the season. Hope so.
My first ever crossfit workout.
“Angie” is …
100 pullups
100 pushups
100 situps
100 air squats
For time. You do them in order (have to complete the pullups before you start pushups, etc.). You can take breaks, but the clock is running.
Time: 19:09
Gotta learn to do kipping pullups.
41/m/185#
Last weekend we finished second in the Michigan ASA state tournament in Moline. We went 5-2, and lost to the Fat Boyz from Marquette in the winners bracket championship and then again in the final “if” game.
We played well and won several close and two extra inning games in the tourney. We have to move up to a new classification–A/B for next year–because of our performance in the tournament. I played well overall; went 14/28 (.447) with 3 homeruns (10).
I am playing with a pick-up team tomorrow in Battle Creek. Next week I’ve been picked up to play in the Men’s Major world series in South Bend with the “Outlaws.” Should be fun. We play the Quad City Sox on Thursday, August 4 at 4:00 p.m. at Belleville Park.
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We swept a double header on Tuesday night, and I had one of the wierdest nights at the plate ever. I was 1/3 on the night with 7 walks. So that’s a really good on base percentage, but it was a bit of a frustrating night, because I would have liked to swing a bit more.
We play in the state tournament tomorrow night at 6:00 p.m. in Moline, MI.
Saw her bring the house down with this song one late night at Cornerstone in 1999 (I think).
With Dave.
Ten years, it’s been, my friend. Miss ya.
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A lot of fastball (that’s the Canadian term for fast-pitch softball) has been played since I last wrote. Seven games actually. We won five of them and lost two. I was 9/23 (.433) with one very long home-run (7), which I’m going to tell you about, because it occurred to me after I hit it that I will very likely never hit a softball that far again the rest of my life. I’m 41, remember.
The right-field fence on the diamond we were playing on was 275', which is actually long for fastball (they’re usually 235'-260'). About fifteen paces beyond the right-field fence, there’s a picnic shelter/roofed pavilion. The 2-0 pitch I hit landed at the peak of the roof. My coach said he thought it went 350'.
The next morning, leading off our game, someone from our dugout yelled, “Let’s go, Pavilion.” As I’m batting, the umpire laughed and said, “Pavilion… I like that. I got to tell the story of your home-run over beer last night.”
So no matter what happens, there’s always going to be that one time I hit a colossal bomb onto the picnic pavilion in Frankenmuth. Which is nice.
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p.s. I’m not even sure it was the longest home-run of the tournament. I saw three others that went, what I thought was, at least as far. But they didn’t land on the roof of anything.
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Won 12-7 on Tuesday night. 3-4 with a walk and a double. Scored 3 runs. We play in Elkhart tomorrow night and in Frankenmuth Saturday and Sunday.
"The pleasure of eating should be an extensive pleasure, not that of the mere gourmet. People who know the garden in which their vegetables have grown and know that the garden is healthy and remember the beauty of the growing plants, perhaps in the dewy first light of morning when gardens are at their best. Such a memory involves itself with the food and is one of the pleasures of eating. The knowledge of the good health of the garden relieves and frees and comforts the eater. The same goes for eating meat. The thought of the good pasture and of the calf contentedly grazing flavors the steak. Some, I know, will think of it as bloodthirsty or worse to eat a fellow creature you have known all its life. On the contrary, I think it means that you eat with understanding and with gratitude. A significant part of the pleasure of eating is in one's accurate consciousness of the lives and the world from which food comes. The pleasure of eating, then, may be the best available standard of our health. And this pleasure, I think, is pretty fully available to the urban consumer who will make the necessary effort."
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…“Dr.” in front of the name of anybody but a medical doctor, veterinarian, or dentist.
The rest of us just don’t deserve to be called “doctor” and it’s laughably pompous for academics to insist the we be called such.
That is all.
Won 10-0 on Thursday night in Benton Harbor. 1-4 with my 6th homer of the season. Next game Tuesday night. Tournament in Frankenmuth–home of the most ridiculously overpriced hotels in the state of Michigan–next weekend. Luckily, I’ll be driving in from Port Huron and not staying in a hotel.
My approach to education would be like my approach to everything else. I’d change the standard. I would make the standard that of community health rather than the career of the student. You see, if you make the standard the health of the community, that would change everything. Once you begin to ask what would be the best thing for our community, what’s the best thing that we can do here for our community, you can’t rule out any kind of knowledge. You need to know everything you possibly can know. So, once you raise that standard of the health of the community, all the departmental walls fall down, because you can no longer feel that it’s safe not to know something. And then you begin to see that these supposedly discreet and separate disciplines, these “specializations,” aren’t separate at all, but are connected. And of course our mistakes, over and over again, show us what the connections are, or show us that connections exist.
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Monday, July 25 @ 7:00 p.m.
Prenkert’s house
We will be discussing Mark Richard’s fantastic memoir, House of Prayer No. 2: A Writer’s Journey Home. Don’t miss this one!!
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My “pick-up” team and I went 3-0 in pool play on Saturday, in what was most likely the hottest day on which I’ve played three games of softball. The heat index was 101 when we started our game at 11:00 a.m. I didn’t check it after that. Suffice it to say, it was brutally hot.
We lost a heartbreaker in the bottom of the 7th 4-3 in the first game on Sunday, ending our tournament. I played shortstop the whole weekend and went 8-13 (.453) with two triples and a couple walks. Not bad.
My team plays Wednesday and Thursday this week.
Tomorrow I play softball in Wabash, IN. I would like to explain why.
My regular team (Smalltown Fastpitch) is not playing in Wabash. Instead, I have been “picked up” by another team (Goshen Gators), who happen to be short some of their regular players for the weekend. This happens fairly regularly throughout the course of a season. As a matter of fact, this season my own team has picked up at least one player for each of the tournaments we have played in.
Here is another interesting thing about this particular tournament. The winning team takes home a cash prize. That’s not normal. Neither is the format of the tournament.
We play three games in “pool play” tomorrow (11, 3, & 5). Based on our performance in pool play we will be entered into a single elimination bracket on Sunday. The top two teams from each pool go into the “gold” bracket. The bottom two teams from each pool go into the “silver” bracket. By the end of the day Sunday there will be a silver champion ($300 cash prize) and a gold champion ($500 cash prize). It’s not much, but it’s a lot more than any other tournament I’ve ever played in. Not sure who they found to sponsor this, but kudos to the people in Wabash.
Hope we don’t lose all of our games.
p.s. Don’t you feel enlightened about the workings of men’s fastpitch softball now?
Such is the way of the world
You can never know
Just where to put all your faith
And how will it grow
Gonna rise up
Burning back holes in dark memories
Gonna rise up
Turning mistakes into gold
Such is the passage of time
Too fast to fold
And suddenly swallowed by signs
Low and behold
Gonna rise up
Find my direction magnetically
Gonna rise up
Throw down my ace in the hole
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