everyday's song
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=481XQAOA_6s&w=420&h=345]
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=481XQAOA_6s&w=420&h=345]
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yd60nI4sa9A&w=420&h=345]
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6t594P6myw&w=420&h=345]
Crossfit, “Murph”
Run one mile.
100 pullups
200 pushups
300 squats
Run one mile.
For time.
33 min, 12 seconds.
Ouch.
Tomorrow, Sydney has her first day of kindergarten. That makes today the last day of summer vacation. She said she wants to play in the park, walk in the woods, play baseball, and ride her bike. But then some cartoon on tv demonstrated how you make juice pops in the freezer, and that got added to the list of things to do.
We’ll giver her a shot, Syd, cuz there are only so many days of summer vacation in a lifetime, and we ought to make the most of em.
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bk3sLHZzZRI&w=560&h=349]
Gotta love Harry Belafonte.
I’m not very good with a chainsaw to begin with. But after I figured out that I had installed the chain backwards–so that the teeth were facing the wrong direction–cutting up wood became much more enjoyable.
Still, I wouldn’t want to do it for a living.
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
www.strengthsquest.com
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.
AddThis Social Bookmarking Sharing Button Widget: “AddThis is a free way to boost traffic back to your site by making it easier for visitors to share your content”
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkRNz0tR7tc&w=560&h=349]
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4XahjfsyJs&w=425&h=349]
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.
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9HIC4HaTj8&w=425&h=349]
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.
…
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.
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgzCZ7lJbrc&w=425&h=349]
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."
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HagzTRmUBIE&w=425&h=349]
…“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.