I can't believe it's almost over

Well, after a very short (in my opinion) season, baseball is winding down. We had our final practice of the 2008 season last night and I find myself saddened. Why can't we baseball all year around? Ok, we can't cause if we did Sharlene would probably kill me. My guys have done such a tremendous job this year and have all grown and developed as I knew they would. Out of 13 players I have only a couple that should do 1 more year in Instructional A.

Ok, I'll get back to baseball in a little bit. Ok, so within the last couple of months, Matthew has taken a huge interest in cooking and baking. He is always wanting to cook something, he wasn't so keen on having to try everthing that he cooks, but like a little trooper, he is. He has however learned that to cook things that he may like. If there's any question, he won't cook it. So we were up at Uwajamia and they had Kobe Beef New Yorks on sale. Well, Matthew was adiment about grilling the steaks. Ok, these steaks are normally $20.00 a pound. No way in hell am I letting a 7 year old cook them. :-) He was pretty bummed about it so I told him that we would get normal steaks and he could cook his own. Long story short, the steak he cooked turned out PERFECT and the one I cooked turned into a piece of charcol. So Sharlene suggests that we have a throw down like Bobby Flay (sp). Matthew was all over that, talking smack for two weeks I however took the high road encouraging and promoting my childs abilities. Ok, Yea I didn't do that are you kidding me? It's grilling, this 7 year old is going to be analiated. So the stage was set for last sunday (05/18/2008) We picked our steaks, 10 of them cut in half so that everyone got to try one of each. We were scored on Presentation, Flavor, Doneness, AppErance. Final results Matthew 109, Dad 108. That's right, I was schooled by a 7 year old. Matthew crushed me on Flavor, marinating his steaks in a Mesquite sauce seemed to hit the palettes of the judges however my traditional seasoning and a seafood, cream cheese topping seemed to fall short. Hey, if you gotta be beat at a grill of by anyone, it's best if it's your son, cause everyone knows that I taught him everything he knows. :-) So I guess I won anyway didn't I?

Ok, so today is Friday and we had our final practice of the season lastnight with one last game to be played tomorrow at 2pm at GSA #2. I have one parent that has kinda been a thorn in my side the majority of the season, well their player shows up to practice last night just as proud as he can be. He has a new equipment bag (he's been using a large duffle bag through out the season) and in his new equipment bag he has a brand new bat. ARE YOU FREAKIN KIDDING ME. This kid has been one of our most consistant hitters all season long with an on base precentage of 95% and he shows up with a new freakin bat. What does that matter one might ask. Generally it means nothing except it's about 4 inches longer and 4 ounces heavier than his previous one. So any guess on how he did during batting practice last night? 1 for 20. I'm sure his parents had the best of intentions, but seriously, different bat? I asked his mom to get him swinging that thing from now until the game tomorrow. Guess the soft toss net will go up tomorrow for lots of practice for him.

Ok, hopefully this should satisfy for atleast the next couple of days. As always, please feel free to leave comments, it's nice to know people are actually reading this.

NO MORE LONG COMMUTES

Well, even though it seems like the season just started we are winding down to the completion of another fun and successful season. The Sharks have 4 more games to the season, counting the one tonight and well, now the freakin weather starts to cooperate. After playing 90% of the season in the wind, rain, SNOW, hail the sun finally decides to appear. Currently it is about 70 degrees our there and blue sky. Saturday's game is supposed to be like 80 somethin. That's ok, we're still playing the greatest game in the world.

Ok, leaving baseball for a bit. So I was working on Monday and Sharlene calls me to tell me that a company in Tukwilia has offered her a job. She interviewed there about 2 months ago and was a finalist for the position, however she was beat out by someone who had more accounting experiance, not a big deal because she hates accounting side of Admin work. Well they told her that if something else came up that suit her qualifications they would give her a call. Well they had one and they called her. Long story short, My Beautiful wife now works a heck of a lot closer to home so I'll get to see that much more of her. Not to mention, she doesn't have to spend so stinkin much time driving back and forth anymore. It may even work out that she can take the train if she wanted to. I'm so happy for her. The Company is called Fatigue Technologies, Inc and have been around for since 1969 and do fatigue testing for airplane parts along with a host of other things I'm sure.

Anywho, I've been very busy at work and haven't had a chance to post, so I thought I would do a quick on.

I'm as bad as Penny

Ok, so since I've been getting so much crap about blogging and I have a clean desk (caught up at work for the moment) I thought I would try and catch everyone up a little.

Ok, you know it's coming, so let me just get it out of the way now. My boys over the last 3 or so games have shown tremendous growth and are meshing like an actual baseball team. Offering encouraging words to teammates that strike out, talking to each other about getting the ball and thank goodness, no more digging holes in the infield (knock on wood). Now if I can just get them to not drag their feet through the dry infield thus creating one heck of a dust storm. Every single one of them has been hitting the ball, getting on base and for the first time in Sharks baseball, we 5 runned a team, Oh yea baby. Tomorrows going to be the real test as we are playing the MOST dominating team in our division. Just so long as we keep hitting and working together, I will consider it a win. Well, we don't keep standings in our division so it's not about winning a loosing right now.