1 game --1 win

Well the Pints 1 team coached by---you guessed it-- ME,   WON our first game 5-0.  Every Kid played and and every kid got to bat at least once.  Great coaching effort!!!!  No seriously, I had my best pitcher going and noone could touch him.  Next game Monday and my kid-AKA- the WILD THING is gonna start.  I expect a walk fest, but hopefully he has his game on and shuts them down.  We will see.  Hopefullyu i can keep getting all 16 players in to play.  I had a third grader who hit the ball every time at bat(holy cow call the Royals), My fav MLB team.  Going camping for the rest of the weekend and see ya guys on Monday!!

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Baseball games

So, the pints 1 baseball season kicks off Friday the 30th.  I am coaching 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders this year.  I have a total of 16 kids on the team.  I am going to find it very tough to get all 16 kids in a single 5 inning game.  Somewhere along the way, parents have come to believe that for $15, their kid should be allowed to play in every game.  I too am a big believer in that, but I also know that if my kid is playing baseball, they are gonna know how to catch, throw and bat before they are on the team.  

  Somewhere along the way, parents have forgot, or denied their kids play time.  I live in a small town, in which I grew up in, and by the time I was in second grade, I could do the basics at baseball.  It was not uncommon to get enough kids to play pick-up games through gradeschool.  As my kids grew up,  all of them could do sports.  I would play pickup games with my kids and their friends all the time.  Kids would meet at our house, just to play baseball, dodgeball, kickball, etc.  Now I coach and parents complain about 3 practices a week, two hour practices,wet grass, hot weather.   WHATS the deal?

Luckily though, most of the parents on my team are real good.  I've held practices where moms and dads both are in the field helping shag balls, fill in spots if we need players, supplying drinks and helping control the kids in general.  June is one of my favorite months.  A big challeng awaits for me trying to get everyone playing time, so hopefully I come up with a plan and none of the parents get too bent out of shape with what I decide to do.  OH did I happen to mention we are the returning tournament champs from last year!!!  The parents really loved winning the tournament after going pretty much winless during the regular season.  And hey everyone got to play

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First Blog

May 25, 2008

   So this is my first blog ever.  I bought a 360 in January and the Guitar hero 3 game.  Mostly to have fun with the kids.  Researched the 360 on the internet and found out COD4 was the best game going.  So I bought COD4 and never went back to GH3, except when the kids came over.  After researching COD4, I decided to join a "clan" to get help playing the game.  Joined xbox live for the first time and thought that was awesome.  I didnt know gaming had come that far, what a blast.  Found 2o2p and recieved many replies from PCP guys in the new in town section of the forms.  Most notably Donk horse and Mr sleestack.  Joined PcP and it increased the xbox live experience considerably.  Never been a member of a clan, but now I will not game online without some of my new "family".  A great bunch of folks who do not mind that I am not that good,  laughs all around and they even notice when I have a good game and let me know about it.  I became more active in the forums and even like that.  Now my first ever BLOG.  Dont know what happens after this, but we will see.

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