By the beginning of 7th grade, I had grown bored with myself. After walking the track around the football field for almost all of my first year of middle school, I’d run out of interesting things to discuss. There was only so much to be said about basketball, language arts, and fantasy books, especially when the only contributor in such conversations only had one perspective. The lonely perspective. Continue reading “[Day 34] Why you gotta act like you know when you don’t know?”
Tag: Sports
[Day 29] My throat is burning
I am out of shape. I’m not going to try and sweet talk my way around this. I am so out of shape I pant walking to class. When I go up the short flight of stairs in my house, I have to talk really fast and pause a lot afterwards so no one can hear me gasping for air. Yes, my dear (2) readers. I am THAT out of shape. Continue reading “[Day 29] My throat is burning”
[Day 11] I’m out of shape
This video is kind of crap, but it’s all the footage I had and I’m too lazy to do any other video now.
Ugh… again…
So here’s a story for ya.
We’re playing whiffle ball at the city tee ball park, it’s something our baseball team does every night before a big game. It’s a total blast, it relaxes everyone and it’s just plain fun! Continue reading “Ugh… again…”
Victory!!!
To yet again stem an attack on myself by The Bri, I decided to blog today instead of yesterday because our baseball team had our first league game today, and I wanted to blog about that. Continue reading “Victory!!!”
Hey dudes
What up, Scarface is back. I was gone last week for baseball so I couldn’t blog, sorry. Also, I’m sorry this is late tonight but I had practice then I needed to hang out with Hillary, so I didn’t have time yet. I haven’t even started my homework either, which is unheard of with me. Continue reading “Hey dudes”
Tweaking
Sometimes in sports it is difficult to figure out what’s wrong, in anything actually. You know something is wrong, but discovering exactly what the problem is can be the biggest battle. It can take weeks or months, or never happen at all. Finding what exactly to tweak can be a headcase because people often fix the wrong things and just hurt themselves more. But when you finally figure out what was wrong, the feeling is amazing! Success is a cure-all, and fixing something yourself is very fulfilling.
Another type of tweaking is not so good though. Last week I tweaked my hamstring stepping on first-base, it sucks. I does hurt it too too bad, I can still play. Yet I have to keep it wrapped in ace wrap and ice it all the time, I hate not being 100%. Especially considering our first baseball game is on Thursday and my team needs me to perform. I’m doing everything I can to get better though, injuries are a nasty business.
Well that’s all for now, wish me luck this week!
This is Scarface signing off.
Coaching
Coaching is really key in sports to be perfectly honest, and most people really don’t realize this. One bad coach can ruin everything, they can take a great player and make him hate the game, it’s insane. My prior basketball coach was such an idiot and so inconsistent that it caused me to quit basketball, there was nothing that playing on the team was getting me. And coaches get mad too, they think they have nothing to do with people quitting, how could they be at fault? But the truth is that it’s almost entirely their fault, if it’s a good player at least. Why should someone play when it’s getting them absolutely nowhere?
First Day
Today was the first day of baseball tryouts for school ball!!! It was quite fun, a little on the chilly side though, it was extremely windy. I had a ton of fun though, baseball is a really chillaxed sport.
So we stretched, did some form running, threw, did a couple running tests (which I did beautifully in), did some intense running, then took batting practice. It was pretty exhausting but I loved it, I’ve been waiting all year.
In other news, Nate Robinson brought out the kryptonite and defeated Dwight Howard (Superman) in the Slam Dunk contest. I wanted Superman to win, however Nate Robinson won 52% to 48% in the fan voting. Well that’s about it for now, I’d better get to studying.
This is Scarface signing off.
A-Rod
So my second favorite baseball player admitted to using steroids yesterday… shoot. If you’ve never heard of Alex Rodriguez, he’s widely considered the most talented player in all of baseball, not to mention the highest paid position player.
He publicly apologized unlike nearly everyone else, and takes all the blame for his actions. He claims to have been clean since 2004, which I choose to believe. However, no one seems to agree on whether to trust him or not. In an interview in 2007 he sternly renounced using any kind of performance enhancing drug, and now he admits to using them…
His reasons for taking the drugs as well as lying are admittedly understandable in my eyes, however there are no excuses for doing such a thing. He has all the talent in the world and is easily on pace to break the Home Run record and numerous others, which he probably would be in line to break even if he hadn’t taken the drugs, he’s that good. Also, his stats don’t seem to peak at any time period, so it’s hard to be sure how much steroids could really have helped him. A-Rod had it paved, but the pressure to take performance enhancing drugs and to be the greatest ever can sometimes be too much.
I acknowledge Alex for at least seemingly being truthful, good luck to him in the future.
This is Scarface signing off.