I’d just like to say somethin real quick, I don’t think it needs much of an explanation.
First impressions are sooooooo important.
And today at baseball practice I tore the cover off the ball, coach was impressed.
I guarantee he’ll remember it too.
First impressions can make all the difference.
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Seeing as I’m in the middle of writing a paper on my own made up philosophy (determinationism), I’ll make this brief and pretty straight forward. Coaches.
Every one’s different, and you never know if you’ll get along with them until you’re actually on the field playing. Some you see as older versions of you, still hooked on the game. Others you see as an evil cousin, someone you never look forward to being around. I’ve had dozens of each kind, as well as some right in the middle, one’s I just can’t decide whether to love or hate.
But the thing that scares me the most is the impact they can have on each and every one of their players. One bad coach could strip a kid of his passion for a sport, and I hope that never happens to me.
I figure I might as well mix up my blogs, add a little spice you know. So today I’m going to blog about something I guess is kinda sporty, atleast it keeps you in good shape if you do it a lot. Dancing!!!
Most of the time I HATE dancing, I’m horrible at it. I’m tall and goofy, and I guess I just don’t know how to go about it. Dancing to fast songs makes me feel like a tree swaying in the wind, I feel so out of my comfort zone. Then I have to look around and everyone around me is just totally having a great time, gettin jiggy wit it (not meant to be sexual). I try and get my groove on… but I guess I’m just useless at it.
I’m guessing some of you might feel the same way, or maybe you feel completely opposite.
I’ve enjoyed myself once or twice when it comes to dancing. I think the main way to have fun is to surround yourself with who you’re comfortable looking stupid around, that’s the way to go. And people who’s skills at dancing are around your own, then atleast you’re not the only freak.
My point is this, if you’re at a dance or something and you’re having a bad time (and when you have a bad time at a dance, you REALLY have a bad time), go find some people that are about as bad at dancing as you, then just be yourself and dance like an idiot. I’m telling you, you’ll fit right in and you’ll have a good time.
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Something I find a little… funny actually in sports, is how players get traded from team to team, state to state, city to city.
I don’t like it for a lot of reasons, I can just imagine having a family and all of a sudden having to completely change lifestyles because your coach doesn’t want you anymore. It’s absolutely a crazy thought, professional athletes are away from their family a ton as it is. It’s kinda funny because it’s so simple. A coach can just say he doesn’t want a living human being and easily send them away, it’s just so easy. I can’t imagine doing that to someone either, telling them they have to go live a world away and work for a guy they don’t know. I hate that, athletes lives are so unstable.
But the funny thing is I actually think it’s right. Athletes are obviously paid big bucks, a lot of people get traded to places where they’re gonna make more money anyway. It’s what they asked for, sports are extremely extremely unstable, nothing is set in stone. It’s the entertainment industry too, if they’re going to get a team more money by getting more people to go to the games then that’s it, it’s their job.
I don’t like it because I just wouldn’t want that to happen to me, it’d be so hard on a family. But the long and short of it is that it’s the world of sports, people have to get traded. They took the job understanding the risks, their jobs have cons too, not just pros. Trades are part of the game in my opinion, what’s yours?
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The NBA season is kicking off today!!! And for those of you that don’t know what that is, it’s the National Basketball Association. I like basketball, I’m really good at it, I have some insane skills. It helps when you’re 6’1″ and can shoot lights out. But I don’t play anymore, I quit so I can concentrate on school. But anyway, I still watch basketball, it’s a REALLY exciting sport to watch, especially in person.
A lot of people don’t like sports because of how slow some can be and how little action there is. Yet you don’t have to normally worry about these problems with basketball, it’s extremely fast paced and full of action.
Especially with the NBA, there are a lot of great athletes that play. It’s great to watch because it’s full of high flying stunts in mid air and mind boggling dribbling skills. The crowds are very loud and the athletes are easy to see, unlike football where they wear helmets. I KNOW that people who don’t normally watch sports can atleast bear basketball, Bri did it.
So turn on the TV and switch to a game, it won’t hurt you to try it out.
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And you know (or atleast I hope you know) what that means, the World Series!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The World Series is the championship series, best of seven games, between the two best teams from proffesional baseball (Major League Baseball), from their respective divisions. The AL is the American League, and the NL is the National League. The leagues aren’t split down the middle of the country or anything, there’s teams from both leagues in most US regions. Though inside each league the teams are split into their geographic regions, it’s fairly simple.
Starting with the NL, this year representing are the Philadelphia Phillies, a very old and historic franchise. They haven’t won the WS in quite a while, but they have a good team this year.
As for the AL, the Tampa Bay Rays made it to the World Series this year, barely beating the Boston Red Sox in the American League Championship Series. The Rays have never made it to the World Series before as a franchise, but their roster is looking good this year.
I’ll break things down by teams now.
Phillies: Philly is a great team this year, they have a very good lineup with one of the best power hitters in the league anchoring it, Ryan Howard. And infront of him is argueably the best power htting second baseman, Chase Utley. Their defense is pretty solid, Jimmy Rollins is a great shortstop and they great some speed. As for pitching, they have the best starting pitcher in the series in the young Cole Hamels, who has been nothing short of brilliant this postseason. And their bullpen is amazing, with Brad Lidge as their closer, a man who hasn’t blown a save all year! But as for the rest of their starting pitchers, they aren’t that deep.
Rays: The Rays are a very very young team, but with a lot of talent. They have the best power numbers in recent playoff history. B.J. Upton and Evan Longoria (my second favorite player) are the best consistently powerful duo in these playoffs, with a very powerful Carlos Pena in between them. They also have good pinch hitters for key situations. Defensively, they are GREAT! Longoria is soft handed with a cannon at third, Iwamura is very smooth at second, and they have one of the fastest center fielders in all of baseball in B.J. Upton. Their outfielders also have very strong arms, which could prove critical. They have better depth in terms of starting pitching, they have a very consistent rotation of four starters. Their bullpen may be problematic though, they have good pitchers but they’ve been throwing badly as of late.
So going off those stats, and my own personal interests, I pick by a narrow margin the Tampa Bay Rays to win the World Series this year! Who do you pick?
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That’s about the smartest thing I say when I’m at a soccer game, I don’t completely understand the rules. So our boys soccer team just lost AGAIN, this time on senior night to our cross town rival. I went to a total of four games this year and our team did not score a single goal in any of them, unless you count the two we scored on ourselves one game. I kid you not, scored on ourselves not once, but TWICE in one game.
So since I’m a sports guy I pretty much can watch whatever sport and be entertained. I don’t know a lot of people who watch soccer or can even stomach it, but a lot of kids go just because it’s a school thing and the stadium is pretty sweet.
I’d have to admit the game is a little boring at times, there aren’t many goals normally. However, the game only stops once (half-time), so atleast the action is constant. In high school there are two 40 minute halves with a 10 minute half-time break, which is really needed.
But even though it can get boring, I can’t help but notice that it really does take a lot of skill to play. At a competitive level, you have to be conditioned like a beast in order to stay in the game. It may look easy, but kicking a ball with accuracy is really really difficult. Even pros, the best of the best, miss tons and tons of possible goals, it’s just not an easy thing to do. Not to mention goalies, they take a beating out there. My ex-girlfriend is a goalie and she told me how many hits she’s taken.
It’s also extremely team oriented, 11 players on a field is a lot. In order to score a goal the defense normally has to stop the other team and get control of the ball, which in itself could take four players. Then the ball has to be moved up the field without losing the ball, the ball gets stolen a lot. Then a PERFECT pass has to somehow be wedged into a tiny space, followed by a perfect kick or header into the goal. That’s a lot of things that need to all mesh together!
So I like soccer, it is the most popular sport in the world. Though I don’t think I could get into it like some people do, like at the World Cup… those people are nuts. If you like constant movement and don’t mind getting bored a little, soccer could be a good sport for you. It’s not on TV all that much in the US, so that’s problematic. But if there’s a soccer game for your school team, maybe go one time. You may find that you love it!
Life, liberty, and the pursuit of a better 5k time. Is that a bad substitution? Being the only underclassmen competing for the regional/state varsity cross-country team I find myself unpleased with some aspect of each race. “I didn’t P.R.” or “Man, I beat him last week”.
The Blue Train is so tight and fast that we have eight guys under 18 minutes and 10 guys competing for seven varsity spots. Four of these spots have been lost to the regional organization committee, they are already decided and therefore immune from the elimination prospect. This is tough for me, because I can beat two of them, but maybe not some of the non-immune ones.
I guess I’ll just have to see what happens this district race, and hope/try/do/yay-running my best.
For those of you not currently participating in a FMHS running team the blue train consists of seven cabooses(runners) in blue uniforms, periodically they are together, but sometimes there is a “run away caboose”
Considering our volleyball team plays our bitter cross-town rival in about 15 minutes, in fact I’m going to be late because I’m writing this, I figured I talk a little about volleyball!!!
Now volleyball has never been something I’ve been into mainly because it just isn’t something guys are normally athletes in, but I’ve come to respect it. Volleyball is a big team game that takes a lot of different kinds of players in order for a team to succeed. There’s the blockers and killers up front, then the setters and the people in the back who do something or another…
But the reason I’ve come to like it is because almost anyone can play. Even some of the least athletic kids I’ve seen can play a whole heck of a lot better than me, and I’m a huge varsity athlete. Some of the 5′ girls in my PE classes have been able to whip my butt at it. It kind of pisses me off, but I still think it’s cool that almost anyone can be good at atleast one sport.
It’s also really really fun if you didn’t know. I can’t quite figure out what’s so awesome about it, but it’s just a rush of adrenaline. Not to mention beach volleyball, that’s fun to play too.
So if you don’t like many sports and don’t think you’re very athletic, volleyball could be the right game for you. It doesn’t take running or even jumping if you play the right position. So maybe try it, it could rock your world!
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The biggest reason I’ve observed about people not liking sports is that they just don’t care for the sport at all, even I don’t like some sports. A lot of them are “boring” or “pointless” to a lot of people. However, Scarface has found the one thing that seems to make people appreciate sports more, movies!
As I’ve figured out from a lot of experience with people (including The Bri), it is much more fun to watch a sport when you “know” the people that are playing it. Sport movies do just this. If you’re watching a movie and you’ve got to know the person being portrayed, it is MUCH easier to become interested in what’s happening in the game. In this way, sport movies take out a lot of the boredom in sports.
Another way it accomplishes this is by climaxing the moments in games. This one may be even more important because it absolutely destroys the boredom that happens in most contests. Normally, only the important and exciting plays are put into a film, making it easy to watch without getting distracted.
Through both of those points, movies can make almost any sport enjoyable, even ping pong or figure skating. Because of sport movies, I’ve become interested in watching various sports because I’ve seen them played in awesome movies. I now watch some tennis, soccer, hockey, more basketball, lots more football and plenty of other sports.
So my main point is this: If you don’t like sports very much for whatever reason, try watching a sport movie. They can be inspiring and make you want to get off the couch and go try it. I’m not saying that it’ll work, some people just weren’t meant to like sports at all, that’s just the way it is. But if you feel that you could enjoy sports in some way, flip on a movie about them, you’ll never believe how much they can accomplish.
And if you’ve seen any sweet sport movies then comment and tell me about them, I’d love to see some more.
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