So i spent alittle bit of time teaching my niece how to say and pronounce words. we started with saying the F-word....
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FRIENDSHIP!
FUN!
FUNKY!
FRUGAL
FAIL
FLOP
FLIPPER
FROWN
FUSSY ... her additude to her aunty .. LOL!
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yeah.. those are the important ones we stressed...
LOL! We had fun...played alittle of hid and go seek. It's funny to see how much she grown and understand things. Right now affectionaitly calls me UNCA ... or just yells rawr.. it's usually directed at me...lol
we did get her saying "Dude" or her own version of it... she likes dancing to the limur part of Madagascar.. it's awesome..
--------------------SOFTBALL
We had our second game of the year, first in a month because of rain outs. we ended up winning 21-9 in 5 innings due to us placing a mercy rule on them ... kind of a football score, but thats alright. There was 16 of 30 total points scored in the first inning. Which is kind of sad, but it's largely due to the fact that the Umpire had a VERY small strike zone. he didn't really start to open it up until the second inning and the game started picking up quickly after that. We had some great hits and our girls also took huge advantage of their lazy play.
Merideth and Bethany pitched today and i was really pleased with both of their outtings.
Merideth only went one inning and even with her giving up 8 runs, i think that the umpire really frustrated her. She does a GREAT job at hitting the corners and the blue just wasn't giving it to her, which in turn lead to frustration. She has alot of problems with her release points. She holds on to the ball way too long thus making the ball travel out of the strike zone and end up either too high or throwing it too low. She needs to work more on snapping the ball when she is coming down with the ball. she would have much more acurecy and she wouldn't get flustered as much.
Bethany had a huge advantage because the umpire open up his strike zone and made the girls swing more often. She also threw more pitches over the heart of the plate, and let our defense really get to work. She got alot of swinging strikes and that may have been due to the fact they weren't used to her (slower) speed. If bethany can pick up her speed i deffinitly see her becoming our number 1 pitcher next year.
As far as defense goes there was a couple of bad plays in the first two innings but really after we shook the rust off we got to work. Savannah got a couple of ground outs and Taylor got one too. I was very impressed with Laura playing first base and the way she stayed with the bag and stretched to grab the throws that weren't as accurate. I was very excited to see Sarah catch the fly ball in left field. GREAT SNAB! it may just be a routine play but it's the routine plays that really make the difference in a game. Merideth threw out i think 2 maybe 3 runners trying to steal. THAT is awesome and it gives further emphasis that she should stay behind the plate and allow others to pitch. I told Bro Steve (Our pastor and the head coach of the team) the way she handles the pitches really made a difference with the umpire and the way he called pitches. I love Laura and her additude but the way Merideth caught the ball and "framed" the pitch put emphasis on the location and i think changed the opnion on a few balls that the batters kept "diving" out of the way.
All the girls showed great potential. The other team's pitcher threw not really hard but pretty good and i was happy to see some of the girls catch up to those pitches such as Lydia, Sarah, Young-Joo, they all need to work on their hitting. however, i was really impressed that they got pieces of the pitches. Molly got a GREAT bunt down with two strikes. which just tottally threw me off.
we have another game on monday. i should really grab a note book to take notes on and work with our team.
Being the out field coach i really need to start working harder on A) juding fly balls and B) staying involved in every play. While i've tried to work on them about this already i need to start go about this in a new way. because obviously there are some things we need to work on.
--------------------------Mariners
of course everyone knows about Ichiro and the bleeding ulcur .. that stinks ... i'm not of the sinking boat majority that's going on right now. although i'm not really keen on Griffey playing RF.. but we'll see whats going on.
IM WATCHING THE GAME TONIGHT! YEAH!
IM WATCHING JARROD WASHBURN ... bummer... LOL!
BUT! Spring training is over .. so that means Monday is the start of the season. i'm so looking forward to it. it's going to be a really interesting season and the way i'm going to follow it will be a new experience.
DOUBLE BY BELTRE .. that was a rocket
3-5 rockies over the mariners right now ...
-----------------FANTASY BASEBALL
with the start of the season brings the start of fantasy baseball season. expect me to go over this on sundays rather in depth.
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SUNDAY -- Fantasy Baseball blog
MONDAY -- nothing as of yet
TUESDAY -- nothing as of yet
WEDNESDAY -- Kids say the darnedest things... (inspired by Anna Dickson)
THURSDAY -- nothing as of yet
FRIDAY -- Movie DAY!
SATURDAY -- nothing as of yet
DAILY -- Daily i'll go over softball, the mariners, some randomness.. and i think AJ has some thoughts on Derek Jeter she wishes to share along with some funny quotes.
i'm going to be trying to come up with something daily to write. hopefully it will keep you all in touch with me while i'm gone. i'll still be writting while i'm gone i'll just send them to AJ and have her make the updates for me.
-------------Movie DAY!
There are two big movies coming out this week and maybe i'm over stating big..
But first of all there is Adventureland .. which is an independent style comedy.. almost looks like a black-comedy or rather dark comedy .. whichever you perfer.. it's being headlined by Ryan Reyenolds, Jesse Eisnberg and then of course the ever popular Kirsten Stewart from the twilight series. (will her name ever be synomous with anything else??) btw i used to lump Ms.Stewart in with the likes of Jena Malone (whom i think needs to change the movies she chooses to do..she's kind of a flusey) but i've started to change the opnion as she seems less and less like the typical movie star and just someone that enjoys acting in movies. i guess we'll see. Enough of her .. i really like Eisnberg and i love Ryan Reyenolds.. i have a man crush on Mr.Reyenolds... He is officially too cool for school. I probley won't see this movie because it looks very crude but hey if you like indie style-comedies and have low morales.... you probley don't read this blog.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1013752/
then the BIG one the fourth and latest of the "Fast and the Furious" enstallments reuniting the orignal cast of the first one. Which is really the only way they could do another one. it's great to see Vin Diesel back in the big car/big action movies. I would really like to see this in the theater. In fact we have no plans so i just may surprise AJ and take her tommorrow. Good idea Harrison
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1013752/
and then the limited release of "Gigantic" staring Zooey Deschanel and Jon Goodman. I can't believe Jon Goodman is still alive i keep waiting for that guy to have a heartattack, a man of his size can't be healthy ... this movie is an indy and i don't know much about this.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1176251/
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I know this was really big post .. sorry for those who actually read it... have a fun Saturday
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