Hitting a Curveball

In baseball one of the most powerful tools a pitcher has is the curveball. It comes straight for your head then plunges into the strike zone at the last second. The worst thing a batter can do is bail out. It seems like every situation in life can some how be related to baseball. Bad situations are like curve balls. You have to be the hitter. You can't run from problems you have to face them. Just like you can't bail out from the curveball. You have to keep your hands up, and weight back, poised for the right moment to strike. When problems arise one must not jump in to early or the curve will slide right by, but to late and the ball as broken and is no longer reachable and the hole gets deeper. In baseball you get three strikes, many players let the first one go by just to get their bearings, but when the second goes by, trouble begins. It's like problems if you let them build things just get worse. So, when that curveball comes in any situation remember: pick up the spin, keep your hands up, stay balanced, and don't bail. Not every problem is worth it so watch for balls that curve into the dirt, just let them go. Learning to hit the curveball makes people stronger batters, more dangerous than ever, and stronger batters solve problems by not acting to fast or slow.

Game Time!

So, baseball is in full swing. Our team is 7-3 and we haven't even hit our stride yet. We have 9 games left in the regular season, and then districts. We have had some people quit and some just not show up, so we are left with our starting team from last year plus one sophomore. We start 7 juniors and 1 senior and 1 sophomore, we are pretty stacked. We also have about 5 people batting over .500 me included. We have a doubleheader saturday and we are gonna smoke everyone from here on out. I can just feel it. It is FREAKIN GAME TIME!!!

My Favorites

Ok here are my top five favorite bands. Check them out and comment with ur top five.
1. Cunninlynguists (great name I know)
2. Modest Mouse
3. The Grouch
4. Flipsyde
5. Zion I

and here are my top three most hated musicians.

1. Justin bieber (he doesn't know about love he is 12)
2. Miley Cyrus (or Hannah Montana I don't know the difference)
3. Ke$ha (not kiesha that is not slutty enough apparently)

So, please comment with ur top five favorite bands and/or your top three most hated bands.

Perfection? You've got to be kidding me!?!

When I walk into a situation I try my best, and I expect myself to be as perfect as I can. I know perfection is impossible, but the pursuit of it is the best way to better ones self. When a coach demands perfection he needs to expect some failures along the way. My baseball coach is a single minded coach. perfection or go home. It works fine when he is a good mood, but on a bad day practice is hell on earth. Slowly, this whole season he has lost the respect of most, if not all the players on the team. He preaches character and respect, integrity and honesty, but he is a hypocrite to the letter. When we respect everything he asks us to do, and he spits curses and yells at us for a simple mistake I find it hard to respect him. When our team meets to discuss things his hypocritical tyranny is always at the top of our list. I demand the best from myself and expect the best from my teammates, we trust each other all the time. We believe we can be the best, but our coach ruins our focus and desire. We love each other too much to side with our coach on any matter he decides to yell about that day. We are a team that is bonded by talent, desire, and sadly hatred.

Magnetic

I always fall into the same patterns, time and time again. Sometimes for months sometimes years. My best friend (who is a girl) screws with my head. Not on purpose granted, but she manages to do it. She is my best friend and has been for years. We are always there for each other every up and every down. We just connect I guess and I don't know why. This last December I realized I had all these pent up feelings for her. Not just feelings, but head over heels feelings. Well leave it to me, I told her. Needless to say she broke my heart. After that we were on awkward terms to say the least.
Recently, she and I have fallen back into our old selves. Which is good, but I just wonder why, even though we often seemed to be broken apart for some reason or another, we can always be friends again? I wish these ups and downs didn't have to happen, but i guess it shows how strong of friends we really are. She is a big reason I can survive high school.

Accountability?

So, my baseball coach always gives us these life lesson talks. He talks about character and hard work, or integrity and sportsmanship. Then, the other day he talked to us about accountability. He told us we need to hold ourselves and our teammates to a higher standard. This makes quite a lot of sense. To be the best you have to work like the best, right? Then it occurred to me that isn't accountability a nice way of saying peer pressure? Well, the way I look at it, if the team strives to for perfection and there is someone not working as hard, and the team then tells him to get in or get out, that's peer pressure. Then I realized that this was a good thing, peer pressure was being used for the betterment of the team. So, I ask myself, does this mean peer pressure isn't bad? I would have to say yes. To be better the whole must push the outliers to get in with the pack. Accountability is for the betterment of the team, and I now believe the infamous peer pressure can be good.

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