Hooters Emily & Her Fellow Hooters Girls Are Ready For A Golf Weekend, More Scottie Scheffler Memes & MEAT!
It's going to be a quick one this morning, boys
As you wake up on this Saturday morning, I'm off to Chicago for the National Restaurant Association show for the greatest Sample Saturday known to man. Do I have a plan going in? Yes, no breakfast, go light on the carbs, limit the pizza slices this year and focus on the MEAT and, hopefully, there are multiple gelato distributors there like year ago when it was the greatest concentration of gelato samples in the world.
Wish me luck.
Last night, it was finally opening night of the baseball season and after a too-long layoff, the boys were fairly rusty. They took an 11-7 loss with the other team scoring EIGHT runs on passed balls or wild pitches.
It was 11-3 going to the bottom of the 6th with the tying run on-deck, but the boys couldn't come all the way back and now it's back to the drawing board with the pitching staff. Clearly, based on the number of games we're playing and the frequency, I'll most likely need to get boys innings nearly every time out to stay fresh.
My starter (Seaver) went three strong innings and left with a 3-1 but the 5th and 6th innings proved to be rough for my Glavine who was all over the place. There were too many walks, not enough timely hits and it was a recipe for a mess.
We'll get better.
Daddy Ball Report:
- Screencaps Jr. was 1-for-2 with a legit double to right center that was smoked, a walk, a run scored and a called third strike where I don't know what he was doing.
- Batted in the sixth spot
- He played center and 2B
Things I learned last night:
- We have someone/or multiple boys who threw chewed gum on the ground in the dugout. We're talking probably 10 pieces of freshly chewed gum that was still wet. That was a first and it instantly became my first challenge of the season. The passed balls and lack of timely hits will change. That gum on the ground – that nobody would claim – was infuriating.
- The gum was eventually picked up and thrown away, but the incident left me thinking about the work ahead of me the next two months.
- One of the very first things the league told coaches at the very first meeting was that they were making dugout cleanliness a focus. We nearly failed on night one. Not good.
- We definitely missed not having Sequoia who is at a soccer tournament. There were innings that could've been busted wide open with him in the lineup.
- My least experienced hitter had a ground out RBI, which was a cool moment. He does his job, tries his hardest and has a big heart. That's all I can ask for.
I ran the gum thing by Travel Ball Hardo Chris B. in Houston to see if I was wrong for getting pissed about the whole incident.
– TBHCBiH writes:
Hell no.
That’s absolutely unacceptable.
I would ban all kids from having gum for a game or maybe for a week to send a message. Surely there is a trash can of some sort in the dugout. Spitting gum out in the grass / dirt can be OK, but never ever on any hard surface.
Life thoughts from those who have lived a little bit
- Galen in Johnson City, Tennessee shares:
My father, a WWII vet and Battle of the Bulge survivor, told me after yet another bonehead teenage move on my part, "Son, have character, don't be one."
David Goggins / Do Hard Things
- Steve B. in Grand Junction, CO writes:
Your Dave Goggins post the other day got me off my lazy butt. So did this story, which really resonated with me (maybe because she and I are the same age).
"On Saturday, Gubser, 55, became the first person, male or female, to swim from the Golden Gate Bridge to the Farallon Islands. It was a journey of 29.7 miles through roiling, freezing, famously shark-infested waters."
https://sports.yahoo.com/california-woman-55-makes-history-100029082.html
Seventeen hours in the water swimming. My favorite line from the story:
"She wore a black and white swimsuit — an attempt to fool sharks into thinking she might be an orca."
Now this isn't one of those stories where a rich tech bro pours millions into achieving a vain headline-making bucket list item. This is a working nurse, who did the interview on her lunch break. She did it just for the challenge. How cool. My fellow Bronco fan, Daryl in Indy of "Do Hard Things," must be proud.
Goggins always gets me when he's running, gets to his final thought and snaps off a ‘Stay Hard’
Language alert!
I'm going to listen to multiple Goggins motivational jog videos to get my mind right over the chewing gum fiasco. Goggins will get me right.
Should Anonymous in Nebraska pay $200 for a bike that was left in his driveway by a neighbor kid and run over by his 17-year-old daughter on accident?
– Mike from Dayton writes:
Wow! I didn't realize bikes for kids are so expensive today! The bikes I had growing up were from Sears. Even with inflation they wouldn't be nearly $500 today and that was with the "upgraded' banana seat. Though a quick google search shows many bikes way cheaper than $500.
Anonymous is in a tricky spot. Obviously you don't want to jeopardize you wife's friendship with the neighbor lady or the friendship between the kids, but asking $200 is too much in my opinion.
If this happened to my bike when I was a kid my parents would have used it as a 100% $$$ teaching lesson...to me. Don't park your bike behind vehicles! At 11-years-old the kid is definitely old enough to know better. That's what kids used to learn when learning to ride a bike....DON'T LEAVE IT BEHIND THE CAR!
Here's how I would handle it: I would tell the mother I was planning on chipping in $100 before you asked for $200. My teenage daughter feels terrible about this and she's going to chip in the remainder of what you're asking for. I see this as a life lesson for both your boy and my girl. (It will say a lot about the woman with how she reacts to the girl having to pony up $$$).
As a side note: I had a similar situation last month.
My 18-year old nephew drove the family car to the Dayton Mall and parked right next to a light pole. It was a very windy day and when his buddy opened up the passenger door the wind took it and slammed it into the pole.
My brother-in-law said he was going to call the parents (who he doesn't know) and ask for half the cost of the repair. Now, my little misses thought that was wrong (I did too) and wanted me to say something the next time we got together for beers. I told the little misses I was NOT going to get involved with that....and I didn't. It's expensive, but aren't most life lessons expensive?
The best place to watch NCAA tournament baseball
- Jim in San Diego has a suggestion for those on the West Coast:
Arkansas? ARKANSAS?
Okay, that’s Division I. Whatever.
But the BEST place to see an NCAA Div. II regional is, hands down, Point Loma Nazarene University – check out Carroll B. Land Stadium - Carroll B. Land Stadium - PLNU Athletics (plnusealions.com)
They’re hosting Cal Poly Pomona Saturday for the regional finals – Cal State San Marcos having already been eliminated on Day 1.
You sure aren’t going to see dolphins over the center field fence in Arkansas …