The new blog theme (with some slight tweakings to the way it came) should be apparent, and I decided to add in a “description” so that the image at the top (which I like but is slightly large) wouldn’t appear to serve absolutely zero purpose. That description? “My Blog, My Life” (absolutely, completely ripped off from the American Express “My Card, My Life” commercials) because let’s face it, that’s really the whole purpose of The Daily Goob. I also got around to writing the About page finally, so hopefully everything now works as expected.
One thing I love about WordPress over Blogger is that things get timestamped as of when I hit “Publish”, not when I load up the page to begin typing. For example, I’ve had the page open since much earlier this afternoon, but each time I update it to preview, it gets the correct timestamp. And, if I go back and edit posts, it also knows not to update the timestamp. Apparently I’m not the only person in the world who didn’t like Blogger’s approach to things. :)
After having some more time to think about it, I’d put the chances of me volunteering to help next year with baseball back up closer to 85%. I’m still going to know a decent number of the players (Nick, Joey, and Sam probably being the three main), I expect that they’ll be happy to have me around since Preston will still be the trainer, and let’s face it, I really do enjoy doing it (even though I still have zero desire to pursue training as a profession). So, unless the traveling for football completely turns me off of the idea, I’m probably going to be a part of the HP Baseball playoffs next year.
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Ok, so technically I’ve been back in HP since 11:00 or so, but one of the players had a pizza/pool party at his house after the game tonight, so the majority of the team (myself included) went over there and stayed until a little after midnight. It was fun, a few people got thrown in the pool (myself not included), and it was the type of “party” that I don’t mind going to. No “questionable activities” going on, I know everyone there, and it was also pretty close to my house (3200 block of Greenbrier).
So since we had a party, I’m assuming that means we won tonight? McKinney North 5, Highland Park 1. Yeah, we lost and therefore won’t be heading down to Austin next week. The elimination this year didn’t impact me as much as it did last year, but I especially know how all the seniors feel since I felt the exact same way about 13 months ago (and I didn’t even ever play). Part of the reason I enjoyed working the playoffs this year is that I knew and was friends with all of them from the past 3 years that I had worked baseball. I will be doing football again in the fall, but I haven’t decided about baseball playoffs yet. I’ll know all of the returners, and in the few weeks I knew them a couple of them I became friends with, so we’ll just have to see. If we were still going to be living in HP I’d put it at probably a 95% chance I’d help out again; since we’re moving, however, that’s probably closer to 60%.
To all the seniors: good luck at college, and I’m sorry the season ended for you. Sons of Scotland Season……Conclude. (And elimination #4 for me…)
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Last night, McKinney North was in this position; now, so are we. Our game just never got off the ground in a 17-1 loss tonight that ties the series at 1-1, with Game 3 tomorrow night back at Allen HS at 7:30. For the record, this is the biggest loss that HP has suffered not only in the baseball games I’ve worked, but also out of the entire last 2 (possibly 3) years. Last year we lost to Tomball in the second game of the Austin tournament when they scored 17 runs, but we at least managed 4 in that one.
When the bus got back to HP, the team went out on the football field but Preston and I took everything into the training room first. Once we were done I headed out to see what they were meeting about, and it was essentially the seniors saying that since tomorrow could be their last game for everyone to work together and play their hardest. I felt compelled to chime in and say that I kew how the seniors felt seeing as how I had gone through this last year, and for the sophomores and juniors they’ll get additional chances, but the seniors won’t.
We’ll see how it goes tomorrow. I’m still optimistic, but considering this is the first playoff game we’ve lost, I’m a little more cautious.
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