Christmas Time

It's that time of year yet again, where shopping malls are filled to capacity and peoples credit card debts are at a all time high.  I'm not here to complain about all the hustle and bustle of last minute gift shopping or the herd of in laws coming into town, but all the good about the holidays.  The Christmas season is filled with joyous times of food, drink, and remembering those who gave so much to make our lives as awesome as possible.  A time where we can sit back, enjoy a warm fire and become overly anxious to open the gifts we've been waiting for the entire year.  Whether its something small or the car of your dreams gifts are miraculous in their own special way.   First the stress relief of ripping the paper of the box like a lion diving into his feast of a kill or the the actual gift, whether your giving or receiving it nothing seems to be more of a warming feeling that the acceptance of ones gift.  We can all have the seasons feelings, some more strong than the others, but all the same intentions of the greatest time of the year.

Droppin the blog in the library...

    How about this week, finals week, geez what a hellacious work of the brain to cram in 12-15 hours of your college classes in the matter of seven days.  An astronomical increase of borings Facebook status' complaining about how rotten life is because the all nighter booz fests are done and the real education steps up to the plate.  Thats college life for you.  Although it is not even remotely in the same ballpark to the level of stress that people are putting on themselves to pass it seems that some students naively waste their precious time in the weeks of regular class and test, only to put the severe pressure on themselves to make it all up in one test.  Pointless and ignorant as it seems, it is kind of a logical way of taking a class.  If your falling behind towards the end, it is a free shot to work your grade back to a run of the mill standard.  Too bad it takes all nighters and coffee shops runs to attain this great feat of accomplishments.  And with Christmas break right around the corner it drives the students to want to get the hell out of town and back to the warm and comfort of their own beds and mommas home cookin.  Gotta love the holidays.
  

Time...

   Sit next to the fire and stare into it seeing your future staring right back, but can't seen to visualize what is out there like the haze of smoke rising above the treetops erasing the stars from the midnight sky.  Most days I look around and search for something to change,  instead of waiting for what is in front of me. I try to find the mediate between the glorious past and the bleak present.  It seems tough to change it up a little bit from what seems so natural, and find that new spark that was once a bright light in the room yet dimmed to black.  More than anything it seems to be the want for the acceptance from everyone, yet it can seem so simple life is as complicated as a Calculus problem for a kindergarten student.  We see the new and search for one as similar to the past as possible, but there is non.  I might just have to change into the two-step of reality and drink heavily the lack of acceptance to others.
   Maybe it is not something I am trying to find, but maybe someone?  A familiar face, but impossible to conquer like a great stone wall of dictatorship that keeps us apart.  A wall that faces neutral to both sides, but still stands between not to hate, not to dispise, but to keep from being together.  It's difficult to peak through the hole in the cracks to view the great friendship now and see what could've been, and what is wanted.  The wall cannot be torn down ever, because it is a consequence of our joys and our mistakes.  Neither would ever want anything to go wrong, but could sneak across any moment only giving a minuscule micro-second before all the chaos erupted.  So it stays neutral, the sides stay together with a part thinly separating as the eyes  pear through the hole until that wall is forgotten.
   So its times, not just times of joy but times of question that solidifies life.  Whether it is what we want, or what we imagine it could become something more, and possibly in time it will.  Time changes it all and what will happen through it will change a life maybe not anyones, but it will effect everyones in some way or another.  I can only hope that somethings will change to add people, places, and situations.  A mundane lifestyle can drive a person to question how they have lived their lives through now.

A Growing Hunger for the Season...

    Whether it's a crossover dribble, an And 1 play to send a team ahead, or a last second buzzer shot in the face of a rival team.  It seems to be that time of year when Dicky V is calling all the night games on ESPN gettin' wild and crazy yelling all into his mic and loving every minute of it.  When the pigskins stop flying, most college students shift their enthusiasm for the hardwood and begin to prepare for the transition from hail mary deep pass, to the long range trey from way beyond the stripe, from the all out blitz to the full court press.  Basketball teams have recruited, trained, and conditioned the entire year for these next couple of months, and its becoming reality that basketball is preparing to take over the tubes during the week.

   The 24 hour basketball marathon starts all the enthusiasm tonight when tipping off at twelve midnight November 16th.  Although their have already been many games played this weekend, tonight will be the official beginning of the NCAA Mens Basketball season.  The excitement is gaining excitement as fast as Usain Bolts 100 meter dash, and even with more football still to play the world will focus on the hardwood during the weekdays.  The NCAA is having tournaments over the Thanksgiving holiday to try and equal the college football as that season roars to a much anticipated end.  With big conferences represented this year, such as the Big 12, SEC, PAC 10, Big 10, and ACC participating both the 76 Classic in Anaheim CA and the Old Spice Classic in Orlando Fl, it should add up to be a extremely entertaining tournament.  People should also consider viewing these tournaments because of all the immense talent on the floor so early in the season.  This is a year of Freshman Phenoms in John Wall and DeMarcus Cousins of the Kentucky Wildcats and Xavier Henry of the Kansas Jayhawks.  Wall and Cousins were the numbers 1 & 2 ranked players coming out of high school and both just happened to attend John Calipari 's inaugural season coaching for the Wildcats.

    Some people watch the game to support their own beloved teams, and other people watch to see the "Toughest Gyms" to play in such as the Kansas Jayhawks home in Fogg Allen Field House (Left Picture), and one of the most notable student sections of all time in Duke University's  Cameron  Indoor Stadium (Right Picture).  Two of the biggest names in basketball history have gained much respect over the years, not just on the floor, but  in the stands with their highly representative student sections.  In Cameron Indoor Stadium, it has been said that the students will reach out and touch players while they are trying to pass the ball in bounds creating an insanely close for fans to be next to the players.    Fogg Allen Field House has been notably one of the toughest places to play over the years, in the last fifteen they have only lost a total of 12 home games, and only one game to the Big Twelve South division.  The fans are remembered for their slow chant of  "Rock Chalk Jay Hawk K-U..." a slow,deep, held out tune that reverberates itself through the rafters of the Fog.  Having a loud, intimidating student section is a valuable key to a teams success.  Whether it is a white-out crowd, or stomping on the bleachers during opponents free throws, or the big momentum shifts to the home teams advantage after a big basket.  Players are always giving credit to the fans, and most players build their game off of the crowd and how loud they can become during the game.  It most definitely is one of the greatest advantages in college basketball.

    Student, fans, players, and parents spend many hours in front of the T.V.with eyes glued,waiting,  for that special moment.  A Larry Bird and Magic Johnson battle for the ages, a skinny Durant's tremendous leaping slam from the cheap seats, or a couple missed free throws to give away the National Title.  This is the season when anything can and will happen, and year in and year out kids from across the country gather together in one sport to entertain a nation with their own talents.  By the end of the year it comes down to sixty four teams, and by the time people fill out their fifth bracket, placed their bets, and get into all the games...  It is over and the nation is put on hold until the next season comes through.  Believe it or not this is one of the most exciting 3 to 4 months Americans get the privilege to view, and should be prepared for anything to happen.  It is that time and you better watch!

Iphone...

I'm trying to return to old writing ways of last year and the summer, but i have yet to find the motivation to keep writing. So I shall post a irrelevant blog post at least once a week if not more about random stuff. Seeing that I have no followers to my blog its shall be more of a get back to writing type of deal that I can use to keep myself productive throughout the week.

Well seems as if the iphone generation has taken over America, and rightfully so with so many people that own this phone it seems as if it deserves its own decade. Anyways society will give it time and maybe it shall earn that unfathomable reach. The point of the Iphone is almost to have a computer at your fingertips with the ability of the phone. So for the many people that have them the convenience of it is unrealistically better than any other phone they have used so far, and rightfully so. Apple has put many years into the study of this phone, and is still working to fix every kink or question about it to make it the "perfect" phone to own. The Iphones popularity can be seen everywhere, there is not a day that goes by without myself seeing give or take twenty people taking out their beloved Iphone.

So it raises a question of mine, will anything compete with it? According to some,no but Motorola, Windows, and Garmin, the ever popular GPS producer, are coming out with phone comparable to the Iphone, but not yet able to compete with the high demand of the Iphone. If the it will have any competitors, they will either have to have a better phone, or

be a phone just as good with a differnt style of looks. Now the Iphones all look around the same,

same shape ,same size, same style of screens, numerous same style concepts. With each new

updated version of the phone a new look some what comes with it. When the 3g came out ,after

the original one, it had a newer sleeker look with all the products moving away from the dull

back of plain grey , to a sleek, glossy, shining finished black that looked by far as if a better and

more powerful phone. Again Apple came out with a new color with their newest update the 3gs,

the newest of all I phone productions. It came ,along with the black backing from the 3g line, a

flashy white style that everyone seemed to be pleased with.

Although they do come out with new styles, it seems to me that if other will compete, they will

have to produce something that out competes and has a specific look that people these days want.

The Iphone has the iconic stature that all companies want to have for example, the Statue of

Liberty, The Golden Gate Bridge, and the Empire State Building. When a person see's those

they already know in their minds what it is exactly, and that is what the Apple has accomplished

with the I phone. By producing a phone with such high power so early and efficiently, and so

many people have it, it is almost impossible for people to see past what it has brought to society.

It will take time for the I phone to die off, but with people not willing to try other phones, it

makes it twice as hard for companies to get their product out their.

The Iphone has definitely taken the World by storm, and as much as I would love to have one,

I want to try something different. It seems different, but true, that not all people want to be the

same, and in my case I do not want an Iphone for my next cellphone. Strange as it may sound,

I want to try something totally out of the ordinary from Apple even maybe a new production.

Part two (Pointless Entry)

So strolling through the parking lot today...(pointless entry)

So as i was walking my way to the library i noticed a piece of trash, a Mc Donalds cup, crumbled with tire marks across the face, and my initial reaction was not ,"Hey piece of trash probably needs to be picked up", but "Wonder if it has a Monopoly piece?". I picked up the cup only to realize that their wasn't any pieces on their , and it was just another worthless piece of trash. As I go to place the trash back on the ground I stopped and caught a glance of the entire parking lot, the cup still in my hand,and I began to see it. Thousands upon thousands of pieces of trash laying everywhere, under cars ,in the trees, and even right in the middle of the sidewalk. Grasping the piece and folding it into a smaller square i begin to walk down the way, still seeing it all everywhere, and as I placed the cup in the trashcan I thought to myself "Was it really that hard?".

Still just walking along campus seeing all the garbage everything from cigarette buds, coke cans , and numerous pieces of paper. The campus doesn't look like an over used landfill, but little things that stood out as an easily could be thrown away, and laziness got the best of people. The trash is a metaphor for the laziness and careless behaviors people can deal with everyday. For students that go to a campus to learn and higher their education to just leave everything laying around like its their apartment is ridiculous.

For a fact this whole blog entry is pretty pointless, but I wanted to get it out how amazed I was at simple tasks that people will and will not do. If the measly act of throwing away a piece of trash is too much, I'm extremely scared for our future, and how far will people let carelessness take them.

Depends on how much they want out of life I suppose...

So #1 offense in the nation? Whaa

If you hear the words "Aggie football" or "Wreckin Crew D" or "Twelfth Man" anyone in their right frame of mind can place in on Texas A&M's football team. The past couple of years have been riddled with unrealistic notions and result, but has it been for the right things? In the past years of ATM football they have gained the respect of people across the nation as being known as a hard-nosed, grind out the game type of football team, but nowadays it's starting to shift from the slow it down let the defense do the work, to the ever popular high octane spread it out type of offense.

In the spring and fall workouts many were questioning themselves what will this team look like this year, and all they could come up with was young unexperienced players and weak lines on both offense and defense. After coming off a brutal, on going 4-8 season, the Ags were looking for some kind of revitalizing of the team. In the past five to ten years atm has been in a rut with team output. Only winning one bowl game, and dropping more games in the month of November than ever before, it seems as if the ags have dropped to the bottom of the ranks. This year has seemed to start to turn it around a bit, with a huge class of freshman recruits coming in such as: 5-star Running-back Christene Michael and two 4 star receivers Uzoma "EZ" Nwachuku, and Kenric Mcneal, the ags Coach Mike Sherman is planning on putting explosive players on the field, and that he did.

Before I rant on the positive points of the first three games of the season, I'm forced to mention the fact that the teams the ags have played are not the best, but are more for working on the offense, and getting the younger players game time experience. Anyways if explosive is what Sherman wanted explosive is what he got. Coach Sherman starts sophomore or younger at both running back and receivers and only a junior quarterback with one year under his belt. Jerrod Johnson (The Quarterback) has been a powerhouse with twice the maturity he had last year, and a great view of finding people on the field. Standing at 6'5'' he pears over all the other players with ease to find his targets, but having the ability to throw is one thing under pressure another. In numerous situations he has had the poise to escape the rush, roll out, find time, and throw a bullet to a receiver who snuck behind several defenders. This has amped his stats to unfathomable three game stats (75-111, 961yard, and 9 tds) all this with out throwing a single interception. Personally i've been to each of their games and have only seen him come close to throwing one int. No matter who the teams are not having an interception 3 games into the season is a rather impressive stat, but he could not get these kind of yards if he had nobody to throw to.

A core of Wideouts, young but very talented, lead this so far unstoppable offense led by Sophomore Jeff Fuller. Fuller is the type of player real tall, big wide bodied athlete that can give defense coordinators fits on who should guard him. He began the season with 10 rec for 111 yards and a TD, but in the second game on a poorly thrown ball awkwardly fell on his right leg and broke it placing him on the injured players roster for 4-6 weeks. Many Ags started to moan as the cart drove away back into the x-ray office, and begin to question which young gun would step up and make things happen. The call was answered by Uzoma "EZ" Nwachuku a 6 foot Freshman with amazing athleticism, and can jump out of the stadium. In the same game people were questioning our offensive future Nwachuku had the game of a life time with 3 receptions for 101 yards 3 touchdowns, and to boot he had a rushing touchdown from 39 yards out. Giving him four total touchdowns breaking a 15+ year old school record, although he was not expecting it EZ was surprised with a ful fledge standing ovation from his first class that Monday morning. Now we found a solid receiver to somewhat replace Fuller, the others have to step as well and the number one in yards is a familiar face to aggie nation, it's backup QB Sophomore Ryan Tannehill. Although he has the most yards on the team surprisingly the Ags do not play him as much as probably should, normally is seen only on long 2nd or 3rd downs. Which seems obviously odd to anyone why would he keep his best receiver off the field? His athleticism is solid, decent speed, and most importantly knows exactly how to read the defense. More times this year I've seen Jerrod in trouble in the pocket and scrambles to be open then launches one down the field to a wide open Ryan Tannehill. It shows how he can use his Quarterbacking skills to find the small mistakes Defenders give him. Spreading the field has become the Aggie's bread and butter so far , and it has seemed to open up the running game a little more as the season progresses.

The running back core is not "of age" or mostly inexperienced back, it has the potential for big play type of guys. Starting for ATM this season Sophomore Cyrus Gray, who played most of the end of last season with the fallout of future NFL drafty Mike Goodson. Cyrus has yet to really prove that he can be an every down kind of runner, more of less he would rather break it to the outside, but with the lack of explosive acceleration it takes certain times for him to bust the big play. In the spring of 2008 rumor had it that Coach Sherman was recruiting a big named player from Beaumont Texas not 200 miles from College Station. This rumor was completely true and now Freshman Christene Michael is gettin some serious playing time for the aggie offense. In his first game he racked up 93 yards on 11 carries and averaged 8.5 a carry, this showed great potential for the big play back from East Texas. His fluid running motion, short stalky stature, and phenominal speed makes Michael a featured back in the 2009 Aggie O. In two games he has had 90 yard attempts on limited carries, due to the air attack blasting out huge numbers of yardage. But not only does he get the ball on the offense, but does return kicks as well. In the second game against Utah St, He showed the crowed why he is doing that as well, he was piled up on the left sideline and spun out of a huddle of defenders cut back ,Reggie Bush esk, and added 35 more yards almost breaking it for the touchdown. a sensational show of reading blocks agility, and speed shows this will become a back that gets more and more carries as the year goes on. Nothing against Cyrus Gray, but with the playing abilities of Michaels atm cannot afford to keep him with limited carries throughout the year. Not only do the running backs get the touches on the ground Quaterback Jerrod Johnson is a close second on the team, with just under 200 yards in three games and 3 scores. He has the ability, with his long strides and juking talent, to get some extra yards and create havoc for defenders to deal with. all this is part of a ATM team that has not been merely touched for anything in the first three games.

This all adds to the big game 4 against former Southwest Conference Rival, the University of Arkansas Razorbacks. They too are led by a high powered offense, and should be a good first test for this aggie team. Both teams are looking forward to facing each other and seeing what kind of team they really are.

Livin Life....

So it's definitly been a while since i posted a blog on here so, tonight will get myself caught up for the past couple months... Maybe... Here of late in my new home away from home in C stat nation dreaming each night of football and relaxing sunsets atop the 34th row of Kyle Field. Beautiful days of independence and learning how to live my own life, make my own mistakes, and take my own responsibility for the choices i make. As far as I can tell nothing has gone too bad, but now i'm startin to realize that i'm keeping myself away from my family at the real home. It's going to become a super reality check when i finally realize that emails and phone calls will never replace the missed times of not going home. But am I totally wrong for not wanting to go home?

Can i really feel bad about only going home to see my parents once in the past 3 months? When I see my brothers return to their own household more often it gets me thinking will my parents start to be concerned that I won't ever want to come home. For some reason I find an excuse to fill the want to return to the homeland when truly i'd kill for some home-cooked meal or a nice conversation on the back patio. I count down to the "big breaks" on my fridge ,and thrive to see my broski's from a differnt city, and yet I won't find my own time to visit the ones that are closer. For now only twitter and facebook keep my connected to the ones i'd do anything for. It seems i'm home sick for the old ways, but will not do anything about it. Is it because i enjoy the college football tailgating afternoon of freshly blazed burgers, or the fresh smell of a colbeer on the rocks before the big game? No one can really fathom what the reasons are things just change and when one person told me that "Everyone changes in college" I failed to listen ,failed to believe because i don't want to think that things will, but obviously it has.

Things will never stay the same it's simple everyone can picture their own glory days whenever that may have been, and want to stay their, but no one can live it forever. It's an impossible thing to do. It all lays on myself seeing what I want to do with my life, be with my friends or strive harders to fulfill my long desired dreams and make new friends ultimately setting myself up for change. Life is change. Adjustments to the everyday life is the key to everything, but maybe if I had a core of people to lean on I could take change a lot better than now. Same mundane experience for the JUCO scholar ,same people, 30-40 per class. Is this worth what I want for the future? I'd love to think so, but can I attack my future from another point of view? I want to be with the people that helped through so much before and lean on them for support not just through the endless computer screen, and text messages. It'll fall into place.

Summer time my friends

Man i can't beleive these words are going to mean so much to myself and all of my friends in the coming weeks/months of life approaching rapidly. It falls on me to be curious on what everyones going to be doing, but i can give you a jump start to my summer plans for a fact should be a memorable one. Although I got no idea on how anything will work itself out I'm always hoping for the good if not the best in life.

First my ventures will be across that stage and finishing the treasured high school years for one last time. Everyone is saying now that it's all over, and we have nothing left for high school. I think differently until monday we still have it all ahead of us with nothing but oppurtunity infront of us. High school is now fading into the memory files and will start to become the "Remember Whens" of a lifetime. Other than that i am pretty stoked for graduation and getting it all done with and startin the summer.

I plan to have quite the summer with my friends trying to drain the last bit of time with them to the brink of dehydration all this before we head off to college and into our own seperate worlds of a new life. Starting it all off with a trip south of the border for some mexican beachs, babes, and hopefully some fun parties down there. A trip of a lifetime someone once said and definutly couldn't pass something like that up so I can't wait i can here the hammack yelling spanish styled lingo towards my way. Taking a nap on the beach listening to the waves crash onto that sandy shore should be great times made and hopefully get into a little trouble, nothing is fun without a little risk in it. After the return to mexico its open to anything from New Braunfels to a little summer baseball action, what can go wrong with that.

The thing i'm waiting for the most is the Frio River, if you have never been take a trip there before you die, it may not have the same affect on your life as it has impacted mine, but the last 16 summers of going there from what i can remember have been a blast nothing ever goes wrong. Some words of advice is not bringing any technology and enjoy your time there doing random stuff as in throwing some football, jumping off huge rocks to the cool river below or pitching a little Trenton Becker style washers. How can anyone go wrong with talking about beating Trenton in a little game of washers. I'm pretty sure that vacation is only as good as the river is that year and typically it's greattimes. The lake as well although it has little water due to the lack of rain in the area, I can't wait for those days of getting on that tube and having the parents pull us 500 MPH through the wake of the boat, jumping into mid air and rolling off skidding your ass on the water slididng all day. How can you not have fun when everyones basic challenge to get you to fall off even if it takes throwing ice at ya.

The bay house, baseball games, and many more stuff going on this summer i hope i have plenty of relax time to post some good stuff on here... if anyone gets on anymore.....


Just Keep Livin'

Thinking of stuff from a new perspective

Ever think of what high school would've been like if you were not associated with sports? I have, what if we were not in the P.I.T the football or basketball games or didnt attend any sporting events at all.

During the senior retreat I was roomed with a member of the band, and I started thinking about this concept late that night. It got me thinking other than having the ocassional class with this person we have totally different ways of high school. Noticing that other than playing at the football games in the band I've yet to see him at any other sporting events, and how different our "Journey" must've been all four years. He wouldnt attend sports as i would not attend a band concert and this made me realize how different our lives have been here at STJ. We both know and have met new people, some he's met and became great friends with people. What would my life have been if we took the other paths of each other? What if we were in each others friends or got to know the same people... How different each situation would've been.

Even though we all say we have became so much closer with our class there will always have been a difinite split between certain people, and maybe we all wonder the same things everyonce in a while. I played hoops, he played an instrument lifestyle splits the way of the journey...

The Swine Flu Pandemic...WTF

I know for sure I'm not the only person totally frustrated by this entire subject, but I'll be the first one to complain on how the entire world is running the operation of spreading the word that the Swine Flu is going to take over. For our sake as a society it will not take over thanks to the well developed immune systems humans have, and it spreading is just like every other common flu virus.

So why's everyone on crazy panic over the dang Swine Flu? Simple It is because we have not found a vaccine for the virus therefore it will spread faster than if we did have one in annual shot package. It's simply rediculous to say that it's going to kill over a million people when studies show that quite a few of your everyday Americans don't go and get flu shots each year. This case is just the newest strain waiting to be found. Is it every two years or so the media starts a big riot on how the World will end on some kind of flu ...(bird flu, mad cow disease...)

Okay that was a starter hit me with some of your own feed back i want what yall have to say...

Make things right if you disagree...

Nature leads people to think that at some point in life the world revolves around yourself. For most people this is a short term recollection, but for some people this has become the lifestyle.

This seems to be the life for most people who have never been truly exposed to what we call "The Real World" a place society has built so that we as people can make life as simple as possible if we just roll with the flow on most subjects. Although most people stay on track, there is always some out there that expects something for seemingly nothing. I would like to say in my times of viewing family members and others families function sometimes that this depends on the parents abilities to say "no". If the parents can deny their kids and say no while they are young the children will not get into a habbit of being use to getting everything they want, and therefore not try and take advantage of that in the future. As seen in the MTV shows of birthdays and whatnot that some parents in today's world will bow down to each of the kids expecctations by just the snap of a finger.

This revolution of children through a lifetime as they grow and get older some parents will still have that emotional aspect of the giving, giving, and more giving to their kids. Until adults realize that it is part of life that people do not always get their ways, and they will have to teach their kids at young ages this concept. It is the point that if they get everything they want or ask for they will not have their own identity in the world just another gift from mom and dad that they have yet to earn.

Another point is that parents have to draw a line between the life teenagers have at home, and the relationships, friends and other school (away from home life) things. When us as teenage society have that other freedom it opens many doors most importantly the major aspect of responsibility to act as adults. Learning form expirience at a younger age will lead to better choices growing up when it all hits you after the parents have protected the kids from these because they did not know how they would react. It also helps the kids see the parents handle these situations, and set the example for them to follow. Most kids will end up acting the basically same way their parents did ,and if the parents made bad choices the kids will accept those as being right. People are proven to learn more from experience so putting people in situations will show them exactly how to or how not to react to these basic problems in life.

Not being a parent, obviously, myself but this maybe the sort of route I would take a chilled laid back ,but respected adult to the younger aged crowd. As of now I have absolutely no problems with my parents, and they let me have that freedom and make those decisions some bad and some i learn from. That's me though....

Getting toward the end of STJ sports and we all now how it feels....

Okay being honest we all have come to the conclusion in sometimes in the "Journy" that we have either played down to the competition, but was it really players fault or coaches???

As i begin this lets start with the starting of it all coaches think that somehow we have become the total powerhouse team in every sport we play so therefor they talk shit about every team we play. This frustrates me because i've seen this happen countless times when coaches look pass the smaller schools and start to prepare for the dominant SAC, IWA, TMI, which ever it may be.

In football we have blown out teams numerous amounts of time gaining us the swagger needed to make a push into the playoffs no doubt, but is that what we need? Was it better for STJ to drop the first home district game in a while to SAC? Truly i maybe wrong, but that loss opened the eyes of the football players that we are not unstoppable. Most players that week started to look over SAC and check out who was in the first round of the playoffs. Having Cheston Guodge and Wilson Vick wreck shop on our secondary was not a fun thing to view from the stands, and neither was our still young gun quaterback with a lot of throwing potential toss a few picks into no mans land. Look down at the competition dropped us a district title in football, but made us realize that we could be beat. And the real heart and guts that should've been played against SAC was tripled in the last playoff game against D.C. when we took the eventual state champs to the bring of demolishment. I went and watched the State game in temple and we by far handed them the most competition of all season. Looking down on SAC helped us in the long run , but no repeat of the district.....

Basketball short lived story here plenty of potential, but if i hear Platz tell us we should be able to beat SAC, IWA, Hyde Park again I would've shot myself. We most definutly had the potential if luke would have been 100% all year, as we saw in our district opener against IWA that we could play with the top dawgs only losing by ten and giving it up at the end. We looked down on tiny teams and it came back to bite us just mentioning one team in the Goliad tournament as in Mathis i beleive anyways long story short we didn't give them the time of day, and a three point rain at the buzzer later we are playing for a 3rd place trophy which we loss. Mathis was a tiny team bunch of non athletic players and we should have beat them by 25, but we were preparing ourselves for Goliad that night in the title and what do you know no hardwear for the team. Playing to the highest potential each game we might have been able to catch a playoff birth, despite horrible coaching and too many techs to keep our minds in the game. Maybe next year baskeballers.

Baseball time as the teams season draws to a close rather quickly, we've seen it before and I'm sure we will see it again. One teams name comes to mind to no district title and the name is Hyde Park, don't get me wrong they are a scrappy bunch of players, but no where near the talent that we have this year. Going into this game alls I could find in conversations was "Wheres the playoff game against J.P.II" or " Did we lose the district title splitting the series" coming into the game with only a 3-0 win last time shouldnt we expect something a little better than the first time if I was a coach I would've scouted a team out and put on my spoil season pants on. Hyde Park saw Hayden the last time what would make a coach thing that if a team faces a pitcher twice they will hit him better the second time. Hayden is a fine pitcher, but he is no Denver or Andre that can tear teams to pieces with his stuff they got to him and started ripping, and a shot at the district title down the drain. Be ready baseball team playoffs will be more intense first round seeing that tougher team out of Houston.

These are some prime expamles of bone head coaching decisions now lets see players or coaches you tell me ???

Senioritis

If you have yet to feel it boiling in your stomach like a terrible hunger or a deep craving for something you long for it's on the way. Along with many of my class mates and about 40 million other people in the world this insatiable disease that flys through the nation attacking the same society with this monotonous illness every year. Can one avoid it? I'll have to say that if one can they are a gifted person.
The drive for anything in the world these days has dissappeared for me ,and i can't seem to find it anywhere. Study habbits shot down the drain about three weeks ago whenever the real feelings of how good the bum around ,dog dayz of the smelterin heat will appear. This does not just go in my mind, but in the rest of the students like a contagious influenza shifting it's momentum from one senior to another gradually catching on to everyone by the end of the year , some sooner than others.

Nothing beautiful of this peice,work, just the truth of how i think as of right now feeling as if all the hard work and dedication i spent writing has been set sail on a boat that capsized at sea with everything on it. Nothing seems to pop in my head, but am i not searching for it? Do we really have to search out certain things day in and day out for what we plan to write? Or should some stuff just jump out at us and hit people square in the forehead and say "Write about me i'm fun"... Who wants to write about fun i want to write about life, fun is the reward from gettin to write.seeing and thinking about what is going on in mine others and whoever else's lives.
To write is the passion for life and cemementing it onto a piece of literature for others to read. Either baffling their minds with numorous vocabulary or the peacfulness of a simple poem written about the day they had at school. Writing is the key to becoming more aware of what goes on around you. I've just quit looking for a while...

is 500 going to be the number to reach in ten years????

Last night Gary Sheffield became the 25th player to reach 500 homeruns against the Brewers, although it was a great feat for him to reach it raised a question in my mind. Will 500 ultimately be the number to reach or will we be adding digits as the club grows with all the homeruns being hit these days? My thoughts lead me to say that the "500 Club" will lose some of its famous luster on account that the group of players will be less exclusive in years to come. Don't get me wrong 500 homeruns in a career amazing abilities to see and hit the balll so such a time, but at the rate players are hitting them today fans will begin to recognize more so the 600 and 700 home runs as more of a reach than just 500.

On this case some example of people killing the ball with a lot of potential left in many years of them playing. Carlos Delgado seems as if he can reach the mark this year sitting at 472, and the odd ball hitting Vladimir Guerro is in knocking on the golden doors with 393 home runs plus three years younger than Carlos. Couple other "Big Stars" to mention that should reach it are Albert Pujols, David Wright, and 3rd year starter Ryan Braun (If he keeps his pace up of 30+ homeruns per year).

Although teams are making the ballparks harder to hit homeruns such as the Nationals' monsterous field, the Mets new Citi fieil, and the Cleveland Indians field whose left field fence juts up to around twenty feet high. There will always be those field that just stick out as hitters parks for right handed pull hitters Minute Maid in Houston , and the the left handed pull hitters take a trip up north to the sacred grounds of Fenway and send one down Pesky's Pole.

All these contribute to the adding or taking back of homeruns, but it's is all about the players staying consistant hitting the ball. These days it seems that its common for a person to hit 30, 40 homeruns a year, and that just shows how much bigger, stronger, better eyes the players have today. I will not take steriods as an issue for 500 homeruns, yes it does taint it no doubt, but being big is not the key to hitting homeruns it just adds to the power.

So you tell me. Is this a generation of players that kept playing hard?, the steroid era making records?, or just more consistant power hitters ?