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....
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
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 ???
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 ???
Monday, April 20, 2009
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...
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...
Saturday, April 18, 2009
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 ?
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 ?
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