7
Nov
Posted by sharpy79 in Sports / Training / Inspiration. Tagged: softball diaries. Leave a Comment
I’ve enthusiastically been playing in co-ed and mens softball leagues consistently (up to 2x week , w/ the various tourney here and there) for about 6 years now. Over the years I’ve had the opportunity to take part in some pretty exciting games – both winning and losing efforts. Without blogging about these games, I can pretty much guarantee that not only will I forget the details of some of these memories, but I might forget entire games all together.
Not acceptable.
Once this body of mine coerces me to retire the softball bat for a golf club, these documented memories will keep me young, even if my body is telling me contrarily. So, this new blogging concept is more so for me than you (though I certainly hope you enjoy me sharing).
With that said, I’m starting a new section of my blog called “Softball Diaries” – ala the mid-90’s Basketball flick.
Memory #1
League: Thursday Co-ed
Team: Fighting Floridians
Top of 6th, opposition up to bat and down by 1 run. Runners on the corners with 2 outs. The wind was swirling fiercely throughout the entire game (field adjacent to a lake) and multiple fly balls have been dropped throughout the game.
I’m playing left and their heaviest hitter launches a bomb to left center field. Back back back, into the fence I go, grabbing the ball inches before hitting the ground (snow cone style). I raked my left forearm and throwing finger on the chain link fence pretty good – blood & pain ensued.
Inning over with zero runs scored. Bleeding stopped. We held in top of 7th and win by 1 run, entitling us to 3rd place in the league.
What should I remember?
Making the decision to chase the ball, into the fence, during a pivotal moment of the game.
16
Oct
Posted by sharpy79 in Sports / Training / Inspiration, Trips & Vacations. Tagged: Bears. Leave a Comment
Heading out of town this afternoon with a buddy (Falcon fan) to spend the weekend in Atlanta. The game is on Sunday Night Football, so we’ve been looking forward to this trip since the NFL schedule was released. I have a couple other friends from Orlando that bought tix last minute, and Brandon is also heading down with 22 (yes, 22) Bears fans for their annual road trip. Chaos is looming.
There hasn’t been much trash talk yet, but by the time we role into that Atlanta parking lot for tailgating, I would imagine it’ll be on like donkey kong. I wasn’t able to attend any Bears games in person last season, so I couldn’t be more pumped. Two 3-1 NFC teams going at it on Prime Time!
1st row in upper deck, about the 40 yard line:
A great view of the entire game:
11
Oct
Posted by sharpy79 in Faith & Reflection. Tagged: quotes. Leave a Comment
His words are always encouraging and uplifting.
Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
There are two kinds of people:those who say to God, “Thy will be done,” and those to whom God says, “All right, then, have it your way”
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.
3
Oct
Posted by sharpy79 in Music / Movies / TV / Entertainment. Leave a Comment
Headed to House of Blues Orlando last week for a Chevelle show and was really impressed with one of the opening bands, Halestorm.
The lead vocalist really took me by surprise. She has once of those gritty voices where you say to yourself “is this voice really coming out of that person?”
www.halestormrocks.com
iTunes
30
Sep
Posted by sharpy79 in Random & Misc. Leave a Comment
Changing Eric-Sharp.com back into a blog kids. I have exactly 346 posts to clean up, re-link images, tag and categorize so hang with me during the conversion from the Blogger platform.
The visual design will be changing too – working on that new template.
I’m baaaaaack!
