Last game(s) of the season

Today for my Clemson team, we had a double header. First we played the Twerps (who we killed 16-7) and then we played Michigan (who killed us 6-2). In the first game I was 1-3 with a single. The Twerps pitchers couldn't throw so we were knocking the ball all over the place. On my last at bat, I had finally figured out these guys' balls would go down a foot before it reached the dish. So I step up in the box, first pitch... boom! Straight to right field! Then I stole all the bases. So when I had gotten back in the dugout, Michigan had finished their game and came up behind our dugout to watch us play. Michigan was wearing pink (October breast cancer awareness month), so I said...

Me: Hey Clemson! I didn't know we were playing a girls team today! Ha! Ha! What's with all the pink, man??
Kid on Michigan: If you don't support breast cancer, you don't like @#$%^&*!
Me (to my teammates): Don't worry! I'll handle this.
(So I go back to my bag and pull out a card from my mom's website.)
Me: Here ya go!
(The kid passes it around to his teammates)

Back to baseball. So our game ends and Michigan comes on. Their pitcher was just like the last one I had faced in the Twerps game. So I stepped up, he fogged'em right by me. Then another one and that was my last at-bat in that league. So the season ended with a strikeout. Then I counted my at-bats for the whole year... I was 4-22. I hope I do better next time. GOOO CLEMSON!

Losing to a machine.

Me:Yesterday my Clemson team played the Maryland Terps (more like Twerps). The Twerps had to play Friday night, Saturday morning, and Sunday night. Their pitchers were worn out so they had to use a pitching machine! To make it fair we used it too!

And to help me write this post today, I brought along a friend who has plenty of experience losing to machines, Chewbacca from Star Wars!

Chewie: AAAARRRRGH!!

Me: So in the first inning, I was up to bat first. The pitching machine was supposed to "throw" 98% strikes, 2% balls. All the pitcher had to do was pretend to wind up and place the ball into the pitching machine. So I went 0-3 against a machine.

Chewie: Rrrr. Rrrr.

Me: that's right! The first pitch it "threw" was a little outside but I swung at it anyway and it was to the 2nd baseman who threw it to the 1st baseman, then our next two batters Struck out and flew out. When I went out to start at SS, I kept saying "this is ridiculous! Playing short behind a machine pitcher."

Chewie: RRRRRRRR!

Me: Right again Chewie, I was supposed to pitch in that game, replaced by a machine. Did that happen with you Chewie?

Chewie: ARRRRH!

Me: No, he says he would never let Threepio or Artoo fly the Falcon. So my second turn at bat was the same pitch but it was right to the second baseman and I barely ran. The third time...

Chewie: RRR! RRR! RRRRRR ARRGH!

Me: Yep. 1-2-3 strikes YOUR'RE OUT!! So we before that at bat they decided to play 9 inning and...

Chewie: Rr.

Me: 'Scuse me. What?

Chewie: Rrr Argh!

Me: No, they don't play holo chess.

Chewie: ARGH?!

Me: Yeah. Sorry.

Chewie: AAAARRRRGH!!

Me: Aw, great he just walked out on me because he wanted to know if anyone played holo chess (his favorite game). Well I can finish this story without the walking carpet lol. Don't tell him I said that.

Chewie: AAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!

Me: Ouch. He said he wants to rip my arms off. So we're playing 9 inning instead of 6. One of our pitchers tried putting the ball in the hole were the thing throws the ball but he kept missing, thank God this wasn't in game time. So we lost to a machine just like Chewie losing to R2-D2 in holo chess. That was the reason I asked Chewie to help me with this post. In episode 4, A New Hope, Luke Skywalker, Ben Kenobi, C-3PO, and R2-D2 have boarded  Millennium Falcon, Han Solo and Chewbacca's ship and Artoo and Chewbacca are playing holo chess and Artoo wins. That must be embarrassing, right Chewie, old buddy?

Chewie: ARRGH!!

Me: Stay tuned. GOO CLEMSON!!

Chewie: AAAAARRRRRGGHHHHHH!!!!

Fall ball season opener

Today my fall ball league kicked-off the season. My team is the Clemson Tigers. Like  In this league, the team names are college names, like Florida Gators. So our first game was against, NC Tar heels (I know. I know. But it's a real name). We won 11-5. I was 1-4 with a single, two strike-outs, and a ground out.  In this league, you play it like you're in the pros, like you can lead off the base, and you can run on a dropped strike 3. B it is pretty cool. Our game is next Saturday. GOOOO CLEMSON!!

A lot of posting

I have a lot of posting to do today. Prepare your computer!

32!

I was supposed to put this out yesterday but I said in this post I would ask Dad to measure my throw. 32 yards. Same as my speed and Matt Wieters' jersey.

More Baseball camp.

Today we learned how to slide and we played a game where I was Mount St. Xav. Explanation: I kept losing my temper. When we were sliding, I did like, the worst slide in Baseball. Everybody started laughing, then I just lost it! I slammed my helmet down and a kid who's my worst enemy said "Xavier, your out of the game! FOR LOSING YOUR TEMPER!!" In the game, I hit a routine  ground ball which was just nothing to worry about, but I lost it and slammed my helmet. And later I lined one to the shortstop who shouldn't have caught it, but I Kicked my bat to the dugout and guess who dropped by to see our game when I went crazy? DING! Coach John. First I thought, great! Bye-bye Baseball camp! Oh did he get me at the end. I was just getting water when Coach J was talking about Sportsmanship, and I heard him say,"Where's Xavier? I need to talk to him." I got a talk of how great my line-drive hit was and I should be proud of myself.  I did not feel happy

Baseball camp

Paul and I went to a Baseball camp today, taught by and old college coach, Coach John (J). Coach J had been one of the best coaches in the NCAA, he managed one team for like, 34 years or something! And he really knows  how to play the game. It's a 4 day camp, where you work on your fundamentals, and today I realized I'm a better SS then I really am. Despite getting hit by the ball once, but it's cool. In hitting, Coach J said I look like Kevin Youkilis when I'm batting. "I'm trying to make my strike zone smaller!" I kept yelling. I will post about tomorrow's day at camp