Friday, February 15, 2008

Sailors leads Warriors to upset of #14-ranked 'Yotes

Well, you read it all over the headline... we knocked the #1 team in our conference off their high horse. I recorded my 100th hit of my career, which isn't really a big deal, but the fans were excited. The good news was it was a hit off of a change up, and generally speaking I WHIF those, but today, I chose the high road.
As far as other news, we've just been living the American dream in California. So far, I've seen about 2 celebrities, inlcuding but not limited to, carrot top and an Elvis impersonator. The funny thing about California is that 2 of the most honorable people on our squad decided that it would be funny to order ALCHOLIC drinks at lunch today. And to be honest, I was beside myself. It's one thing to causually enjoy a drink, but it's another thing to get WASTED on a team trip, send drunk texts and roll your empty beer cans all over the team coach.
....more to come....

Monday, February 4, 2008

Case of the Mondays...

Well, apparently the news is out that the worst pictures in the world were released this last week. I don't know whether I should forward you to uglypeople.com or corban.edu/athletics, it's all the same. Anyway, my picture turned out OK, and by ok, I mean that I've had about half the calls from modeling agencies than I usually do when something gets posted of me on the internet, which i guess you could say, isn't HALF bad.
We've had a rough couple of morning practices in the softball realm, and I can't say that I've seen the benefits yet, but I'm looking forward to heading out to California and giving this old body one more run at it. I've seen some headlines saying, "Can Batey pull through another season?" or "Batey, still playing softball?" but it's like, who had 9 homeruns last spring? Me or the reporters? You tell me.
This last Saturday I completed my last and only class at Corban College, and I'd like to say, it feels good. I've never felt better. Sure, it was 8 hours of my life that I will never get back, but I feel a whole lot better now about wrapping abrasions than I did going into it....
I haven't heard much from Nikki or Ashley, so I don't have much to update you on, other than they are doing well. Nikki still hasn't filled me in on the details of being married, but I wrote the book on relationships, so it's like, I'm not really looking to hear something I don't know.
Well, it's time to hit the hay, I've got a big day at Vikki's ahead of me, and I didn't climb up the manager position coming into work late and worn down....
This is Batey, signing off...