Hang On

Still not up to too much blather. But thanks for checking.

Dad

Goodbye Dad. My heart aches.

William Philip Cassidy 1925-2015
My hero.

Levelset

I don't really know what that means...I guess I do though.

8th Grade Travel team has two (2) more games in regular season. We play in a 12 team league so a bye for 1st round of playoffs is already out. Gotta win these 2 for a good spot for a run. Over the last couple of weeks we've lost by one point, two points and four points in games we might've/should've won. Short roster and missing players (for a variety of reasons) contributed.

The game we lost by one was amazing. We literally had at least 20 shots go in & out of hoop. It was surreal. Anyway, we play a game tonight we should win. And one Sunday. Then we see what we are made of. It's been real, I only have about 2 more weeks with these boys, most of whom I've coached for the last five years. Time flies.

I Stand Accused

Rec hoops this morning. Really early. 9AM.

Playing a team coached by a guy who, shall I say, pissed SoulSlam off. But that's not unusual. We have a rule that all players must play at least 1/2 the game. The spirit of the rule is that all players should get fair playing time. So in a basketball game, if say three (3) players are on the court 95% of the time, and four (4) players are basically playing for two (2) spots, then technically the rule wasn't broken. I admit as much.

Now, we had 8. I would say that within a minute or so, most of my boys played about 25-26 minutes total.
25 x 8 = 200. That's how many player minutes are in a 40 minute basketball game.

So what am I doing standing on a soapbox? It's rec. And all the boys deserve to play. Here's how the other team shook out:

Player 1 = 32 minutes (he only took this kid out because I complained to the wishy-washy league director at halftime)

Player 2 = 40 minutes

Player 3 = 40 minutes (I never saw 2 or 3 leave court once)

Player 4 = 22 minutes

Player 5 = 22 minutes

Player 6 = 22 minutes

Player 7 = 22 minutes

So after the game I told the fat little weeble of a coach that it was BULLSHIT playing 3 players the whole game. His response was "he didn't play three the whole game"...and I guess that is technically true. At that point I told Chubby that he was a piece of shit. That's when it got good.

Mr. Technicality told me I was an asshole. And that I was the reason his son didn't play baseball anymore. Which I found funny since I never coached his kid. And since his kid could never, ever hit a baseball, I found it funny. I did remind the round mound of baloney that his kid was good at stealing laptops, since he stole YSSS's.

This is gonna get bigger!

Like a Merry-Go-Round

That you can never get off...it's about 8 degrees (not a typo) here right now at 11:30AM and the forecast for the weekend is more snow and ice. Sweet. Holy crap.

Quick 7

I started this bit of rant 'n' roll approximately seven years ago on a lark. Time flies.

My boys were 9 and 7

I drove a minivan I think

My max bench wasn't what it is now

The Mets were terrible

Twitter wasn't really a thing yet, at least not with me

Max & Maggie (my pups) were just puppies

My wife was as beautiful as she is today

Here's the first posts from February 2008 if you want to delve...

BRRRR!

We have got historic cold here in North J. I think I read someplace important that we haven't had weather this cold in decades. I will attest, it is a might chilly.

We also have snow or ice every 2-3 days or so...waiting on another storm overnight. The baseball diamonds may not be ready to use in two+ weeks when NJ HS Baseball starts...