Jeff Utecht – Educator, Consultant, Author
Posts tagged baseball
Two Pitches
Apr 5th
(Stories from my side of the field Part 1 and Part 2 here)
I throw another hand full of seeds into my month and wrap my jacket tighter around me.
Man it’s cold today…wish the wind would quit blowing….I’m freezen!
We’re in the second game of another weekend doubleheader at home. We’re up by a run going into the 7th inning. As cold as I am I can’t believe she’s still here, in the stands, watching this game. Why doesn’t she go sit in the car? Or why is she even still here?
She sits there huddled in her blanket by herself, just watching. She More >
The Game Cont….
Apr 6th
(See Part 1 from last year here)
I sit on the bus plays running through my head. It’s quiet…we’re all thinking about the game.
Runner on second line drive to left field….guys gonna try and score…I’m the cut off….catch and throw in one motion. Gotta be a strike to the plate.
Stay back….pick up the spin and stay back…keep your elbow up…and keep your weight back…remember that.
We arrive at Ferris High School and go through are usual warm up routine. I keep peaking to the spot where she always shows up. Of course the guys don’t see me looking and she’s not here yet…but More >
The Game
Apr 1st
I lay there half awake thinking about The Game.
Ball hit to your left, man on first….under hand to second.
Ball hit deep in the hole, back hand, plant and throw….the guy’s quick so it needs to be on a line.
Man on third ball hit down the line….stop the ball no matter what it takes, look him back and throw hard to first.
Counts 1-2 what’s he throwin’? What’s the pitch?
Keep your elbow up.
Smooth…must be smooth.
Don’t over think….just play….you know this game.
As the plays continue to roll through my head uncontrollably, I hear the familiar steps of my alarm clock coming up the More >
The half life of Knowledge
May 3rd
From Tim Lauer:
via theonino.com
In what Major League Baseball officials are calling a “long overdue correction of a gross oversight,” Commissioner Bud Selig announced Tuesday the discovery that Hall of Famer Hank Aaron had in fact accumulated 50 previously unaccounted-for home runs during his illustrious 22-year baseball career, bringing his once record total of 755 to an even higher 805 and putting the all-time home-run record perhaps forever out of reach.
We talk about the half life of knowledge and how half of what we know today will be out of date in three years in some fields of study. Well, baseball More >
It’s here…I can feel it
Feb 6th
I’ve been feeling it for a couple days now as the weather here has started to change, but today I’m feeling it. Call it the ‘itch’ or the 20 years I played the game…but there is something in my blood that just knows when the time has come. It hit 60F here for the first time today, and even though we’re do for a cool down it doesn’t matter…I can smell it. The grass will start to grow, the trees will soon start to bud. I took the Thinking Stick off the wall today in my office and just gave More >
