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20-18 GR beats a newer team, the Gammas in the first round. The Gammas were a Latino team of kids, they’re younger, fast, and need more experience to get on with softball. Our team is experienced, although somehow we let them go from 7-1 to 7-6, then when we were up 20-10, they came back 20-18 mostly with 2 outs. We were imploding. A few bonehead plays here and there, gave them a bunch of extra runs, and they even got the point where the tying run came to bat. What happened? It’s hard to figure out why stuff like this happens. But when it’s two outs, and it feels like that third out should haver happened 2 and 3 times, letting in more and more runs, then that’s when you begin thinking, “if we got that guy out at that point, then…” So it happens, and that’s where we’re at as a team, enough to win, but is it enough to win again? We’ll find out next tuesday. Had to add… more… seems negative up there in that post. But really it’s not. We friggin won! I think it also means, that as a team, we always play down to the level of our opponents. When they stink, often, we do too. When they’re good, sometimes, we rise and play much better. It’s how it works.
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20-18 GR beats a newer team, the Gammas in the first round. The Gammas were a Latino team of kids, they're younger, fast, and need more experience to get on with softball. Our team is experienced, although somehow we let them go from 7-1 to 7-6, then when we were up 20-10, they came back 20-18 mostly with 2 outs. We were imploding. A few bonehead plays here and there, gave them a bunch of extra...
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Back to Art Center to help critique a lighting class. The kids came up with great ways to make lighting happen. Some looked ready to go into production, and some needed a little more work. But each were truly amazing, and the ideas behind each were solid and well thought out. I think the only thing I left with was… “is this really school?!” The work seems to fun for it to be true. Check out the images for what the heck the kids are making. I’m ready to buy some of this stuff.
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Back to Art Center to help critique a lighting class. The kids came up with great ways to make lighting happen. Some looked ready to go into production, and some needed a little more work. But each were truly amazing, and the ideas behind each were solid and well thought out. I think the only thing I left with was... "is this really school?!" The work seems to fun for it to be true. Check out the...
It looks like something went wrong here, but no, it’s just a firework that looks like it blasted people. It’s an image from the post tennis fireworks. I forgot to say before that on Saturday, Sharapova was supposed to play, and the night started late, then next thing you know, they announced, she wasn’t even going to play, so she comes out, makes a bunk announcement, and off she goes. The doubles proved to be good actually, and we saw a decent match, but we also got free tickets to the finals. The fireworks didn’t disappoint. So for those of you who care… here’s some more shots of fireworks. Next, doubles. Two people play. Usually, your best strategy is for both players to be together, whether it’s up at the net or both back. One up, and one back doesn’t work out well, and we saw examples of that all night. One team didn’t bother to follow any of the conventional “rules” of tennis. Of course, they were young and had some great shots, and managed to blast to win a few games, but the regular way, of playing as a team prevailed. There’s something to say about having fundamentals.
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