Cheers
- Press Box Sports Bar - two enjoyable lunches in the past week. With Rod Pedersen sightings each time!
- Animal Clinic of Regina - Dexter the dog must have enjoyed the visit, since he decided to mark the waiting room afterwards! Oops, sorry.
- Koko Patisserie - tasty treats!
Jeers
- Dairy Producers - bought a container of milk with an expiration date of July 1st. Opened it this morning. Already sour! Nice.
- Whiny parents of lazy kids. Yes, I'll be very glad when this baseball season ends this weekend.
C'mon people, if you've run into some lousy service lately, let the rest of us know!
Shameless plug: If you're looking for a great place for lunch, in a great setting, check out the Lakeshore Tennis Club! The club is located in Wascana Park, just behind the legislature, and offers a wide selection of tasty eats - all catered by Fresh and Sweet. And no, you don't have to be a member, or even play tennis, to eat there!
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Jeers:
No question about the whiny parents of lazy kids. Very sad, and I'm not the only one that has seen this. I've been told you'll always have this, but this year on a number of teams at many different levels it is almost epidemic. Basically they want and expect something for nothing. No effort means no reward, and they don't teach their kids that.
Cheers:
La Bodega: Great little funky place. Ideal for some nachos and a Corona.
Regina Red Sox Baseball: Go to as many games as you can. Outstanding calibre of baseball. Great environment, and awesome price.
Plus I had a couple beers with Scruffy and that just made my evening.
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We must be coaching the same kids!
More likely the "expect something for nothing" attitude is an epidemic.
Cheers:
I hear ya about the Animal Clinic of Regina! Had a nice discussion with a vet about prescription dog food, without being charged. Nice folks, there!
Free House, Red Lobster, Beer Bros -- all have great service and good food.
Lite 92 FM -- for making it possible to get tickets to Spamalot, the musical based on Monty Python's Holy Grail, which will come to Regina the end of November. Got tickets early thanks to being a 'Lite Life member'!
St. Jerome school, staff, parents and students, and Holy Family church, for making my nephew's Grade 8 Farewell a blast.
Jeers:
The City of Regina - You would think, if they were going to close both north-bound lanes of a busy road for an entire day, they would put up detour signs, right? Not just a 'Road Closed' sign when it's too late to turn around or detour easily. It shouldn't take an extra half hour to find a way around a construction site during rush hour.
Hmm. Yep. Only one jeer this week. But you have to agree it's a doozy.
And by the way -- speaking of Fresh and Sweet... they have the best grilled cheese sandwiches ever. I like their sweet grilled cheese sandwich -- it's got grapes in it, with honey instead of butter. Different, but oh so good!
You're a Football guy, and I'm a Baseball guy. The great thing about both sports is that it is always black/white evident of if you can do it. There is no grey area.
The toxic parents can say, "the Coach is stupid". Okay fair enough. It is not the Coach that hasn't got a base hit all season, and made countless errors at the position he assigned your kid too. In order to get that kid a base hit I had to have him "bunt" with nobody on, and pray he could leg it out to first base. That is unheard of, and the other team never expected. So the "stupid" Coach after 20 games took their kid's batting average from .021 to .152. Don't worry the next 2 games it went back down below .100 Baseball is plain jane evidence of where you stand at any given moment in time.
One of the classic Pete Rose stories occured when they were flying through a horrible storm. The Big Red Machine could go down in a crash, and everybody is crapping their pants. That nutcase jumps up all excited in this shaking plane, and shouts, "holy F#@I if this thing goes down I'm a lifetime .300 hitter"!!!!!
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I'm just not entirely sure how it's the coaches fault when a kid can't catch, can't throw, won't run after a ball, and refuses to swing at a pitch. At all.
Seriously, he stands at the plate with his bat on his shoulder and waits for a walk or the inevitable strikeout. Every single time.
Somehow that is the fault of the coaches.
Football is easier. Put the especially whiny/lazy kid up against the toughest kid in a one-on-one tackling drill. These things usually sort themselves out.
That's it in a nutshell Pete. I had over 30 practices. If you can't that's one thing I'll teach. If you won't then the Daddies maybe better have a talk with them, which they will not. So Baseball at the end of the day you get out of it what you put in. The 2 in my case that want to miss practice to got to Spring Hockey, then not have clue one about cutoffs or backing up plays it shows. It only gets harder the next year.
The hitting. All you need to do is get a bucket of whiffles and hit side toss. Do that everyday you can hit. It takes I estimate 200 of those a week to translate into the 2 or 3 base hits that look routine in a game.
Baseball is all fundamentals and footwork. If they don't put the effort in, then don't expect to be any good.
Prime Example. The kids who play in the Little Leagues always go to Baseball Regina when Bantam age happens. They knock the Baseball Regina kids right off AAA team. Those parents all cry about how they've spent all their time in BR so they should have preference. Seriously, have you ever heard of something like that? THe Evaluators say, "hey they can't hit, throw, run bases or make the plays don't blame us".
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