My Dad once told me when it comes to folks from Eastern Kentucky to be very careful and always try to remain on their good side. They’ll either give you their shirt off their back or they’ll kill you.
The wife is from Pikeville and her father was so welcoming when I asked for her hand in marriage, but talk ended it with " If you ever screw over my daughter, I know some old, deep dark coal mines in these mountains with bottomless pits and they will never find your body, never!" and said it with no smile, straight faced.
Don't mess with EKY people ol' son.
- For the record, I'd smash Jewel on her worst day.
-Hoping Keion has the break out year we've been waiting for and is that elder classmen we have so been waiting for.
-Do we need Mintz back with the guard rotation we have? Sure depth is important, but we have some quality in the position now.
-Called off our last rec ball practice today to head to club, float in the pool, and drink ice cold ones all day while the lass and kids frolic around with their buddies. Are Airpods waterproof? I'd really love to listen to some jams while I float around and basically be non approachable.
-Trying to find a version of Astronaut in the Ocean that is edited and doesn't say shit every 10 seconds for my kids walk up music for his travel team has been most difficult. It's a banger, but what will the other parents say with the word "shit" being pumped out of the massive bluetooth speaker 3-4 times a game? And will it provide the same in game, at the plate results as Grove Street has for my son the past few seasons? Questions that simply can't be answered I guess until it happens. #TravelBallParentLYFE
-Speaking of Travel Ball, I have completed the transition into the Dad I said I would never be. I discovered this the other night when I was taking inventory of the massive amounts of gear that's collecting in our garage from our 2 sons who have been playing travel balls for a few years now. Easily $2K in bats, multiple gloves, a pile of scrapped up $80-$100 Pit Viper style Oakley Sunglasses, 20 of those $40 water jug things that hang on the fence, 7-8 of those amazing rocker folding chairs in an assortment of sizes, and other crap. It's just stupid really. And for us, there are still YEARS more of this stuff if they choose to stick with it, every weekend my wife with one kid, in one county, playing ball, me with the other in another county, playing ball, and then seeing each other later Saturday and Sunday night, heading to work Monday exhausted. Wash, Rinse, Repeat, Over and over and over again.
People say enjoy these years because one day I'll miss them, and maybe that's true, but I honestly don't see how when Dr Boat sends me pictures of boat boobs every weekend and that sure does seems alot more fun. When baseball is over, and before I hang it up and head down south somewhere, weekends on a boat will be in my future, and I dont think Ill ever miss all of this baseball stuff. My kids being young, sure, but every weekend sweating to death in some random county baseball complex...... Without my wife and other kid.... Probably not.
-Officially down 35 pounds from March. Slow and steady and feeling great.
-Top and doors off of Jeep yesterday morning. Left work early to cruise around the countryside, jamming 90's rock tunes, and admiring some of the beautiful landscape Central Kentucky has to offer, stopped off for a couple cold ones at my local watering hole, and home in time for my wife to think I came straight home from the office. Nice crisp ride into the office this morning, again with no doors or top, giving the Jeep wave to fellow enthusiasts, and enjoying the start to my day.
-Woodford County > Jessamine County
