Texsox

I'm surprised so many went with soft.

With the singular issues every summer I have travelling around the north to northeast where they have almost no service, T-MO has been great to deal with. For example they have one tower in Jackson Hole, out by the airport and unless you know where to look, you won't find it. They also throttle your date amount when roaming.

Coaches get too much credit and too much blame. Unless they go bat s*** crazy and become a PR nightmare, then they deserve all they receive. But give me great players and a bad coach over mediocre players and a great coach.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 1, 2014 -> 04:41 PM) The Cardinals are always near the top for me as a big fan of Machiavelli. St. Louis is a great baseball town. And as long as Cub fans hate the Cards, so much better.

Boom my three scramble teams finished 1 - 6 - 7. My top team of a freshman and junior shot a six under 66 and won the tournament by 8 shots. Nothing like bringing home some hardware. I celebrated by picking up a Titleist 913D3 driver. My twenty year old Taylor Made may finally be getting a long rest in the back of the closet.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 1, 2014 -> 09:11 AM) Good luck to Adam. I know his time here was quantifiablely awful, but he was always a stand up guy. He was an easy guy to pull for, because he was a good person and a great teammate. He never tried to blame anyone or anything else. He was a positive influence on a lot of the kids in the clubhouse. Hopefully the next stage of his life is good to him. saved me some typing.

QUOTE (flavum @ Sep 29, 2014 -> 02:15 PM) Who are you rooting for to make the World Series, in order of preference? American League 1. Royals 2. Tigers 3. Angels 4. Orioles 5. A's National League 6. Pirates 7. Cardinals I always go AL Central then AL then maybe find a NL team to root for.

QUOTE (Chilihead90 @ Sep 24, 2014 -> 02:05 PM) I played with one in the store yesterday. I hate that the phones keep getting bigger, but it was very slick and nice looking, and of course, super fast and took incredible pictures. Back in the days when I was working in sales and selling electronic components (micros, memory, caps, resistors, various ICs, etc) developers were lamenting that human fingers were not getting any smaller and there would be a limit on how small personal electronic devices could be. At the time we were still talking Palm Pilots, pagers, and the earliest Motorola phones (the luggable brick cell phone). We also complained about carrying an organizer and a cell phne and a MP3 player. Convergence was the word. Thirty years after I first heard the complaint about huge man hands, were trying to fit a giant screen in our pockets. I'm predicting the foldable screen. At 1/8th size you can send text messages, check weather, etc. Unfold it to watch movies, surf the web, etc.

My freshmen took 5th of 12 in an open tournament Monday. They were so nervous a couple had a hard time steadying their hands to place the ball on the tee. They totally forgot their pre-shout routines. If they had played to their potential 3rd place was within sight. Varsity tournament today. It's a small tournament played as two-man scramble teams. I was looking for an opportunity for the new varsity core to get together and play an event that would help bring them together. I was also looking for a "soft spot" next month to maybe get them a little success early. But a couple of the smaller school tournaments would not allow a school our size to enter.

I am liking Watson's coaching so far.

QUOTE (Heads22 @ Sep 15, 2014 -> 10:08 PM) No matter the sport, it still has to be to the point where the athletes are the ones taking ownership. What are different ways you could accentuate this? It starts with them taking ownership of their practices. I have 28 players out there. I've been working on one area with them each practice. I split them up into three groups, range, chips/pitching, and putting. Each day I am at a different station. I have a couple captains/better players who are now supervising the two areas I am not at.

The nice thing is I determine which events we enter. There isn't a district or conference schedule to contend with. Instead teams schedule invitationals or open tournaments and hope other teams sign up. I run one at a nice country club that has 18 holes and generally have about 200 players out there. Every player can play in as many as seven tournaments before our district tournament. So basically I could play two teams of five at any varsity event. Or have some of my underclassman play in JV tournaments and probably start winning a couple. The parental support has been amazing. I have committees for transportation, fundraising, and communications.

Where will you be sitting as you read this poll?

I am looking for some attitude changing, team building ideas. As some of you know I am head golf coach for my high school. This year I got started too late to hire and assistant so I have everything, boys, girls, novice to varsity. I am the first "golf guy" to coach the team in years. The other coaches were great guys but basically were doing all they could to manage the business side and get kids where they needed to be. Using my Boy Scout professional training I quickly built a parents network and they are helping me with fundraising, communications, transportation. So that leaves me to recruit and coach. I doubled the team in numbers, I also have the #1 middle school player from last year. Of the twenty guys, 10 are freshman, 4 sophomores, 3 juniors, and 3 seniors. Up until this year the players thought a golf tournament was a day off of school and a chance to f*** around. I just kicked one of the seniors ass (last year the #1 player) when he complained he received a 50 on his report card for golf. I explained he hadn't been cleared by the trainers (he needs a physical) and until he gets on the course, he isn't earning a 100, that I got guys out there busting their butts to improve and he's not helping the team. That his teammates should be able to count on him and he's not there. You could have heard a pin drop. Afterwards I suggested that next time he has a concern, he should talk to me in private but I don't mind discussing matters in front of the whole team. The freshman understand clearly that there is a team we are building here for the long term. the sophomores came quickly in board, and one of the three juniors. Finally one of the seniors has just started kicking ass. But I am stuck with a few juniors and seniors that are just not understanding the changes. Right now, from what I am seeing on the range and putting green I have two freshman, two sophomores, and a junior that could easily be my top 5. I just didn't want to toss them into the fire during the first half of the season. I'd prefer they get some JV experience first, possibly win a couple tournaments, and let the older guys run out their high school careers, at least until our end of the year district and regional tournaments. (HS golf is August through April here in Texas). I set up the schedule so that our first varsity tournament is a 2-person scramble, I'm playing my three seniors, two juniors, and a freshman. Hoping for a little bonding between two guys. What else can you suggest? What has worked on other teams? I'm getting them the little stuff they have been complaining about, matching towels, bag tags, etc. Which I think will add to the team feeling. We haven't been "uniform".

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Jul 25, 2014 -> 08:17 PM) OK, so when they present a real SS card but the number belongs to someone else, you want to jail them for that as well> I am all for screwing employers than knowingly hire illegals, however there has to be some discretion here. I have hired enough people in my time that I have seen a few fake SS cards and even a few DL's that looked pretty suspicious. I have even had one I thought was legit come back to me as not when I used the fax-check thing we had to do to verify the person. It isn't as cut and dry as you may like it to be. I thought I had already commented. This is one area that Dems and Reps who have ever hired a workforce agree. Short of DNA tests there isn't a foolproof system. And most small business owners can't be expected to be experts on the tens of thousands of different birth certificates out there.

Say what you will about Carter, no hostages died while he was in charge.

There is a code in journalism to get the story. Most journalist believe, with their lives, that what they are doing to worth doing, including putting themselves in harms way. Just like soldiers, medics, doctors, nurses, etc. We're just so accustomed to ripping them in this county we can't see that side.

So what do we do as a country when a segment of the society, for probably some valid reasons . . . Does not trust the police Decides that they will no longer abide by the laws of the US Destroys innocent people's property Steals Commits assault Say well they are justified and leave them alone? Enforce the law with increasing force?

Molotov cocktails? Has anyone seen stats on how many arrests have been to out of town people?

QUOTE (GoodAsGould @ Aug 17, 2014 -> 08:28 PM) A bit random, but does anyone have trouble hitting off mats at the driving range compared to actual grass? I'm guessing you are topping the ball or hitting really thin? It could be not wanting to hit your club into what is basically concrete. I'm glad all the ranges down here are grass.

Thanks LF, I've been struggling with understanding the violence that is happening. It is easy to see this community as thugs. A few people describe him as a good kid and then we see the video. If this is a good kid in the community, what do you have to do to be a bad kid? I'm clearly a liberal who finds it easier to follow the teachings of Gandhi or Dr. King. But you point out experiences that I can't possibly understand. I can understand being ignored and followed in stores because it happens to me. I understand being passed over for jobs because I am not the majority. I've seen first hand friends being treated unfairly because of their skin color, but my outrage was always tempered by their shrug of the shoulders and moving on. But I've never been harassed by cops because of the color of my skin.

We see what a small segment of the police force and a small segment of the community are capable of. No wonder there is no trust between the two groups.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 17, 2014 -> 07:21 PM) So, you're an educator, and you've now done this google search? Please wipe your computer's history now. I thought about that.

$300 for oral sex?? A quick google search reveals he overpaid.

In a perfect world a literature class would be a great place to discuss these issues, but the world of state standards says otherwise. Based on Common Core and every state requirements, discussing rape in a literature class is not an appropriate place or necessary. There are no standards that address this. With teacher evaluations increasingly relying on how well their students do on the state test, this sort of discussion is discouraged to a great degree. Sad but true.