Mama's House

It's Annalynne's birthday party today at Mark's house in Pasadena. Food will be coming from Stonefire Grill, Ariel will be making an appearance, and a rare Popes Gone Wild session may possibly but maybe not happen.

Happy Birthday Annalynne!

I think I've found someone to play for our co-ed team next season.



Bad news is that she may be a bit of a dork.



As if that matters.

In yet another change of plans, Darryll and Co. will not be visiting the week of Uncle and Tita's 25th anniversary but will instead be in California for July 4th. Plan accordingly.

Tonight's opponent is MGA Entertainment which defeated us 11-5 in our first meeting. It was our closest game of the season thus far and their only win. In the spirit of improving as we make our way through the schedule a second time I think our only goal tonight is to win. So get ready to dogpile on the mound people because we're going to celebrate like we've never done this before and probably never will.

I suppose I could say more but I'll save it for the weekend.

Bruin7089 (5:23:56 PM): Tell your mom not to worry
Bruin7089 (5:24:05 PM): That I'll make sure you marry a nice man in Vegas
lindseydown (5:24:33 PM): hahaha
lindseydown (5:24:43 PM): dont get me in trouble
Bruin7089 (5:25:08 PM): No trouble
lindseydown (5:25:15 PM): she told me not to disgrace the family
Bruin7089 (5:25:17 PM): I"ll spring for Elvis to do the ceremony
lindseydown (5:25:23 PM): sweet
Bruin7089 (5:25:38 PM): We''ll give you a fake name to use in Vegas
Bruin7089 (5:25:54 PM): put it on a nametag
lindseydown (5:25:58 PM): lol nice

So as not to disgrace the family name or any of our own, I think it would be wise if we each came up with a fake name to use for our stay in Vegas. So what's everyone's fake name going to be? Need to know soon so we can get everyone's name right.

UPDATE::Looks like the guys are going to use names from Ocean's Eleven. Get to picking:

* George Clooney as Daniel "Danny" Ocean
* Brad Pitt as Robert "Rusty" Ryan
* Matt Damon as Linus Caldwell
* Don Cheadle as Basher Tarr
* Bernie Mac as Frank Catton
* Casey Affleck as Virgil Malloy
* Scott Caan as Turk Malloy
* Shaobo Qin as "The Amazing" Yen
* Carl Reiner as Saul Bloom
* Eddie Jemison as Livingston Dell
* Elliott Gould as Reuben Tishkoff

Well we met a couple of the goals I thought we could reach. The highlights were the defense of the outfield (especially Jason's running catches and Jade's near perfect positioning) and Brian's big night at the plate which elicited this taunt directed at him, "Well I'll always be better looking than you, make more money than you, and you're a dork." Ahhh, lame insults are the most sincere forms of respect.

I updated the wiki with information on my Mom's and Dad's anniversary party happening on June 14th. The information can be found here. Expect me to spam the blog with updates.

The thing of note is the dress code is business casual. NO JEANS and NO HAWAIIAN SHIRTS

Tonight we begin the second of three rounds against our opponents in the league. The goal this time through the schedule is to show improvement. 22-4 was the score of our first meeting with the Red Hots. We got mercy ruled in 4 1/2 innings and after only about 35 minutes of play. So I suppose if we just finish the game tonight we will have shown improvement but I think we can set some higher goals than that.

• Score more than 5 runs


• Give up less than 20


• Lose by less than 15

Personally, I'd like to win tonight, and think we can, but any improvement shown will be a step forward that our team can take pride in.

As for tonight's batting order:

Sara
Louis
Jason
Brian
Jade
Mehran
Wayne
Annette
Austin
Faye
EJ

We're so doing this next practice... if Brad Hawpe and his forearms are available.



Don't be afraid to get hurt.

Haven't had one of these in awhile and if you want to be seeing more of these be sure to show your interest in them by voting early and often.

Anyway, how cool would it be if one of us cousins got drunk and married in Vegas?

That Lindsey hangs out in Mexico all the time hanging out with donkeys rather than being involved with these particular jackasses. Or else she wouldn't be attending her own birthday celebration in Veagas.

Sorry for the recent lack of posting but sharing a computer with my mom has had its not so inconsequential drawback or two.

Anyway, for those interested - and you should all be - Darryll has changed his plans and will now be arriving a week earlier than first announced in order to attend the June 14th anniversary of Uncle Wilson and Tita Cindy. I believe he plans on staying a week still from the 13th on. His only request is that he play ball with the softball team that Wednesday. Apparently, he isn't scared off by our team's ineptitude, probably because he hasn't seen us play. Any objections to him playing?

Chalk yet another item in the list of why fonacier.com is utterly useless; We now have a family wiki. Please register for the wiki and add yourself to the contact list. Let me know if you are having problems with the wiki.

I will be soon adding a family emailing list. No more shall we have CC of the whole family in an email.

Still looking for our first win and that chance to dogpile on the mound. However, there was marked improvement after losing our first game 22-4. This time we were able to go the full 7 innings and kept the score to a respectable 11-5 loss. Some of the highlights were:

• Sara touching home twice in three plate appearances, justifying her leadoff spot in the batting order.
• Annette making not one but two nice defensive plays. One on a slow roller to the mound that she ran up on and made the throw in time to first and the second one a heads up play backing up a botched cutoff to make the assist at third.
• Mehran making his own web gem on a liner to second.
• Brian hitting a two run homer and keeping his batting average at a perfect 1.000 after 5 at-bats to start the season.

I suppose that means we dedicate tonight's game to Melanie.

Hey,

So what are the June happenings? Specifically, when is this 25th anniversary thing. We are probably skipping Vegas so we can come for a week in June, right now that would be the last week of June (about 20th - 27th) with our only wish to play in one of the family softball games.

Throwing a softball.

A summary of the tips:

• A circular motion will aid your throw by providing more natural momentum than simply bringing your arm straight back and then forward.

• If you are playing outfield you will almost always be making a longer throw, so when you remove the ball from your glove, your arm and hand should drop down and by your back knee.
• If you are making a shorter throw in the infield for example, you may take the ball out of your glove and move it back and down slightly.

• When throwing you want your front shoulder to point in the direction of where you are throwing.
• Your back foot should be perpendicular to the target and your hips should be closed and also pointing in the direction of the target.
• Once you have everything lined up, you'll want to step toward the target with your lead foot, push off your back leg, and throw the ball using your entire body.

Check the link for details and some instructional images.

On this day:

1997 - Tiger Woods becomes the youngest golfer to win golf's Masters Tournament.
1953 - CIA director Allen Dulles launches the mind-control program MKULTRA.
1899 - Alfred Mosher Butts, American architect and Scrabble inventor was born.
1980 - Quentin Richardson, American basketball player was born.
2005 - Jayden acted like a brat.
2008 - Lindsey asks for Darryll's phone number and tisked tisked Wayne for not having it on hand.

Fan Appreciation Day is on Sunday, September 21st @ 1:10PM against the Giants.
It'll be $25/person. Seats are in Right Pavilion (NOTE: no alcohol is served in the Pavilion).
I'm posting now so that I know how many tickets to order. Let me know.