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Beyond my years?

Jul 1, 2007
On our road trip the other day to Steamboat Springs (by the way, our AVERAGE road trip is 2+ hours), some of my players and I brought up 9.11 for some reason or another. This got me saying something to the effect of "I remember that was my senior year of high school ..."

With this, everyone in the car was stunned. I wasn't sure why, but then they let me know that they all thought I was older. Much older in fact.

The general consensus in my car was that I was 30+. So with this, I waited until the rest of my team met up with me at the field, and I asked them to see how old they thought I was: 29, 30 and 34 were the guesses.

I scruff out a beard up here in the mountains, but I assure you, I don't look like I'm anywhere close to being 30. I'd like to think I still have that college-ish look to me (since that was only 6 months ago).

In the end, I was pleased that they are giving me 10+ years of respect that I really shouldn't be getting.

With this, here are some highlights my team has put together in our short 12 game season so far:
1) No hitter
2) Right-center fielder throwing a runner out at first on a single
3) Triple Play
4) Clean up hitter stole home
5) Suicide squeeze performed with my Jim Abbott style hitter
6) 6-6 overall record and we've only had a full 9 man lineup for 6 games
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