For anyone that knows me -- should know how much I just love love love baseball.
So I'm gonna try to blog this season. I might have guest bloggers -- should my lil boys have something to say..
I'll give you a lil background on me, and why baseball is my number 2. I grew up playing sports and loving them, baseball was one that I just loved and have grown to love the older I've gotten. My cousin Paul was always a huge baseball fan, he loved that Atlanta Braves. As for me I never really had a favorite team, I like the braves a little because he did, and then I really liked Andy Pettitte. And now my favorite player is Chase Utley. I like how he plays the game hard and intense. So I claim the Phillies as "my favorite" but the Royals and Cardinals are close also, cause I want Missouri teams to be successful. Oh and that's me on the far right, I know I look real happy right!! I really was happy, I just don't like dressing up... and you see that man in the light blue suit, he is my favorite!
This USI team has one of the best coaching staff's in all of america, I may be bias, but that's ok. Coach Archuleta (top left) is the man in charge with wing men, Coach Marx and Coach Kuester. Arch and I came to USI in 2007, and the team was really not talented.. but as a great coach always does - Arch made them pretty darn good by the end of the year. And has just improved every year, with last year reaching the ultimate accomplishment as a coach, winning the National Championship. Coach Marx (on the left) joined the squad in 2008, he is the man when it comes to hitting. He is a great hitting coach and gets the boys to believe in what he is teaching. He has been a great addition. Kuester came to USI last year after playing at rival KWC and UE. Lucky for him he came at the right time to become a national powerhouse. I like our staff, it is usually a great time. I have the up most respect for those men and the jobs that they do. And that's me below holding the 2007 trophy.
