Baseball Season Has Finally Arrived

February 1. That is the day where we can finally start to practice for baseball. I am more than excited to get started. It has been weird because we were teased with fall baseball and then we were done. It seems like it has taken forever to get to this point, but it is finally here and everybody is ready to get going. It is going to be exciting to get back into the swing of things. Sadly we have to start out practicing inside until it gets warm out, but I don't care because any baseball activity is better than none. We don't have much time to prepare, our first game is February 28th so we have to use our time wisely so we can be the best that we can be. We are all ready to do some really big things and get some really big rings and I think that we have the talent to do so. As Coach Woodley says, "IT'S TIME"!

Advertisements

The first advertisement for the iPhone has an audience of anybody who has a phone. They are trying to show us that everyone has an iPhone by stating that 90% of people have one. So they are trying to sell their phones to everybody. You can tell by the pictures that are shown in the commercial. There was not just one person, it was several different people that were not all the same race. The second advertisement has an intended audience for anyone as well. They are just trying to sell their new smart TV where you do not have to use a remote. They just tried to use humor with the good looking girl turning her volume up and down but making it seem like she is waving to all of the men. The third advertisement is showing how great a Mercedes Benz car is in a round about way. The intended audience for this is most likely people who want a nice luxury car that is German. We need to be critical of the intended audience in advertisements because the companies are trying to sell their products to people who are going to want them. For example someone who can't afford a Mercedes Benz isn't going to pay much attention to the commercial. But someone with a decent amount of money and is looking for a luxury car is going to be hooked on that commercial.

Haircut Time Featuring Mac

So to the people that know me really well, I am a fun loving guy who just likes to have a blast. I like to just go with the flow and say whatever I please. I don't have much of a filter but I know when to be serious. I just like being happy and making other people smile and laugh. One other thing is that I am always down for whatever and having a good time. So one day were sitting in the cafe and my buddies and I were all sitting around just talking. Previously I let Mac shave my head because all they boys thought it would look good with the beard and I'd also look like one of our former coaches. This time they decided it would look kinda bad ass if I got a mo-hawk. So me being me, I said sure! We went to the store and bought some razors. I already had shaving cream so we all headed over to Whitney so Mac could once again shave my head. This time it didn't take as long as shaving my head completely and it didn't turn out too bad. I am definitely not going to keep it for a while since I have to go and teach at the high school and I don't think it'd be very professional if I showed up with a mo-hawk. In the end I'm just a guy who likes to have a good time.

Narrative

It was the last week of my senior year of high school and my buddies and I wanted to go out with a bang. We began trying to come up with ideas for a senior prank, there were kids who wanted to leave class and have a giant slip n' slide outside during the middle of the school day but we thought that was pretty cheesy and boring. We wanted to spice things up. We all had been hanging out together and just brainstorming ideas for what we should do. We wanted to do something that was really really good. Nate, who is kind of a country boy was like, "Why don't we get some pigs and we can let them in the school and we can label them 1, 2, and 4, but there are only three of them?" We all thought it would be a great idea, but where in the world were we going to be able to find three pigs in the suburbs of Cincinnati, Ohio? We then thought of the idea to search the internet and so we got on Craigslist to see if anybody relatively close to us was selling any pigs. Lucky for us there was a guy in Lebanon, Ohio who was selling quite a few of them. The only problem is that it was $150. So the thoughts that crossed our minds were, how in the world are we going to be able to get $150 to buy pigs? So we all discussed it over the next few days and we had several people in on what we were going to do and we had a number of people give us money. So we decided it would be cheaper to just get two pigs. It is now Tuesday evening and we were on our way to get the pigs. The guys show up to this house and it looks like it should be on the TV show Hoarders. A big fat kid, with no shirt on comes out and sells them the two pigs. They get back to Nate's house and we're all waiting to see these pigs. They were just some little ones, but they were some feisty little suckers. They got out of the box and were trying to run through the metal fence for some reason. After we all got done laughing we came up with the plan. So we all got up early and met at Nate's. For some reason we decided to take them out of the cage and hold them in our laps in the car on the way to school. That was the worst idea because it ended up pissing and pooping all over me and that was the worst smell I have ever smelled in my entire life. I had to roll the window down because I was gagging at the smell, the pig was also squealing like crazy and my friends and I could not stop laughing. But since it was so loud we had to roll the windows up and at that point I couldn't take it so I got out of the car. We had to sneak the pigs past a teacher who was out in the parking lot because that was her duty. Nate took the first pig and let it go down the hallway and it went straight into one of the classrooms and pooped all over the place. On the other hand, our other friend was going to take the other pig out but something happened and it got out of the car when he opened the door. So we were sitting in class and we see the administrators and janitors running around trying to chase the last pig. Then the four of us got called down to the principals office and at first they were not going to let us walk at graduation. But we were all good kids that had never gotten in trouble before so instead we had to go to alternative school for three nights and we weren't allowed to come to school for normal hours. This day was the same day as the spring sports awards, little did I know that I was going to win a scholarship for displaying courage, determination, strength, selflessness, pride and impact. So this was one interesting day and it will forever be in my memory and needless to say I went out of high school with a bang.

Griffey Elected into the Hall of Fame

Ken Griffey Jr. is the first person ever to get more than 99% of the votes to get voted into the baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown. He was the idol of the game of baseball during his playing years which started for him when we was only 19 years old. He was playing with the Mariners where he had 417 and home runs and he was one of the most beloved baseball players. After his time with the Mariners, Griffey took his talents back to where he grew up, Cincinnati, Ohio. He was then playing for the Reds. Griffey grew up in Cincinnati and played for one of the best high school baseball teams in the country and that was Moeller High School where he was drafted out of high school. But after his arrival in Cincinnati he began to rack up more and more home runs. He was the hometown guy and hero for most of us young Cincinnati Reds fans. I remember when he hit his 500th and 600th home run with the reds and it was an enormous feat for one of the best baseball players the game has seen. Griffey spent the majority of his career with the Mariners so he is going to be wearing a mariners hat on his bust in the hall. Making him the first Mariners player ever to be elected in the Hall of Fame.

My Eventful Night Where I Ended Up in Jail

It was one groggy Saturday morning, I woke up cold and in a panic. But I couldn't go anywhere because I was in a jail cell. Little did I know, I had some other cell mates that weren't too happy that I woke them up. So it was not a fresh start to a morning where I had no idea why I was in a jail cell. As my cell mates fell back asleep I began to panic and pace around the cell. As I begin to get up I realize that there is something kinda round in my pocket. I pull it out and it's a beer bottle cap, so you know it was an obvious long night. It slowly starts coming back to me that me and my buddies were at Joe's house and we decided to leave and head over to another buddies house which would explain why I also had a car key in my back pocket. I must have drove over to the house which obviously was not a good idea since we had all been drinking. Then I found some money left over and that reminded me that after we left our other buddies house we went to the bar to see a band play which would explain why I had a guitar pick. The lead singer was playing the guitar and was throwing some picks out while he was playing and I caught one. Lastly, I found a receipt for $500, I guess I decided to pay for all of my friends drinks. My friends came and picked me up from jail and told me everything. I ended up in jail because I decided to drive home from the bar and I passed out and crashed my car and the cops came and took me to jail and I got charged with a DUI. What seemed like a fun night turned into something more interesting than I could have ever expected.