In Love

I am in Love.


With Baseball.


In fact I always have been, but I really am excited about this season.

But I miss playing Americas past time.

I really wished I never got hit in the mouth.

See I come from some really good baseball roots. In fact my dad was/is really good, but he got his shoulder hit and so no more pitching for him.

And well I used to be pretty good, (not pro material BUT maybe college) I was a really good contact hitter, but one day I was warming up a pitcher and he threw a knuckle ball. and if you don't what that it is it's basically the wildest pitch you can throw. NO ONE and I repeat NO ONE knows where it is going to go. It can break 10 inches or it can even float up (not really but it seems like that). And since you don't know what its going to do you cant really catch it. (heres a really good read about the pitch)
and well the pitch looked like it was going down but it didn't and i got hit in the mouth. It mother-freaking hurt. The worst part was the that I had braces on (which is why I still have teeth, doc said that with out them I would of lost about 7 teeth) when I got hit so my cheek (and I mean my whole cheek)got stuck. Long story short, I still have scars on the inside of my cheek and my ability to hit was gone. My batting avg. fell from .360ish to about .170ish. I feared the ball. Now I can still hit "slow" pitches of 60-65 mph range but 70mph and up is a different story. I just try to draw a walk or "take one for the team".

So I don't know why I am so exicted about baseball again.
Maybe I finaly got over my fear, I don't know.

But I have the itch.


Later I think I will write about why I love baseball.