Monday Moaning

I always feel like the weekends fly by...Saturdays not so much, but Sundays always seem to get right past me...It's just unreal how the time goes by when you're not having to grind through the work week...

I've been feeling pretty negative lately...I mean look at some of my lat few posts...There was THIS about a stupid "Unfair" PSA...Fucking assholes! Then I had THIS ranting and raving about idiots being offended by comedy...But then there was Penn State, Jerry Sandusky, and Joe Pateron to really keep my blood boiling HERE...Yeah, the PSU crew has been really good at keeping my blood pressure up since November...

So even though my Monday Moaning post normally is filled with more negativity, I'm going to try and be a bit more positive this week...I figured I hammered out enough anger the last couple weeks...Let's start with this bit I saw on "The New York Rangers Blog"...They got a tip from Julie Robenhymer at HockeyBuzz about young, talented, star winger, Chris Kreider after he had played in a charity game...

"After the game, the players posed for a team picture and then headed towards the locker rooms to shower and change....except for one. Chris Kreider saw a kid along the boards waving a pen at him. He skated over and went up and down that side of the rink signing everything handed to him...Forty-five minutes later he made his way back to the bench where a few volunteers were waiting for a picture. At this point, all of the other players had showered, changed and left the rink and while the ice was being resurfaced behind him, Kreider continued to sign autographs and take pictures with anyone and everyone who wanted one as a new line formed near the entrance to the bench."

It's really great to see a young guy these days, that actually gets it...It's been awhile since I've seen a story like that.

-As many of you may know, I coached the Little Beeze's Tee-Ball team the last two Summers...This year he moved up to Coach Pitch, and yes, I'm coaching again...The coaches aren't actually pitching...The rec has high school kids that work there, do the pitching, catching and umping...

Early on my team was looking rough...The boy throws and hits well...The last couple weeks he has been just ripping line-drives past people...But he was always doing a home run trot, no matter how the ball was hit...We fixed that...There is another kid with a great baseball IQ, that his dad drilled into him...He was suppose to help coach, but he flaked out...He never showed for practices, and shows for half the games, and rides his kid...His kid then tends to yell at other kids on the team if they boot one, or don't make "the right" play...One game I had enough, and told him, "Be quiet, you made 3 errors today...You yell at anyone again, you won't play the rest of the rest of the season on my team!"

You see, this is a league that doesn't keep score...It's about kids having fun, learning the basics, getting outside, and playing with others...I've excepted that, and embraced it...So fuck that kid being an asshole, because his dad's an asshole...(Yeah, just got a bit negative)

We have an 8 year old boy who crushes the ball, and is pretty good in the field...And a 9 year old girl who is awesome at it all...She'll be on her way to a softball scholarship...Then there is a 7 year old boy with no attention span at all, and is often leaving the field to pee, or get a drink...When he's on the field, he's playing in the dirt...So he has found a lot of time in the outfield...His older sister started out afraid of catching the ball, and having trouble hitting...She's gotten better in the field, and is ripping into the ball now...

Then there is our little peanut...She's a tiny 7 year old...The smallest bat we have, are too big for her...She should have been in Tee-Ball, but they put her here...She's never played before...She's been held back a bit by her home life...Her mother with a disability,and two younger kids, plus bouncing between mom's house and dad's house...I'll be honest, I've worked more with her, then any of the other kids...That may sound bad, but she learned how to throw, at our first practice...She's always smiling, and positive...A couple weeks ago, she fielded a ball in the infield, and made the throw to first...The runner was safe, but I was thrilled, and so were the people in the stands...

Hitting has been tough...The league rules say, after 4 swings they use the tee...But at the beginning of the year, all the coaches agreed to screw that, give them 5 and then it's a strike out...This is about learning, and we want the kids to learn to hit off the pitch, and that failing is part of the game, and it's okay...There are a couple kids that coaches have used the tee for, that were really struggling...

Peanut had gotten a few hits that were weak...really weak grounders...The kids pitching were trying their best to hit the bat with the pitch...She never cries, or gets down about it...She feels good when she gets a foul ball...And the parents and others watching in the stands have been great...Everyone, including from the other teams, are rooting for her...When she's made contact, they go wild...And the kids pitching and catching, often say one more...Everyone is pulling for our peanut...

Lately, it seems like she is a bit frustrated...Our game on the 3rd was rained out, even though it rained in the morning, and the fields were fine...Oh, and they neglected to call the coaches...I ended up running a practice with kids from my team and 3 other teams...One was tee ball team...And that coach had a tee with him...Peanut was batting and after about 15 pitches, she asked if she could try the tee...I said sure...She ripped it...She hit a few more times off the tee, and you could see the excitement and confidence it gave her...Afterwards she asked if she could use a tee in the games...I said, "How about we still try the pitches, and if you don't get it after a few, then we'll use the tee?" She said okay, with a big smile on her face...

This past week she needed the tee, but that's okay...She got 3 hits in each game...And her confidence is growing...She wants to play 3rd base this week...Tuesday I'm going to put her there...And the kid with the asshole dad is going in the outfield...She's got a much better attitude, and hasn't made nearly as many errors!

This week is our last week of the season...I've heard other coaches who don't want to be there, and can't wait for it to be over...Me, I'm going to miss it...And I'll be excited for next year...Oh, and during that practice we had...My oldest decided to join us...She's never played, and she did great...She wants to play next year...I may be coaching two teams!

That's it for now....Have a week...

Later, The Beeze.

UNFAIR!?! PRIVILEGE!?!

Have you seen this bullshit?




Now I'm a pretty liberal guy, but this white guilt shit has got to stop...Anyone involved in this ad should be ashamed of themselves...Being white is a privilege? Fuck you! It's unfair that I'm white and some one else isn't? Fuck you, that's called life! I'm white, and I've been pulled over plenty of times...Stupid horse shit! I don't care if you are White, Black, Hispanic, Indian, fucking Martian, I don't care, life is what you make of it...No one should feel bad because of what color they were born, and who their parents are...Unfair shit happens to everyone...Don't believe me? Well pay attention...

A number of years ago...Before I even knew my wife, I was in shape, instead of the fat mess OI am now...I had taken the Cleveland Fire Fighters exam...Based on my scores I should have gotten in...But the mayor, a black guy named Mike White, decided to plug "minorities" in every third spot...Not paying attention to scores...A lot of qualified people got screwed over because of this mess...Me included...Ask them if they feel "Privileged"...Even worse is that whites are actually the "minority" in Cleveland, yet they aren't counted that way...

And when I was going to college, I was also working a full-time, and a part-time job to pay for it...The United Negro College Fund wasn't offering any money to my white "privileged" ass...And if there was a United Caucasian College Fund, Al Sharpton would be on the roof tops screaming racism...

This country has gone out of it's way to try and make right by it's shameful history of slavery...It has gone to great strides to help minorities...Giving advantages that were never given so many other ethnicities...The Irish, Italians, Polish, Germans, Croatians, Russians, Asians, Latinos, it didn't matter, they all faced struggles and racism when they first came to America, and were given nothing...They worked for it...

The first year of my oldest daughter's life, I supported my family on $26,000 dollars that year...Oh how our White "privileged" asses were living it up! Fuck you...I kept plugging away, and the next year I made $40,000...

I have a very close friend from Boston...He of Puerto Rican descent...In Boston...They can get pretty damn racist there...He didn't let that hold him back...He didn't get any hand-outs...He worked hard...Put himself through school, busted his ass climbing the corporate ladder...He's an accountant, living a pretty damn good life...He didn't cry foul...He didn't scream unfair...He did what he had to do, to get where he wanted...

There has become this culture where people don't think life should be hard at all...Where people don't think they should have to work hard, but they still think they should be living the life, with all the bells and whistles...Part of it is this fucking, everyone wins, everyone gets a trophy crap these days...It's pussified kids, and they are growing up to be useless, drains on society...

There is another reason I see for this...It's going to piss people off, but tough shit...There are shit loads of men fathering children, but not being fathers...And while it's not just a Black problem, it seems to be much more prevalent in the Black Community, then the White and Hispanic communities...There are far too many single parent families...If the mother is working hard to support her kids, then the kids have little time actually being parented...If the mother is staying home trying to raise kids, then she's getting handouts, welfare, foodstamps, and what-not...What are the kids learning? Society/the Government/taxpayers will give you what you need...So why bother working?

I swear to God, this is a true story...It happened today at work...A some what new kid, black, busser, was eating soup...Everyone is cool with you having a cup, but this kid was on about his 6th cup of a high cost soup...He's been doing this for a few days...So I said something to him about it...I wasn't being harsh, but I was lettingh him know, that has an impact on our costs, and if costs are up, we aren't getting raises...I swear to God, this was his response..."But I'm Black." I along with a couple other co-workers, was stunned...That right there is a fucked up mentality...I had to fire back..."So what, being Black entitles you to fucking steal from the company?" This fucking dope, just shrugged his shulders and walked away...

Isn't the President a half Black guy, who went to Harvard? What, was it only the White half that got him to this point? Go screw!

The video ends with a White girl saying, "We're privileged and that's unfair."

Bitch, we're all (White, Black, Hispanic, Indian, fucking Martian) privileged to be alive...Color doesn't have shit to do with it...It's unfair that the rest of us have to share oxygen with dolts like you!

Later, The Beeze.