Comments on: Watch and Learn, Little One (The Best 30th Birthday Present Yet)

By: Chicks Dig the Ride | Grit & Glimmer

Chicks Dig the Ride | Grit & Glimmer — Fri, 20 May 2011 14:43:25 +0000

[...] In 2005 I wrote “Chicks Dig the Long Ball”, a short conversation in which my softball teammate Kath and I debated the virtues of the fat, soaring long ball versus, say, an opposite field triple. [Let the record show that I favor the opposite field triple although in 2005 I couldn't pull it off. In 2006 I moved to Portland and met a coach who taught me how to make the magic.] [...]

By: The Everyday Athlete » Blog Archive » Favorite Things: 2007 Version

The Everyday Athlete » Blog Archive » Favorite Things: 2007 Version — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 20:32:05 +0000

[...] The day I learned to hit opposite field [...]

By: withmalice

withmalice — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 13:04:58 +0000

Nice.
Enjoyed the read, always good to see someone enjoying sports, and most blogs out there are more about the elite.
Great to read about someone playing sport, merely for the love of it.

By: stephalopoulos

stephalopoulos — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 18:15:52 +0000

Awesome!
Really, really awesome.

Now, Miss SnarkyPants, I instruct thee (because, as a teacher, it’s what I do…) to go slip Coach Carter in your DVD player and watch it with kleenex to your right and a journal to your left.

REALLY NOTHING AT ALL like that team of people bolstering you forward and bolstering each other forward–and believing in their collective throbbing, bloody, glorious heart.

Love…

By: Jodene

Jodene — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 17:04:33 +0000

I get this, H. I really and truly get this and it makes my insides sing with GLEE for you.

Best birthday present, indeed.

Love ya. (And I still wish I coulda been there for the birthday bash!).