My son put together this lego set and wanted to proudly show his work. He did this all by himself. His momma and dad are very proud of him.

He also did a jeep out of the creator!

Yet again while watching the ncaa football championship, I realized something again that I love baseball for. Colt McCoy has been dreaming of this day for a minimum of 4-5 years of his life. He has all this pressure to feel that if he doesn’t make perfect decisions and perfect passes his team will lose. Really, how much did any Texas fan plan to run the ball? I doubt many of them. So it is Colt McCoy’s game. Yes, you need a team to be successful but what happens when your star quarterback goes down with a shoulder injury in the 1st Quarter? Yep, a rookie freshman QB is all that you have to determine the fate of your entire season. As a bama fan you don’t want to see anybody hurt but you think, “oh baby” here is an opportunity to jump on the opponent. Everyone knows this is going to get Ugly for Texas. Now Texas put up a valiant effort but they needed an explosive offense to handle the Alabama running game. Without a necessary cog of Colt McCoy you are not going to get the job done.

Now you say ok.. what has this to do with baseball? I love baseball because even when you have an injury more than likely there is backup that can keep the team afloat for that one game. I mean what if your star Catcher pulls a hammie in the World Series. Would it have sucked for the team? Absolutely, but you might find a gem in the rookie catch that comes in. You just never know what you can get in baseball even with the injury bug nipping at your team. If the QB goes down in the football, no fan may say it but every fan is thinking, “man, this one is going to be rough”

Ran across this video. Famous Rice Hurdler Fred Wolcott  one of the fastest runners of 1930’s. Look what his granddaughter received.

Now if you watched the video entirely you saw Owens in his very famous foot race in 1936 Olympics. Wolcott’s granddaughter talks about the Drake Relays which is shown on the 1940 medal she was showing. Now take a look at the picture of the drake relays that Wilcott participated. Now folks, that is crazy fast..

Sorry been bad about posting what we have been up to.  My son gave me the blessing to help coach his little league 7/8 y/o team. Boy oh boy i thought. He was sorta ok with his gung ho dad as an assistant coach the last couple of season. He is pushing the grand old age of 6 1/2. Everyone on his team is 7 to 8. A lot of them have a little experience in playing baseball at all. I had visions of bad news bears watching a few of the older kids who are about to hit the 9 y/os next season. A ton of kids are in football so the pool of talent is little less then it gets crazy in the spring. so wish me luck and ill post a few box breaks along the way.

Part 2 is up now. Kind of piling them all together.

Here is the two part as promised. Check back for the 2008 Upper Deck Football Break