I was the coach in the “coach pitch” part of Alex’s baseball game yesterday. Berne (the head coach) was traveling, and asked me to pitch the game. Never having done anything like that, of course I said yes.

I only hit 2 kids.

I also managed to “strike out” 3 or 4 kids, including Alex. I say “strike out” since the rules in Alex’s Pony league (North Seattle Baseball League) is that each kid gets 6 pitches to hit, and that’s it (they can keep alive on a foul ball for #6). This puts a little pressure on the pitcher, since I’ve only got 6 chances to make a good pitch to the kid.

Bottom line is that I don’t think we won, but I did get better as the game went on, our team didn’t need to go to the bullpen in relief, and that all of our kids got hits. Plus, it was a wonderfully sunny day, Anne and Leah came over to watch, and we all had a great time. I sure am proud of Alex.

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I was downstairs wrangling the laundry earlier today, and clicked on the radio to KEXP. Being Sunday morning, it was Johnny Horn. Man, this guy is great. Every week it’s nothing but the best soul and funk, and always Johnny picks the tunes that just flow so well together.

Today’s segment that I caught was just killer funky — I tuned in right at the beginning of a fantastic live version of “Having a Party” by Sam Cooke, followed up by a tune by a band called “Little Beaver”, and then a set of kick-butt tunes from an album called “James Brown’s Funky People 3” with some great singing from Lyn Collins. I turned it up loud and it made for a very entertaining laundry session…

You can listen to the streaming archive here, and I think they’ll have the show up for a couple of weeks.

P.S. you can always catch the live feed here, or on your mobile device here.

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