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Speech for PHS Baseball Seniors - June 2, 2010
PHS Baseball Picnic Speech, June 2, 2010
(to the seniors) I asked to speak today to commemorate 10 years of your lives as baseball players and to provide perspective for your journey ahead.
10 years ago, many of you seniors showed up at Community Park to tryout for 8 year-old all-stars. We placed 2nd at Amwell, 1st at Montgomery, and 4th at Sunnybrae. I knew then it was a special group of players. Through those 10 years I discovered you were even greater young men.
3 years later we formed the Giants and won everything from Frogbridge to Amwell to HTRBA. What a great run! We even faced a team at Amwell that included Nicky Miranda. There might be a concern about peaking too early...
Through Babe Ruth and Middle School and JAL and PHS and Legion you kept going with high points and low points. But for 10 years you have been baseball players and that is an accomplishment all on its own. No one knows how hard who has not stood in the batter's box, who never stood on the mound to pitch, and who never made a play with the game on the line.
Now you are moving on to write new chapters in the story of your lives. My advice: put all that you learned in baseball to use to make the most of your future. The hard lessons are the best. And know this -- the sun will get in your eyes, the umpire will make a bad call, and the lousy outfielder will drop the easy fly ball. Make no excuses, deal with it and press on!
For Steve, my role as Dad means much more to me than Coach or Fan. Your talents amaze me and you truly are my pride and joy on the field or off. From the 5 inning shut-out that you pitched as an 8 year-old in the Sunnybrae tournament, to pitching against the strong Knottingham American Legion team last summer, you truly display poetry in motion and have a huge heart.
I want to conclude with a Tweet which as you know has to be 140 characters or fewer: "Before you were Tigers you were Giants. Go live life as large as you can dream. Take on the next phase of your life swinging for the fences."
Thank you,
Coach, Fan, and Dad, David Etherton
(to the seniors) I asked to speak today to commemorate 10 years of your lives as baseball players and to provide perspective for your journey ahead.
10 years ago, many of you seniors showed up at Community Park to tryout for 8 year-old all-stars. We placed 2nd at Amwell, 1st at Montgomery, and 4th at Sunnybrae. I knew then it was a special group of players. Through those 10 years I discovered you were even greater young men.
3 years later we formed the Giants and won everything from Frogbridge to Amwell to HTRBA. What a great run! We even faced a team at Amwell that included Nicky Miranda. There might be a concern about peaking too early...
Through Babe Ruth and Middle School and JAL and PHS and Legion you kept going with high points and low points. But for 10 years you have been baseball players and that is an accomplishment all on its own. No one knows how hard who has not stood in the batter's box, who never stood on the mound to pitch, and who never made a play with the game on the line.
Now you are moving on to write new chapters in the story of your lives. My advice: put all that you learned in baseball to use to make the most of your future. The hard lessons are the best. And know this -- the sun will get in your eyes, the umpire will make a bad call, and the lousy outfielder will drop the easy fly ball. Make no excuses, deal with it and press on!
For Steve, my role as Dad means much more to me than Coach or Fan. Your talents amaze me and you truly are my pride and joy on the field or off. From the 5 inning shut-out that you pitched as an 8 year-old in the Sunnybrae tournament, to pitching against the strong Knottingham American Legion team last summer, you truly display poetry in motion and have a huge heart.
I want to conclude with a Tweet which as you know has to be 140 characters or fewer: "Before you were Tigers you were Giants. Go live life as large as you can dream. Take on the next phase of your life swinging for the fences."
Thank you,
Coach, Fan, and Dad, David Etherton
Tuesday, June 01, 2010
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