We are as Cinderella as it gets!!!

This  assignment was given to my Advanced Composition class to finish the sentence, " [I] [am] as ____ as ____. We had to fill in the blank and extend on it.
I decided to fill in the blanks by saying "We are as Cinderella as it gets"!  This sentence is about my golf team.  My golf team could be the Cinderella story of the year.  We really started out bad this season and we weren't sure what was going on.  We were starting to doubt ourselves at the beginning of the year.  We had high hopes of winning the conference and making it to state at the end of the season.  With the way we started out this season and our scores my teammates and I were bringing in, that was a long shot.  We kept taking either second, third, or fourth in conference matches.  We never took first.  That was our goal, to win a mini match.  A mini match is when our whole 6 team conference gets together at a golf course and everyone plays and we keep the best four scores out of the five people on your team.  We have six minis a year and this year we did not win any.  We came really close to winning a few, especially our last one and our second to last one.  We were three strokes from taking first place.  Three strokes is pretty close when your counting about one-hundred and seventy strokes.  Throughout the year every started to improve and started shooting lower scores.  We started to get a little bit of confidence and swag back to the team.  We worked really hard throughout the season and it surely paid off because we got a lot better.  Ryan Posda and myself are starting to play like how everyone expected us to play this year.  If our team keeps this up and keeps improving, we could see ourselves in state at the beginning of June.  From the way we started the season, state was definitely not going to happen, but now that we are playing some better golf, we definitely have a chance.  No one expected us to get to state, but I really see us getting there.  If our team doesn't make it to state, I can see Ryan Posda and myself making it to state individually.
This was written a couple of weeks ago.  Now that the season is over, I can tell you what happened.  We did really well in regionals and ended up making it to sectionals.  That was a goal for us.  Next stop was State!  There were a lot of good teams in our sectional, so we were really going to have to play some good golf to make it to state.  I started out playing really well at regionals and it was looking good, until on the back nine I started messing up.  I shot a 40 on the front nine which is really good, and a 47 on the back nine, which isn't too good.  When we came in when we were done with the round and I heard my teams scores, I knew we weren't going to make it to state.  Ryan Posda didn't play very well either, but he still shot an 82.  When all the scores came in it was very intense to find out who was going to make it to state.  We didn't make it to state individually, but Ryan Posda filled the last spot and made it too state!  State is this weekend and I will be going up there.  It was a good season, and good luck to Ryan Posda at state! 

BREWERS ARE HOTTTT!!!!

There is no stopping the Milwaukee Brewers when they are on their home field.  They are playing some great ball at Miller Park.  Away from Miller Park it's a little different story, but what they are doing at Miller Park is amazing!  At Miller Park the Brewers are currently nineteen and six!  That is one of the best records at home this year.  The only bad thing is that their away record is eight and seventeen.  They need to start playing some better ball away from Miller Park is they want to keep playing in the post-season. 
The Brewers are in second place in the National League Central standings.  They are two and a half games back of the red hot Cardinals.  The Brewers won six games in a row and swept the two last teams that came to Miller Park.  If teams see they play at Miller Park soon, they are probably not too thrilled about that. 
The Brewers pitching and hitting are both clicking at the right time.  Earlier in the year it was either we would pitch well and score no runs, or we would hit well and give up a bunch of runs.  Right now we are giving up a little amount of runs and scoring just enough to get the job done!  Also give big "props" to Prince Fielder and Ryan Braun.  They are currently the top two hitters in both home runs and runs batted in.  In my opinion they are the best one-two punch in the whole Major League!  Another great thing about how the Brewers are playing, is that the Chicago Cubs are playing terrible right now!  They are fifth in the National League Central, and are five games back of .500.  The Brewers are four games above .500, which in my opinion is great considering their away record and how they started off the season.  I absolutely love watching the Brewers games and how they are playing right now!  It is a lot easier to be in a good mood when your favorite baseball team is kicking everyone's caboose!

Lastly I want to mention about the whole "Where's Bernie Scandal".  That was the most ridiculous thing I have ever seen!  How did they not expect people to be jerks and take a bunch of Bernies.  When do people follow the rules? NEVER!  It was set up bad, and it ended bad.  Now Washington thinks all of Milwaukee is stealing liars!  The Brewers should never do anything like that again.  That was just a waste of time and money. 

DISAPPOINTMENT!!!

So far this season that's all the Brewers have been.  A disappointment.  I am a true Brewers fan, so I will not be giving up on them like some other people have.  I still watch every game and share the same interest I did since opening day.  It does get a little frustrating when they are either up by eight runs and almost lose the game near the end, or when they are down five to zero and come back and take the lead, then give up 8 runs in a single inning.  If it's not one thing, its the other.  When we have a great outing by the pitcher and gives up 1 earned run in seven innings, the Brewers decide not to score or even get a hit.  But when we decide to hit and score a couple runs, the pitchers decide to give up eight runs in an inning.  The padres are absolutely terrible and the fact that we can not sweep them just blows my mind.  I went to the game on Friday against the Padres when Zack Greinke had his first start at Miller Park.  That game was a really good, fun, and exciting game.  So far this year with me going to games I am 2-1.  I also caught two balls from those games.  One of those balls I caught from Ryan Braun when he throws them into the crowd.  I was sitting in the left field bleachers.
The Brewers are in fifth place in their division.  Fifth out of six teams.  How good is that? (fart noise)  Ryan Braun and Prince Fielder started off the season on fire!  They have recently slowed down a bit.  When they are hot there is no stopping this Brewers team.  Too bad they are the only one producing the runs.  I am really excited to continue to watch the Brewers through the summer and hopefully make it into the post-season.  They may be frustrating now but I still love them!  Oh yeah by the way Brewers, you have to hit the ball if you want to win a game.  Just saying…..

Fresh Hair Cut!!

I never thought I would be bald so young.  I was five years old and my father always cut my hair.  My father always did a nice job on my hair, so I always let him cut it.  This one time I really needed a hair cut and my father couldn't cut it.  In that case, I let my mother cut my hair.  That was a big mistake.  She starts cutting it and about 5 seconds in I hear her say "Uh oh".  That is definitely not what you want to hear when you are getting your hair cut.  I asked her what and she says, "I forgot to put the guard on!".  I didn't know what that meant back then.  She told me to go look in the mirror, so I did.  When I turned the corner to my bathroom and turned on the light and saw my hair, I flipped out.  She cut a fat line in my head that was down to the skin!  I couldn't believe what I had seen.  I asked her if she could fix it and the only thing she said she could do was shave it all off.  We waited until my father came home and when he saw my hair he was just shocked.  He couldn't believe my mother would forget to put the guard on to cut hair.  He told me we had to shave it all off so I was very upset.  I was kind of curious to see how I would look though. 
I was crying while he was cutting my hair because I could just see huge chunks of hair falling in front of my face.  After he was done I ran upstairs to see how I looked.  When I approached the mirror I almost jumped because the image in the mirror was so ugly!  I started balling because I knew I had to see all of my friends looking like this and I was wondering what they would say, or if they'd make fun of me.  I remember that night just laying in my bed crying and my mother was apologizing to me. 
The next day I had to go to my day-care because my parents were going to work.  When I got to the day-care I was very nervous for what everyone was going to say.  The first person I saw was my neighbor and friend Todd.  He ran up to me and I was just waiting for what he was going to say.  I was thinking he was going to laugh at me.  He came up to me and said, "Ryan, I really like your hair!".  I was shocked.  I couldn't believe he liked it.  He grabbed the scissors on the table and said, "I want that haircut.".  He took the scissors to his head and started chopping off hairs.  He was cutting all the way to the skin.  he just had a bunch of bald chunks in his head and the teacher saw him and took the scissors away and was shocked at what he was doing. 
Later in the day his mother and my mother came to pick us up.  When his mother saw his head she was not very happy.  She took him home and when the next day came and he arrived at Kindercare, I saw his head looked just like mine!  We were both bald!  Since we were both bald, I didn't feel as bad anymore. 
Looking back and remembering that story always gives me a chuckle.  To this day I still will not let my mother get close to my head with scissors or clippers.

Brewers So Far

Currently the Brewers are in a four way tie for first place with the Reds, Cardinals, and the crappy Cubs.  All of their records are 9-9 (.500).  Since we started out 0-4 I think that being 9-9 now is pretty damn good, especially since we do not have our most famous offseason acquisition, Zach Greinke.  I think that Zach Greinke is an idiot for his bonehead move and getting hurt playing a pick-up game of basketball.  If you are a professional athlete I think you should be a little more careful and not get hurt right when you come to a new team.  Not a good way to start in Milwaukee, Zach.  However he is pitching simulated and minor league games and he is looking great!  His stuff is so nasty.  Hopefully he is not a further disappointment in Milwaukee, and he lights it up when he's on the mound.  One other thing he needs is a HAIRCUT!

The Brewers so far this season are quite surprising.  They go into Nationals Park and get swept by the nationals, which was quite a disappointment.  Then right after that they have to go into Citizens Bank Park and face the Phillies and their amazing pitching rotation.  No one really had high expectations for that series.  The Brewers went in their and dominated them the first two games.  Everyone was a little surprised.  Then their series finale they are up 3-0 and I'm thinking they are going to sweep one of the best teams in baseball.  However they could not come through in the end, but I still feel positive about their series against the Phillies. 

My expectations for the Brewers this season are to be above .500.  If I had to make a prediction, I would say they will be 88-74, and make it to the playoffs.  I watch almost every game, so if you want to talk about the Brewers, or disagree with me about something, COME AT ME!

Introduction

I have never been apart of "blogging".  It has never really interested me before and I would rather watch SportsCenter than "blog".  Since my Advanced Composition teacher is making my fellow classmates and I blog, I guess I will make the most out of it.  The closest thing I do to blogging is basically Facebook.  I will just start out with a few things about myself.  My name is Ryan and I am a senior in High School.  Basically all I do and think about is sports. Sports sports sports!  I just can't get enough.  I never really choose to read for fun and basically the only reading I do is for homework or the sports page of the paper.  I am taking Advanced Composition because I want to become a better reader and writer.  It is definitely NOT because my father made me take it because I took a bunch of blow off classes my senior year.  That is not the reason at all!  If you want to have any intense conversations or debates about the Brewers, sports, or anything just feel free to comment some of my future blogs.  Good day!