Matt Keough's Blog » Family http://blog.matthewk.com Not the Baseball Player Tue, 07 Sep 2010 03:22:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Looking Like an All-Star http://blog.matthewk.com/2010/09/05/looking-like-an-all-star/ http://blog.matthewk.com/2010/09/05/looking-like-an-all-star/#comments Mon, 06 Sep 2010 02:51:39 +0000 Matt Keough http://blog.matthewk.com/?p=152 Our eldest is crazy about baseball. From morning until night everyday the topic will usually turn to who the Indians should try and get or when he will play next. If he can’t play, he makes up imaginary line score on imaginary line-ups. And then there is always Wii MLB 2K10 – something to get us through the winter.

He is seven years old now. But here is a link to a  clip from when he was two. Coco Crisp played for the Indians then. I think that is one of the reasons he is a lefty at the plate.

Slugger Jack 2005 (Quicktime)

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Here is a cropped version for the latest “Looking Like..” entry. I look like a kid who realizes he’s got a pretty crummy sock puppet, but also sees that his classmates are not really doing much better.  I really don’t have a great memory for details of grade school. This day day I do remember, however. That was a wool sock and by the time our little story-time play was over my hand and forearm were blazing, itching mess. I also vaguely remember that there was some drama with my mother that morning surrounding my last minute demand for a fully-formed billy goat sock puppet. Poor woman. I suspect that my brother Joe was mysteriously missing one of his socks soon before school started.

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I remember seeing the video below when the album “Spike” was released. I thought the video was touching then.  At the time I had sympathy. Today I have empathy. Happy Mother’s Day, Mom.

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Nothing beats being in the Dodge Caravan with a CD of familiar tunes cranking and having the boys belting it out in varying degrees of intelligible English from the back. It reminds me of sitting in the back of my dad’s Plymouth Fury as we drove around looking for Christmas lights and the radio fading in and out.We still listened to AM for music back then.

Maybe this year I’ll introduce the boys to the MP3 of “Santa Drives a Truck“; it could be the start of a new tradition.

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John, Uncle Drew and the drums of Christmas morning.

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Ok – Breaking the series theme. This is a picture the Lovely Joyce took at the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo today. More over at Flickr.

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