To me, baseball is the biggest passion in the world. I enjoy every aspect of the game from blocking dirtballs to hitting that 400 ft. homerun. Baseball has been in my life for I can almost say my whole life and I hope to continue to play throughout my life. However baseball can teach you more than just catching and throwing. It teaches you about life. Teaches you how to be responsible, how to work together as a whole and not an individual, how to manage your life, your time. Baseball can take me many places.
Head coach Scott Yamada of Moanalua High School states that he uses baseball to teach the players mainly about teamwork, hard work, sacrifice and responsibility. He tells us that baseball teaches you about team work because you need to work in a group to get the job done which in this situation is to win the game. He stated that “one person can’t win a state championship but with 24 guys working hard for one goal there may be better results as to playing as an individual.” In baseball you can’t work as an individual you have to work as a team. He states that baseball teaches you hard work because constant hard work and repetition will give you better and a somewhat quicker result.
Yamada states that “the game teaches you about being responsible because in this program you have to balance your life like how it would work in real life.” In baseball, we have to manage three important things and that is our families, school and of course baseball. “The management skills come in because if as a player you don’t balance these three things then something will suffer” Yamada states. “If you focus only on baseball then your school work suffers the consequences.” So that’s why with baseball as an extracurricular activity at school, it can help teach you on how to manage your time which can then relate to on managing your time in a real life situation.
Lastly baseball teaches you how to sacrifice things. Sacrifice meaning you have to give up something you may want really badly but in the end it’s the right thing to do and you made more people happy other then yourself. In baseball and in life you have to be unselfish and put other before yourself in some situations. In baseball you have to sacrifice your ego. Meaning that “you can’t be the ‘I’ guy because you as an individual won’t win the game.” An example would be laying a bunt down to move the runner at first over to second to put him in scoring position for the winning run, and then if the run scores your team will be recognized as a whole because you won the game. “You may not be recognized as an individual, but your team will as a whole.” In life you have to sacrifice things to be successful, in base ball you need to sacrifice to be successful. You need to choose between yourself and or winning the state championship.
According to assistant coach Merl Miyashiro, “the words ‘Moanalua Baseball’ stands for hard work and hustling.” That’s what the coaches teach the players at Moanalua, not only to play the game but to do the little extra things as well.
Baseball is also like a big system that can help you go in any direction in your life. Baseball can take you to college, find jobs and much more. If a business boss just so happen came to a baseball game and he say that you were working hard and that you did everything you did to help your teammates. Then you decided you wanted to apply for a job and just so happen this boss that watched you work hard already knows that you’re a hard worker and that’s what he likes, hard workers. You got the job.
So for those reasons are why baseball is a passion that I enjoy but it can also help me in other areas in my life. How it teaches me different things other than catching and throwing. How it can help me get places in my life. My passions baseball, what’s yours?
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Perfect
There is one word many people around the word use that has a lot of different meanings to it. That word is “Perfect”. Does it mean to win everything? Does it mean not having any faults? What does the word perfect mean? Coaches use the word, the news paper use the word. Everyone uses the word. But do these people really know what it means? But can any person or any team really be “Perfect?”
A coach once talked to me about having the “perfect season” where you win every game. To beat every team you play, to win the state championship in the end. If you think about it there is really no “perfect season”. Yeah you can win every game; you can go 162-0. You can go 200-0. But how does that make it perfect? How does winning all your games make you the perfect team? “Well obviously they won every game so how does that make them not perfect?” Yeah they won but how did they win? Was every game played, played to perfection? Was every pass thrown or every pitch thrown perfect? Did the team play the entire game, the entire season played without fault?
“This is the year” my coach told me. He told me that if I wanted to be a state champion this is the team and this is the year we can do it. He asked me as well as the rest of the team if we could be perfect. So this got me to think…”What is a perfect person?” “Can anyone ever be perfect?” Then the other day my father and I had a talk about how some guys on the team have big egos and how they think that they’re good enough. But then he told me that in baseball you’re never good enough. You can never be a perfect baseball player. There is always room for improvement. You can always get better.
I also hear the saying to “stride for perfection”. How can someone “stride for perfection?”What does that really mean? Personally I think it means to do the best you got. You can’t stride for something that’s not there. Perfection is a term used for people to get motivated to work hard. But in reality there is no perfect person. There isn’t that perfect team or perfect person that will do everything the right way or do everything without screwing up once or twice. So I think the saying should be altered to “stride for greatness.”
The 2009 -2010 for a high school football team from Hawaii had its best season in school history going undefeated throughout regular season and later winning the OIA White division championship. Everyone was so happy calling it the “perfect season”. But was it really perfect? Was every win and every play perfect? Not to take anything away from the team they did a great job but how can they call it perfect when they had many faults? How many overtime wins and how many missed opportunities did the team have to take the lead over several teams they played? So what made this season so special that everyone was to brag about this school having a perfect season?
Look at all these professional athletes. Mark Maguire, Alex Rodriguez, Michael Vick, These are all great athletes at the sports they play but they all had faults in their lives. Maguire and Rodriguez two of the greatest baseball players of all time both found guilty of using steroids. Michal Vick one of the best quarterbacks in the NFL sent to imprisonment and suspension for dog fighting. This shows that even some of the greatest athletes in the world aren’t perfect. Everyone has faults even professionals.
You can look at it either way, perfect on paper or perfect in action but in reality there is no such thing as being perfect. No matter who you are what team you play for, you can never be perfect. There is always room for improvement in anything you do. You will go out through your life hearing these things about being perfect. But you always have to ask yourself for your own perspective. What is being “perfect?”
There is one word many people around the word use that has a lot of different meanings to it. That word is “Perfect”. Does it mean to win everything? Does it mean not having any faults? What does the word perfect mean? Coaches use the word, the news paper use the word. Everyone uses the word. But do these people really know what it means? But can any person or any team really be “Perfect?”
A coach once talked to me about having the “perfect season” where you win every game. To beat every team you play, to win the state championship in the end. If you think about it there is really no “perfect season”. Yeah you can win every game; you can go 162-0. You can go 200-0. But how does that make it perfect? How does winning all your games make you the perfect team? “Well obviously they won every game so how does that make them not perfect?” Yeah they won but how did they win? Was every game played, played to perfection? Was every pass thrown or every pitch thrown perfect? Did the team play the entire game, the entire season played without fault?
“This is the year” my coach told me. He told me that if I wanted to be a state champion this is the team and this is the year we can do it. He asked me as well as the rest of the team if we could be perfect. So this got me to think…”What is a perfect person?” “Can anyone ever be perfect?” Then the other day my father and I had a talk about how some guys on the team have big egos and how they think that they’re good enough. But then he told me that in baseball you’re never good enough. You can never be a perfect baseball player. There is always room for improvement. You can always get better.
I also hear the saying to “stride for perfection”. How can someone “stride for perfection?”What does that really mean? Personally I think it means to do the best you got. You can’t stride for something that’s not there. Perfection is a term used for people to get motivated to work hard. But in reality there is no perfect person. There isn’t that perfect team or perfect person that will do everything the right way or do everything without screwing up once or twice. So I think the saying should be altered to “stride for greatness.”
The 2009 -2010 for a high school football team from Hawaii had its best season in school history going undefeated throughout regular season and later winning the OIA White division championship. Everyone was so happy calling it the “perfect season”. But was it really perfect? Was every win and every play perfect? Not to take anything away from the team they did a great job but how can they call it perfect when they had many faults? How many overtime wins and how many missed opportunities did the team have to take the lead over several teams they played? So what made this season so special that everyone was to brag about this school having a perfect season?
Look at all these professional athletes. Mark Maguire, Alex Rodriguez, Michael Vick, These are all great athletes at the sports they play but they all had faults in their lives. Maguire and Rodriguez two of the greatest baseball players of all time both found guilty of using steroids. Michal Vick one of the best quarterbacks in the NFL sent to imprisonment and suspension for dog fighting. This shows that even some of the greatest athletes in the world aren’t perfect. Everyone has faults even professionals.
You can look at it either way, perfect on paper or perfect in action but in reality there is no such thing as being perfect. No matter who you are what team you play for, you can never be perfect. There is always room for improvement in anything you do. You will go out through your life hearing these things about being perfect. But you always have to ask yourself for your own perspective. What is being “perfect?”
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