I took the opportunity this morning to celebrate Arkansas’ infamous runner-up in the College World Series. Hoping to be able to work in groups of three, we had nine as we took off toward the Rock Pile. Picked up JV along the way, making 10….hmm not divisible by 3. Then we picked up Hand Grenada for 11….hmm still not divisible by 3. Luckily I could count on my good friend Amnesty to show up during the warm-up, saving me from having to think too hard.
Ninth Inning, 2 outs, man on 3rd. Oregon State batter pops up along the right field line. Arkansas second baseman Carson Shaddy takes off like his hair is on fire, looking to be the man that secures Arkansas’ first Baseball National Championship. Unfortunately he overruns the pop up by about 6 feet.
We continue our initial mosey past the rock-pile as we overrun our normal warm-up spot, finally stopping to warm-up near the T-ball field.
SSH x 30; Peter Parker x 26; Windmills x 14; Parker Peter x 26; Squats x 26; Hillbillies x 26 (It was after the squats that Rudy figured out the reason for the 26 count exercises)
As the pop-up hung in the air, the right fielder, second baseman, and first baseman all converged on it as it dropped between them.
Next we headed to The Hill where we encircled the hill and did a crawl-bear, converging at the top, then bear crawled back done. Round 2 was the most painful round as we repeated the crawl-bear convergence twice. Our personal failures in round 2 lead to a round three where we did the crawl-bear convergence one final time.
Arkansas, one of the nation’s most prolific offenses all year long, failed to hit a home run in the final three game series. In fact, I think they only had 3 extra base hits in the three games.
It was time for some strength training. Not being afraid of failure,we grabbed the largest rocks we could safely workout with and circled up for some 3-6-3 reps. That’s 3 super slow reps, followed by 6 normal cadence reps, and finishing with 3 more super slow reps. Sets included Curls, Shoulder Presses, Rows, Squats, and Calf Raises
In case you missed the game, after the three players allowed the pop up to fall, the Oregon State player hit a single tying the game at three. The next batter hit a two-run homerun as OSU went on to win the game and take the series the next day. A little better communication and teamwork by those three and things would have been much different.
We took our rocks to the football field and divided up into groups of three for some teamwork exercise. Rocks were placed on each end of the field. Pax 1 does Shoulder Presses. Pax two runs to the other end of the field (sin rock) to relieve Pax3 who is doing Bench Presses. This continues until each team reaches 300 Shoulder Presses and 300 Bench Presses cumulative.
After the game was over, I felt like punching someone.
We dropped our rocks back off at the pile and circled up for some Nolan Ryan’s. 26 with the right hand and 27 with the left. There’s always next year.
NMM
- Welcome to FNG Hunchback. He came with Rudy and Rudy made him wear Notre Dame shorts to the workout. No idea if he really likes ND or not.
- No one else seems to be wearing flip flops to the workouts. Give it time.
- The Crawl-Bear was a crowd pleaser
- Thoughts of Mahatma and Triple as they recover from their bike accident.
- Remind me to have a Snickers on hand for Rudy during the COT.
- Glad to see three Uptowners representing this morning at Rock City. The World is all inclusive.
