Just a little braggin...

rainmaker · #1 (**permalink**) Mon Aug 06, 2007, 10:24am

Padgett is always bragging about his grandkids, but my granddaughter is too little to really be a star like Padgett's so I'll just have to tattle on myself.

Worked a 3x3 tournament this weekend, which went pretty well, and I actually had a number of teams requesting to work on my court. I ejected one coach, who in the end took his team and walked off the court, and there was one team who clearly lost their game themselves, but blamed it entirely on me, but other than that, I did great. Even the adult teams I worked with like me, and the losers all told me I'd done well. I know they say that if you believe them when they say you did good, you have to believe them when they say you did bad. But when a losing team tells me I did a good job, I take it to the bank.

The tournament itself was part of a street fair in a downtown area of a small city, and they had the courts all mixed in with the booths and stuff, so there were some problems, like when the ball got away and bounced into a both and knocked over a bunch of displays. ANd the old ladies with walkers who kept wandering into the middle of the courts! And whoever had typed the rules onto the website had "done it wrong" and we had to start every game with an explanation of how it was "supposed to be". But I took my money and left with a decent feeling that I'd done an adequate job. THat was nice.

Mark Padgett · #2 (**permalink**) Mon Aug 06, 2007, 10:29am

Sounds like a blast, Juulie. Where was this?

BTW - my son (who you know) just emailed me a picture of my grandson Jackson (who's 1 1/2) wearing a White Sox cap. I guess he wants to be a shortstop when he grows up.

rainmaker · #3 (**permalink**) Mon Aug 06, 2007, 10:36am

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Originally Posted by Mark Padgett

Sounds like a blast, Juulie. Where was this?

BTW - my son (who you know) just emailed me a picture of my grandson Jackson (who's 1 1/2) wearing a White Sox cap. I guess he wants to be a shortstop when he grows up.

Yea, and 1 1/2 is a good age to start thinking about that, eh? Wouldn't want him to get to adulthood with no goals or sense of direction!

26 Year Gap · #4 (**permalink**) Mon Aug 06, 2007, 10:56am

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Originally Posted by Mark Padgett

Sounds like a blast, Juulie. Where was this?

BTW - my son (who you know) just emailed me a picture of my grandson Jackson (who's 1 1/2) wearing a White Sox cap. I guess he wants to be a shortstop when he grows up.

Hope he isn't left-handed.

bob jenkins · #5 (**permalink**) Mon Aug 06, 2007, 10:58am

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Originally Posted by Mark Padgett

Sounds like a blast, Juulie. Where was this?

BTW - my son (who you know) just emailed me a picture of my grandson Jackson (who's 1 1/2) wearing a White Sox cap. I guess he wants to be a shortstop when he grows up.

If he's not on the premiere travel team in your area yet, it's too late.

Adam · #6 (**permalink**) Mon Aug 06, 2007, 11:06am

Does Gerber sponsor a travel team yet?

Dan_ref · #7 (**permalink**) Mon Aug 06, 2007, 12:50pm

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Originally Posted by rainmaker

ANd the old ladies with walkers who kept wandering into the middle of the courts!

Too easy.

Mark Padgett · #8 (**permalink**) Mon Aug 06, 2007, 01:34pm

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Originally Posted by Snaqwells

Does Gerber sponsor a travel team yet?

Actually, it would be Pampers.

As my son says, it's not being a pessimist to state that the diaper is never half empty.

BTW - Jackson loves to throw the ball for his two dogs and then watch them fight over it. And...he throws like a boy. I'm teaching him a slider.

rainmaker · #9 (**permalink**) Mon Aug 06, 2007, 04:10pm

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Originally Posted by Dan_ref

Too easy.

...wait for it...LOL!!

Dan_ref · #10 (**permalink**) Mon Aug 06, 2007, 05:01pm

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Originally Posted by rainmaker

...wait for it...LOL!!

TimTaylor · #11 (**permalink**) Mon Aug 06, 2007, 09:27pm

Sounds like fun Juulie!

I worked all weekend at the TrailBlazer/Oregon Special Olympics 3 on 3 Street Jam at the Rose Quarter.....some great games, some so-so...all in all a fun time.

rainmaker · #12 (**permalink**) Mon Aug 06, 2007, 10:32pm

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Originally Posted by TimTaylor

Sounds like fun Juulie!

I worked all weekend at the TrailBlazer/Oregon Special Olympics 3 on 3 Street Jam at the Rose Quarter.....some great games, some so-so...all in all a fun time.

I was working for Joyce. Some so-so, some really bad. But I made more money than you! You get more brownie points, tho...