Talk about a fun ride

Well, the ride is over. Both the 2009 base & softball seasons are over as the baseball team got swept by Long Beach and the softball team lost thier final two games of the year as well.

But looking at the big picture, the big ride is pulling back into the station. After a 12 year run (with a slight pause for dramatic effect) my ride with the Grossmont College athletic teams has come to an end. Hopefully it will again only be a hiatus of two years and then I can come back, but if it is truly the end what a blast it has been.

My first event at Grossmont was a football game, we won, and they have been doing that alot over the past twelve years (including three trips to the state championship, winning in 2005 and along with it the National championship). The basketball teams have done well as well. Both the Men's and Women's teams have been competitive (and really isn't that all you can ask for?).

Baseball has done the traditional Grossmont "thing", which is start out hot, get your hopes up. Lead the PCC for the first third to half of conference, and then the pitching goes to hell, and the bats go cold. They usually make the state playoffs but never get to the second round.

Softball has never been lower than third in the last twelve years (and was only third twice, otherwise they have been 1st or 2nd), including being back-to-back PCC Champions. Granted it isn't as impressive as TDSUN's 22 straight outright or shared conference titles, but you have to enjoy the small steps. With them making it to the 2nd round of the playofs this year was just (sorry I'm going to use some "colorful" language here) fucking great to see. And to outlast TDSUN in the playoffs was beyond great it was f'ing fantastic.

Of course there are the down moments as well....who can forget the football season when the "mighty" Griffins lost to "lowly" COD by a very unfavorable 66-28 margin. Or the Women's Basketball team that went 2-30 my first year at GC (that was not pretty at all!).

So this fall, when the Griffin football, and women's volleyball teams hit the field or court I'll keep my eyes open, but it will be from 237 miles away! Go Griffins and now....Go Runners!

What's up people?

So it has been awhile since I've blogged. So to catch everyone up, I have gone to Bakersfield for orientation and have my classes (I'll talk about that later). More recently, like last week, I was laid-off from Clear Channel Radio as part of the second "Black Tuesday" of the year. So I am no longer a member of the media, which means if you have a problem with the media....send a note to the Program Director.

As far as school is concerned, I have already finished one class and got a C. I have more than enough credits to transfer to Bakersfield, now I'm just taking specific classes that are required.

Turning to sports (you can somewhat tune out now Jesse), Grossmont College has two very good ball clubs right now. The softball squad defeated East Los Angeles College twice last weekend to move onto the second round this coming weekend at Mt. SAC (Saturday at 7, Sunday at 2 and if needed 4p). If the ladies win this weekend, they will go to the State Championships in Salinas. Baseball is also on the road as they are going to be at Long Beach City College on Friday at 3p and a possible doubleheader on Saturday (11a, 3p if needed).

(OK, Jesse, you can tune back in now) Other than that, everything is normal, stress is raising due to the looming finals. Also, getting closer and closer to Nationals.

Wow, has it been that long????

Sorry for not updating the blog!!!! :(

To catch everyone up on what is going on in the life of Chris..... since I last posted, quite a bit has occured. First, I left off the last blog with me saying "off to work again to start another fun-filled year (I hope that doesn't turn into a sarcastic statement by the end of the year!)." Wellllllllll, since then "Bloodbath 2009" has occured. For those that don't know what I'm talking about, Clear Channel Communications laid off 1,850 (including two very close friends) while most of America was watching Barrack Obama screw up the Presidential Oath.

On the same day, and only about 15-25 minutes after I heard that the second of my friends got the ax, I called to CSU-Bakersfield to see what the status of my application was. The admissions councilor looked at my transcript and told me that I already had the equivilant number of credits to graduate with a B.S. in Sports Management (my major) right now, before I transfer. I asked her if that was a bad thing or a good thing and she responded with the following sentance. "Well, all I'm going to say is welcome to CSU-Bakersfield, Chris!!!" To which I responded to her, "please don't pull my leg, I haven't had a good day." She came back with, "I'm not welcome to the family!" So say hello to one of the newest members of the CSUB Class of 2011 (providing nothing goes wrong!)

This past week was opening week for the Spring 2009 semester at Grossmont College, and hopefully, my final semester at "Harvard on the Hill". This is going to be one crazy semester. 3 classes that are either completely or partially on the 'net and calculus. Of course, I also have a small group communications class that has us doing a project that will help make the "World a better place". The group that I joined (the 4 other people sitting near me on the first day) decided that the best way that we could make the world a better place would be to plant a tree at Grossmont College. Not to mention that when we come back and visit the campus, we can say that is the tree that we planted!!! Also, this semester, I'm the home statistician for baseball, game day ops for softball, and I'm continueing as the PA for Men's and Women's basketball at Grossmont and Women's Basketball over at Cuyamaca.

So as you can see, its going to be a busy semester.

Adios for now.

All Grades are in....

Well as most of you know, last week was finals week. I have finished all my classes and I have the grades, they are as follows (with what I was expecting in parenthesis).

Bus 120 - Financial Accounting (C) C - 70.55% (4 unit class)
Comm 122 - Public Speaking (A or B) B - 88%
Hist 109 - Modern US History (A or B) B - 88%
Posc 121 - Intro to US Government & Politics (C or higher) B - ?%

Semester GPA.... 2.69

So not too shabby if you ask me. I was completely shocked when I saw the B for US Gov't. I'm off until Jan. 26th. Enjoy the break ya'll.

What a trip and HC the Patriot season could be in trouble

Well, yesterday was certainly interesting. If you read the previous post, you will see that I went to Bakersfield to surprise my friend Andy who was calling for a club up there. That is the cliff notes version of the story, here is the full story.

I got up and went and picked up Julie and then worked the Grossmont Vs. Cuesta Women's Volleyball match. I will be honest, I was expecting a 90 minute floor sweeping of Grossmont, I was wrong. The match lasted 2 hours and Grossmont lost in 5 games.

After the match, my mom, Julie and myself all got into the car and took off for Lakewood to meet up with the May's. Well, around 4:30 we leave Lakewood for Bako. Obviously LA is full of freeway's and since the May's live there, they know them better than I, but talk about the Magellan route of getting to Bako and the dance. We left Lakewood and took the 91 West to the 710 North. From the 710 we got onto the 5 (I'm in the chase vehicle and thinking, ok we are done.....WRONG!!!!!). Once on the 5 we got onto the 2 northbound until we reached the 210 West which took us back to the 5. We get to the 14 connector, there was a sign on the side saying that there was a brush fire on the 5 with 2 lanes closed. At this point Jesse calls me and asks, "do you want to take the 14?" to which I reply "I guess" not really knowing the route at that point. Well, this is when the adventure really begins. I never realized that you could go from Lakewood to Bakersfield via Mojave....yes Mojave and Lancaster. To which now that I know who was playing at Lancaster, I would have never gotten to Bakersfield, I would have bought a ticket for the LE Strom playing at Lancaster in the Southern Division of the California League playoffs. We eventually got into Mojave for a bathroom break. We then got onto the 58 West which took us right into Bako and only 9 blocks from the dance.

Once at the dance, I walk in with everyone else behind me, and standing right in front of me is my friend Andy, I say "Hey Andy", he turns to see who said it, and this blank confused look comes across his face as he says "what are you doing here?" To which I say "surprising you!"

After the dance, the entire crew drove a couple of blocks to an iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii Hop (you have to know me to understand that). We all had some fun while eating. After the meal, the May's left to go home. Julie, my mom and I however, went over to CSU-Bakersfield to check out the campus. Since that is where I'm transfering (if everything goes according to schedule) in a year and I had not been to the campus. I drove around getting the lay of the land and all. We got home eventually around 5am.

I woke up this morning about 12:30p and turned on the NFL to see Matt Casel as the QB for the NE Patriots. I had not seen the score, so I thought sweet, the Pats are WAY ahead of the Chiefs ....WRONG. It turns out like it is an ACL injury to the reigning MVP of the NFL. The injury happened when Tom Brady threw what looked like a deep ball when a Chiefs defender rolled into Tom's left leg. An MRI will be done on Monday to reveal how bad the injury turely is, some reports out of New England are saying that it might be season ending. One word on that: DAMN! or you could use SHIT, your choice.

Auto Club Speedway and the Boys

Well, I know it's Thursday night and I did it last Sunday, I should have written earlier. School remember....

So last Sunday, Matty, Phil, Stephen and myself all went to Auto Club Speedway for the Pepsi 500. We got up to Fontana and got our passes and found our way to the press box situated between the ESPN booth and race control. It would have been really cool to have watched the race from there.

From there we were kicked out, mainly because someone at the track didn't have a clue where we were supposed to be. So we eventually got to the correct press box above pit road, sounds better than what it actually was. From where I was sitting in the press box I was able to see about 5 seconds of racing every lap (the avg lap times were in the 39-46 sec range). The rest of the time I was either paying attention to the worlds longest fantasy football draft (another story altogether, look below) or cranking my head up and to the right so that I could watch the ESPN feed which was on HD, but also on a 7 second delay.

Now about the fantasy football draft.

The draft seemed pretty straight forward, 18 rounds for a 10 team league. So much for being a simple draft. There were a few rookies, usually no big deal. The big deal came when some of the owners where either not paying attentino to who had been drafted or just gave up only 5 rounds into the draft. The draft got underway as the National Anthem was being sung at the race. 4 hours later as the race was closing in on the checkers (finish), the draft was only in round 14. I finally gave up, and told everyone to just pick the best player available. A fantasy football draft, no matter how long it is should take more than 3 hours. Absolutely ridicioulous. I even asked for a clock to be put on the picks due to the talent pool being dwindeled down so far I was informed that they were going as fast as possible. That might be the truth, but when everything is looked at from a impartal viewpoint, after the 5th round, you should be able to make a pick (if you know who has been picked) within a minute at the most.

So this weekend, I'm going on yet another trip, I'm going up to "Don't forget the lyrics" in the mornign with my mom. Then on Saturday, after announcing the Cuesta Panthers Vs. Grossmont Women's Volleyball match, My mom, Julie (hopefully Mary) and myself all head up to Lakewood to meet up with the Mays and then to Bako to surprise a friend.

absolute BS

Why is it that people in high places in business don't let new people break in?

I just found out that the former head coach and current teacher at Grossmont College has found out that I was working on a media guide for the upcoming football season, and has now told me to basicly cease and desist from creating a media guide.

This teacher has had it in for me ever since I wrote in the school newspaper back in I think 1999 that his team could not get a first down even if it was 1st and 1/8 of a yard. I wrote this statement (or something pretty close to it) because the team was 0-the season. They couldn't do anything right, and since I am a reporter that writes what I see, I wrote that they stunk.

Every since then the teacher (who was the coach at the time) has done everything in his power to screw me.