April 7th, 2010
Withthefirstpick.net was a website that was dedicated to information on baseball. Baseball is a sport that has nine players on each team with the aim to run around a 90 foot diamond to score runs. Before a player can run around this diamond they must first use their bat to hit the ball that has pitched by the pitcher from the opposite team. As in cricket if the ball is caught the player is out.
If you are a college and high school student or maybe a players from an amateur baseball there is system in place that assigns such players to the teams in major league baseball. This system is based on the results from the previous year. The worst standing team will get to have the first pick. If there are two teams that have done equally as bad as each other then the standings from the previous season are then taken into account. There also may be compensation picks if teams have lost players due to their contracts being up.
This picking takes place in June and can involve numbers of players running over a thousand. The most recent pick of 2009 was Stephen Strasbourg who is a pitcher. Washington Nationals picked him.
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April 7th, 2010
Sleepovers
Come on, it will be fun, lets have a sleep over my friend said the other day. I immediately thought of the cool musical Grease, of Sandra Dee and the pink ladies….they did sleepovers with style. The trouble is, we are all in our thirties with babies, bottles and sleep less nights, hardly glamorous stuff. Usually I am in bed after the six o clock news, and the watershed TV is something of a distant memory, one of those tantalising little wisps of a pleasure long forgotten. But wait, I thought, I am not in my grave yet, I can do sleep overs, I can do face masks, drink wine and pierce my belly button with a safety pin that’s been cleaned by a flame from a lighter. I can have fun with my girls and stay up till the birds sing in the dusky hues of the sun rising from its sleepy bed. I’m in, I said, hubby can baby sit, I am coming to party.
The night arrived and staving off sleep, resisting the temptation to put on our pj’s, fill up the water bottle, put on our thick, woolly socks and pull our blindfolds on in order to block out the bright lights, keeping us awake, we put on the abba cd to get us in the sleepover mood. After two bottles of wine and a terrible rendition of super trooper, the face mask goo came out……I haven’t used one of these since I was 13 with spots, my friend exclaimed as she pumped out the thick green goop onto her hands and slathered it onto my face. Yuck cold and slimy, hardly glamorous!! After we had all been gooped, we sat around waiting for it to work its miracles…..that is until the pizza got delivered….poor young, kid, having a door opened and being faced with something that resembled the monster from the black lagoon, not a sexy pink lady. Although ones of my friends reacted somewhat to the said gloop and actually did go very pink!
So music done, cheesy dancing done, face mask and nails, check, pizza and wine indulged in. Phew we partied! So on came our pjs, on came our socks, lights went off and blindfolds on, it was sleep time. Nice and early, in bed by nine.
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