Chris Leckness » My Kids http://chrisleckness.com Mobility, Social Media, Sports, and Family Tue, 07 Feb 2012 03:44:38 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 What a wonderful weekend of Baseball Camp with my son, Brett! http://chrisleckness.com/2010/10/31/what-a-wonderful-weekend-of-baseball-camp-with-my-son-brett/ http://chrisleckness.com/2010/10/31/what-a-wonderful-weekend-of-baseball-camp-with-my-son-brett/#comments Sun, 31 Oct 2010 05:05:22 +0000 Chris http://chrisleckness.com/?p=33441

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Friday and Saturday, my son and I spent the weekend playing/learning baseball, connecting, sleeping in a tent in 30 degree weather, and having a blast together. I didn’t check email, didn’t tweet, didn’t even call to check in with my wife. Everything just seemed to have stopped, including time for the time we spent at “Baseball Country“. Yes, it was in the Country and it was Baseball. The name of the camp is “Baseball Country”. It’s a very nice and still growing Baseball Camp in Jena, Alabama, just 30 minutes from where we live. This camp was the Father/Son camp and is designed to spend time learning with each other as well as getting instruction on how to help your son with drills. What makes “Baseball County” so much different from other baseball camps around is that they use baseball to share the word of God with the campers.

Lee Evans and Bret Taft underneath their photos on the wall.

The staff has several coaches with Major League baseball experience and most have ties to the University of Alabama. Kenny Burns is the director of “Baseball Country” and is the one that started it. The staff included the following former players:

  • Lee Evans was drafted by the Pittsburgh Pirates and played 9 years in the minor leagues with the Pirates, Chicago White Sox, Atlanta Braves, Boston Red Sox, and San Diego Padres.
  • Bret Taft was drafted by the Royals and played a couple years in the minors.
  • Andy Philips was drafted by the New York Yankees and got some playing time and valuable learning experience from what he calls the best hitting coach he’s ever met while there in New York.
  • Jayson Cox played with Andy Philips at Alabama where they had lots of College world series experience. In 1999, Miami put them out just before the CWS finals.

We started the day on Friday putting up tents for the night to come. It turned out that rushing the construction of our tent wasn’t a good idea. After the tent was put up we headed to dinner, then a wiffle ball game, and finally an outdoor movie on a huge outdoors screen (The Rookie). We got 3 outs in a wiffle ball home run derby. The dads winner hit 4, but luckily for my son, I hit at least 1 homerun. Yes, I took former NY Yankee, Andy Philips over the Green Monster at Henway Park. The other two fields at their complex are “”Wiggly Field,” which allows players ages 7-10 a chance to hit one deep in the corn, while “Corniskey Park” serves as a more suitable field of dreams for players ages 11 and up. The kids played a wiffle ball game against each other while Kenny Burns took us dads out to talk.

Back to the tent though, we watched the movie (The Rookie) and headed to bed afterward. Turns out I jacked the tent all up and it was now too dark to fix. We ended up having to set everything up and pass our gear though a window since I covered the opening zipper. Not good. We did ok though. It got down to 30 degrees, but Brett and I did really well with our sleeping bags. I didn’t get a good night’s sleep due to the hard ground and not being able to start comfortable. My snoring apparently woke Brett up 2-3 times too.

We got up at 6:30am and started a day full of drills. The day ended with an actual baseball game for the kids. I was proud of Brett. He made some errors in the field, but he did well at bat. His 1st at bat was a strikeout where he got pretty mad (which was the only real showing of bad attitude all weekend). The next at bat, he hit a rope right to 1st and the 1st baseman ran over and tagged the bag with Brett 1 step from reaching. Next at bat he shot a hard hit liner to right field and ended up wit an inside the park homerun (courtesy of a bad throw to 3rd). He hit another grounder to 1st on his last at bat too.

Brett fielding some grounders

The day was fun, the great stories of the guys that put on the camp and the excellent instruction made for a great balance this weekend. When I asked Brett what he enjoyed learning the most, he told me it was the pitching instruction. He’s a lefty and now he wants to pitch. I will be working on this for the next year with him. He has one more season before kid pitch anyhow.

Baseball Country is a non-profit and they are always looking for donations to help add to the complex. They have several projects planned and they are always looking for help if anyone is interested in donating.

Disclaimer: I did take my cell out of the car to snap some photos late Friday night.


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]]> http://chrisleckness.com/2010/10/31/what-a-wonderful-weekend-of-baseball-camp-with-my-son-brett/feed/ 0 Ok, I Need some College Info and Tips http://chrisleckness.com/2010/07/29/ok-i-need-some-college-info-and-tips/ http://chrisleckness.com/2010/07/29/ok-i-need-some-college-info-and-tips/#comments Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:30:17 +0000 Chris http://chrisleckness.com/?p=33234

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]]> My daugher, Brittney, is starting her senior year of high school soon. She has made it this far with all A’s and 1 B. She took the ACT earlier this summer and scored a 26. She has a 2nd test scheduled and since we’re in the south, I don’t think she needs to take the SAT. At least I didn’t have to when I was in her shoes. She is pretty set on staying in Alabama, and pretty sure she wants to go to the University of Alabama (which is right here in Tuscaloosa).

My question for anyone reading me is this, when should we buckle down on trying to get her a scholarship or whatever. Did we wait too late or is now the right time? I pushed her to talk to a counselor at school last year but she is shy and didn’t listen. Do I need to go down to her school and talk to them for her?

Help me!!! I don’t want to risk losing out on an opportunity for her. I went to the US Navy out of school, so I am out of the loop on these type things.

Thanks!


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]]> http://chrisleckness.com/2010/07/29/ok-i-need-some-college-info-and-tips/feed/ 0 The Best Father’s Day Gift in 16 years… http://chrisleckness.com/2010/06/21/the-best-fathers-day-gift-in-16-years/ http://chrisleckness.com/2010/06/21/the-best-fathers-day-gift-in-16-years/#comments Mon, 21 Jun 2010 14:35:22 +0000 Chris http://chrisleckness.com/2010/06/21/the-best-fathers-day-gift-in-16-years/

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]]> In 16 years of being a father, this is my favorite gift yet!

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]]> It’s not the official one, those will come after we pay the photographer. I couldn’t help myself from helping myself to the promo version. I came out pretty good. Don’t worry Bray, my wife is going to buy some pictures.

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Brett is the 2nd kid from the left in the front row. They didn’t do so hot this year, but we’re planning on working hard for the next 10 months to get him ready for next season. :)


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]]> http://chrisleckness.com/2010/05/17/bretts-baseball-team-photo/feed/ 0 Photos from one of Brett’s Games… http://chrisleckness.com/2010/05/10/photos-from-one-of-bretts-games/ http://chrisleckness.com/2010/05/10/photos-from-one-of-bretts-games/#comments Mon, 10 May 2010 14:24:57 +0000 Chris http://chrisleckness.com/2010/05/10/photos-from-one-of-bretts-games/

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]]> Posting this for the other parents on the Diamondbacks, Brett’s team. These are some point and shoot pics I took at a game recently with my new camera. Decent, but I have lots of work to do before I can say I know how to use this camera. Click the little bitty thumbs to be taken to Flickr. You can blow the image up from there.

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I will get some more soon.


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]]> Here are the limited set of photos I shot with my new camera at the Ball game last night…

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Oh, it was 1-0 Alabama in the 1st inning when it got called off.


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]]> http://chrisleckness.com/2010/04/24/alabama-game-last-night-rained-out-still-got-some-photos-though/feed/ 0 Update on my kiddos… http://chrisleckness.com/2010/04/12/update-on-my-kiddos/ http://chrisleckness.com/2010/04/12/update-on-my-kiddos/#comments Tue, 13 Apr 2010 05:15:28 +0000 Chris http://chrisleckness.com/2010/04/12/update-on-my-kiddos/

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]]> For anyone that cares, here’s what’s up with Brittney and Brett. It’s been a while since I have posted here, sorry.

Brittney is 16, almost 17 now. What happened to the little bitty girl sporting the Aximsite tshirt for the readers almost 10 years ago. She is driving and we gave her my wife’s old Nissan Altima. My wife got here one of them there fancy cars now, a Volvo XC90 SUV. Brittney went to her 1st prom last weekend and she hated it. She said all the do at prom is dance. DUH… what did you expect? Mini golf? Anyhow, her grades are almost perfect as they have been all through High School. Unless she steers off course, I see an academic scholarship coming her way. Good job Britt!

Brett quit Taekwondo finally. He tried quitting before, but we always talked him back into it. I really wanted him to get his black belt 1st. That’s the reason he quit I think. He failed his 1st black belt testing and was so discouraged that he didn’t want to go anymore. We forced him for a couple weeks, but we quickly figured out he really didn’t want to go anymore. With baseball season approaching, we let up and let him quit. I am disappointed, but I don’t want to force things on him. Now, he’s in his 1st “real” season in baseball. 7 and 8 year old league uses 43 mph pitching machines. He’s batting about .500 for the year. Normally he gets up to bat 2-3 times and has hit 1-2 times safely in each game, except 1.

Me, I spend a lot of my time watching MMA and other sports as well as movies. 2012 disappointed me, but Blind Side was freaking awesome. I have also started playing video game more, PC games like World of Warcraft and PS3 sports games mostly.

I plan to write more soon. Been taking lots of needed time off.


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]]> Brett was in the 2009 ITA State Tournament yesterday. He is a red belt and he competed against 2 other red belts and 3 senior red belts yesterday. He finished 3rd of 6 in form and he finished 1st of 6 in sparring. He won 5-3, 5-0. 5-1 and had to face his friend Harrison for the gold. Here’s a little video I threw together from the footage. Congrats Brett. We are so proud of you.

Brett at the 2009 ITA State Tournament from Chris Leckness on Vimeo.


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]]> Good Times, Bad Food. Ok, it was awful, but some of it tasted like the milk carton my chocolate milk came in. Believe it or not, their steamed veggies were on par with good restaurants. I could have replaced the turkey and dressing with it and been better off. Anyhow, it was about spending some time with the boy, not the food anyway. Good times…

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As you can see in my son’s tray, he went traditional with his meal. I tried to get him to turkey up with me.


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]]> I didn’t take many. Meant to take more, but it was busy. We skipped the traditional trick or treaking and went to an event at church. Brittney worked a booth there and Brett scored more candy faster than if we would have done the trick or treat thing.

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Brett on the left, Brittney on the right…

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Brett climbing the rock wall and on the right, 2 kids dressed up that my wife loved so she gathered them and shot this one. The kid on the left is dressed up as Nick Saban and the right is Mount Cody. The thing is the real Terrence Cody’s chest would be a Nick’s head. Very cute either way.


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