Tankin' People Out

Last night while waiting on Battlefield 1943 to dl onto my ps3, i played 10PLO for about 45 minutes. In that forty-five minutes, i was up 4 buyins. Hells Yes.

Arm - =(

Having an MRI done ASAP, don't know when yet. I told them how time sensitive this was, and they said they could try to get me in this afternoon, but i have a feeling it will be monday or tuesday. The doctor said that my pectoral muscle most likely has a tear where it connects to the collar bone.
Most likely, it will not require surgery.
HOWEVER. I told him that there were two distinct pops. One probably the pec. When he did a motion test, i was laying down on a table, he grabbed my arm, which was completely relaxed and moved it in a circle, and there were two pops felt, one by my collar bone, and other in my shoulder. So, the MRI that i am having will tell #1. How severe the pec tear is (the worst is 2 months, but more likely 2-4 weeks), and #2. it will tell if/where the tear in my shoulder is which will 90% need surgery.
Also i strained my lat. but thats nothing lol. no big deal
i'd upload another pic but its not working
wish me luck.

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Dammit i'm at work and i couldn't see it. #18 in MLB history.
Mark Buerhle of the Chicago Whitesox.
Gabe Kapler hit a would-be homerun but apparently it got robbed, so it was the 1st out of the 9th inning...and i missed it!!!
damn work.

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any good omaha books? I think i want to learn how to play.

bought speakers for my new computorz. pretty legit. ty pandora.

Might as well update my arm condition...my trainer/physical therapist/rehab guy said "I am worried, but i think it's a sprain, and i reserve the right to change my mind."

I think i want to hurry up and get an MRI, because if it needs surgery, i don't want to go to oklahoma for school, i could live at home, play poker in my closet, keep my job, buy the truck i want (it's an amazing truck and still hasn't been sold...ommmmmg...it's meant to beeeeeee). So i need to know asap as to what my plans are. I either go to NWOSU or i go to UTA and keep my job *sigh* and school starts in... 4 weeks wtf.

It still hurts, i can't really move it above 180* without pain...
I've had a torn labrum in my left shoulder and the pain is very similar.
I don't know man we'll see...not in my hands.
GL everyone

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I don't know how many of you know this, but i'm a college athlete. I'm a baseball player, a right handed pitcher, and i am committed to play at Northwestern Oklahoma State University.

I've always had a love for the game, if you've been playing baseball since you were 4 years old, 17 years, thats what happens. I've grown up in Arlington, Texas, home of the Texas Rangers. Every summer i go to Rangers games, i bleed the Red White and Blue team colors. The best i can relate to most of the people on this world-wide forum is soccer. It seems everyone is very passionate about soccer outside of the US. This is it for me, this is what i do. I go to work, I go to school, I study, I play baseball.

I have a lot of great memories, and i always competed, I always left it all on the field. I was never scared, never frightened, if you were supposed to win, I played harder and made sure you didn't. The best example is when my team was the obvious underdog in a tournament against Waxahachie H.S. We were supposed to lose that game. What did i do? I threw 7 innings and got the win in a 1-0 ballgame. I was 15. Later that year my HS team was playing in a fall league (the HS season starts in february and ends in may). We lost 1 game the entire season, we get to the double elimination tournament as the number one seed and lose in the first game. We win 2 more games and make it to the next weekend, We win 1 game saturday, and then on sunday, if we wanted to win the entire tournament and become city champions, we have to win 5 games in a row. We won two, then in the semi-finals, we had a guy who hit his first and second homeruns of his life. The first one was in the bottom of the last inning and his HR tied the game, sending it into extra innings. His second tied the game again, sending it once more into extra innings. We played 11 innings in that game (regulation is 7). We then beat the #2 seed twice to win the championship. All of this with only 9 players the entire day. Everyone on the team played every inning...When i was 18 years old, on my club team i pitched a complete game shutout in the championship game against an unbeaten team. That was for a national championship. It was one of the greatest moments in my baseball career.

All of this being said, and now i have to tell you that i took it for granted. There are two types of "arms" in this game. One is made of glass, the other made of rubber. Mine is made of rubber. Glass arms are injury prone (because glass breaks). Rubber arms are seemingly injury proof. In my 14 years of baseball, i have only had one "injury" to my pitching arm. My senior year of high school i had a strained ulnar nerve. 3 weeks of no baseball and 6 weeks of rehab and i am fine. As a freshman i threw 40 innings, a sophemore 60 innings (thats a lot since we had like 21 games...about 125 innings in the season) Junior year i was a closer on varsity, and threw 20 innings and then my senior year i was the Ace of the staff, and threw about 50 or so.

Other than the three stories i talked about earlier, every team i've been on has sucked. Really bad. My senior year we only one 1 game. I never had any motivation to really work hard. I always did what i was told to do, but never anything extra. In high school, while playing for my school, we never were any good. My first year of college i was a red shirt so i didn't play. I was given a year that did not count against my eligibility so that i could mature and grow. My first year in college we sucked, we finished 2nd from last in our conference. This last year, my sophemore year at my junior college (last year at junior college) i played well, threw a 2-hitter against UT Tyler, a well known division III school, and we as a team, we so very close to making it to playoffs. The entire season all i could do was think about going to playoffs. Playoffs playoffs playoffs. My entire life every season that meant something, my team has sucked balls, and now finally after so long i have a chance to go to the PLAYOFFS! it's all i've ever wanted is to just go. I didn't care if we got swept in the first round, i just wanted to go.

We didn't go, but we were in the race until the very last series. Going into the last series, we were tied for the last playoff spot. The first tiebreaker was heads up, which we were 3-3 with eachother. The 2nd tiebreaker was how well you did against the 1st place team. We were playing the first place team, #1 team in the nation, Richland College. They were the worst team in our confernce, probably going to sweep them. That meant that if we swept Richland, we would beat them out in the tiebreaker...
In the bottom of the 9th inning, we were losing 8-7. We had 1 out with runners on 2nd and 3rd base, and our best hitter who was hitting about .420 up to bat. That was the best situation we could be in. All he had to do was get the ball into the outfield safely and both runners score, we win, our chance at going to playoffs in extremely good. The batter absolutely creams a line drive, heading over the 2nd baseman. Everyone starts screaming and cheering in the dugout, we knew what we had to do and we thought we did it. Unfortunately, the 2nd baseman jumps into the air as high as he can, barely catching the line drive, then throws it to 2nd to double him off, ending the game, and ending our chance at playoffs. I've never seen 23 people have so much joy and turn it into sadness and disbelief that quickly, within 2 seconds.

This made me want to try so god damn hard to get better. I knew i could do it. I committed to NWOSU, an NAIA school, who needed pitchers. I was going to work my ass off and give it everything i had to go to playoffs because this past year has been the most fun i've ever had playing baseball. I have been running, lifting weights, and i hired a trainer to help me train. The training is supposed to make me injury proof and increase the speed of my fastball. I should be throwing 92-93 mph in december. I was looking forward to it so much.

But today, during my lifting, i was about to start doing pull-ups, and as soon as i started my first rep..."pop-pop" really quick. i stopped what i was doing...left the YMCA, and headed to a friends house whose parents know a shitload about biomechanics. His mother was the only one home and she couldn't tell for sure what it was. I called my trainer whose main expertise is sports rehabilitaion, he said ice it and we'll look at it tomorrow.

Everytime i've tweaked something or felt pain in my knees or ankles, the first question someone asks me is "did you hear or feel a pop?" I've always said no, and a couple of days later, i'm back doing whatever. This time the answer is yes. There was a pop. I'm scared. Pops = tears. Tears = surgery. Surgery = 99% chance you will not get drafted. Its pretty much automatic if you don't throw 95+, and even if you do, you have a red flag the rest of your career.

So just don't take anything for granted. I feel i'm obligated to tell stories that could improve someones elses life. I believe in God, i know some of you don't, but i think that God, or the universal force, or whatever, puts you through trying times for 2 reasons...One, you learn from it and better your life, and Two, you tell other people and possibly inspire them, and my story could better someone else's life.

Tomorrow, i go to Chuck, the trainer, he'll examine it, and probably refer me to someone for an MRI, and hopefully in a week i'll have an update. Hopefully it will be a strain, however, I'm going to school for physical therapy and sports rehabilitation, and as i haven't taken any classes yet, being around sports and being interested in physcial therapy and well, just knowing my own body, i'm 95% sure i torn the fuck out of something. The only weird part (5%) is the location and type of pain... I can't explain why it hurts were it does and why there are like 2 kinds of pain... but who knows.

Sorry for making such a long depressing blog. i just needed to express myself some...get it off my chest. I figure i'll see a lot of "tl;dr" and "baseball sucks" and "haha u believe in god" but hey, at this point i really don't care about anything. baseball could be gone for me.

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It's time to invest in my poker game. I feel this is necessary to become a winning player. Most of you have HEM or PT3...





I'm buying starcraft.

After reading The Growth of a Nerd, it's a pretty obv choice.

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The same tourney that i took down about 3 weeks ago i played against last night. I FT'ed for the 2nd time in a row, however this time i had bad luck at FT, and ended up getting 6th. My first table, there was a plethera of talented players, somewhat nitty, but still for the place i was playing, they were some of the best ones there. A few hands before i was on the button with KK, had about 3 limpers and had just enough to shove and make everyone fold, picking up 4 bbs and a sb to put me into chipleader at the table. Then UTG i made what i thought was smart at the time, but looking back, no so smart. I was dealt ATdd, and after thinking about it, knowing there were nits at the table (after about 1hr 30 min, only 1 person had been knocked out at the table), so i decide to shove. I get 3 callers. QQ, KQhh, AKo,...i have them all covered, and the guy with AK couldn't make the blind when he shoved (he was dealer), and we rivered an A, for the win. He got 3 k and i had 28k. I go to my next table and within 3 hands 3 people have been eliminated at my new table, and i am the short stack at 25k...We quickly went to a FT, at i had AKo, with blinds at 4k 8k, and my stack is at 23, so i shove. The chick next to me calls with 18k, with a monsterous Q5hh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and turns a Q. =( I shove from utg 2 hands later with 45hh, spike a 4 on the flop, go out next hand with KQs *sigh* but hey, it's still 6th and a FT.

VEGAS FRIDAYYYYYYYYYYY! looking forward to partyin' it up LP!!!

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However, i am proud that i quit when and showed tilt control. What set me off is that every time i've shoved w/ JJ-AA, i've lost. 6 hands i've had JJ-AA, shoved pf or on flop, got called and got runnered/coolered etc. In previous blog i showed my AA vs KK, guy w/ KK flops a boat, and when i had KK, i went up against AA. Well last night i had aces twice, jacks, and queens... all are ahead, all get beat. I flop trips with my jacks, guy calls an all-in with Ah2d, catches two more hearts for nut flush. Same thing happened with AA, he had AJo, catches runner runner for a flush. This has happened four times last night, twice the night before, and 100% of the time when i have a big pocket pair and am ahead when i get it in *sigh*

I'm just glad i realized i was upset and playing out of my zone, so i quit. Today will be a better day indeed.

Also, my father said that if i can get 2.5k, he'll go 50/50 with me to get the truck that i want.
So with my two jobs...maybe mowing lawns or something... and hopefully pokerz, i can get 2.5k by august and it won't be sold. I'm also trying to save up for school and a new comptuer *sigh* daunting task. But hey, anything you put your mind to you can accomplish.

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pissed about life shit but hey, on the e-tables, i doubled my br.
I decided that since 5nl and 2nl are the same (opponents skill wise) i'd play my entire br on 2 tables (i had ~6 dollars), i got it to 9 in about 300 hands or so...then i decided today that the best way to make monies is to 4 table. however, i didn't feel comfortable 4tabling 5nl with 9 dollars, so i split the money up evenly between 4 tables at 2nl. this worked, as i made profit on 2 of the tables, and busting out on the other two. I was up +7 on one table and +5 on the other. I also decided to play turbo tables only to get in more hands.

On the tables i busted out on... i got it in pf w/ kings, and the other dude turned up aces, they held.
On the other table... this is gay and pissed me off...i was playing heads up b/c the table died, and i realized it, but i was BB so i stayed in to play one more hand. I got AA. SB raises, i reraise, he 4bets, i shove, he calls... I'm thinking my aces are good hu right?? WRONG. flop is KJJ, he has KK, fml.

i need a vehicle *sigh*
i'm winning in vegas.

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need a car by august when school starts. Found a truck for <5K, looks absolutely amazing, looks like it runs great as well. i'm going to check it out tomorrow, prolly test drive it. Only problems is i dont have 5k and this vehicle in such great condition will not last long being priced so low...

fml!

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i was qualified for some rakeback 3k freeroll on cake, out of 174 i got 21st for 30 bucks played good, picked my spots wisely, folded around to me, got it in w/ 4.5k on 400/800 blinds, guy with 12k on bb insta calls, i have A9cc he had K8cc, rivers an 8 =*(

will take the cake padding tho =)

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