Funneldrill -- a celebrity!

Sounds like a nice segment and I am sorry I missed it, darn. Will it be replayed? If so, can you let us know when.

sorry i missed it too. from everything i have read from FD on this site i too think he must be a true coach. at least the way i remember coaches to be. makes me want to start house hunting in that district.

Dang it, I missed it too. Wife heists the remote and I am stuck with some cruddy rerun of "Se x in the City".

Congrats funnel, from your posts and our PM exchanges, I am not surprised you are bringing success the the Eagles.

Thank you for the compliments!

Last night was the short version. The long version is supposed to be aired Sunday night on the High School Sports Special on Channel 8.

My next challenge is to keep the kids feet on the ground! The recognition they are getting is nice, but there is a long way to go. We need to finish strong this year, then we can look back at this recoginition as the start of something great!

do you know what time on sunday night?

HS Sports special is usually on after the news on Sunday night, about 10:45pm


Hey FD, can I get an autograph?

Congrats on the results of your hard work, FD.

Of course!!! I will sign every autograph until I am finished.

FD

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My next challenge is to keep the kids feet on the ground! The recognition they are getting is nice, but there is a long way to go. We need to finish strong this year, then we can look back at this recoginition as the start of something great!

Congrats. Spoken like a man that knows how to set goals and take it a play at a time.

Very Inspirational!

Way to go coach. For those that don't know, coach has his Eagles a game up in district play over the 15-3 Martin Warriors.

Thanks for the update on the broadcast I will get my TIVO ready.

Funneldrill: Congrats again and I wish you and your team continued success on the field. Your boys are lucky to have a coach like you that has so much compassion/knowledge and love for the game.

Congrats to you and your kids Coach. Keep up the good work!

We reserve two size 8 hats for the PE coaches when things are going well -- they're still in the box (for now).

Funneldrill will make sure his kids don't need them.

Congrats FD !

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Originally posted by T-Bird Dad:
Dang it, I missed it too. Wife heists the remote and I am stuck with some cruddy rerun of "Se x in the City".

My wife and I settled that one a long time ago. I got the remote and she got the checkbook. It was working fine untill she used the checkbook to buy another tv. Any ideas how I can get the checkbook back?

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Originally posted by Line Drive:

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Originally posted by T-Bird Dad:
Dang it, I missed it too. Wife heists the remote and I am stuck with some cruddy rerun of "Se x in the City".

My wife and I settled that one a long time ago. I got the remote and she got the checkbook. It was working fine untill she used the checkbook to buy another tv. Any ideas how I can get the checkbook back?

What's a checkbook?

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Originally posted by T-Bird Dad:
What's a checkbook?

It's that little book your wife put in her purse the day after you married her...

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Originally posted by T-Bird Dad:
Wife heists the remote and I am stuck with some cruddy rerun of "Se x in the City".

NOW, I'm very confused ... is there something wrong with that???

Just caught the Sunday night segment, FD your boys are lucky to have you and so are we!
Nice to put a face to the name.

Congrats

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Originally posted by oldbat-never:
Just caught the Sunday night segment, FD your boys are lucky to have you and so are we!
Nice to put a face to the name.

DITTO! Enthusiasim is contagious! Way to go!

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Originally posted by momandcpa:

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Originally posted by T-Bird Dad:
Wife heists the remote and I am stuck with some cruddy rerun of "Se x in the City".

NOW, I'm very confused ... is there something wrong with that???

MOM & CPA Thanks for the back up!

Thanks to all!

I would gladly trade that for a win last Friday. Tough to win when you make 5 errors. It was a total team effort from players to coaches. I am a firm believer in "players win games, coaches lose games." Lots of my coaching colleagues disagree with me on this point, but it is how I feel.

What I mean is, if I am going to get the credit for the wins, I should take the blame for the losses. After every game, especially a loss, I always break down my performance as a coach. I look at what I could have done better...how could I have prepared the team better, etc. Ask my kids, when we lose, I tell them it is my fault, I have to prepare them better. One of my players is on this board...tell'em Rock!

I am my toughest critic. Do I make the right decision every time? No way! I seek information and better ways to do things on a daily basis. I talk to other coaches, read different publications and books, attend coaching clinics, work summer camps...anything to gain an edge for the kids that I coach.

Anyway, got to get back to work. We have Duncanville tomorrow night at home. We have scouted them twice and they are a fine ball club. We definitely have our work cut out for us. Oh, got to get those U.S. History kids ready for the TAKS test...only 2 weeks away!!!

funnel,

Saw the segment...your kids are really buying into your program and that is HUGE!!! Way to go!

Collikar and momandcpa,

Quit ganging up on me or you will be exiled to the Ladies Forum for a week.

Nice job on the interview. But I gotta say your Vitale, well, it's a good thing you've got baseball to fall back on. It's AWESOME BABY!

Oh yeah, gotta love them TAKS. You're plate is full in deed.

I can't believe they showed the Vitale!!! They are out there for 1.5 hours and they show that in a 2 minute segment. That's OK, I have very little shame!

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Originally posted by funneldrill:
That's OK, I have very little shame!

Baseball coaches have to have a sense of humor, if they don't they'll go crazy with all the decisions made and not made. I've spent a lot of sleepless nights thinking about things I could have done differently. It still haunts me that we lost an area round playoff 9-8 and made 8 errors!

But at least on this message board we don't have to defend our sport like another board I've seen TOC.

Good luck tomorrow night. That's one heck of a baseball district you are in.

On the same segment last night they spotlighted our school's girls s****r team (defending state champs),it was a nice interview as well. It was a well played game but heard it got ugly afterwards amongst some of the Colleyville fans and some of our fans, heard a nose was broken (one of our guys) and a Marcus player had a concussion, not very good representation out of either school.... heard the incident was spurred on by a weeks worth of posting on the "my spaces" pages including some threats and a video. This just shows again how these My Space postings/blogs can cause some harm.

And we thought it gets a bit dicey in this forum.........

Was the baseball coach involved??

One track mind KD...............no we were in Allen.......trying to get a district win.

Congrats again to your son with the win on Friday...

A fight breaking out at a s****r game? Is this Texas or England?????

From what I heard it sounded more like a Rugby Match.

I loved the video of the s****r player from Pearce take the flop and draw the penalty shot, which won them the game. His facial expression led me to believe that he was fine and had flopped to draw the call. Great camera work to catch that!

Isn't that a little unsportsmanlike???

Hockey has a penalty for diving to counter act that.

Of course it's all in the eyes of the official.

L.A. You might have just stumbled on a new name for that sport. Horses love grass and it's played on grass so why not call it Horse Hockey

Anyone catch the streaker at the begining of the channel 8 news. Guy toots somekind of horn and you see this naked guy run in front of the reporter doing a live shot.

Bad sport to streak at...the object is to kick the ball(s)!

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Missed that but have it on TIVO, so will go view it again. Cheap Thrills on a slow Monday.

Change up -- I saw the streaker -- had to rerun it 4 times for the wife and kids -- the beauty of live TV and the genius of DVR!

Your right Tbird Dad, I guess it would take only 1 hit to either change streaking venues or the act of streaking itself.