Life Outside The Game

So in all I think if I break up my day, at least 10 hours of it consist of something baseball related. But even though that is true I actually do have a life outside of it that consists of many different things. Even though I am living a life that most people dream of now it's still tough to leave certain things back home. Now if you remember I live in Vermont now but am from Texas so that is a huge change. Where I lived in Texas and played college ball at was about a 10 minute drive from my dad's house. So it was definitely very nice to be able at any point in time call him up and just be like hey pops you want to grab some dinner tonight. So life here without my dad is kind of different and I know its killing him not getting to watch baseball all the time anymore. Another thing important in my life as well are my friends and to leave them out of my life for a while it also rough. I had to just pick up here where I didn't know too many people and basically start a whole new life. I also have a wonderful girlfriend back home whom I love spending so much of my time with and over the last 3 months I was lucky enough to even see her at all but it was only for 3 days and not having her around is definitely something I miss dearly. So as much fun as I am having up here playing ball it's actually a real test of how bad I want it. Even though it's a childhood dream there are many things that you have to sacrifice to try and meet your goals. So if your sitting there wondering if I regret my decision to go pro, the answer is no way! Sometimes as tough as times get you have got to look at the overall goal and in my life I have wanted nothing more in the entire world then play at the big league level. So my outside life has to be put on hold during the season and I'll just have to pick that up when I move back to Texas. If you don't got a dream in life, then your just not living the right way. Til next time this is James and we'll see ya.

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• gonzalez said August 06, 2008

  its nice to know your still in touch i mean come on man.i thought we lost you!hey you are very right.you have to set aside so many things to get to your goals.i have a horse and a wonderful family back in arizona and its just hard to leave everythin aside.when i have time in the off season i go play ball with a couple of good buddies of mine and then i go home and see my big bay horse starrin at me over the fence.in the off season i try to spend as much time as i can with family and friends.my best friend she lives on a ranch not far from were i live and we'll go and rope for an hour then go to the field.i dont know man.i think girls have their way in tierin you.i have some good news man.we made it to the world series!i couldnt believe it all my teammates were bouncin off the walls and we surprised coach with a cooler full of water dumped on him.hey you catch up with me later and i will tell you whats goin on.we might even be able to meet if we play near you.talk to ya later!

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