Your Head and Your Heart

This past week I encountered a situation with my fantasy baseball team that put my head in contention with my heart. As a huge Atlanta Braves fan, I've enjoyed having Brian McCann as my catcher. He is having an awesome year and putting up great numbers. I received an e-mail from a fellow owner saying he wanted McCann and was willing to offer me Hanley Ramirez. My heart was saying, "Don't trade Brian McCann. He's a Brave and you love watching him play for the Braves and your fantasy team." My head was saying, "Hanley Ramirez could be the best player in baseball. This could be your chance to get an awesome player for cheap." Hanley has been playing terribly lately and I thought it would be a great chance to get him for cheap. I ended up doing the deal. I traded Brian McCann (C), Darwin Barney (SS), and Chris Narveson (SP) for Hanley Ramirez (SS), Wilson Ramos (C), and Jeremy Guthrie (SP).
I have never won a World Series in the league. I want to really badly. My head was saying that I needed to make this move to try and accomplish that goal. I also thought that Hanley was playing poorly and that he can't possibly keep playing that badly. I thought I was buying low right before he really took off. Time will tell if my head or my heart was right about this trade.

Coaching

As some of you may know, I am the head coach of the Newell-Fonda Mustang high school baseball program. This is my first year as a head coach. We are halfway through the season, and it has been a year filled with challenges and also success. While our record is not fantastic, I believe our team is. My assistant coach and I have been telling our players all spring that if they make the routine plays, stay positive, and never stop believing they are out of a game, that victories would start to happen. On Saturday, June 11th, we won the AR-WE-VA baseball tournament in Westside, IA. It was a great day for our players and us coaches. The boys played hard and proud and believed in each other. We even fell behind in both games and fought back. It's so fulfilling to see your players succeed and hold their heads high when you've been telling them all along that they had that ability inside. I am so proud of my players. I am looking forward to a great second half of the season. Go Mustangs!