User talk:Seth Thayer

Early Life
Seth's childhood was normal. He has four siblings three older brothers and one older sister. Him, his brothers, and their dad would all go oustide and play backyard baseball. Sometimes they would even go out to the feilds and play regular baseball games. When he wasn't playing baseball, he was either playing video games or he was workingout. At this point in his life, he was in seven grade athletics. He would do the athletics workout everyday, then when he got home from school he would workout there too. His family had a Solo-Hitter in their front yard, and Seth would stay out there and hit that thing until it was pitch black outside. He also spent a lot of time hitting rocks and stuff with a wooden baseball bat. He was only 13 when he was doing all this too. He grew up in Ranger, Texas. He was a little upset about that, because about 90% of his friends lived in Eastland, Texas, which was twelve miles away from his house. Sometimes he would get some friends to go to the baseball feilds after school to play pick-up games. Some of his friends didn' like baseball as much as he did, but they were his friends and they didn't like to see him sad or upset. So they would agree to play baseball after school. Sometimes they would play real games and other times they would play games such as Home Run Derby. After their fake, play-around baseball games, they would usually either go to the town's pizza place or the ice cream place, and eat and eat until they could barley even walk. They would do this almost everyday. The school he went to didnt have junior high baseball, only high school ball. So Seth and his friends played in the 14and under group, for ages 13-14. Seth was a little nervous when he had found out about that, because he was used to playing with kids 10-12.

Coach Thayer
Seth's last year of Little League was pretty good. His team was good all-around, at hitting, throwing, running, everything. The team got along real well and they were all friends too. They were coached by Seth's very own dad,Bobby Thayer, he was a great coach. "He made practices both fun and hard." Said Sam Barker, one of Seth's team mates that year. Seth claims that his dad,coach, was the best coach anyone can ask for. He would split the team into two teams so that way they could play against each other for practice. Usually the losing team would run two times around the bases, while the winning team only ran one. At the end of every practice and game, he and the team would pick up some trash and throw it away. at some points he would joke around with the boys at practice, but then sometimes there would be no time for horse play. He even told them that it was ok to mess around some at practice but when its game time, take it serious. Some of the other player's dads help, but Seth's was the Headcoach.About fifty percent of the practices Bobby would pitch to them, and the other half was the team pitching to each other. Some practices were about 1-2 hours long, but some were 3-4 hours long. At the begining of every practice he would make the boys run two times around the bases. If they weren't ruinning hard, or practicing hard he would make them run to the fence(250 ft. out) and back. In Seth's lst year of Little League, they made it to sate, because they took they're coaches advice and played hard. Coach Thayer would always say "Practice how your going to play", right before every practice and while they were warming up before a game.

The Team
The team hey had at least six or seven pitchers, a couple of 2nd basemen, some 1st and 3rd basemen as well as a catcher and some outfielders. They got into a couple of fights and such but when they did, they had to run, but other then that they all got along real well. They had practice every week Monday-Friday, most were 2 hours long, but Friday practices were only 1 hour long. Everybody on that team could hit both, very well and very far. They won every game in the regular season except for one. So they came 1st in league with a record of 10-1, which means that they were making it to state. They had about three weeks before they had to leave for state, they practiced just about everyday for those three weeks also. State was in Harker Heights, Texas that year, which was roughly around three to four hours away from where they were. Finally the day came that they were at Harker Heights waiting at a hotel for the game to start the next day. They won the first and second game, lost they third but came right back and won the fourth. They ended up losing the fith game which ment that they had lost two games which ment that they were done, the record was 3-2. They were upset that they had came this far and lost, all the needed to do was to win that game then they would be playing in the state championship. It wasnt a bad thing though, because most of them wanted to go back to the hotel or go back home. While they were at the hotel, they played games, poker, baseball, swam, and other stuff. One night the whole team spent the night in one players room, and they stayed up all night long, playing video games and watching tv and just messing around. After they lost, they went back to the hotel gathered up the stuff, then the team went to Hooters, a really good resteraunt, to eat and have a talk about the trip and the games.