We hope your summer so far as been safe and fun. From our house we can say “busy” is the word. Our son John and Kristin married on June 20, 2009. Tie in two family reunions and the Mancillious International Golf tournament that week, 60 for breakfast for 2 to 3 days and we had a ball.
With 8 sons and our son-in-law Todd competing in the family Mancillious International Golf Tournament, Jim won for the 4th straight year. If Tom can do it maybe Wayne has a chance next year. (Have to find 20 strokes). This two day 36 hole event is a wonderful bonding event for the brothers and (brother from another mother); plus Wayne .
Best of all, Matt and Kathy, our oldest, blessed us with Oliver Henry in June and Jim and Vusala gave us Joseph Ahmed in July. One more announcement, Laura and Todd join Andy and Amber in the expecting column for no. 13 and 14 grandchildren. We are so very blessed. Barb’s mom, Virginia, lives with us and is in good health and reminds us of the needs and dignity of older age.
Thanks to all of you who continue to support us with your referrals.
Our daughter Laura has joined our staff as a sales assistant support to our growing team. We are happy to report Lona Webb, joined our team last month. She left a 20 year private law practice to raise her family and now brings those skills to serve her clients and those in the legal profession with their real estate needs. She has already sold a home and assisting the sale of a second.
The real estate market continues to favor buying a home. Low interest rates, outstanding inventory are two compelling reasons to participate in maybe the best time to buy in 3 generations. If you are selling, the buyers are out there and great condition and staging plus intelligent pricing research pay off. If you want to wait to sell, consider where interest rates are going and the affect of the cap and trade thinking on real estate values due to energy use and upgrades.
We are thankful for our freedom, pray for our men and women in the service to our country and we are thankful for you our friends and business assiciates.
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Monday, July 27, 2009
About the Royals and the Silver Lining
Can the Royals find a silver lining? In the Old Days we would try to pick how many games it would take to win "The West" (At that time). Would 90 games be enough and so on.
We have no problem with the Royals being a factor this year. They won't be! Their magic number is probably "68"(a guess). The winner of the central division will probably reach 87 wins(Pathetic).
Oh, about the silver lining - don't you build championships with pitching and defense? For the last decade we have hardly had an outstanding player of the game much less an outstanding phase of the game within the Royals. This year starting pitching looks great.
Believing you can add an adequate relief corps short term that leaves defense. Here is where I fault management at all levels. It seems that the lack of understanding or execution of defensive fundamentals is rampant for a pro team. Lack of a set lineup, despite the injuries, again have contributed to a general overall happy go lucky "I am not accountable" attitude. This has spread to the base coaches and rests on the shoulders of the manager. Would I fire the two base coaches and trade DeJesus and Tehan to get everybody's attention? Maybe.
Hindsight is easy. We can look back and set the lineups and pick individuals for defensive savey and not take into account offensive skills, righty, lefty etc. as there has been no exhibition of offensive skills from the team.
So again the silver lining -
I believe good teams take over at the end of the season - after the all star break. Dispite a 10 game losing streak, our strengths are better in the second half with this team. I believe our starting pitching will hold and our offense will arrive(relative to our available lineup). Last year was so much better than the past few years. I believe we have the first element of a championship team.
Add 3 "men" (hitters), get healthy, focused and away we go! We thought we had the "men" added this year and it did not happen. I would trade away our sacred cows to get to this - most likely DeJesus, Tehan or Butler or all three. No I am not nuts, I put Butler's name in there to reflect a focus on where we must be vesus any sensitivity to where we are now. Build on the pitching, add some relief and concentrate on finding 3 good men (additional hitters).
Doing nothing? Well that means the offense of the Royals will either have to wake up, get well or have career years. Not a high percentage choice in my book although - we can look at a number of $100 million payrolls without championships showing lineups we would not and should exchange with.
We are on the right track. Our hardest piece is in place with terrific young starting pitchers. We have to deal with two physical needs, hitting and relief pitching and one major mental or attitude issue - playing with focus - manager experience (maybe confidence) is weak on this last point.
So how many games will it take to win the division in 2010 - my guess is 92; 92 -94 in 2011. Our Royals can do 82 - 85; but to quote the Cub's fan "wait until 2012!"
We have no problem with the Royals being a factor this year. They won't be! Their magic number is probably "68"(a guess). The winner of the central division will probably reach 87 wins(Pathetic).
Oh, about the silver lining - don't you build championships with pitching and defense? For the last decade we have hardly had an outstanding player of the game much less an outstanding phase of the game within the Royals. This year starting pitching looks great.
Believing you can add an adequate relief corps short term that leaves defense. Here is where I fault management at all levels. It seems that the lack of understanding or execution of defensive fundamentals is rampant for a pro team. Lack of a set lineup, despite the injuries, again have contributed to a general overall happy go lucky "I am not accountable" attitude. This has spread to the base coaches and rests on the shoulders of the manager. Would I fire the two base coaches and trade DeJesus and Tehan to get everybody's attention? Maybe.
Hindsight is easy. We can look back and set the lineups and pick individuals for defensive savey and not take into account offensive skills, righty, lefty etc. as there has been no exhibition of offensive skills from the team.
So again the silver lining -
I believe good teams take over at the end of the season - after the all star break. Dispite a 10 game losing streak, our strengths are better in the second half with this team. I believe our starting pitching will hold and our offense will arrive(relative to our available lineup). Last year was so much better than the past few years. I believe we have the first element of a championship team.
Add 3 "men" (hitters), get healthy, focused and away we go! We thought we had the "men" added this year and it did not happen. I would trade away our sacred cows to get to this - most likely DeJesus, Tehan or Butler or all three. No I am not nuts, I put Butler's name in there to reflect a focus on where we must be vesus any sensitivity to where we are now. Build on the pitching, add some relief and concentrate on finding 3 good men (additional hitters).
Doing nothing? Well that means the offense of the Royals will either have to wake up, get well or have career years. Not a high percentage choice in my book although - we can look at a number of $100 million payrolls without championships showing lineups we would not and should exchange with.
We are on the right track. Our hardest piece is in place with terrific young starting pitchers. We have to deal with two physical needs, hitting and relief pitching and one major mental or attitude issue - playing with focus - manager experience (maybe confidence) is weak on this last point.
So how many games will it take to win the division in 2010 - my guess is 92; 92 -94 in 2011. Our Royals can do 82 - 85; but to quote the Cub's fan "wait until 2012!"
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