james becher

God first. i’m obsessed w/ modern design, i believe in quality & craftsmanship, not faster. architect, family & father to a baseball player. ➕🇺🇸

[james becher @jamesbecher]

@NAIABall we need to pay our coaches more…

[james becher @jamesbecher]

@CoachBeede i don’t know what prompted you to write this, but truth spoken and very timely, thank you for sharing. 99% of social media is a sh_ t show, but every once in a while you come across a gem like this.

[james becher @jamesbecher]

@JermaineCurtis in addition to that i had a rule that the on deck hitter had to hand the ‘mortgage payment’ to the next hitter, never throw it. respect it (and your glove) and it will respect you.

[james becher @jamesbecher]

@CoachLisle reminds me of a 14U player i once coached w/ potential, the team knew it too. i pulled him aside & told him he was a leader on the team & to help keep the team engaged during a game, his response was “he wasn’t a hype guy”, this year as a senior he got cut & did not make varisty

[james becher @jamesbecher]

unfortunately it is a get it done mentality, instead of get it done right mentality.

[james becher @jamesbecher]

@DGratz13 @Seth_3773 my experience coaching recently, they cannot afford it. parents, coaches or a community org steps up to fundraise. i understand you’re point, but some just make it happen. for me the context is priorities, they all have iPhones, yeti & somehow a $15 polyester shirt is the problem

[james becher @jamesbecher]

@DGratz13 @Seth_3773 spaces? i lived in an area with no budget. learned the most from those coaches, they were dedicated, no nonsense, disciplined, loved baseball. i applaud seth for bringing this type of culture to his kids, I can only imagine the difficulties he is faced with in this day and age.

[james becher @jamesbecher]

i remember him fondly, amazing player and person, rest in peace lopes…

[Los Angeles Dodgers @Dodgers]

The Dodgers mourn the loss of Davey Lopes, who passed away today at age 80. Lopes was a member of the team’s record-setting infield of the 1970s and 1980s and one of the finest basestealers in MLB history. Our condolences go out to his family and friends.

[james becher @jamesbecher]

@Seth_3773 i see what you did there... 🤣

[james becher @jamesbecher]

@NorCalU1 @adamhousley @SFGiants @SFnewsnow baseball is better on the radio, the past few years i have started watching games with the tv broadcast muted and listening to the radio during games.

[james becher @jamesbecher]

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[Jamie Bambrick @j_bambrick]

The Battle Cry Of St Patrick | History's Greatest Prayer

This 1500 year old prayer is arguably the greatest in all church history outside of the Bible itself. As it is St Patrick's weekend and he was the one who wrote it, why not exalt the glory of God and trample on all manner of wickedness with this daily confession?

[james becher @jamesbecher]

@BluebookBeede @JoshReynolds24 100% agree, the humanity in baseball is at the core of it's soul, is what makes it baseball & our favorite pastime.

by the way, isn't the strike zone at the plate, not the catchers glove?

[james becher @jamesbecher]

its kind of ironic that the architect’s newspaper editorials and articles are predominantly “affordable housing” ethos and the periodical is predominantly filled with high end materials / products and ads.

[james becher @jamesbecher]

i cannot believe that 82 years later we are still dealing with buzz bombs…

[james becher @jamesbecher]

@nextlevelbb and i believe a true freshman closed for sac state…

[james becher @jamesbecher]

@Seth_3773 … and fathers to daughters!

keep up the great work coach, you will never know all the young lives you will have a positive impact on.

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

Wild horses crossing a river in Iran - E. Heydari

[james becher @jamesbecher]

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[Ben @MrGoodlyCooks]

I don’t follow hockey, but this had me tearing up. They brought their teammate’s (who was killed by a drunk driver) kids out onto the ice with their dad’s jersey to celebrate the moment. 🥹

[james becher @jamesbecher]

buy quality, inherit quality, find used quality, design quality, fix it, restore it, maintain it, hand it down to next generation. that is how you truly help yourself, your family, the community & the planet. companies will sell less, but they should have restore dept’s.

[The Husky @Mr_Husky1]

Everyone told me to throw it out. The contractor, my sister, even my own husband said, "Maureen just get a new one from Home Depot and be done with it." This stove belonged to my grandmother. A 1950s Chambers, white with chrome handles, six burners, double ovens, built in warming drawers, the kind of thing they simply do not make anymore. It sat in her kitchen in the house on Maple Street for over 40 years. She cooked every holiday meal on it, every birthday cake, every pot of Sunday sauce that made the whole block smell like garlic and tomatoes. When she died in 2019 the house went up for sale and my uncle was going to let the new owners gut the kitchen. I drove four hours with a rented truck and two guys from Craigslist to pull that stove out of there.
It sat in my garage for almost three years because I couldn't afford to restore it. It was rusted in places, the enamel was chipped, two of the burners didn't work, and one of the oven doors wouldn't close right. Every time I walked past it to get to the washing machine I'd run my hand across the top and whisper, "I'm going to fix you, just wait." My husband thought I was losing it. Then last year I got a small inheritance from an aunt on my dad's side, not much, but enough. I found a guy who specializes in vintage appliance restoration and he spent three months bringing her back to life. The day they delivered it into my kitchen and I saw it sitting there under the warm light, looking exactly like it did in grandma's house, I sat on my kitchen floor and sobbed. That white enamel shining, the chrome polished like mirrors, the burners clicking on perfectly.
I bake on it now every Sunday. The percolator on the stovetop is one I found through a seller’s shop who had a collection full of restored vintage enamelware and I nearly screamed when I saw it because it's almost identical to the one grandma used. I've since decorated the whole area with handmade vintage style kitchen pieces I bought from different artisan shops, the little timer, the ceramic utensil holder, all of it. People come over and stand in my kitchen staring at this stove like it's a museum piece and I just smile because they have no idea. It's not a stove. It's every Christmas morning, every burnt cookie we laughed about, every conversation we had while she stirred something on the back burner.
They told me to throw it out. I'm so glad I never listened.

By Amanda cain

[james becher @jamesbecher]

@shegone03 @MLB @RVGDag @TheKineticArm @SalMarinello @AMBS_Kernan @wg22659 When I see a track_an at a facility, I joke that in years to come there will be late night television commercials by unscrupulous law firms, call us now if you used a track_an, it exposed participant’s to unhealthy levels of ___ and causes ___.

*This post is sarcasm