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There's a really fun article on Yahoo! Sports written by 11 year old Will Jauss. Of course, one of the other nice things about being the son of a major league coach is that when you write an essay about something, there's a chance a major new outlet might run it. This never happened to me as a kid.

One of the fun things I did last summer was spend time in the outfield shagging fly balls during batting practice. I had a lot of fun talking to J.D. Drew, who now is with the Boston Red Sox, while waiting for fly balls. When a ball would come my way I would try to make a diving catch unless it was coming directly to me. I was able to shag fly balls in places like Arizona, New York and Colorado, but the one thing that remained the same in every stadium was that kids and adults in the stands always screamed at me, asking for baseballs.In the clubhouse, I liked to do surveys with the players, asking them to vote for their favorite things. Two of the surveys I did were, "Who's better, David Ortiz or Albert Pujols?" and, "What's better, Dr. Pepper or root beer?" Pujols and Dr. Pepper won. I was rooting for David Ortiz and root beer.