Why

I want to clearly state why my father is my biggest role model. I think that it is really easy to pick your parents as your role model because they are the people you watch for your entire life. I have always picked up on my both my parents habits and inherited their mannerisms. I feel that both my parents are extremely strong good people that I want to be just like. My shared passion with baseball created not only someone I admire because I admire my mother equally but it created the definition of "role" model I became scarily like my dad. My dad is my role model because we share the same thought process we think alike so we are always on the same page. He has a successful business and times are very tough for small business owners I think because I understand him so much is why I admire it so much which is the key to why he is my role model.

Who He Is

As I read through some of the other blogs I realized I should include more about who my dad actually is. James Saburro is my fathers name he was raised and born in Schenectady. My parents met and have been together since they were 15 years old. My dad got in the car business at Orange motors when he was 19 years old since then he has been in the business. He built his own small business the year I was born and then built a huge beautiful building 8 years after. I am so proud of my dads business it is hard with all the franchise car dealer ships out there and he has succeeded in business for almost 19 years. In high school my dad was a fantastic baseball player he won many awards and was very recognized and recruited to college ball however he chose to marry my mom and start working instead. He has a enormous passion for the sport and I got that from him and that is how our extremely close relationship started.

Where is all started

If there is one thing on my dads side of the family that will always truly be valued it is baseball and the yankees. As long as I can remember my father his father and his brothers have endlessly argued and talked about the yankees and the game of baseball I have always been some what girly so I never really cared to listen when I was younger. I played softball in our towns rec league mostly because all my friends did and hey I was pretty good so every year I kept playing. I began to like it a little better I liked being the pitcher I could handle the pressure and who doesn't like success. In 2003 my views changed in one night. I had been watching the yankee vs red sox ALCS series here and there because it was always on in the house I got a little into it. Good news for my dad and brother they got tickets to go to the game 7 winner goes to the world series game! So of course that night my mom and I watched. The game was amazing the yankees won in extra inning on an Aaron Boone home run. I loved it from that night on I found my love it was baseball and of course the yankees. That winter I was with my dad non stop working my butt off to improve to make the travel team.  From that year on the baseball passion was shared between my father and I in the process we formed many more links that will last forever.

Yankees Aaron Boone hits walk off home run in the playoffs!

Role Model

     I think that my father and I biggest link has been softball ever since I can remember we have spent endless hours pitching. During that time I have realized so much about my dad and I have also admired his strong qualities. My father is extremely strong willed I think that is what I admire the most about him and hope I take after him in that way. Even though I had been treated unfairly in the softball world he never gave up that I could be successful and more importunely I never gave up because of the qualities that I molded myself to have after him. My dads personality traits lead my to be a all-star this past season.

The Record Blogs: Off the Record: 2010 Suburban Council softball All-Stars