Ian Kadish

My name is Ian Kadish and I recently graduated from Marshall University with a degree in Business Management and minors in Marketing and Entrepreneurship. I was born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio. I have three younger brothers, Kendall, Max, and Cooper. I have played baseball my entire life and am lucky enough to have the opportunity to continue playing for the Toronto Blue Jays.



I want to thank my Mom and Dad for everything they have ever done to further my baseball career. They have gone through a tremendous amount of work to make sure I am happy and I couldn't thank them enough! I love you guys.

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Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Long Time, No Talk...

I realize it has been almost a month since I have last blogged, but I have been busier than I expected myself to be and quite honest not too much is going on....

I have been working at Dick's Sporting Goods as a Sales Associate in Team Sports.  It is a rather easy job, but the hours are long.  I usually work 3 - 9:30 pm.  When I finally get home from work, I am exhausted and usually watch a little bit of TV then get in bed.  Everyday I have a couple of duties or jobs that I have to get done, but they never take longer than an hour.  Some of the jobs consist of restocking shelves or rearranging shelves.

The worst part of the job is having to pick up after these little kids.  I have come to realize that most parents have ZERO control over their kids and let them run around like maniacs.  These little kids rip things off the shelves and leave them on the ground or rip things out of the package and leave them laying around.  Nothing has made me madder since I have started working than when little kids do this or when their parents allow it!

Aside from working, I have been training extremely hard.  Every morning, Monday - Friday, I get up at about 9 am and get some breakfast.  I then watch some Sportscenter or MLB Network before I get ready to head to the gym.  I usually get to the gym around 10 and train from 10-12:30/1.  I get my cardio in along with my weight training and core work.

When I get home from the gym, I make something to eat for lunch and shower before I usually go to work. Thankfully, I have had today and yesterday (Monday and Tuesday) off to relax a little bit.

A couple of weekends ago, I took a road trip with my brothers, Max and Cooper down to Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina.  My brother, Max, was going down there for a baseball showcase type thing.  I drove home Friday for his football game, which they won, and after the game we loaded up the car and set off.  Cooper was able to watch his movies in the back seat while Max and I talked in the front seat.  It was the first time Max and I had been able to talk about anything and everything by ourselves in a long time.

It was an easy drive until they both fell asleep and I was left all alone.  It was about a 7 hour drive.  I tried stopping in Gatlinburg, Tennessee to get a hotel for us because the plan was to drive until I got tired, then stop and get a hotel somewhere, then wake up early Saturday morning and finish the drive....no such luck.  There was not one hotel with any vacancy so I made the decision to fill up on gas and get all hopped up on caffeine and finish the drive that night.  I won't lie, driving through the Smokey Mountains was scary.  It was all twists and turns, then factor in the big semi-trucks that were on my rear, it was nerve wracking.  Once I got through the mountains, I finally stopped in Asheville, North Carolina, about an hour away from Furman.  I was exhausted and needed a couple hours of sleep.  I pulled off around 5 am in a Holiday Inn parking lot and slept for about 3 hours.  When I woke up at 8, we pulled out again and finished the hour drive.

It was a good weekend, there was a little fall festival in downtown Greenville that "the brothers" went to after Max was done with baseball (Cooper always used to refer to Kendall, Max, himself and I, as "the brothers" when he was talking about us all in a group, so it kind of caught on as a nickname of sorts).  We found a cool little sports bar to get some dinner at while we watched some college football.  It was WILD in there because the Clemson game was on and Clemson is only about 15 minutes from where we were.

Max's baseball was a 2 day event on Saturday and Sunday.  I will hold my own opinions on how he did to myself because to me it is a NO BRAINER that he was the best middle infielder there, HANDS DOWN! But yet again coaches are all caught up on the size of the kid rather than the heart and work ethic and desire of the kid, but thats a whole other issue...

Sunday after Max was done, we made the drive home.  We met my parents right outside of Lexington so they could take Max and Coop back to Cincinnati and I could go my separate way back to Huntington, WV...all in all it was a fun trip and the brothers had some great bonding time.

That has been the most exciting thing that I have done in the past month or so.  Lately, I have been getting that itch to start baseball again.  I can't help, but get excited, especially as I am watching the World Series!

Once again, sorry it has been so long since I last blogged, but I will try to write more...