Hey, I’m a grandpa!

First. Congratulations, Grandpa!

top 5!

congrats ST and the tsai ohana.

cheepono out.

Congratulations, Papa Tsai!!!

congratulations!
gotta come up with the babys blog name……..

Congratulations!

No blog rule? Like the NoFunLeague?

Congrats, gramps!

Congratulations!

Wow… CONGRATULATIONS.

Well, congratulations and best wishes.

When do you and Wena start baby-sitting?

Congrats to you and your ‘ohana ST!

Congratulations, Gramps!

Congratulations!

Hey, did you know that Y. E. Yang is the first Asian to win a major? (I guess ‘mix plate’ doesn’t count though it does other times…) Congrats to Yang, and it’s not like Woods is having a terrible year. IIRC, Woods has had putting issues from time to time and they caught up to him again today.

Hi! If I am not mistaken isn’t Tiger part-Asian (Thai)?

Tiger is more Asian than African-American, since his Mom is Asian & his Dad is part Chinese.

Baby’s blog name gotta go with “MamaMia”

Congratulations! Grandchildren are the best thing about growing older. No pressure to try to raise them, this time it’s not your responsibility. You just get to love them and enjoy them. Take lots of pictures and enjoy the ride.

congrats to ST and the entire Tsai ohana

you’ll have to give me some pointers, just found out that i’m going to be a grandpa, my step son bryson is going to be a daddy in march 2010…..oh boy, maybe pride and a few other ‘mature’ tsaikos can give me some sage advice, haha

Satele is such a sad turn of events, looking back, would the surgery if done in December be fully recovered by now? we can only wish that it is not as serious as it appears. Fonoti, Meatoga, and Satele…..3 of the anchors for a SOLID D….just have to adjust and have the others step up….and quickly.

ST ~

Your conclusion about having time after Jodie’s water breaking doesn’t apply to everyone. Opposite scenario for me.

Advice for the new parents: Get sleep when you can.

Photo Gallery of UH practice:

There are players being mis-identified. Whoever is writing the captions for the pictures doesn’t have sjmacro’s color-coded list. I noticed this for the pictures of the quarterbacks yesterday, too.

Congratulations to the Tsai and Bechard Ohana!! I hope that the new mommie is doing well.

Slugger: According to Facebook, Mia is 6 pounds, 14 ounces.

Same b-day as Colt!!! 😀

Did grandpa…. cry… (you know, tears of joy)??? 🙄
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…bills….? 😯

Stephen Tsai:

August 16th, 2009 at 5:57 pm
I was told UH feels it could not afford to lose three players on defense: John Fonoti, Vaughn Meatoga and Brashton Satele.
It’s sad news about Satele.

I can agree with that with regards to Fonoti and Meatoga, however with all the respect in the world to Brashton as a leader on this team and a player, I like what I’ve been seeing from Mana Lolotai and as most recently as this past Saturday with Jake Huen.

RE: This morning’s article about the defense.

For me it was bittersweet.

As a fan it was fun watching the D dish out their “katooshes” and picks on Saturday and it was great to see the burst of energy the front 7 units were showing us, BUT no matter how you look at it, it was at the expense of the offense.

Sure it was pretty much like a 2 minute drill thing with Coach Mack laying out the scenario of the offense being down by 3 and such, but still, I didn’t see much from the offensive line as Greg Alexander was just throwing balls away more than I can remember during a practice (at least he ain’t taking sacks…).

The receivers showed some grit though especially Jett Jasper and Greg Salas holding onto their receptions following monster tackles and hits.

It was good to see the defense taking hold of Saturday’s practice, BUT with more experience on the offensive line (three seniors, or four depending) it leaves one to hope for continued improvement as the season is just around the corner and as of Saturday, it seems the defense easily is ahead of the offense.

Oh and I agree with a fellow Tsaiko in that they need to REALLY grab some players but the “short and curlies” with regards to the pre-practice team stretching excercises. Too many guys joking around or doing their routines “half-heartedly”. Some guys with documented injuries I can understand, but some I wonder… It’s been this way for as long as I can remember attending practices, but lately I have been pondering it and hearing someone else say the same thing just makes me feel more “wary” of it.

Here’s to the team having an “EPIC” last week of fall camp next week with BOTH sides of the ball vastly improving as much as possible!

Brew 808 is on top of things — same b-day as Colt. Momma Mia!

The world’s youngest Tsaiko. Hang a keyboard over her crib so she can type messages to us, but tell her to try and keep it to UH stuff. We don’t need to know how much you burp during grandpa’s story time.

Congratulations are in order from the Tsaiko Wessai Chaptah!

What a terrific day for the arrival of your grandbaby girl – Papa Tsai! It just happened to be on the same birthday as Colt. How cool is that!

Stephen, Wena and Ohana, here is a musical tribute to mark this special occasion:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6xMqo3wFxw

Good one lava.

Anyone else going to monday’s practice, curveball and I are.

Congratulations To Grampa Tsai.. and the Tsai and Bechard family.

beeeg e kala mai …… howzit to all the tsaiko’s and tsaikett’s reading or lurking tonight. hope you had a pleasant sunday in Hawaii Nei relaxing or doing whatever you do best.

good time to rest up because tomorrow is monday and work for yu’all.

VJ Feheko named his top 5 schools–this scout.com article appears to be free to nonsubscribers. The only big surprise to me was that Utah State made the cut…he’s not kidding when he says that he’s choosing from the heart. He gives good reasons to pick UH.

VJ’s top 5 include: University of Hawaii, Texas Tech, UCLA, University of Utah and Utah State. These are VJ’s reasons behind his choices. “Well, the University of Hawaii has known me since I was a child. Cal Lee told me when I was in 5th grade that he believed in me. That never left me. Also, Coach Rich Miano has taken the time to work with me in increasing my speed at Speed Camps. Most of all, I’d love to play in front of family.”

Choosing Texas Tech is where VJ’s older brother Sam is playing at MLB. My brother Sam is kinda like my mentor, he helps me academically as well as athletically. Family friend, Norm Chow is familiar with the Fehoko Family. Coach Chow has known me since a sophomore and told me he was going to keep an eye on me. He believes in Polynesian Players. Fehoko’s cousin Kalani Sitake is the Defensive Coordinator for the University of Utah. “It would be great to have your cousin as the DC and position coach.” Kalani is a close cousin and he has known me since I was a baby. Last but not the least, why Utah State? “Yeah, I knew that people are going to ask that, so I say, why not? First of all Coach Chad (Utah State DL coach), coached me at camps since I was thrown in at the 8th grade in Moanalua. He and Coach Brian Derby always brought out the best in me at these camps. So, I am going to give them a fair shot.”

brashton look like he was hurting at the saturday practice. only the x-rays, medical staff along with his family will tell when or if he can return this season.

best wishes to him and family. praying all goes well and we see him on the field this season.

I hope that Brashton is fine and that the X-rays and MRIs will find that he can return relatively quickly.

This could well be Mana Lolotai time, and Mana would do really well if Brashton cannot play. However, I think that the reason the coaches told ST about the importance of Brashton to the D is that it will be hard to replace his experience and leadership…especially when you consider how inexperienced the rest of the D is.

Satele is just injury prone. I think he’s been hurt every year at UH. I hope his shoulder isn’t too bad, but it doesn’t sound good. If he needs surgery, he’s done for the season. If not, at best, he might be able to play half the season. It might be better to take a medical redshirt season and come back next year. We’re hoping for the best either way. Take care. Somebody’s got to step up. Who will it be????

el guapo

we all can be learners!

lookin forward to see it happen.

Free play link time. Please ignore my next 5 posts if you do not want to read the off-topic stuff.

Study found that women are getting more beautiful with each generation while men are not improving their appearance. Beautiful women have 16% more children than their plainer counterparts and beautiful women have more female children than male children (study of 15,000 Americans found that attractive parents are 26% less likely to have sons!). So, the pattern results in women becoming more attractive over time. The study found that handsome men have the same number of kids as plain men.

The toco toucan has the largest bill relative to body size of any bird and researchers have tried to figure out why it has such a long bill. A new study seems to indicate that the toucan’s bill acts like a radiator and regulates the toucan’s body temperature.

Astronomers were surprised to discover a tropical storm on Saturn’s moon Titan–Titan has a methane cycle like Earth has a water cycle. I looked this up after brew808’s comment in yesterday’s blog.

Congratulations!!!!!!!!!!!!

That reminds me, PDX had a Lego Statue of Liberty on display. If I hadn’t lost my camera, I would have taken a picture of it for chawan_cut. Saw a few kids playing around at Lego stands.

What’s the difference between a Lego Geek and a Lego Nerd?

Satele as a fifth year, red shirt senior would need a favorable NCAA ruling for a sixth year and we all know how that goes with the NCAA when it comes to UH. I think if he goes through surgery this year, the compliance office needs to work on his medical appeal as soon as possible. I think Garret can confirm that Texas fb players got their medical appeal early to start either spring practice or at least the start of summer practice.

i thought that medical hardship requests are submitted after the fact. i don’t think that is the function of the compliance person.

anyway, we have had some good results with medical hardships that had justifiable reasons. peters and ilaoa are two very recent cases. i also believe that francis maka also got an extended stay.

I would think the NCAA would want the compliance officer to check the 6 year candidate’s academic progress, the player needs to be on track to graduate, especially if he is going to school for 6 years. In addition, the medical staff would need to show that an injury was season ending.

so who is covering wahine bb for the HA? Mike’s at the City Desk, so got the plum assignment?

Congratulations Tutu Kane or Zaydah or Gumpy – all names for grandfather..

I thought some of the folks around here were joking that anything as important as this was on its way.

Actually, about 15% of all children here in Hawai`i are being raised by other than their birth parents – mostly their grandparents.

Nuff of the stats. We can get them from football. Actually, the sport for statistics geeks is baseball.

Good morning Tsaikos!

Congratulations ST! Love NYUH’s #71. Spoil her rotten Gramps!

al,

Good call on having the surgery now…it’s on the UH’s dime, isn’t it? Those things tend to show up later, as you mentioned.
Off to work.

Congrats gungun and popo!

Ralph- Coach Mack would like Hawaii 5-0 to be our theme song and wants the whole stadium to rise and “paddle” when it is played. I LOVE that idea!

14 on the right, 14 on the left!

Ralph,

Regarding your #90, Jason Shipley was granted his 6th season by the NCAA before Spring Practice began this year. The application was sent on the first day possible and all information was gathered as early as possible. Since it was submitted so much earlier than most 6th year requests, the NCAA folks had more time to review it right away.

Of course, they have 10 full-time people in their Compliance department and a huge amount of support staff (clerical, secretarial, student help), so they can be proactive about things. UH has one person to handle Compliance and I’ll bet she doesn’t have multiple full-time secretaries to help her with paperwork…so it is like comparing the job 1 person can do with the job 10+ people can do.

Update on Jake Ingram–it makes sense that Jake did all the long-snapping in their first preseason game since Hodel is a vet and Jake needs the reps more.

Veteran Nathan Hodel didn’t play Thursday as rookie Jake Ingram handled all the long-snapping duties. Hodel was at practice yesterday.

The Patriots could have a tough decision in naming Lonie Paxton’s replacement.

“I think both players are capable of doing the job,’’ said coach Bill Belichick. “Who would be better at it? That may depend on what you’re talking about because you’re talking about punt snapping and protection, coverage, field goal snapping and protection.

“So depending on which one of those areas you want to talk about there may be a different ranking of the players and those rankings could change over the next few days, few weeks. But I think it’s competitive, and I think we’re working with players that are capable of doing it.’’

Here’s one for Garret and others, new battery for the house.

Ooooops!?….sorry, forgot to say, congrats to my friend…ST, on your spanking-brand-new grandaughter!!! Happy 1st year birthday, in-advance.

Congratulations Stephen and Wena!! Are you guys in the denial stage like my mom was? She kept saying she was too young to be a grandparent.

Great Morning All!

Warriors back on the practice field this morning and afternoon. Fewer meetings, more football this week.
One last night in the Manoa Hilton for the frosh; dorm check-in tomw.

Good morning Tsaikos!

Happy Monday. Start of a new week. Got traffic alert email from UH. Dorm check-in starts tomorrow at 9am and more move-ins on Friday and Saturday.

Next week starts the big traffic headache – warning you now, Bulla…

Good morning Tsaikos everywhere.

Garrett’s #105. maybe our compliance gal should send a shoutout to sum really smart Tsaikos, get a team togedda to help Brashton get his 6th year request all set up to send in at da moment’s notice, somebody to get da medical report b4 an afta, somebody to get da school transcripts, somebody to write the cover page and put da binda togedda, somebody to grab a past binda from 1st thru da supplements, somebody to get da okay from a past one to see how its done.

can do, compliance guy! get on it.

Good news about Lelie signing with the Chiefs.

Waiting anxiously for the test results on Brashton.

Good Morning everyone.

ST
Congrats to your entire ohana.
What a bundle of joy to have, just before the football season.

C U L8R.

Hi Tsaiko’s I’m off to Japan! I’ll check the blogs everyday so if anyone has a craving for something, let me know and I’ll try to locate it and bring it back! I’ll be in Tokyo, Osaka and Sapporo

I hear the KS v Kailua game this Friday is televised on OC16. If so, look for Pono #25 @ SS.

Also thx for the Kahai updates everyone! Season opener soon!

A Joe
What up. Drive safe out there. No talk, text and drive.
ha ha ha.

Frank
Welcome back home.

Congratulations Mr. and Mrs. Tsai.

Nalani,

Have a great trip to Japan!

Pomai,

Great article find.

rage777,

Thank you for the Lelie news

pride. – you bolohead yet? 😆

Good morning Tsaikos!

Does anyone know what time the practices are for this week? I’ve been searching online but can’t find them posted anywhere. Help! Mahalo..

have a good, safe trip nalani.

btw, are we wagering lunch on friday’s game?

jake ingraham…obviously, if all things are equal then jake gets the job. easier on the payroll.

now you know why his agent was adamant about a bigger guranteed bonus knowing that the vet was picked up to compete.

the pats were in a position to select the best guy in the draft and yet pick up the best guy on the free agent market. nice insurance policy in either case.

congrachooomalations Papa Tsai!

BIK

CONGRATS!! Grandapa and Grandma Tsai. Welcome to the ‘ole futs club.

mctruck,

Did they at one time appear to express an interest in CB? That would be a good thing if they were at one time interested and did decide to chat with the ‘skins regarding a possible movement of players.

Maybe I’m reading it wrong but Zorn seems a bit fickled or he’s just not wanting to show his hand. He’s also on the hot seat so he may be approaching this year with extreme caution. In both cases, it may not be in the best interest of CB. New digs may not be a bad thing.

Congratulations from the Big Island…S.T.