{"id":26885,"date":"2026-05-27T09:30:40","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T13:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/?p=26885"},"modified":"2026-05-27T09:30:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T13:30:40","slug":"mayhem-appreciation-beatdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/2026\/05\/mayhem-appreciation-beatdown\/","title":{"rendered":"MAYhem Appreciation Beatdown"},"content":{"rendered":"

The men we showed appreciation to:<\/p>\n

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  1. Aaron Avidon \u2013 Brother\n
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    1. Served 4 years in the Army and was honorably discharged right before 9\/11<\/li>\n
    2. Had multiple friends KIA in Afghanistan<\/li>\n
    3. Lived with guilt for years and turned to alcohol and drugs<\/li>\n
    4. From rock bottom he picked himself up and now has a beautiful family, lives in Panama, works extremely hard and is even getting back to the gym.<\/li>\n
    5. He is the reason why I played baseball and fell in love with the game. Loved having catches with Aaron in the front yard and was always my biggest supporter.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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      1. Jacob Avidon (Poppa) \u2013 Grandpa\n
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        1. Served 5 years in the Navy and spent 31 months at sea and on deployments.<\/li>\n
        2. Loved spending time with my Poppa and sleeping at his house any chance I could when I was young.<\/li>\n
        3. Quiet guy but had wise words anytime he would talk.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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          1. Coach Phil Apreda \u2013 \u201cPlay Hard or Stay Home\u201d\n
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            1. Spent years recruiting me to play on his travel ball team the Teaneck Titans and I eventually made the switch to the Titans and boy am I glad I did.<\/li>\n
            2. Fighter \u2013 Battled cancer most the time I knew him but man was he a great coach and even better father figure to me.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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              1. Coach George Hill \u2013 \u201cEnthusiasm is like a ripple in the water\u2026 It spreads\u201d\n
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                1. Varsity coach for 4 years and taught me that nothing is going to come easy at the next level.<\/li>\n
                2. Loved making pitchers work out post practice and taught me hard work.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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                  1. Coach Craig Cozart \u2013 \u201cLive STACKED\u201d\n
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                    1. Swagger, Toughness, Accountability, Confidence, Killer Instinct, Energy, Desire.<\/li>\n
                    2. Put us through the toughest workouts and challenged us mentally and physically every day.<\/li>\n
                    3. Loved running pitchers up \u201cass kicker\u201d hill.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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                      \nThe thang:
                      \nHonored family first at the benches.<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

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                      • 31 erkins, 31 derkins, 31 merkins, 31 dips\n
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                        • 31 for the total months of deployment and at sea for Poppa<\/li>\n
                        • All the erkins and dips because what else can you do on a ship back in those days to work out?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
                        • Indian Run around Mayhem park\n
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                          • For Aaron and the situation that even though you may be in back, you may be down, you can always make your way back up and to the front<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

                            PAX were able to complete 1 full round.<\/p>\n

                            Honoring the coaches by the rocks.<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

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                            • Live STACKED\n
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                              • Squats, Thrusters, Alternating Lunges, Curls, Knee Tuck Jumps, Elbow 2 Knee (Standing), Deadlifts<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
                              • Once complete, run ass kicker hill.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

                                PAX were able to complete 3 full rounds.<\/p>\n

                                Announcements<\/strong><\/p>\n

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                                • DQ (DQQ) at Samaritans Ministry this afternoon<\/li>\n
                                • Wooly has the Q at Alcatraz on Saturday<\/li>\n
                                • June 6th<\/sup> is the Pilot Mount Mud Run (kid friendly course as well)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

                                  nmm<\/strong><\/p>\n

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                                  • Since this backblast is already long enough, Schlitz was there so use your imagination on the mumble chatter.<\/li>\n
                                  • Also when I gave the PAX the quote \u201cEnthusiasm is like a ripple in the water\u2026 It spreads\u201d they told me something else spreads too.<\/li>\n
                                  • If you are a coach or in some way interacting with kiddos, you can be a light, a mentor and make a huge impact that will last forever.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

                                    The men we showed appreciation to: Aaron Avidon \u2013 Brother Served 4 years in the Army and was honorably discharged right before 9\/11 Had multiple friends KIA in Afghanistan Lived with guilt for years and turned to alcohol and drugs From rock bottom he picked himself up and now has a beautiful family, lives in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":697,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[112,83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bootcamp","category-mayhem"],"acf":{"q":"Slowpitch","date":"05.27.2026","pax":"@Drama Queen, @Schlitz (RIRO), @Subfloor, @Zima (RIRO), @Hugo, @Rollback, @Slowpitch"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/697"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26885"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26891,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26885\/revisions\/26891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}