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7 The Hard Way Melanie Scott: A Tale of Love, Loss, and Redemption



Scott embraces his return, as he is able to spend time with his hard-working mother. One last recruiting meeting with scouts from OSU enlightens Scott as the scout admits the game will be hard, and that if he so chooses, sitting out will not impact his invitation to joining the quarterback unit at OSU. Scott introduces himself to Macy and tries to share with her what is happening with him. With the championship game upon him, he informs Coach Hand (played by Kurt Russell) that he will not play in the big game which will undo the events which have directly led to his pain and misery. Coach offers a speech about the merits of the people of Coldwater. Coach Hand shares with Scott how he receives a job offer from OSU annually only to turn it down out of love for Coldwater and its inhabitants. As Scott lives through the events leading up to the game, he decides he will play after all. While Scott's efforts on the field keep the game close, Coach Hand encourages him to share the ball with his teammates. In the second half, Scott mixes it up a bit and with "the play" imminent, Scott tells his coach he will not run the pitch-fake which ultimately causes his leg to be broken. Coach smiles and suggests a passing play, but informs Scott that based upon the Chief's defensive formation, he can call an audible as necessary, that it is his decision.




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During the Signature Dish Challenge, Melanie was the fifth person from the red team to have her dish judged by Ramsay, and went up against Richard. She made a scallop dish, it was cooked beautifully, and she won that round over Richard. The red team won the challenge 5-4, they were rewarded with dinner with Ramsay at one of his Los Angeles restaurants, and she could not wait to eat dinner with Ramsay, before proclaiming that boys drooled.


Before the Creative Memory Challenge, Melanie got concerned about Ramsay's explanation about memory, who hoped the challenge was not a memory game as she was terrible at them. was paired up with Rochelle, and they were seen matching rice and carrots. During the cooking, Rochelle was nervous as she never made polenta, but she told her to match it to mashed potatoes. They cooked the chicken, were the first pair from the red team to have their dish judged by Ramsay, and went up against Anton and Richard. She presented their pan-seared crispy seared chicken breast on top of polenta, and Ramsay deemed the dish delicious. Although she compared Anton and Chris' dish to a diner, both pairs scored that round. The red team won the challenge 3-2, and they were rewarded with a day at Laguna Beach which included kayaking on the water, and lunch at the 5-star Studio at the Montage. During the reward, she called the view breath taking.


The red team lost the service, and they were asked to nominate two people for elimination. During deliberation, Sandra said she did see Melanie step up as a leader, but only saw her mess up on fish. When Beth tried to defend herself that it was confusing to work in a kitchen with eight people, she reminded her that it was not hard to find her voice regardless. She was nominated by Sandra and Jessica as the latter felt she was all talk and no game that night, but she pushed for overall, before nominating Beth and Sandra for obvious reasons. Sandra tried to argue that she did nothing wrong in the past that warranted her nomination, but she reminded her about the missing capellini and poor communication.


During prep, Melanie hoped the men were more pissed when the women won service. During the 160th Sorority Anniversary dinner service, she was on the appetizer station. When Bev struggled on crab cakes, she got annoyed as crab cakes were not hard, and accused Bev of working with no arms. When Kashia kept opening the oven door, Ramsay somebody to explain to her what would happen, and she explained that they would lose 10 degrees every second. The red team lost the service, and they were asked to nominate two people for elimination. During deliberation, she nominated Bev for elimination, and agreed with Jessica that she worse overall that night.


After Richard's elimination, Ramsay asked the red team which woman was joining the blue team, Melanie said she was, and joined her new team. While being dismissed, she told her new teammates that she was coming with a vengeance.[13]


The next day, the final five saw a performance of Street Drum Corp, which Melanie called awesome. During the Leftover Challenge, she knew the hard part was to use random ingredients and the scraps of others, before grabbing the filet. However, she noticed that Jason grabbed a large amount of ingredients for his dish. When it was announced that the winner would be featured in Better Homes and Garden, she hoped she would be featured. When she saw Rochelle's dish, she compared the presentation to a teepee. She was the final person to have her dish judged, and made a macadamia and hazelnut crusted filet with Israeli couscous. It was deemed pretty, and having the wow factor to the taste, making her confident that she was going to win.


Quite a few of us did some really good things. Kristen, Max and Becky were probably the co-MVPs of the game ? hard to imagine, huh. Personally, I learned from this game that it wouldn't hurt to spend a little extra time on practicing my free throws. We'll just say that I struggled a little bit from the line.


ONG BEACH - Matt Cline wasn't born with his nose in the fine red clay of a baseball field, but he's certainly comfortable once he gets there. As much as anyone on the 2007 Dirtbags, the senior second baseman embodies the team philosophy and spirit that has made it a postseason perennial, and the team wouldn't be hosting a regional Friday at Blair Field if not for the contributions of Cline on and off the field. He's as driven as Rickey Henderson looking to steal a base, Russell Martin taking a collision at the plate and Ken Griffey planting his face on the center-field fence to make a catch. But there is another aspect of Cline's personality that few people know of. In 2003, in his CIF champion senior year at Edison High School, Cline's older brother Michael was killed in an accidental gunshot incident. Michael was 7 years older than Matt and had been the prototypical big brother in a family that had gone through divorce and its attendant pain. Matt's mother and father split when he was a toddler. His mom Cheryl moved to the South. His dad, Randy, stayed in Southern California, and brother Michael became a stabilizing role in his life. "It was particularly hard on my mom," Matt said. "For me, I had looked up to him for a long time. He's still with me." Before every game, Matt uses his cleats to write Michael's name in the dirt around second base. His brother's passing led Matt Cline to figuratively take his place. Michael was married with two kids, and in the ensuing years, Matt has become more than an uncle to his nephews. "I'm not their dad," he said. "Michael will always be their dad. But it was difficult for them, and I want them to have someone in the family to look up to." For all of his aggressive play on the field, Cline has always been more of a quiet leader on the team, his intensity sometimes turned inwards. He takes losses harder than anyone in the team. The Dirtbags are his family, too, and he obviously takes family seriously. When the team hit a bad patch of play in late March, losing six of seven and throwing the ball around the park like kids playing T-Ball, Cline and his veteran teammates called for a team meeting away from the ballpark and without the coaches, just so everyone could let whatever they were feeling out. Two days later, the team went on its 21-3 spree. Cline played two years at Orange Coast College after high school, earning JC All-American honors as a sophomore. He was a late recruit by Long Beach State for 2006, not arriving until the January workouts began, putting him four months behind everyone else. "He had a lot of catching up to do," coach Mike Weathers said. "There's a long learning process, and coming in January was difficult. The jobs on the team were already more or less won." By the third week of the season, Cline was earning playing time with incumbent Chuck Sindlinger, and by season's end he was the starter. He hit .308 for the season batting out of the ninth spot. He came back strong this season, then erupted with the bat at midseason and now is third in the team at .332, with a .426 on-base percentage and tied for second in hits with 63. His hot streak led Weathers to move him up into the No. 2 spot in the batting order. He's worked himself into being a prospective draft pick next month despite his size. "Matt is much more familiar with the program now," Weathers said. "He understands his role and understands what he's capable of. He's always been the kind of guy who will battle you, a hard-nosed Dirtbag, and did everything pretty well. Now he's doing some things extremely well." "The team's entire motivation this year was to just play hard, be a team and see what happens," Cline said. "This (getting to the postseason) was our goal all season long, and we're really ready to make something of it." In Cline's case, he's actually playing for two families, one that wears baseball uniforms and another that now leans on Matt the way he once leaned on his brother. 2ff7e9595c


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