KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Lots of kids dream about making it to the majors.  They idolize their favorite baseball players and try to mimic their skillful moves, including the curve ball.

“Every time you throw that curve ball you’re playing Russian roulette with your arm,” said Tom Urquhart.

Tom Urquhart played professional baseball and has been a pitching coach in the metro for 35 years.  He says he never teaches curve balls.

“It’s that one pitch, and one pitch you throw wrong, one pitch you don’t have exactly right, then you pop something or you tear something and you’re done,” he said.

Many doctors agree that throwing a curve ball at a young age may not be safe because the growth plates haven`t closed, but they say according to research, the real danger is in too much throwing.

This will be sort of a random blog as there really isn’t any one feature that I want to write a ton about today…but there are lots of little things to cover though so let’s get right to it.

1) Today marks the 2 year anniversary of the Joplin Tornado. It was 1 of 326 tornadoes that May which killed 178 people (158 in Joplin alone). That May was the deadliest May for tornadoes since 1933. It was part of once of the most active years for tornadoes…which eventually numbered 1,691. Here is a look at the track of the tornado…

and now a close-up view…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — “I am not a Snitch, I am a Witness.”  That’s the title of a new rap put forth by a not so “new” rapper, 71 year-old Carl Boyd, the creator and longtime host of the *Generation Rap* teen talk show.

In his rapping debut, Boyd says there have been too many crimes committed in Kansas City, and people know who’s responsible, but they won’t step forward.

Sixteen year-old Audrey North constantly misses her best friend and older brother- 20 year-old Ashton O’Guinn.  He was killed April 23, 2012.

She says whoever killed him took two lives.

“He’s taken my smile.  He’s taken my way of life.  I had a brother, and I no longer have him, so he’s taken my life as well as my brother’s,” said North.

Audrey and her family don’t know who to hold accountable for Ashton’s death, even more than a year later.