Nico and Christopher getting ready for baseball
July 22, 2015
Sending my sons to practice their first ever attempt at baseball
was easy at first. They first discovered baseball when they saw other kids
playing on a near by baseball field.
“Hey dad, we want to do that!”
Are you sure guys you want to play baseball? By the time we
sign up for it and buy equipment it’ll probably cost about $240.00.
“What is money, dad?
Money is what I just paid to purchase that ice cream. That
money will now now go to sliding pants and a groin cup and less money for ice
cream.
“Is there ice cream in
this, groin cup?”
Nope
“Can I have a groin cone
instead of a groin cup?”
A groin cup protects your private’s guys. If I stick a cone
down your pants there will be a lot of explaining as to what the hell is going
on. We will stick with the groin cup, less the ice cream..
“Hey dad,” the coach
said, “welcome to the first day of t-ball
practice.”
Thanks, my boys seem really excited. I wish Nico and
Christopher could have played on the same team together rather then 2 different
fields, participating, in 2 different types of baseball.
“Well the t-ball is
over capacity and is best suited for Christophers’ age,” the coordinator
said. “Nico is 7, and we’ll try him in
coach’s pitch.”
He’s never played baseball before, coach. Is placing him on
a team with a grown up pitching wise? Do you see some, God given talent, for
him to be in coaches’ pitch?
“Oh no, we just need
more bodies on coaches pitch. T-ball is full, this is the best for him and the
league.
The best for him? Seems like what’s best for you.
Playing on 2 different fields is a terrible situation for a
parent . Trying to see both boys, as they miss a hit grounder towards them, and
or, run the opposite direction after their first hit by way of rounding 3rd
instead of rounding 1st, would be difficult. In order for me to get
a full view as to what was happening on both fields I had to practically
straddle an imaginary line and run back and forth between the bleachers.
Field #10
Go Nico, swing the bat! Wait, never mind, don’t practice
swing yet! Wait, until you get to the plate then swing the bat. Hey, Nico, swing
that bat in the other direction! The other direction! You know what, pretend I didn’t say anything,
just-just listen to the coach!
“Dad, go! Go watch
Christopher!”
That interaction didn’t go over very well. Sorry dude, I
yelled out loud. I couldn’t worry about being embarrassed, for him or myself; I
had another child I had to embarrass.
Field #9
There’s 2 guys on Short Stop, coach? My son and the other
boy?
“We are placing all
kids in the field and off the bench.”
But it looks like we are fielding a football scrimmage
between an offense and a defense. We have first base, shortstop, 2nd base, shortstop
and then 3rd base covered and 8 outfielders.
“At the moment yes.
These boys love to play. So play ball with them all. It’s only t-ball!”
Okay coach. Christopher, pay attention! Stop twirling in
circles. Put your glove on your hand. Eyes front, Christopher, eyes front!
“Daddy, go away!”
“Dad, we want to
nurture these boys to learn great sportsmanship. This league is all about fun.
And we went all of them to have fun!”
As the coach announced his game plan for fun, Christopher
was throwing his glove in the air and trying to catch it behind his back.
That looks like fun.
“Look alive, guys,”
the coach shouted as he clapped his hands.
Four weeks into the season the boys wanted to forgo baseball
for ice cream. They didn’t like playing the game.
I told you 2 boys that it was either baseball or ice cream.
“No more baseball,
dad. Ice cream is way more fun to eat. Baseball isn’t fun there are too many
people on the field and Nico can’t hit a pitch thrown by the coach.”
I don’t want you to quit baseball for ice cream, boys, we
will finish what we start.
“But dad, you always finish
our ice cream when we can’t finish.”
What is your point? You want me to finish your baseball
while you sit back and enjoy ice cream?
“We have a better
idea.”
3 cones please, I said.
“The Miami Marlins
welcome you to Marlins Stadium as the fish take on the Atlanta Braves,” the
PA announcer said as we received our cones.
MLB Baseball and ice cream boys, as American as apple pie, I said.
“Dad, I want to talk
about Karate while we watch baseball and eat ice cream ,” Nico said.
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Nico and coach's pitch
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