brimming with overconfidence
I think fall baseball (as in little league) is a distinctly southern phenomenon. I don't think there's much call for it in Pennsylvania, because by the end of the season they'd be needing snowshoes instead of cleats. Even here, it's not that big a thing. Soccer is the more popular fall sport for kids, and if it weren't for the youngster's baseball preference, he might be there too.
So it is there is another baseball league (I'll call them league-B), not far from ours that has teams playing fall ball, but they don't have many. They have so few that they came to our league asking to play our teams. Since we're short of fields I guess, we are playing teams from league-B, but always on their field, which kind-of blows, only because the drive is even farther than the one we have now, but I'm waxing tangental.
Tonight we travel to these fields for the first time, for an 8:00 game. The youngster's best friend already made this trek, and the Giants ten-run-ruled the team from league-B. The word was, all the teams from league-B suck. Their pitchers throw about 20 miles an hour and it's just a matter of going there, kicking their butts and getting out. This observation was reinforced by another boy in the youngster's class at school. League-B teams are just bad. First of all, what a horrible existance if you happen to play in league-B. If this is true, I feel for those kids. Someone needs to pull them out of the bottom of the barrel. Second, who's to say all the teams in league-B suck? I mean, kids are kids and who says we cornered the market on decent ball players? I seriously doubt that's the case. (Just ask the boys that beat the snot out of our advanced ball team.) Maybe we'll get a better team and find ourselves in a battle, or worse, getting blown out ourselves. The youngster thinks he's in for a cakewalk, and it'd be good for him to get surprised. Not killed, but surprised.
Having said that, I hope we go in, ten-run rule them in 4 innings and get out, but for my own selfish reason. The game starts at 8:00. If it goes the full time, we won't finish until about 10:00, which means with our drive and a shower, the youngster won't be in bed till 11:00 on a school night. If we can get out in 4 innings, maybe I have him in bed by 10:30.
So it is there is another baseball league (I'll call them league-B), not far from ours that has teams playing fall ball, but they don't have many. They have so few that they came to our league asking to play our teams. Since we're short of fields I guess, we are playing teams from league-B, but always on their field, which kind-of blows, only because the drive is even farther than the one we have now, but I'm waxing tangental.
Tonight we travel to these fields for the first time, for an 8:00 game. The youngster's best friend already made this trek, and the Giants ten-run-ruled the team from league-B. The word was, all the teams from league-B suck. Their pitchers throw about 20 miles an hour and it's just a matter of going there, kicking their butts and getting out. This observation was reinforced by another boy in the youngster's class at school. League-B teams are just bad. First of all, what a horrible existance if you happen to play in league-B. If this is true, I feel for those kids. Someone needs to pull them out of the bottom of the barrel. Second, who's to say all the teams in league-B suck? I mean, kids are kids and who says we cornered the market on decent ball players? I seriously doubt that's the case. (Just ask the boys that beat the snot out of our advanced ball team.) Maybe we'll get a better team and find ourselves in a battle, or worse, getting blown out ourselves. The youngster thinks he's in for a cakewalk, and it'd be good for him to get surprised. Not killed, but surprised.
Having said that, I hope we go in, ten-run rule them in 4 innings and get out, but for my own selfish reason. The game starts at 8:00. If it goes the full time, we won't finish until about 10:00, which means with our drive and a shower, the youngster won't be in bed till 11:00 on a school night. If we can get out in 4 innings, maybe I have him in bed by 10:30.
John put this out here at 1:04 PM
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