Thursday, June 16, 2011

Just Win Baby!

It was an intense evening.  Two evenly matched teams battling it out on the diamond.  Coaches yelling at encouraging their players.  Umpires making ridiculous calls and fans letting them know about it.  The animosity of the crowd toward the opposing team's coaches growing with every inning.  The innocent desire to win had been replaced with a thirst for blood.  Yankees versus Redsox?  Giants versus Dodgers?   No.  Cascade # 6 versus Monrovia #1 in the second round of the local U6 baseball tournament.  The park not fielded with finely tuned professionals looking for the promise of glory, but with awkward 5 and 6 year olds looking forward to the promise of  ice cream.  And so begins my foray into the obsessed world of kids sports.  Here's to 18 more years of this madness.

And yes.  We won.  Victory was sweet... and ice cream was served.
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  1. AnonymousJune 16, 2011 at 6:41 PM

    I know what your talking about! I went to Colin's game the other night and seriously thought one of the coaches on another team was gonna burst a blood vessel in his head!
    Also interesting that they chose the booming metropolis of Belle Union for the games:)

    Fitzsy

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  2. krookJune 16, 2011 at 10:15 PM

    yeah - I bet traffic has been crazy outside your house! maybe attendence will be up this Sunday.

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