Uncommon Sense
The Pirates play most of their home games at a local High School. 11 year old boys love to see high schoolers playing baseball or practicing. And, there isn’t much cooler to them than having access to a potential future star. This is a pre-game photo from last night’s game:
“So what?” you say. What’s so cool [...]
Baseball season is in full swing! Dude is loving playing for the 11/12 Majors Pirates. We love love love his coaches! Both of them are so laid back. I can’t imagine either one of them every having raised their voices. The awesome thing is, they get their point across and the boys learn a ton. [...]
I’m not sure if you heard, but . . .
And since it’s officially spring, baseball has started here on the Front Range. Dude and I had a major conflict when registering for baseball. He wanted to try out for a majors team. I didn’t want him to.
Why didn’t I want him to? . . .
He’s [...]
Parents amaze me. You’d think I’d have gotten used to it by now, but nope - I haven’t.
I will start out by saying that in no way, shape, or form do I even begin to think that I am a perfect parent or person. I’ve made some really bad parenting choices in the past and [...]
Anyone who knows me knows that I love baseball. I remember listening to the games on the radio out at the lake every summer with Dad. I can still hear the announcers voice . . . and hear him talk up 1st baseman Kent Hrbek and how he loved to fish and rave about Kirby [...]
small town baseball fields across the street from local ice cream shops, trains in the outfield, and boys having the time of their lives . . .
My lucky duck got to meet THE Goose! Dude had the opportunity to attend a pitching clinic at Sky Sox stadium with 2 Sky Sox players and THE Rich “Goose” Gossage - 22 years in the majors for quite a few teams, including the Yankees and Cubs - one of the original closers! Ya - THAT Goose [...]
After easily winning our first two games, my 7-8 year old Coach Pitch Cubs lost their first baseball game last Saturday. It was a tough loss - we played a REALLY good team thatwas stacked with all 8 year olds.
I’m not new to kid sports . . . I played them, my kids play them, [...]
1 million points to the first person to guess what team hat Dude got at baseball practice today.
It’s a curse . . . a curse I tell you!
Does it ALWAYS have to be the Cubs? I mean, there are 29 other teams to choose from when ordering uniforms for the little people!
The first year my little Dude played organized baseball for the YMCA, his team was the New York Mets. We thought YAY - how fun . . . his first team [...]