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 [...]
Posts under ‘Baseball’
What I Saw
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, [...]
I’ll Give You One Guess
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!
Accidental Fans
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 [...]
OK - I Get It
So I have these friends, quite a few actually, whose kids play hockey.
I never understood why they would have their kids spend so much time playing one sport, which meant they also had to spend all that time watching their kid play that sport.
I always said “There is no way my kid is playing hockey. [...]
My Favorite Season Has Arrived!
Spring? Nope. BASEBALL! Oh how I love baseball . . . playing, watching, whatever. My Dude had his first game in the kid-pitch league last Saturday. His team did not win, not by a long shot, but they did have fun Lots of nervous little boys for their first game, but they did well.
Dude [...]
Mini Me?
Princess and I have a LOT in common - which is probably why we but heads so often.
We look a LOT alike . . . if not for the 70s background in the picture below (and my mother’s handy note-taking), I wouldn’t be able to tell who was me and who was Princess!
She’s very independent and [...]
Her First Baseball Game
Princess had her first baseball game today and had a BLAST! She was a little nervous because she thought she’d be the only girl and she hadn’t had a practice . . . she said she didn’t want to play until she had 2 practices I told her she was playing today without practicing. [...]
It’s Back!
I know, this whole miscellaneous sporting goods thing is a very riveting story . . . but IT’S BACK outside! Somebody went into the dumpster and got it. It looks like new, so must not have had anything awful dumped on it. Now it’s just weird - someone got it out of the dumpster and [...]
At Least She Pays Attention
We’ve been playing pickup baseball with some friends quite a bit lately and having a BLAST! Princess decided she loves it and would like to play Y baseball this summer while Dude’s playing. So she and I went to Target yesterday to get her some baseball pants and baseball socks. She was trying on the [...]