Baseball Season Starts For Sean
April 7, 2009
Yesterday, Sean’s baseball team opened the season. Unfortunately, they got off to a very bad start and got walloped 20 – 0. Its shaping up as a very long year for Sean’s team.
Last year, they had the best team in the area. Sean has been playing with the older kids and was going to do so again this year. However, most of those kids decided to play on a traveling team this year where every weekend is spent traveling to the game. We have it bad enough now with an hour to the games, but that travel team will have some 4 hour one way trips to games. Sean didn’t really want to do that, so he is actually playing in his age group this year.
Unfortunately, only he and one other kid have any experience at the “Major League” level of competition. All the other kids are moving up in competition level this year and it shows in their skills. Last year we had pitchers, this year we have kids that are lucky to find the plate and when they do, the baseball looks like a basketball.
The team Sean played in the season opener was one of the lower end teams in the league last year and they thoroughly trounced us. It does not bode well for the boys. But, hey, they had fun in the game and that is important.
As catcher, it was a busy day for Sean. He threw out three runners at second and two at third, but allowed another 3 or 4 kids to steal. He was also involved in two plays at the plate. He even managed to catch on foul ball behind the plate, but missed another. At bat, he struck out and grounded out.
The good news for the season is that we have no Saturday games this year in the heat of the day. The bad news is that we don’t have any Saturday games. All the games are at night during the week which puts a strain on me making the games. I hope to make them all, but they are all about an hour from work. They should all be at 6 or 7, so I have a shot.
Game two is tomorrow night…
Oh, yeah, about time Mr Papa had a post around here…
I Finally See One of Sean’s Basketball Games
November 19, 2008
I finally had an opportunity to see on of Sean’s basketball games yesterday. All of his games start at 3:30 in the afternoon which means leaving work about 2:30 just to get to the close games. Most would require me to leave even earlier.
The middle school games are supposed to be organized into A, B and C games. A games are supposed to be for 8th graders only. Our rural community doesn’t have enough kids for an A team, so we don’t have one. B team is supposed to be for the “better” of the 6th and 7th grades with the C team being the rest.
Well, our school only has 8 kids playing basketball, so we play the same kids for the B game and the C game. The other team from Patagonia had maybe 12 kids, but they too played everyone in all the games. Very odd indeed. So the kids essentially just play two games which they enjoy very much.
In the first game, Sean’s team was victorious by a score of 21 – 13. They play 2 ten minute halves with a running clock except for free throws, so the game goes by pretty quick. It was a nice victory, but its safe to say there wasn’t much in the ways of plays on offense for either team. It was run and gun style with maybe 1 or 2 passes.
In the second game, Sean’s team lost by a score of 18 – 12. It was pretty much the same kind of game. Sean had two points in each game. It doesn’t really matter that none of the kids on the court appear to have a future in basketball as they all appeared to have loads of fun which is the most important thing.
I really enjoyed a chance to see Sean play a game. I don’t miss his baseball or football games because of the time of those games, but these basketball games are tough. I want to be sure to see at least one more next year.
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