Full Swing

We are in full swing with ball season. I can tell because I have a week's worth of mail on the table, the only laundry that gets done is ball uniforms (the rest has to wait) and my diet largely consists of cheese fries from the concession stand - so yummy...

Before Millie's First Game - Yes, She Could Fit In Her Bat Bag

At Millie's First Game

Our park did a big change this year and joined with another park in Georgetown. Now basically all baseball is run by the Georgetown (HYR) league and all softball is run by us (FKCC). Many folks weren't too happy about this because if they had a boy and girl, they are now playing at 2 different parks. The only thing that saved us was if you are a boy in 7-8 or t-ball, you can still play at FKCC, so we are safe for another year on that one. But my nephew now has to play at Georgetown and many other families are split between choosing to watch their son or daughter, it kind of stinks. The other factor that changed is that we are now officially Little League instead of Babe Ruth. Not a major deal for the girls but for the boys, it changed the age cut off from somewhere in the middle of the summer back to Jan 1. So although we had decided that we would move Reed up to 7-8 a year early this year even though he could have played t-ball another year, now we HAD to move him up. It made a lot of boys who needed another year of t-ball have to move up to the 7-8 league and a very talented group of boys who would have been stars in the 7-8 league had to move up to kid pitch a year earlier than planned. So I had figured Reed would move up early, probably play in the outfield somewhere and be at the end of the lineup praying not to strike out...he is now playing pitcher and is being depended on for a hit. Not where we had planned to be at all this year. It's basically half a team of boys who have no idea what is going on, a few that are getting it and 1 or 2 who can't believe they are stuck playing with babies. Here's the biggest thing that stinks about this merger though...no more draft. Usually the coaches have Draft Day and they pick each player 1 by 1 to build their team. Well, Georgetown doesn't do it that way so since baseball falls under Georgetown's rules, our team was assigned to us. The coaches had NO say in it at all. Let's just say, these teams are not even close to being even. It's very frustrating for everyone but it is what it is.

So after a few weeks in, Millie's team has played every team once and lost 1 game. Reed's team has not played everyone yet but I think they have won 2 and lost 2 or 3. Our boys aren't the worst ones out there and we'll be happy with that I guess.