Saturday was the Girl's first t-ball game (if you could call it that). She has been looking forward to the start of t-ball for some time now and come Saturday she was all too ready to get out the door. Her and J showed up at the field early as J is jointly coaching her team with the dad of another player. When they arrived they got their shirts and found out that their team name is the Lions. She put her shirt and glove on and
was excited to play. That all changed when her little teammates arrived (2 other girls and 7 boys) and the Girl discovered that as coach her Daddy was going to have to spread his time and attention among the other kids as well. She was a tad bit jealous. As for Baby Sister and I we arrived just before start time as I knew that there are only so many snacks one can pack to occupy and keep Baby Sister in one place for an hour. As
it turns out, Baby Sister wasn't thrilled about J coaching either as once the snacks ran out she kept pointing to him on the
field and began to scream hysterically when I wouldn't let her run out to him. Speaking of running, here is the Girl
walking to home
plate. Hmmm, she doesn't quite seem to grasp the urgency of base
running yet. I guess that is why she is playing, to learn all of these things or as much as she can in one hour of play. This one hour of play consists of practice with her team the first half hour and is immediately followed by a 30-minute
game with another team. This so-called
game is just long enough to allow each team to bat through their entire roster once and then field the balls hit by the other team's players. They are doing good if just a few players go after the ball rather than the whole team dog-piling on top of it and fighting over who has it...that is if the batter doesn't go after it himself and get to it first which was the case with one little guy from the other team who hit it off the tee, dropped the bat and went right after it. There is no base throwing, just throwing the ball back to the other team's coach. We are talking the very basic fundamentals here. And of course once the game is over there is a snack and drink for all the players. How else did you think we could get them to stay out there for an hour?!
Go Lions!!
Saturday was the Girl's first t-ball game (if you could call it that). She has been looking forward to the start of t-ball for some time now and come Saturday she was all too ready to get out the door. Her and J showed up at the field early as J is jointly coaching her team with the dad of another player. When they arrived they got their shirts and found out that their team name is the Lions. She put her shirt and glove on and
was excited to play. That all changed when her little teammates arrived (2 other girls and 7 boys) and the Girl discovered that as coach her Daddy was going to have to spread his time and attention among the other kids as well. She was a tad bit jealous. As for Baby Sister and I we arrived just before start time as I knew that there are only so many snacks one can pack to occupy and keep Baby Sister in one place for an hour. As
it turns out, Baby Sister wasn't thrilled about J coaching either as once the snacks ran out she kept pointing to him on the
field and began to scream hysterically when I wouldn't let her run out to him. Speaking of running, here is the Girl walking to home
plate. Hmmm, she doesn't quite seem to grasp the urgency of base running yet. I guess that is why she is playing, to learn all of these things or as much as she can in one hour of play. This one hour of play consists of practice with her team the first half hour and is immediately followed by a 30-minute game with another team. This so-called game is just long enough to allow each team to bat through their entire roster once and then field the balls hit by the other team's players. They are doing good if just a few players go after the ball rather than the whole team dog-piling on top of it and fighting over who has it...that is if the batter doesn't go after it himself and get to it first which was the case with one little guy from the other team who hit it off the tee, dropped the bat and went right after it. There is no base throwing, just throwing the ball back to the other team's coach. We are talking the very basic fundamentals here. And of course once the game is over there is a snack and drink for all the players. How else did you think we could get them to stay out there for an hour?! Go Lions!!
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