T-Ball Comedy

As most of you know, Boo is playing T-Ball this spring. He expressed an interest in playing this winter so we jumped on it. You can understand why we were all for him playing if you have ever seen him play soccer. He can be quite entertaining.

This, however, is not a blog about Boo. Alas, it is a blog about a boy on his team named Georgie. Now I could describe Georgie's appearance to you, but you probably already have an accurate vision of him in your minds. I spent Monday night hanging out with Georgie's dad while watching the game. He is an extremely nice guy and a good, supportive parent. By standing next to Georgie's dad on Monday, I got a front row seat to the comedy that is Georgie. I'll try to keep it brief but a summary of his comedy is detailed below.

* In the bottom of the 2nd inning, G was the catcher. The catcher gear essentially swallows up most of the kids. G walked past us on the way to homeplate and told his dad, "Dad, the coach just told me to put all this gear and and they threw it all on me - but don't worry I still have my uniform on underneath it all."

* The catcher is supposed to hand the ball to the opposing coach to put on the tee for his batter. There was a delay between the 1st and 2nd batters. I was trying to figure out what was going on as one of our coaches was called out to homeplate. Turns out G wanted to know from our coach whether the other coach was a "stranger" because the "stranger" was asking for the ball and G's parents had taught him not to talk to strangers.

* While running between any base, G always throws his helmet off. He did this on the way to 1st base right in front of dad and me. His dad told G to leave the helmet on. G replied, "Dad it just keeps flying off."

* While playing catcher, G had to be told a number of times not to yell "Swing batter swing!".

* After scoring a run, the player is supposed to pick up the bat and return it to the dugout. G picked up the bat, got halfway there, and dropped both his helmet and the bat and kept going. Dad said G was treating it just like home. I decided it was a habit when I saw he had left his cap and glove on the field later when coming in to bat.

* Later G sat on every base while his team was batting then would get up and try to kick up as much dust as possible.

* In the last inning, G was up to his old smack talk telling the batters to "swing already" while playing the pitcher position. He then proceeded to sit on the ground and when the coaches told him to stand up and get ready he said "ah he'll hit it on the ground"


Next game is Saturday morning at 7:30AM. I'll update with anything good. By the way, Boo had three nice hits and three very good fielding plays. Now to work on his throwing.