As you know, Mac had his first game on Saturday. Late on Saturday night, I received an email with the season's schedule that showed the first game was Monday. Did they realize that was only two days away? Did they not know that I like the Upward format of one practice a week with one game a week? And each needs to last only one hour? Somebody obviously didn't get my memo.
So I washed the uniform and we got to the field at 5:30pm for warmups before the 6pm game. And wouldn't you know that our opponents were that same pesky orange team from Saturday. You know, the team that's one step away from being drafted for the Minor Leagues? Yeah, they were our opponents again.
And they played as well last night as they played Saturday. Somebody told me last night that this team has played together for two seasons and the coaches requested that they receive the same players this season. Are all the other teams formed the same way? Are we going to be the David in a David vs. Goliath battle two times a week?
For me, the important thing was that Mac had a great time. He didn't have as great a game technically as he did on Saturday, but he had fun. But apparently fun doesn't count for much in Little League. At the end of the game, which our team lost handily, the fill-in coach (because we still have yet to lay eyes on our coach!) told the team not to be discouraged because they played well "for a team that hadn't had any practices." Helloooooo? Did he have to qualify under what circumstances they played well?
Apparently so. And apparently we are no longer going to be able to use that qualification after Saturday's game because we are now having practice tonight, Wednesday, and Thursday nights. Our coach is MIA - he coaches three ice hockey teams that have been playing in a tournament in Nashville and he only supposedly got back to town late last night. We have two very proactive team moms and it's only because of them, that we even knew we had a game last night. They talked to the league president last night who took pity on our team and gave us a field to practice on for the next.three.nights. Oh, how I love being pitied. NOT.
I knew that one day our lives were going to be dominated by sports schedules. But I have to admit that I didn't think that it would be now. Five nights out of seven for one sport for one child? Are you kidding me? I am going to become one of those mothers who knows the name of the kid working at the drive-thru at McDonald's because we see him every night. If you're on our Christmas list, you should be prepared to receive Happy Meal toys from us because we should amass the entire spring and summer collection before this baseball season is over.
So we return to the field tonight. Hopefull to meet our elusive coach who maybe will show up tonight now that we've got 2 games under our belts?
I wonder how they'll qualify the team's playing on Saturday if, after three practices, there's no improvement? If you're in Summerville and have time to kill, won't you stop by the Little League fields and keep me company?
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