Baseball Ready!

I am the Coach for the kids Baseball team.  "I didn't know you knew anything about baseball?" you wonder.  Well, you're right.  I don't.  Aside from the Marshall 8th grade softball team and showing up for this summer's ward softball team.  I am a complete novice.  

No one signed up to coach the kids YMCA team, so the YMCA sent around an email asking for volunteers.  I expressed a mild interest (I believe I sent an email saying, "What is the time commitment.").  They were so desperate that they signed me up, and the next thing I got was a phone call telling me where to pick up my coaches packet.  Well, I don't know much about baseball, but I am pretty good at managing kids.  So I took hints from past T-Ball coaches that had great practices (lots of different activities, small group work) and ignored T-Ball coaches with boring practices (all the kids standing in the outfield the whole time).  The YMCA provided me with a great book about baseball and coaching young children. So off I go.

The team makeup really fit our family because it is a 1st and 2nd grade team and I happen to have a 1st grader (Phoenix) and a 2nd grader (Heidi).  This was important because in a previous year we had gotten really burned out attending 2 games a Saturday, anywhere from 8 am to 4 pm.  It just ate up our weekends.

We have had 2 practices so far and today was our first game.  Apparently, we tied 20-20.  Phoenix hit the ball for just about the first time.  A great hit.  Heidi was a great fielder.  She'd rather be batting, but she was able to stop that ball!