Funny you mentioned the old days tonight because these past 2 days I have been in the process of putting together my son's senior board for our baseball banquet and I just finished looking at the hords of pics from the Marauder (youth/select team)/Coyote days.
I thought these past 4 years would have been the best years of baseball but after looking at these old pics I realized that those days, of the Select Marauder team. were some of the best years ever.
Each picture I picked up I saw the biggest/puriest smile on my son's face, a smile I didn't see much this year on the baseball field. Those days were truly baseball at it's best for him and for our family. If only the HS years had provided as many smiles as those days did
.............During the HS years it has been so great to run into players/coaches and parents from those early days, the kinship is still there. Between those friendships and the ones I have made on this website I don't think there was ever a HS game I went to that there wasn't a familiar face.
Because of these relationships w/players and their families, on opposing teams. it really got complicated cheering for my son's team because I always had that little inner cheer going for the player on the other team that I had a connection to.
Cool thing was that even if our team lost it was still a victory for someone "in the family".
It has been great to reconnect w/you and Collikar and the other coyote players, your son was a talent then and continues to be so now!
Have a great summer w/the Mustangs!!!!! Keep making memories and keep in touch.