2019Lefty21 posted:BBALLMAN....awesome post! Thanks for sharing! Steve....ditto to you! My son played high school varsity as a freshman this season. Very good learning experience and he pitched very well against very good competition. He will be playing 17u this summer in some big time events even tho he turned 15 last month. I am excited I get to spend my summer with him! Stepping away as coach and watching from the sidelines has made me understand how big a place baseball has in MY FAMILY!! Listening to stories like Steves shows me that MY FAMILY has a bigger place in my son's baseball life when it gets down to it, and I need to make sure I have as big a place in my sons non-baseball life. I didn't have that with my Dad, and it is imparative that I live each day so my son has NO regrets towards my involvement no matter how big or small it is with any and all of his life! Thanks guys for making a 52 year old man understand why he lives how he lives! Gotta love the beauty of this board on days like this!!
Thank you Lefty, appreciate that. I will leave you with this. Yesterday, my boy came home from school. I have a huge front yard with an open batting cage. After a while he said, "hey Dad lets go swing it." I got the bucket, went out front while he put his shoes on. Our Yellow Lab got beside me behind the screen & waited. He stepped in & got loose. I threw one in the dirt & my Lab looked up at me. I threw another & he cracked it solid up the middle. The dog bolted after it & brought it back & dropped it at my feet. Life is good, I now understand why it all went down the way it did.