A story with no point

Off topic: What team is your son on? My son is playing in Northwoods also.

Waterloo Bucks. Yours?

St Cloud Rox.  Nice to have yours close!

Iowamom, that is such a great story!

Not a baseball story, but my daughter was catching during a middle school game and called time to go talk to the pitcher. I was proud that she had taken that initiative to communicate with her teammate and wondered what she had said. After the game, when I asked about it, she said, "Oh, I was just telling her that xyz,  the hottest guy in our grade, was in the stands." Nice.

@Iowamom23 my random story is that I’m going to milk a goat tomorrow. Made me think of you. Hahahaha

That's a great summer ball story. A circumstance will come up every now and then related to a game or a team and my son will say "that is so summer ball"

His summer experiences included winning an in game flaming (hot sauce) banana eating contest, card games in the bullpen, bus break downs, and a post game mini melee over allegedly stolen sunglasses

son's team plays a team in Martha's Vineyard, apparently boat broke down on the way there....

@PTWood posted:

@Iowamom23 my random story is that I’m going to milk a goat tomorrow. Made me think of you. Hahahaha

Wow! That comment could be interpreted a lot of different ways!!

Oh, my.

Son played for the Northwoods League, too, in Lacrosse. 

It was a Sunday game and we were streaming and watching the game at home.  He had an off day, but we don't see him at the fence cheering/watching the game.  Hummm.

He was sitting on a bucket eating a root beer float.  Sundays were $5 root beer float day. 

@PTWood posted:

@Iowamom23 my random story is that I’m going to milk a goat tomorrow. Made me think of you. Hahahaha

They did away with the goat milking contest at our fair, but yesterday our grand champion sheep made a break for it.

Is there a mutton buster in the crowd?

Mutton busting at the Iowa State Fair

https://youtu.be/YbgtfLOTTRI

@baseballhs posted:

St Cloud Rox.  Nice to have yours close!

Somehow the two hours from here to Waterloo sometimes seems VERY long!!! Duncan has pitched against the Rox twice. 1-1.

@Iowamom23 posted:

Somehow the two hours from here to Waterloo sometimes seems VERY long!!! Duncan has pitched against the Rox twice. 1-1.

I would love that compared to my flight plus 1.5 hour drive to St Cloud. That said, I love every minute.

@baseballhs posted:

I would love that compared to my flight plus 1.5 hour drive to St Cloud. That said, I love every minute.

Fair point. Love the live stream option. It's fun to go back and watch the games, or watch them live.

@Iowamom23 posted:

Fair point. Love the live stream option. It's fun to go back and watch the games, or watch them live.

Yes! I was in Greece during his last start and I was able to set my alarm for 1:30am and watch it live. Awesome!

I think the superstitions and vernacular players have/use are always entertaining.

6'5 pitcher wearing my kid's red hockey style mask in the dugout as a part of a rally cry.

The crazy words they use in the dugout. Often the kid would use it on me on the drive home and I would reply with "huh" and he gets annoyed at the fact he needs to translate it

The number of times a pitcher would kick their fingers, then trip that filthy ball...yuck

Pitchers talking to themself on the mound. I can read some of their "affirmations" maybe not appropriate for this forum

We call lots of things like this "Sethisms". I will make something up and he will say 'reaaally"

and I say "noooo"!

The team will pull a lot of stuff on him in college.

PS if anyone knew a guy called consultant, he could prob get u dugout seats in Northwoods league. Just saying.