I'm so bored I......

Funny. I just had a conversation with my girlfriend a few minutes ago somewhat related to this. She's noticed that I've been a little down the last few days, mostly since the snow fell last week. I told her that it's because I'm a ball player and it's winter. She didn't get it until I told her that it won't get much better until the snow melts or practice starts in the spring, whichever comes first. She then said I'm not a ball player anymore. I pointed out that my coaching career is just starting. She just shrugged and said she didn't know what to do with me. I promptly changed the subject.

She'll never understand I guess...Luckily this one will be around awhile so she has time to fall in love with the game to find out for herself just what I'm going through.

Maybe that's what I'll spend the rest of this offseason doing...

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They tell us in California that God invented orange baseballs, so people in Grand Rapids, Minot, Butte, Rochester, et al, can play in the winter...

Not so?

cadDAD

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Did you hear about the two blondes who froze to death in a drive-in movie?

They went to see "Closed for the Winter."


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Did you hear about the two blondes who froze to death in a drive-in movie?

They went to see "Closed for the Winter."

Dad, keep them coming

59 days until the first scrimmage. Meanwhile - I work on the housekeeping and Christmas shopping.

A blond got on the biggest and fastest looking horse available. It started slowly but was soon out of control. Sliding from one side of the saddle to the other the blonds life was passing before her eyes and a death scream could be heard by all. Other blond onlookers were terrifed, crying, and praying for her safety. Thats when the Walmart greeter came to the rescue and unplugged the ride.

We will get through this... we will get through this... Can't really complain here. Son will be travelling north, this weekend to work with his pitching coach (I go along for the ride), and we'll soon begin the long trek to CT for try-outs for next year's summer team.

Meanwhile I find myself holding my breath a lot as son goes through his pitching motion in the living room... and the den... and the kitchen... I'm always watching to make sure his hand isn't going to come through and hit a light fixture or door jamb, and for my own sanity I make sure he doesn't have a ball in his hand. Its too close to Christmas to have to worry about repairing drywall or replacing windows.

Can always tell when son needs to get back at it - he starts walking around the house sniffing his glove. Is that a normal baseball affliction or should I be concerned?

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[quote]Is that a normal baseball affliction or should I be concerned?[/quote]


Sounds like a personal problem.....


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A blonde went to an eye doctor to have her eyes checked for glasses.
The doctor directed her to read various letters with the left eye while covering the right eye.
The blonde was so mixed up on which eye was which that the eye doctor, in disgust, took a paper lunch bag with a hole to see through, covered up the appropriate eye and asked her to read the letters.
As he did so, he noticed the blonde had tears streaming down her face.
"Look," said the doctor, "there's no need to get emotional about getting glasses."
"I know," agreed the blonde, "But I kind of had my heart set on wire frames."

This sounds alot like my house, son walking through each room working through pitching motions. Bring on the spring

You mean the pitching thing won't go away? I thought it was just an age thing--darn. I guess I am just going to have to accept the fact that my house really isn't a house, it's an indoor practice facility for the boys.

I left the cage up in the back yard; both boys home this weekend for Christmas, 5 week break, then practice starts for real, first game 2/3/07. We'll see if they hit in the cage when the winds of winter howl.....

I'm not bored in the slightest.

I've been very busy cleaning last year's batting practice baseballs with a pencil eraser.

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I'm not bored in the slightest.

I've been very busy cleaning last year's batting practice baseballs with a pencil eraser.

Ohhh my kinda guy! Welcome to the club!
You'll know its bad when you start actually counting the eraser shaving on the floor!
A hundred bottles of shaving on the floor,..a hundred bottles of shavings,.....

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I've been very busy cleaning last year's batting practice baseballs with a pencil eraser.

Is that considered a foreign substance?

RZI,.. always alert & always on your toes!!!
Cant get nothin' past ya!