Tough Lessons

FYI, I heard that the O's starter tonight never made a team out of spring training and placed in extended. Tell him to keep working hard and good things can happen.

Thanks very much TPM.

Laura,

Since PG has him ranked, I wonder if they could possibly help place him on a team. It would probably be worth contacting PGStaff thru a PM here, or calling/emailing the Perfect Game office, to ask.

Best wishes!

Julie

Thanks for the suggestion.

Go to the to the Help wanted forum and/or the Showcase forum and post in there that you are looking for a team. I have had great success hooking up with teams in there.

Good luck

I bet this will work out and it will be a positive.

I'd suggest that it is time to abandon the concept of "fair" and "unfair". Really irrelevant. Everyone deals with playing behind someone else at some point. The good ones learn something from it.

That being said, it really stinks to be the only one not going. You are doing a great thing by looking for a team here. My son went to Jupiter last year as a result of a connection here, and had the time of his life playing with kids he had never met.

Good luck!

There is a link on the PG website just for connecting players and teams:

http://www.perfectgame.org/PlayerTeamBB/Default.aspx

It tests your faith doesn't it. Disappointment. I left the garage in the truck yesterday in a rain and hail storm, 30 mph gusts of wind and cold. I was going to work. Didn't look too promising. Until I backed up and caught a glimpse of something in the mirror over top of my house. Looking to the east there was a perfect double rainbow framing my home, a gloriously wide and bright perfect rainbow. At first I had been looking in the wrong direction.

I can't help but think of how my father taught me about "tough lessons". I'd complain about one or another thing. Some serious business. I knew what was coming next. He'd break out singing.....

"When you're smilin' when you're smilin.....the whole world smiles with you.....when you're laughin.....when you're laughin......the sun comes shinin through......but when you're cryin.....you bring on the rain.......so stop your sighin.....be happy again.....keep on smilin.....cause when you're smilin.....the whole world smiles with you."

This is a man who knew disappointment, over and over again. What he taught me was choices. You can look west and see the storm or another direction and see a rainbow.

Billie Holiday

PA- Thanks for the great post.

Thanks for all of the suggestions. I know tough lessons are some of the best learned.