Day 212: Indoor Baseball Practice

Base­ball Coach — $8.00
Given to the coach to help cover the costs of rent­ing tun­nel space and bat­ting cages for prac­tice today since the weather was yucky out­side.  The Son’s team has their first game on Wednes­day but they’ll be play­ing with­out The Son — Wednesday’s are cello lessons and orches­tra rehearsal nights for us and I’ve been very clear with The Son and The Hus­band that those com­mit­ments come before baseball.

Luck­ily, though, this will be the only game The Son has to miss because the orches­tra sea­son is wind­ing down for the year.

On a fun note, The Son came out of prac­tice excited because he got to pitch this evening and the coach said he had a good arm.  His accu­racy is excel­lent but he needs to work on his speed.  Hope­fully he’ll get some spe­cific one-on-one coach­ing for that.  As thrilled as I am for him, I’d really rather he didn’t pitch.  It’s not very good for their shoul­ders or arms.  Still, I think it’s bet­ter than catch­ing.  He’ll prob­a­bly end up just being a relief pitcher like last year which would be the best of all worlds.

In other good news, The Son is get­ting used to his new base­ball glove and the coach noticed it right away.  Coach was glad to see that the boy had grad­u­ated to an adult-sized glove instead of that kid’s glove he had been using.  Yes­ter­day I emailed the coach ask­ing about proper bat sizes/weights for the boy.  Again, the coach had noticed that The Son’s bat was too small for him and hadn’t been sure whether to bring it up or not.  The Son’s been hit­ting really well and he didn’t want to throw him off his game.  The coach has a bat that his son has out-grown that he wants The Son to try — and if it fits we can bor­row it before decid­ing to make that type of invest­ment.  Good bats are really pricey.  Like $300-$500 dol­lars!  Some­times they’re on sale or you can buy last year’s model but you’re still look­ing at a pile of clams for a silly bat.  And then, in two short years, if the boy goes on to play high school ball, he’ll need a dif­fer­ent sized bat again.

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1. Day 295: No-Spend Day
2. Day 206: Music, Base­ball Gear
3. Day 258: Activities
4. $$: Gas, Food, & more Gas
5. Day 147: Food, Food, and More Food