Yes, folks, very soon my entire life will revolve around baseball. We have just signed up D-Man to play on the Fall team. The practices, games and coach talk will most likely consume the time our family spends on work, bitching about work, volunteer stuff and wrangling with annoying teachers who refer us to websites instead of returning our calls and e-mails.
Don't get me wrong, I'm happy for the young man and have to smile at the time he spent wandering around the house last weekend wearing batting gloves and his helmet while swinging ONE of the new bats...thankfully not breaking any windows or picture frames.
But it's not quite the same as it used to be--as in, a check for $25 to get on the team and buy in to the equipment. The current $125 registration fee covers a t-shirt and ball cap. You get to buy a bat, baseball glove, pants, batting gloves, shoes and bag to put all of the stuff in. We're $300 into it and haven't purchased the shoes yet.
Sweet Peter, I hope this isn't like the guitar--the allure of saying you play it or do it is soooo much more attractive than the work you have to put into it. Once there's a realization of required effort, it's bye bye birdie. We've been there before.
Once I tried to take up knitting. After buying the nerdy supplies and trying for several hours, I was like, Christ, it's totally okay that I buy clothes and blankets. Thank goodness my investment hovered around $17.
2 comments:
D-Man will no doubt try out lots of new faves in his young career, so brace yourself! The worst part by far is the endless games on the hot bleachers getting sunstroke while your child picks weeds in the outfield or worse, flattens his arse on the bench for hours and days! Not a great fan of baseball, but then again, he might just discover a life-long love and something that gives him great satisfaction and pride!
Gropey is now a Baseball Mom! Be sure to get a stadium seat cushion for all those hours on the bleachers.
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