Get your head in the Game.

I went to my buddy Luke’s baseball game today. As Gary and I sat with his Dad, John, I realized I’m not really into baseball. However, there are other things than the game itself I do enjoy. The greatest of these are the comments the parents yell at their kids and the kids of others; things like “Wait for a good pitch!” and “Hit the ball!” I can’t help but laugh. Were these things not part of the battle plan already? As hilarious as I found all of this, I was struck with the massive amount of time and support these parents had been pouring into their kids lives through baseball. I started wondering if someday my kid want to play a sport. How committed would I be to come to every game? How many of the parents there don’t even like the sport? It must be real love to commit to watching amateur baseball nearly every afternoon for months on end.

I also love the umpire. They call him”blue”. Apparently he regularly wears a blue shirt. Not today. I was utterly confused. Every time he called a strike, he makes some kind of grunt. What would I yell? I think I’d just make up words, or maybe default to the words of the Kool-aid Man; “oh Yeah.” I think Gary decided he would go with “Dight!” and do a jump kick instead of the finger point. If Gary was the ump, I’d go to every game.

Tags: Awesome, baseball, Gary, parents