Travel Baseball... for the kids? ...or for the parents?

[bomelia]

Man am I learning a lot about kids' sports and parents. Travel baseball. Very competitive. A couple of weeks ago, our team beat this other team 24-2 in a pool game (set up for seeding). We beat them in the main series too. Yesterday, we are beating them in the fourth inning, 9-5 and we were still at bat. Their coach calls a meeting with the umps, has the rule book in his hand. On a technicality, he wants our team DQd. He won the argument, but the director begged hm not to insist on a DQ. Guess what he did. DQd us. What a way to win! Their parents were actually cheering their team's "victory". Clapping, and so on. So, being the smart a$$ that I am, I walked over to their stands and joined them. Looking over my shoulder, I said "what a way to WIN! You guys should be so proud."

Maybe not the smartest thing I have ever done, several of their husband's came after me yelling 4 letter obscenities. But some cooler heads on their team prevailed. Yes, I was hoping to get that response. Get them on a technicality...and I almost succeeded (they would have been ejected from the park had the ump heard or seen them). Me? I was just clapping.

We play them again in a couple of hours.

Mike