Put Me In Coach
My son really enjoyed playing tee ball so I introduced him to watching MLB games on TV. He is hooked. In the morning before school, in the afternoon after school, and in the evening before bed he is often wanting to watch more baseball. It is fun for us to watch together.
It did not take long for him to ask me how I enjoyed playing as a major league baseball player. I told him I was never a professional baseball player. He told me I could, if I just pay the entry fee like he did to get onto the tee ball team.
Imagine that, all I had to do was pay an entry free and I could play in the majors!
He has also told me several times that I am good enough to play with the MLB players. I try telling him I am not that good, but he is not convinced. I should feel flattered. I know better though. The idea of my feeble bat and arm making my way into a dugout and telling them I have arrived is one absurd image. Like Roy Cobb in the Robert Redford film The Natural. Only I have no talent, about the only similarities would be that I'm too old to start playing and nobody knows me.
We also watched a film about Bo Jackson, who he now associates with being the best athlete ever. We watched the White Sox play and he kept asking where Bo was. I told him Bo stopped playing 20 years ago and is over 50 years old. My boy still wants him on the team. Me and Bo, making our unlikely comebacks together I suppose.
It did not take long for him to ask me how I enjoyed playing as a major league baseball player. I told him I was never a professional baseball player. He told me I could, if I just pay the entry fee like he did to get onto the tee ball team.
Imagine that, all I had to do was pay an entry free and I could play in the majors!
He has also told me several times that I am good enough to play with the MLB players. I try telling him I am not that good, but he is not convinced. I should feel flattered. I know better though. The idea of my feeble bat and arm making my way into a dugout and telling them I have arrived is one absurd image. Like Roy Cobb in the Robert Redford film The Natural. Only I have no talent, about the only similarities would be that I'm too old to start playing and nobody knows me.
We also watched a film about Bo Jackson, who he now associates with being the best athlete ever. We watched the White Sox play and he kept asking where Bo was. I told him Bo stopped playing 20 years ago and is over 50 years old. My boy still wants him on the team. Me and Bo, making our unlikely comebacks together I suppose.
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