5 & 6 Baseball

Ezra and Asa have had a busy summer of baseball. They hadn't seen Alex (Ezra's friend from school) all summer. So when he came over the other day, they were catching him up on their summer and proudly pointing out their collection of tiny plastic baseball trophies. Impressed, Alex said, "Wow! You won all those trophies?!" To which Asa replied, "No, we got 'em 'cause we lost." (Sounds like sarcasm, but he actually was being serious.) Ezra followed with, "Yeah, we've lost like a hundred million games."

It is kinda confusing the way the participation trophies are handed out. In the all-star tournaments, everyone who plays gets a trophy. The winning team gets a bigger trophy (or so I've heard). The tournaments are usually double-elimination, so immediately following the game in which a team is eliminated, they line both teams up. The losing team gets trophies, and the winning team gets... nothing! (Until they lose two games or make it all the way to the top.)

And Ezra does have a point. They have lost a lot of games. I am amazed how good some of these 5 and 6 (and 7) year olds play. Ezra and Asa have come a long way from when they started in April. They've had a lot of fun and have made new friends, but I think they are ready for a break from baseball. Our final practice tonight will bring us to a grand total of 12 hours of practice for this week. The Dizzy Dean World Series (Dizzy Dean's "world" is comprised of Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee) starts this weekend and then we are done with baseball for the summer. Does this mean... free time? More time to blog, perhaps? We'll see...