Tempus Fugit - The Boys of Spring
Time flies. I need to inform the world that this year’s Little League Phillies have won the championship for a third time under our stewardship. It would behoove me to check on my prior entry “Little League” http://contrariat.blogspot.com/2006_07_01_archive.html .
My goodness, that was 3 years ago. I would not have thought it, but there it is. I started in January 2006.
The team this year was exquisite. Two veterans who we drafted in 2007 as ten year olds led the team with grace and power. We got through the monologues about Aristotle and Molly Bloom and swept the playoff series against the much feared Giants and the upstart A’s. We had our share of Little League moments, winning a game in which we got 0 hits and another in which we got 1 hit. One day we benefitted by the famous “walk-off wild pitch”. In the finale we had 9 players make defensive plays for outs, and the A’s coach lamented that they hit the ball, and while he kept waiting for some little league disaster we kept making the plays.
No.1 son was brilliant, winning at least 2 games from his perch as third base coach, manufacturing runs with stolen bases, double steals, fake and real bunts and taking extra bases. I think that this year the coaches really played a role in an excellent team.
I have spend several days basking in the glow. The championship trophy is retrieved from the dry cleaner who sponsors the much feared Giants and with its newly engraved base “2009 Phillies” it rests at the pizza shop which sponsors us and provides free pizza after each game.
I revel in our annual team letter – “E Philibus Unum – The Few, The Proud, the Phillies” and the reverberation of our team cheer which leads us onto the field each game, “For Fun, For Glory, For Pizza, GO PHILLIES”.
The trophy is at the pizza shop. All is well.
My goodness, that was 3 years ago. I would not have thought it, but there it is. I started in January 2006.
The team this year was exquisite. Two veterans who we drafted in 2007 as ten year olds led the team with grace and power. We got through the monologues about Aristotle and Molly Bloom and swept the playoff series against the much feared Giants and the upstart A’s. We had our share of Little League moments, winning a game in which we got 0 hits and another in which we got 1 hit. One day we benefitted by the famous “walk-off wild pitch”. In the finale we had 9 players make defensive plays for outs, and the A’s coach lamented that they hit the ball, and while he kept waiting for some little league disaster we kept making the plays.
No.1 son was brilliant, winning at least 2 games from his perch as third base coach, manufacturing runs with stolen bases, double steals, fake and real bunts and taking extra bases. I think that this year the coaches really played a role in an excellent team.
I have spend several days basking in the glow. The championship trophy is retrieved from the dry cleaner who sponsors the much feared Giants and with its newly engraved base “2009 Phillies” it rests at the pizza shop which sponsors us and provides free pizza after each game.
I revel in our annual team letter – “E Philibus Unum – The Few, The Proud, the Phillies” and the reverberation of our team cheer which leads us onto the field each game, “For Fun, For Glory, For Pizza, GO PHILLIES”.
The trophy is at the pizza shop. All is well.
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