Saturday was opening day.
When you picture opening day for a baseball season, you picture a bright sunny day with people coming to cheer their teams on. For Little League, you picture the same thing but instead of just a team to cheer on, they come to cheer on the children. America has much of it’s recent history and mythos built around baseball so it goes to many of our spiritual core.
We signed Xander and Mitchell up for Little League this year and are looking forward to the whole experience. The practices have been fun. The boys have been enjoying it and getting better at the game. Sometimes, they do the kid thing and get all upset about it because it interrupts something they were doing or they are a little lazy but as I said, they are enjoying it.
Saturday was the big day. Both Xander and Mitchell’s first games of the season – Opening Day. Xander was going to miss his game though because of some school testing (another post maybe later!).
But we got the email. The basic measurement for canceling games is that if you can fish in the field then you cancel the game. Well, given the pictures they sent, you could not only fish, you could probably go scuba diving in the infield. It had been raining for better than 24 hours and quite heavy. The games would not have been fun.
Sad to have opening day cancelled but good that Xander didn’t have to miss the first game of the season!