Baseball Season Ends
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| Sun, 06-18-2006 - 9:46pm |
Although there should be an emoticon for both celebrating, but also completely emotionally/physically/spiritually exhausted at the exact same moment in time.
It has been a big, hard struggle. Malcolm has learned SO much about playing the game and being on a team. He has learned to focus in many different positions whether outfield, infield or catcher (his favorite), he has been the part of many plays and gotten players out, he has learned to hit and deal with a strike out, wait for his pitches, good sportsmanship when speaking about and to the other team. He learned to cheer for his team, to take a few moments and calm himself down when he is angry, and then get back into the game. He has thrown some doozy temper tantrums (of course, he is not the ONLY one who did, just maybe the most frequent lol...) and he does just the cutest little butt dance when he gets on base.
Today he hit the score that broke the tie when the other team caught up close to the end of the championship game (they won, he has been on a very good team) and took a formal bow from the waist in front of the crowd when the team accepted the trophy. The coach said such nice things about each player at the awards pizza picnic, re-emphasizing how Malcolm had never even played before this Season when others had been at the game 3 or 4 years, and gave him praise for his hard work and perserverance!
But he did punch a boy on his team in the stomach during last inning when 2 coaches made mistakes over who was final inning catcher (it WAS Malcolm, but other boy was angry because he felt it should be him). I heard the yelling, didn't see the punch, later when we tried to debrief, Malcolm didn't remember doing it. LATER he remembered, and eventually apologized... OK, under threats from me. Sigh. That was the only physical altercation the entire Season, VERY hot day 95 degrees in the hot sun, game ran way over, they were all beyond exhausted when that happened. And that boy accepted his apology... Nice, nice team of kids...
Still...
Where is my stretcher? I so called a cab home tonight. I should at long last figure out how to post a picture, because his baseball photograph is stunning, if I do say so myself, and I do.
Tall, cool wine stritzer, and bed... I'm too tired to take a soak, afraid I'd drown
Sara zzzzzzzzzzz

Sounds like a fun, busy, stressful, sometimes frustrating, day. I bet you are glad it is over and sad it is over.
Would love to see a pic. If you have them on your computer what you do is get a free membership at photobucket.com and upload the picture there. Then it will give you some links under the picture. Just post the link here to the url and we can all go and see it.
The other links on most boards will actually post the picture right in the message but the software here won't allow that. So unless you have the premium package you have to post a link. If you are cheap like me you have the free package and I post links.
Renee
Congratulations Malcolm and way to go Sara. Sravan's baseball season got over too. The coach did an excellent job and Sravan made great progress. He had only on tantrum towards the end after recovering from pnuemonia.
But I am glad it is all over.
Anandhi
Yea! congratulations to both mom and Malcolm! sounds like a resounding success! I'm so proud of him and I'm just some faceless stranger!
Betsy
Wow! What an amazing experience......it's wonderful he could do this. Congrats to both of you!!!
Christie
Hi Sara,
Congratulations to you, your family and most importantly to Malcolm. You give me hope! I think team sports like this are so complicated that I can't even imagine Eric "getting" the idea. He is younger, so there is time, but I am marveling at the level of all the social skills necessary to accomplish anything in baseball, or for that matter, soccer, or for us in Miami "GO HEAT"!!! I really am in awe.
Also, just wanted to say that over the recent years, I have valued your kind comments and advice. Don't think I have said that enough.
Take care,
Katherine
Dear Katherine,
You are very welcome.
Malcolm has had to work harder than most NT kids to try to master the emotional control needed with upsets and disappointments, etc. But many of the NT kids had upsets as well, just nowhere near as many as Malcolm had lol. And the game itself he has had to be taught more carefully. But now that he is older, he really is getting rules and games, and he LOVED playing on the team. Loved it, loved it, loved it. He is sad the Season is over.
win-win.
Sara
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Sara,
Post the picture! post the picture!
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Oh! thats a story I like to hear.
way to go,
Anandhi
Dear Paula,
Well, Malcolm's team won almost every game this Season because there was some serious talent on the team, and the coaching was excellent -- and also all about good sportsmanship. The one game they lost (and badly), the coach of the other team really seemed all right, but the OTHER fathers who were the ass't line coaches etc. were, well, rabid! And the sportmanship by both parents AND kids --- very, very poor, taunting, difficult. Our head coach was conceding contested moments in a sportsman-like way, the other team wasn't. Then our coach STOPPED the conceding, but the thing that he did that I loved best was ---
when the game was over and our team had lost so badly, he organized a cheer by our team FOR the other team, sat them all down in the shade with drinks and snacks, and told them how he was prouder of them that day than he had been the entire previous winning Season. Our team had gotten very rattled and made lots of fielding mistakes, but then pulled it together. Our team had been perfect ladies and gentlemen to the other team no matter what had happened. He considered our team the true winners that day, and he wanted them to know it and to continue to know and be proud of good sportmanship the rest of their sporting careers.
LOVE that coach.
Sara