Heads Up!

As many of you know, my second oldest is a pretty good swimmer. He is on a team that practices at one of the local college's pools.

This evening, as I went to pick him up after practice, I noticed an awful lot of traffic around the college's basketball arena. What I learned was that tonight was graduation night. That meant I had to park quite a ways away from the pool.

I ended up finding a spot by the school's baseball field. There was a game this evening at the field. I was parked several feet beyond the left field fence....what I thought was a safe distance. As I walked away from the car I heard that distinctive "clink" of the sweet spot of an aluminum bat making contact with a ball. I thought, "he hit that one hard".

Seconds later the ball came sailing over my head, bouncing about two feet in front of me. As any good baseball fan would do, I scrambled to get the ball, and felt vindicated for the bodily risk the object had just presented me. Sure, the ball was only worth about $5.00.....but it was a home run ball!

Barry WISHES My Kid Was Right

Supper time is a great time to just chat with the kids. Although they are frequently going 4 different directions, we try to have as many as possible at the supper table.

Tonight was one of those reasons why we should keep this a priority.

I spent some time this afternoon sharing some of my baseball card collection with a few of the kids. Unfortunately, the Ernie Banks, Billy Williams, Ryne Sandberg, Pete Rose, and Hank Aaron portion of the collection was not too interesting to them. However, the Sammy Sosa, Roger Clemens, and Barry Bonds portion drew a lot of interest.

Then, at supper, discussion about those players ensued. Of course, considering the players, the discussion drifted into their recent run in with the truth. That's when A-Train gave us this nugget of hilarity.

As we discussed Barry Bonds, A-Train said, "I know him. He is the one that took Altoids".

Nothing else needs to be said.