Benny Cornett

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Zoe had her first T-Ball game of the season yesterday in Colorado City. She had a pretty good time giving it three quarters of her all. She had to hit off the tee but the hit was one of the best for the game. She made it to first without any troubles. Then after the next hit she took off to second then around to third. When she was running in to home she got tagged out. The reason I say that she gave three quarters of her all is due to her running. She is a very fast little sprinter so there is no reason that she shouldn’t make it around every base with ease. But, she is in her own little world when running the bases for some unknown reason. She will either look at her feet while running or look up into nothingness. Both cause her to slow down her stride so she ends up getting tagged out. Oh well, she has fun playing and that is all that really matters.

I was a little shocked when we met the other coach and went over the rules. Let me give you the history here. In the past four years the T-Ball games have been played more as teaching games rather than all out we are gonna kill you competition style games. I’ll be honest with you I really liked the void of competition that we enjoyed in T-Ball. We would bat the entire roster of kids then shuffle them out to the field to try fielding the ball. This would happen for two innings then the game would be over. The parents that wanted to help would be out on the field or in the dug-out working with the kids. All in the effort of trying to teach the kids how to play the game. Now it seems that those days are over.

The rules are as follows:
three pitches from the coach and two attempts at hitting off the tee, three outs or seven run rule, take one base on an over throw, and a few other rules that I can’t remember

Then there are these special rules that are not in the official rule book, haha. The pitcher can not tag the runner while the runner is running from home plate to first base. The ball has to be thrown to first base for it to count, or rolled to first. And I’m sure there are other hidden rules that we will find out about as we go along.

I’m not against playing T-Ball in this manner but I would have liked to have known about the changes three weeks ago when we started practicing. We have been practicing for the style of game that we had been playing in the past four years. Now we will have to start all over and get the kids to understand that they may not get to bat in a game because of three outs in three innings in a row. Nine kids out of fourteen will get to bat for sure.

I’m not one of those people that believes in sparing a child of all negatives. I think that a touch of real life is helpful and that a child needs to understand that negative things, such as getting out, will happen. But I am one of those parents that thinks four, five, and six year olds shouldn’t be subjected to a mass amount of negatives or failures.

Just my opinion.

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These are strange times we’re in. The price of groceries and gas has become almost unbearable to most middle class families.

This is what it has come to now.

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Man, as hot as it is this morning I think it would be safe to say that Summer is here…finally. Our baseball season is just about to start. Zack and Zoe are having a good time with just the practices so when the games start they will probably have a blast. The water is almost warm enough in the lakes to start boating again.

Now all I have to do is figure out how to make enough time to enjoy some of these things.

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Summer is almost here, if not already. One day it is 90 degrees then the next day it is 50 degrees. This weather sure is throwing me for a loop. My body doesn’t know what to think, lol. I sure am ready for summer to make up it’s mind and stay for a while. I can’t wait till we get the boat out on the lake for some family fun tubing and fishing. The kids love going to the lake, nothing but fun to them. Mari and I like watching them experience new, fun things and the lake holds tons of adventures for them.

With the price of gas now days I don’t know how many times we can afford to take the boat out. We could probably take the boat out and skip eating for a week, lol.

The kids are about to start baseball season. I swore that I wouldn’t stay on the baseball board and that I wasn’t going to coach this year. Yep, I’m still on the board and I’m helping coach Zoe’s t-ball team this year. Man, I’m such a sucker. I’m a gluten for punishment. I don’t think it will be so bad this year mainly because I’m not the president of the league. I’m going to be the equipment manager. So all my work will be done in the beginning and then a little here and there. I really want to focus on Zoe this year. In the past I have spent most of my time coaching Zack’s teams so I think it is time to give Zoe the attention for a change. This might be better for Zack with somebody else coaching him. Some say that the kids perform better when the parents get out of the way; we will see.