Practice

Man was it cold last night. Ok those "bitches" who live in "really cold" weather will probably laugh at me as I sat last night freezing in 50F weather at softball practice last night.

I took Peanut to practice so he could work off some energy. I have to get some new pics of him up soon. He was so cute in his little red sweater lol. Of course he stayed snuggled in my jacket because it was so cold.

The coach for Kelsey's team is normally a baseball coach - coached for 9 years. Some of the moves, while I understand why he wants the girls to learn that way, go against everything Kelsey was taught for the past two years. So after practice I commented to him. Kelsey knows how to overrun 1st base, round it and be ready to run or dive back if necessary. Yes, she can dive to base and she can slide to base as well. I had her slide last night and she did. Then a few other girls tried it and they are learning but not quite there and could have hurt themselves. Coach Shelly had to step up to get them to stop.

I think part of it is when you are on a team and have to try out and you have a LOT of girls coming from a lower division moving up, the skill levels are different. The coach may realize it but doesn't see WHAT the girls know first. For many of the girls on the team, they are coming from an 8-under team or it's a first time play or they've come from Little League baseball. Kelsey has played with the region's softball teams since she was 6. She's learned quite a bit and now her new coach wants to try to teach her differently. I explained to Coach Shelly that Kelsey may have a tough time learning Coach Bill's way because of her previous training.

The good news is that Coach Bill is going to let Kelsey be a catcher which is what she wants to do. She asked him last night if she was the only catcher - and so far, she is. But he hasn't really been working with the catchers/pitchers yet. He's getting the girls caught up on fielding and hitting first. But no other girl has stepped up yet to say she wants to catch too.

Their team is the Alley Cats and they are black and orange. Anthony was "why those colors, can't you change them?" I ordered the uniforms but the coach picked the colors and already submitted them to the region so that's what I had to go with. So I tried with the least amount of orange possible lol. They'll have black shorts with their numbers in orange, black jersey with their name, number and team name in orange and the logo white/grey/with little orange on a black background. It's just so "halloween" those colors.