Proud Dad Moments? (1 Viewer)

...TrueColors... said:

My 8 year old and I get to the park tonight and his coach looks at him and says “You wanna pitch?” My son without hesitation said “Yes!”

He was suppose to pitch the other night but didn’t. So this was the first time he’d ever attempted to do this.

So on comes this big, tall, goofty lefty to the mound (not unlike his old man).

He strikes out the first kid he faced on 3 pitches. No swings taken.

He strikes out the next kid after a little bit of a battle.

And then he couldn’t whiff the zone 😂😂😂

He throws hard for his age. I simply didn’t expect it to go this well. But all of a sudden the things we’ve been trying to coach him to do he did when the lights were on. He was finishing his throws and pulling the ball down hard. I had no idea who was throwing for a minute.

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Jim14510 said:

After my complete freakout thread my kid ended up getting into Raikes from the waitlist.

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Jim14510 said:

Also made it to state in esports. League of Legends 5 seed. Have to play the 1 seed Lincoln East in the first round so probably an early exit.

I didn't even know he was doing this until about an hour ago.

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Pipe Line said:

My daughter started her first 4 week segment of summer sports last night. Just turned 3 a few weeks ago. Soccer was last night. Major improvement. Last summer the practices were about an hour. Usually 4 different drill segments. She'd usually have some sort of emotional breakdown during each segment where she simply stopped playing and wanted to be held to run around and have me or mom kick the ball. Didn't happen at all last night. Better coordination, less clumsy running, no break downs. She wanted to keep playing once she took a breath and realized the other kids were playing with her. Fantastic.


Tee ball next week. They switch the sport each week. Last fall that went horribly, hoping for a little luck next week.

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BluesBucksNHuskers said:

Haha tee ball from the little ones is great to watch. Complete chaos.

I legit think they could televise those games with announcers and it’d make for pretty good television.

I’d tune in to hear an MLB announcer say “#3 with a short dribbler back to the pitcher, and there’s a dog pile of toddlers on the pitchers mound! They still have plenty of time because #3 has ran into the dugout crying after all the parents yelled at her to run!”

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Pipe Line said:

Lol so my daughter has spent most of her week days at my mother in law's house from the time she was born until now. Cleaning and picking up your toys and keeping things organized is big on my wife's side of the family. It has trickled down to my now 3 year old. Last fall, during Tee Ball, she was much more concerned with picking up the balls that were hit, instead of her hitting, than the actual tee ball drills themselves. Me having my baseball background, and being super competitive, it drove me crazy lol, but I also knew doing tee ball that young was probably too soon to be productive at all.

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BluesBucksNHuskers said:

Waverly does a version of tee ball called “Blast ball” which is pretty much just tee ball with one base.

I coached when my son was 5 which was actually pretty fun.

We played one game against a team and the Mom coaches plan was to have kids who didn’t care, play ring around the Rosie behind the mound while the game was going on. I told her “No problem, but when this kid and this kid are up, they can hit the ball pretty hard - can you have them at least watch the batter so they don’t get hit by the ball.” She kind of rolled her eyes but said that’s fine.

My kid comes up to bat, I remind her “might want to have them watch here” she waves me off. My son hits it, bounces off the side of this little girls head straight into the air, another kid catches it. Little girl is screaming bloody murder, my son is balling because he’s out, little boy who caught it is going wild because he caught the ball. What a fucking shit show.

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