Favorite Time of Year!!

It is fast approaching my favorite time of year when it comes to sports. Every year around February and March and spring training for baseball begins it is exciting to me!

It is especially so this year. Beginning Monday my son Brandon will start a three day try-out for the middle school baseball team. It is the first year in the history of the school that they have had a baseball team for the middle schoolers.

Of course, as all doting fathers would say, "I think my son to be the best one trying out." Shouldn't it be that way really. I love to watch him play. I have coached him all but one season of his life and have watched him mature into a fine ball player. Did I say he was the greatest?

All doting aside, please pray for him that he do well and do his best. Many of the boys in our league have been getting private lessons and attending a local baseball training facility called Diamond Dreams. It is just too expensive for us. I told him last week, "Well son, we haven't been able to go to Diamond Dreams, so it's just you and me." He said that he liked that even better. Baseball has been one way the we have had a very close relationship and that is more important to me than winning any game. There are so many young kids that do not have that with their fathers and is probably one of the contributing factors to many problems kids have these days. To God be the glory for our relationship!

Please excuse me for putting up a picture of him from last year's Dixie Youth World Series for which we were the host team. This particular photo was taken by the local newspaper of him making the relay throw to first from short stop on a double play. It was one of four double plays they turned in the series. We came in second place behind Arkansas. It was an exciting series!