Didn’t do a thing for Halloween this weekend. My son got asked to play in a baseball tournament (the team was short some players) so we did that instead. He got one hit, three walks and struck out 3 times. It was hot – over 100 the whole time (I wouldn’t have worked on anything in that heat regardless).

Since I have no Halloween related updates let me rant a little about baseball.

My son (we call him Sharky) is eight years old. Now there is only so much you can teach and expect 8 year olds to do. I live in the LA area so one might assume that I’m a Dodger fan – you would be wrong. I will route for the Dodgers when Tommy Lasorta is rotting in hell. One of the things I always disliked about Lasorta was his tactics – get a man on first, bunt him to second, bunt him to third. (now usually you have two outs at this point) so you have the next guy up fly or ground out tiring to nock the man on third home. Seemed pointless to me. This was the same tactics the coach of the team Sharky was playing for kept trying. They lost all three games.  With kids this young the only real strategies is to tell them all to swing away.

Next week back to Halloween