Girls Just Want to have fun

Katie and Nicky had another softball game last night. Can you really call it a game? One team scores five runs and that's all they can in an inning, so then they switch. The next team scores five runs and they switch. And so it goes on. The male coaches (why do we have mostly male coaches for girls' sports?)talk serious and expect higher level thinking of game plan and strategies, while in the dug out the 12-14 year old girls do chants, cheers and laugh and giggle with each other. Girls want and know how to have fun. They like to do well and win, but I think at the heart of it all is just being together and having fun! (By the way....this week a game every day from Saturday to Friday, with 2 days of 2 games each (baseball and softball). And the weather has ranged from 85 degrees to 40 degrees on various nights....what will I do when I don't have this anymore?

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  1. BobApril 30, 2009 at 5:09 AM

    Come on now, it's not that bad. The other team only scored 4 runs in one of the innings. ;-)

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