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Monday, October 4, 2010

The Bad News Bears

Soccer season has come and gone. Kye proved to be a pretty amazing player but his team, which I fondly refer to as "The Bad News Bears", failed to win a single game. We knew things were bad when the day of the first game came and his team still didn't have a coach. We all showed up to the game and reluctantly one of the dads agreed to coach. Todd currently spends about 14 hours a day trying to finish his dissertation but he told the coach if he needed help Todd would help coach. At every game Kye's team seemed to be about a head shorter than the opposing team. They also only had 6 or 7 players show up for each game. You need 7 to play! After the 2nd game the coach asked Todd to coach the next 2 games because he would be gone. The coach then didn't show up for the next 3 games and when he finally did come back he sat by and didn't coach so Todd stepped up and became the coach.
Bless their little hearts! They tried so hard and never gave up. Because so few of them showed up for each game they never got to rotate in and never got a break! They were so exhausted by the end of each game! There is a lot to be learned from losing and although it may seem strange I am glad Kye had this opportunity. He kept a positive outlook through out and I'm so proud of him.
Since Todd wasn't the "real" coach we weren't sure what to do after the last game about a medal or trophy. So I made them "medals" out of licorice ropes. A few of them asked where there real medals were! Oh well, I tried!

1 comments:

xóchitl said...

i want one of those licorice medals, who cares about a real one. c'mon!