Whassup with my boy!

Well, Logan's baseball season this year was a bust.  He was having the best season, performance-wise, of his life.  After just a couple of weeks, he had two HR, a handful of doubles, a few triples.  His performance was absolutely phenomenal.

Then, he developed heel pain, which turned out to be a case of Sever's disease.  We'll have to be mindful of it from here on out.

He's already doing basketball workouts (for the tryouts... in NOVEMBER.)  It's workout out pretty much like I remember it from my days of youth.  Basketball was the first teams that were hard to even make the cut on.  It was the first sport you saw where kids focused solely on it.

Baseball is sort of that way but in a strange sense.  It was hard to make the team, but you knew who the team was going to be.  By the time the kids hit middle school, you pretty much know who the ballplayers are and who they aren't.  Lots of sociological reasons for this, many of them bad, in my opinion, but that's just the way it is.

Logan has a straight shot to his Freshman team.  That won't be a problem.  After that, it will just depend on his physical development and how much work he wants to put into it.  That's 3 more years away, though and it mostly depends on his attitude towards baseball.

Football will start soon and I'm actually glad that he's doing basketball workouts because there's no doubt he'll hit the football season in shape.  Of course, I'm worried as hell that he could get a head injury, but that's every football parent's nightmare.  I wish to heck he'd do something else, but I doubt he will.

I try never to miss an opportunity to emphasize to my son that sports is about having fun.  I don't ever want to think he's playing a sport because I'm forcing him to.

That being said, it wouldn't surprise me if he ended up playing rec baseball next year.  I actually think he'd find it a lot more fun than his baseball experience in travel.  His skills are solid.  Yeah, he'll take a little hit in terms of development but he's gotten the early development he needs.  He'll be fine.

At this point, I think I might enjoy rec baseball more, too.