Apologies for being so absent lately.
I’ve seen a whole lot of baseball these last eight days — most of it spectacularly good, with a dose of awful sprinkled in that’s easily washed off — and I should be back now to my semi-normal (that is, predictably erratic) perch at a keyboard, as one of big league baseball’s most meaningful calendar circles approaches.
I want to congratulate the 10 boys who have grown so much in the game of baseball under the guidance of Coach Mike Tovar and Coach Chris “Chilli” Callicutt, learning about technique and about approach, and about character and integrity, all of which persists in different forms, and will continue to pay off between the lines, and in so many other ways whenever it is that each of them is done suiting up, and one day finds himself teaching his own kids.