Back in Time

Clare has been spending her weekends this summer helping recruit for Valpo.  Because of byzantine NCAA rules, she can have more contact with people than her coach, especially when it comes to parents.  Fathers see that Valpo tee shirt, and they come a-flocking.  How come I never did this?

All of Clare’s travel teams were local; sometimes, you had girls from different counties, usually Cook and DuPage, but that was it.  According to my daughter, the teams now are so un-local the players don’t practice on off-days.  They can’t; everyone lives out of state.  At least that was the case with the New Jersey team Coach Clare watched yesterday.

The good news was she got home in time from the tournament out in Elgin to watch the Sox-Cubs game with me.  Talk about Go-Go redux—the Sox score one run via hit-by-pitch, stolen base, sacrifice bunt and sac fly, enough to win, 1-0.  Of course, back in the day, it wouldn’t have taken 2:40 to play the game, but, like they say, things change.