Rally Hats: Check! May 17, 2008
Posted by Anya in : spontaneous degeneration , add a commentThis post is pretty much a follow-up to Cheering, due to some excellent work by our team at an early morning, rainy game.
Ah, yes. The 8:45 game. Lovely, isn’t it? And it began… raining. I thought of Rob McKenna. 
But still they played on.
I think I’ll mention here that they won too.
Also that I did not really know that it was possible for three innings to take the better part of two hours. Yeah. Two hours is the time limit. And we got three innings in.
There was chatter on our team. They picked up where they left off on Thursday night — excited, ready to cheer, and ready to play hard. In the first inning, they all had their rally hats going. Rally hats, for some reason, are extremely important.
You don’t know what a rally hat is? That’s okay. I believe that our team coined the team and the peculiar method of wearing them. They turn their hats inside out. And yell, “Rally, rally, RALLY!” But it sounds cooler to call them “rally hats” rather than “inside out hats”. Coach Doug actually told the players to put on their rally hats the other night, and did it himself. How cool do you get?
I was especially proud of our team — and coaches — because the other team’s coaches were not being good sports. It’s sad when the kids on the team are acting more maturely than the adults. Miss Dance and I decided that we would have been issuing warnings from the press box… “Less chatter in the home dug out!” No trying to psych out the other team by complaining that they aren’t swinging at anything when nothing is coming in the strike zone! Bleh.
And then, directly after we won the game *grins* I was listening to the kids in our dugout. They were busy commending each other — especially Josiah, who pitched quite well the rather tense last inning — and Brayden added, “And the other team played a good game! They almost came back! That was a GREAT GAME!”
Great attitude, too. 
