Cassidy is a better guitar player than I am.
And now Liam is a better baseball player than I am.
He's been dying to play catcher all season, but the coach doesn't like to put kids in the high stress positions (pitcher and catcher) until he thinks they're ready, since he believes that putting them in those positions when they are likely to fail isn't a good way to build up their confidence. So Liam has been waiting and waiting and waiting, not always patiently.
Tonight, though, was the night when Coach put lots of kids in positions that they've never played. So for one inning, Liam got to play catcher:
And then the next inning, totally out of the blue, he got to pitch. And got to look good doing it, too.
Walked only one, and allowed no runs (thanks to some excellent fielding by the team).
Fucking bad-ass.
My parents wouldn't let me play little league. They said "They only let the good players play and make the ones that are not so good sit on the bench." Thanks for the vote of confidence, folks.
Good times for Cassidy!