Looking at this picture makes me think I squandered a golden opportunity playing for the Red Sox.Fuck, I hit like 60 home runs in my first year of T-Ball (that's right, I tied the Babe Ruth's 1927 HR record). W-O-O-T!
My tiny self would saunter up to the plate, lean in and stomp on that fucking ball, driving it 3, 6, sometimes 9 feet from the plate! Shit was crazy yo!
OK, in reality I played little league baseball for exactly 3 years.
Each season brought a brief moment of misplaced hope but was mostly filled with frustration as it became increasingly obvious of my incapability of catching, nor hitting, the goddamn ball. I sucked!
About a year or so after quitting I was told by an optometrist that the reason I was suffering from extremely painful headaches during school classes was because, well, I was blind as a fucking bat!
Great, "no wonder I can't see that chalkboard or hit that baseball " I thought both then and just now.
Sometimes I wonder if I would have been more of a "jock" had my vision been corrected at an earlier age than it was.
Could I have "been a countenda?" or would I have been just another mediocre suburban kid playing ball and having fun with it? Is there a difference?
And would being a successful "jock" be of benefit to my subsequent years? And if so, how would my life be different, at the end of this day, or at the beginning of the next one?
Obviously, this is a moot point now, but sometimes I have those "It's a Wonderful Life" moments.
PS - is it wrong to want to pinch my own cheeks?
8 comments:
damn you are looking fine!
Yes, totally pinchable. And at least it was not a Yankee uniform.
Cute kid! :-) I remember those t-ball days. Used to sit in the outfield and play with the dirt. I can't use glasses as my excuse tho. I stuck with it until high school -- although I graduated from t-ball to softball. No, it wasn't a girls' team! Who knows -- perhaps you would've done well!! You can always try again now and give Grady a run for his money... and yes, I agree with your taste. He's amazing!
what a cutie. i never played baseball, i was a soccer boy. wish i had tried it.
Such a cutie!
Im gonna start putting up my baby soccer pics...we will have a competition over who was the most adorable...haha!
Awwww!
Cutest kid on the team, I'm sure of it. I bet all the moms had back channel talks with your mom about making a trade...
Nothing Golden Stays
!que adorable! i started getting into baseball my sophomore year in high school (this was before i was sent to boarding school). i concentrated less on the ball and bat and more on my best friend (who was a total hottie). anyway, that was then... this is now. i'm home for the holidays, and it's insane looking at pics from so long ago. we were sooooo CUTE. and aren't we still?
Justin!
Is this really a picture of you?!
How unbelievably CUTE!!
What the hell happened to you since then to fuck it all up?
Just teasing you....kind of!
-Dean *(~_^)
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