Another Season Begins…

How has everyone been doing? I just got back from a weekend away with my wife with no kids. It was nice to getaway like that. We ate some great food, hiked to a nice waterfall, saw some live Bluegrass at a festival, and most importantly just got to relax.

Now it’s time for me to live at the ballfield. I am coaching my daughters for Coach Pitch Softball ages 5-8, and I am coaching my son in Minor League Baseball ages 8-10. It’s going to be an interesting season as this will be my daughters first year having pitches thrown at them, they played tee-ball last year. Also this will be my son’s first year having a kid throwing pitches to him. He played machine pitch last year. We have been working on pitching and I imagine that is what we will concentrate heavily on with everyone on the team as most kids will have to pitch at some point in time.

I didn’t think I would enjoy coaching these kids as much as I do but, it takes my mind off of the problems we are faced with a few nights a week. I coached my older kids, now I have been coaching my younger kids for five straight years now. I’m stuck in it now. Believe it or not, it is hard to find people to coach. I have been blessed to have parents stick with me and I have had no problem finding assistant coaches. I’ve had the same assistants now for five years also. It’s turned into one big family. We all hang out together and everyone is always at each other’s kids birthdays party’s. It’s a nice escape from the world that gnaws on me.

Last night I got hit with a new tax assessment on my house. It was a substantial increase. My value doubled, just like that. People in this county are livid. It’s going to hurt.

I don’t even know what to say anymore. When I talk to people about the problems we are faced with, people are extremely angry and upset, but they just shrug their shoulders and say “what can we do? It’s the world we live in.” Then the vast majority turn the subject to their favorite sports team which at the moment is Basketball and March Madness. I’m too busy with my kids to be bothered with supporting thug ball.

We would be invincible if we would just stand together. Instead we allow pedophiles to dress in drag and dance in front of children. We allow political prisoners to be held without cause for over two years now. We have allowed our “government” to inject a poison into millions of our citizens without any repercussions. We have allowed fraudulent elections to stand. We have allowed money laundering thru Ukraine and the threat of WWIII to carry on without any protest. There are many other crimes I could name but that list would carry on for far too long.

I’ve devoted much of the last 15 years of my life to fighting this evil we are up against and it has meant nothing. It seems nobody is willing to risk their lives, their fortunes, and I don’t think many have any sacred honor left, but it seems no one is willing to risk anything.

It seems all I can do is coach 5-10 year olds at this point in a game that I couldn’t tell you one professional baseball players name.

I fear the future my children face. I hope they will know that I tried to do something. But I’m afraid they are going to have to bury a cowards bones when I pass eventually.

Yall have a good day.

I’ve got practice tonight.

Wes