Hosting the Players
Our city is part of the CICL summer baseball league. Basically it's a summer college baseball league comprised of some (but not all) decent ball players from colleges throughout the US. For going on 4 years now we have hosted 1 or 2 players from the league. They stay in our home and we in exchange get free season passes to the games. We've been pretty lucky to get some really great guys. The last two years we had the same two players stay with us. This year, one of the players from the last two years opted to try a new host family - one without children. Hmm. What do you say to that. Actually, I'm Ok with it. Kids in general can be exhausting and I've already posted about one of my kids so you may get the gist of where he's coming from. :<)
Anyway, my kids revere these boys who come to stay with us. They tell anyone who will listen that they keep baseball players in their basement. Unwittingly they make it sound like the girl kept in the well in Silence of The Lambs. I've broken the news that the one player won't be staying with us again after all. They seem to have come to accept this since a new player will take his place. Unfortunately for the player who chose a different home, my kids will still see him at the games and they've made it clear he still belongs to them.
The other player who has stayed with us the last two years is no longer eligible this year as he is a senior in college and played all the seasons allowed. He was drafted by the Cubs last year but turned them down in order to finish out his baseball scholarship at college. He's having a great year though and is sure to be drafted again this year. He's the greatest kid. We weren't able to make it to any of his games this season but we still keep in touch and he contacts us on holidays as though we were family.
All in all hosting players has been a great experience. My family had hosted an exchange student while I was in high school so I was used to the whole "strangers in the house" thing. So we are looking forward to getting two new players in about 3 weeks and the summer of baseball will begin.
Anyway, my kids revere these boys who come to stay with us. They tell anyone who will listen that they keep baseball players in their basement. Unwittingly they make it sound like the girl kept in the well in Silence of The Lambs. I've broken the news that the one player won't be staying with us again after all. They seem to have come to accept this since a new player will take his place. Unfortunately for the player who chose a different home, my kids will still see him at the games and they've made it clear he still belongs to them.
The other player who has stayed with us the last two years is no longer eligible this year as he is a senior in college and played all the seasons allowed. He was drafted by the Cubs last year but turned them down in order to finish out his baseball scholarship at college. He's having a great year though and is sure to be drafted again this year. He's the greatest kid. We weren't able to make it to any of his games this season but we still keep in touch and he contacts us on holidays as though we were family.
All in all hosting players has been a great experience. My family had hosted an exchange student while I was in high school so I was used to the whole "strangers in the house" thing. So we are looking forward to getting two new players in about 3 weeks and the summer of baseball will begin.
posted by SonSon at 12:03 AM
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