Spazsdad wrote:DonnieS wrote:It would be so great to be able to drive 1/2 hour or even an hour to get to pitching practice, instead of 5 hours, I love coaching but I wish I had a choice way back.
Hey Donnie, It takes me about seven minutes to get to the cages for DD's lessons

I remember flying into LA some time back and looking down and seeing all most as many baseball/softball fields as swimming pools.
When the school my kid signed with wanted to come down to see her practice and play, the fields we had them come to were a legitimate combat zone area. I asked the city to provide extra manpower for the park and extra police protection so we wouldnt have an incident. There were police cars on both sides of the complex and between the projects (shooting gallery) and the complex. The coaches were cool about it - but I was uptight about their safety up until I heard they had reached the airport.
I would have changed things - or tried to - but it was on a saturday and the coaches said where do you practice/play during the week. I said not knowing what they were planning, 'the girls are in a city league and play on wednesday night at xxxxx park in Corpus'. They said, 'great, we will see you there' - I go -"WAIT - ' They said ' ah, dont worry about it, we have seen worse.' Probably the only thing Coach said that I dont believe.