Baseball has ramped up. I always consider baseball season the start of the new football year. Time to polish playbooks and recruit. We always encourage our kids to play sports other than football in the Spring. We’re not being judgmental about it. We just want kids to try everything and it’s annoying when we lose kids in to baseball in the Fall.

This upcoming season will be our last together as my 8th graders will age out. This has been a magnificent team. We will have played at the Division 1 level all seven seasons (2nd through 8th grade). JYFA is a monster organization in the suburbs of Denver, Colorado. I expect we will field 30 teams in the 8th grade division this year. We play in one of the smallest associations in the league by population– less than 16,000 residents. Yet our team has finished as #3 or #4 every single season. We’ve won more Division 1 games and more Division 1 playoff games than any Mountain Area youth team in over twenty years. I’m very proud of them for that. Although I’m already a little sad thinking about the end of the run, I’m very much looking forward to this season and to watching these boys play in high school. They’re an awesome group.