Pre-game jitters. They have hit our house hard, and my boys could hardly fall asleep last night. We love baseball at our house but like any sport, some games are bigger and way more important than others. This is one of those games. All of their friends will be there today-the guys they’ve grown up with on their club teams, school friends, and even new friends from the ball field. They’ve played with these boys in front of cheering sections on the community baseball fields and for their own fun in the backyard.
On this get-up-before-the-alarm morning, their dopamine is already revved up just thinking about the day and the excitement it will bring. They will take showers, get dressed, pack their lunches, and pile in the car to pick up some friends on the way to the big game. The smiles on their faces are priceless and the middle school joking in the back seat tells me that they have already entered “the (boy) zone.”
