Today I learned about tryouts for a travel baseball organization in DC. We are pretty clueless on travel sports, but a friend of mine had signed her kids up for tryouts so I signed N up today. He was NOT happy about tryouts (tears, etc.) but we made a deal that if he went and it looked too intense, we could go home. Well, he went and stuck it out. He was one of the youngest kids there (if not the youngest) and some of the coaches were of the "tough love" variety. But he caught and hit and threw and did grounders and did baserunning drills. No idea if he will make the 9U team, which is a "practice squad", or even if he would want to play if he made the team, or even if there would be a season, but I am so proud of him for showing up and doing the whole hour of drills and practices.

Nats lost. (But did I mention that they won the WS last year?)