Baseball Season starting

Baseball season has started, and in many ways, it's the most challenging yet exciting year yet.

It's challenging because the winter weather has been the worst it's ever been before a baseball season. I don't know when we'll be able to use the field. Seriously. It already doesn't hold water well, and it's still pretty much full of snow where it's not really, really muddy or full of entire lakes of water.

It's also challenging for the reasons it is exciting: this is seriously the deepest well of talent I've ever seen try out. Usually we have around 40 or so try out, but several of the younger kids are not baseball players. They've come out because they wanted to try it. Not this year - these are all baseball players, all the way down to the 9th graders.

It's going to be hard to make those cuts (I wish we had a JV team. The funding was cut by the city years ago, before I came into the system in 2001) this year. But we're going to have a helluva good team.

Oh yeah. Being overwhelmed isn't the start of it to describe me these days. National Board stuff is due March 31st, and I'm really behind. Not to mention two new units that I'm creating lesson plans day-by-day for. I'm getting home at around 8pm every night and then spend a couple of hours planning for the next day. It's tough right now. But after March, should be better.