Little League Final, Game 1

[hecubot]

So over the last two days there was a furious volley of emails between the Mets coaches, myself, Chris and Elliot, about how to play this game. We had to take into account: (1) inning restrictions on certain pitchers (primarily Reed - who had pitched the most for us); (2) whether Eian and Jallah would be available on Friday night (No on Jallah,

Comments

[hereward]

Wow, that made for some exciting reading! Congratulations to you both.

[stroppy_baggage]

Bizarre, my post was going to read "Wow, that's amazing. Congrats." It bears a weird resemblance to hereward's post.

Anyway, well done to you and the team.

[serasempre]

Holy cow can you tell a story. I had tears in my eyes for the losing boys. Such an awesome game. I'm so glad Emmett's team won.

[sail_aweigh]

Wonderful! I was practically standing up cheering them on as I read! Congratulate Emmett for me. And, good job with the coaching. You and your fellow coaches have built a remarkable team of kids.

[veejane]

...and then, you all went home and rechristened yourselves the 2004 Red Sox!

Very exciting. I hope somebody was around taking lots of pictures, because that's the kind of event you want mementoes for -- little objects that carry the weight of all that feeling and tension and exultation.