Lazy Sunday

I have been preoccupied with yard work durring the last few weeks and have been remiss in my failure to write for this blog.  Even thought today is a beautiful blue sky day in Salt Lake, I am taking it easy from yard work.  I bought a Sunday New York Times at the grocery store and took myself to breakfast.  I drove in Sharon's old red mustang convertible to IHOP.  I had the diet breakfast of scrambled eggs, hash browns, sausage and pan cakes.  I finished reading the Times and the Salt Lake Tribune in the BudCave.

The Tribune had an interesting article about a highschool baseball teram in Phoenix ("Mesa Prep") that won the league's championship because their opponent ("Our Lady of Sorrowers"), forefeited the game.  Our Lady of Sorrowers chose to forefeit the game because Mesa Prep's  second baseman was a 15 year old female. The female plays vollyball and baseball.  She is an athlete.  She tried out for the boys' baseball team because the small school did not have a girl's baseball or softball team.  The boys team coach and the boys on the team were supported of her efforts to make the team and she tried out and in fact made the team.  Our Lady of Sorrowers refused to play baseball against a team that had a girl on it.  This story dumbfounded me.  This is not a story about girls boxing boys, or wrestling boys, or playing football against boys.  This is baseball, a non-contact sport. In my view if a girl can make the boys baseball team, my hat is off to her she should be allowed to play and be welcome to play. Being married to the Lovely Sharon, it is clear to me that I cannot beat her or most of her friends at golf.  I can't beat her at tennis.  She has a good mechanical mind, I do not. People have skills and talents that others do not. W why would anyone want to prevent that person from excelling.  If I were on a boy's baseball team I would have thought it was cool to play against a team that had a girl player.  I wonder what would happen if Our of Lady of Sorrowers math team were to compete against a school whose math team has a girl on it.

I visited my mother yesterday for an early mother's day.  I also visited my daughter-in-law Alli and my grandkids Kendall and Grant.  What a nice day.