Cut our time short over on the west coast and headed back home for the game, it wasn't the best game, pitching a noon game is out of the ordinary, but he faired well. The team plays well when he pitches, and the run support has been very helpful.
Paul bid on the camo jersey and won, he says this will be the last time, but I doubt it. The American Cancer Society were the recipients of the auction, the lady who took our CC# told me that they sold every jersey for the highest bid allowed. I figured out that was about 6-7K. That's a great thing. Since Paul had seen DK in this jersey he says it was special. I think he's got his eye on the retro jersey too. It's too funny how much dads will spend on this kind of stuff. Husband is very careful when it comes to spending, but I am sure he would spend his last dime if he had to. He said he wants his grandchildren to someday have their dads jerseys..... yeah right!
The team left today at 4 pm for the 14-15 hour trip to Corpus Christi for three games there and three in San Antonio. Dave pitches better at home than on the road, he wil have one start on the road on Sunday, should be interesting to see how he does, but he has been on a roll lately, of the 9 starts, he has 6 wins, 1 loss and 2 no decisions. Best record he has ever had since HS. It's been a lot of fun to watch him blossom in a difficult league.
As far as getting to AAA, I think he's in a good place right now (he didn't like that I said that to him). He was put on notice that he might be called up to pitch AAA yesterday, that didn't happen, and IMO that's ok. This is just my parent opinion, but not sure how well these young guys can perform going up for a day (on the day you have to pitch) and then back down again the next day, but I suppose he might have to get used to it, at one point in time. :) As far as a call up to the show, the cards don't do that until they have to, unless they either want to trade you or protect you. They just aren't that eager to have your ML time clock begin sooner than it should. Right now if things go well, his stats will send him to the Texas League All Star Game (he was rostered for high A All Star game last year but got called up before the game), so that would be a big feather in his cap for him.
No doubt there are rewards watching your son play at this level, but it has not been an easy road, it hasn't always been that fun, and very rarely is for most parents when your player has an injury. Takes a lot of maturity to handle all that is put on your plate. And for what it's worth it's a job, and it's big business, keep that in mind for the upcoming draft.
Thank you all for your support, kind emails and keeping up with his starts, that means a lot, more than you all might imagine.
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