Why I Drink Wine

Holy Moly! The last few days have been full of emails, drama and politics; mostly to do with Little League.

When I took on the presidency of MWLL, I thought, how hard can this be? I don't really know that much about baseball but there are coaches for that. I'm organized, I can delegate, I'm happy, people like me, meetings don't really bother me, I generally write short emails and I rarely "reply all". Little did I know what was in store for me. In the last few days, I have written some of the longest emails of my life.

Our fields and rec center area are part of a major renovation project that was suppose to start about 10 years ago. It is all based on a housing development project and the fees developers pay for parks and recreation space. Things are finally starting to progress so I feel the need to be informed. I want to make sure that MMWLL gets the best new fields possible and they are built to the correct specifications.
 I go to the rec council meetings, I go to the planning commission meetings. Our councilman's assistant contacts me to speak at a press conference. Since I don't want to look stupid I try to find out what its about. Are they finally going to announce a start date for the renovations???? Yahoo, I think... but oh no... after weeding through tons of emails and continually asking for clarification for 2 months,  I finally get to the bottom line. The press conference is to announce the city MAY start to enter into negotiations for a NEW development project to start in about 10 more years and language MAY be written in that MMWLL MAY benefit by getting some money that MAY get our renovations started in NEXT FEW YEARS! I will not be on TV speaking at that press conference. This is why I drink wine.


While this is all going on, the SD Padres have offered some LL districts a uniform sponsorship deal. The original deal was the Padres will provide for FREE official jersey and hats for all players in the T-Ball, Farm, Minors and Challenger divisions. How can you go wrong??? Official major league, button down jerseys. 20-30 versions to choose from. Did I mention FREE? What's the catch, I think. I get an email yesterday from our district administrator. We need to know how many jerseys we want. By noon tomorrow and sizes. And they will cost $5 and there are 12 styles to choose from which we won't know until we commit. We don't start registration until Dec. and finish the 2nd week of January!!!! How are we supposed to know how many we need. So I compile all the emails into a word document, for easy reading and send it out to the board for an emergency email discussion and vote. I haven't opened that can of worms yet. It can wait until tomorrow. This is why I drink wine.


The forecast calls for rain tomorrow. Its San Diego, it hardly ever rains. Should we close the fields and cancel tomorrow's games? What time? Soccer was canceled today because the fields were too wet from yesterday's rain. Email coaches with the plan, make sure the website will get updated... This is why I drink wine.


My friends ask me if I want to join their book club. I love to read. I want to be in a book club. "Do you read self help books?", I ask. "No, we read all different kinds of books." they say. " Great! What if I don't finish the book?", I ask. "That's OK", they say. " You can still come and drink wine."
That's why they are my friends.

This is why I am writing this while drinking wine.

It is what it is.

Namaste