The below is a hardly Walter Matthau…It is however the musings of a Little League coach who loves our boys and team. Our intrepid Rockies won their 17th game in a row yesterday and took the championship.

“Dear Rockies Parents, Friends, Coaches, Fans, and Rockies’ Players:

I must say that chemistry is a very important aspect in ones daily bustle and hustle. The challenge our minds and body’s are subjected to each day in their quests for equilibrium, cannot been calculated or hypothesized in a text book of today’s standards. The complexity is far beyond Beethoven’s 48 Page Sonata “Appasionatta”, or Einstein “Theory of Relativity”, and even more complicated than the formula for “getting along” with your family, friends, the world, and God.

Having the honor and opportunity to coach and manage my son’s teams for the past 5 seasons, has given me the chance to observe human behavior at its best. It has proven to me that motivating kids through positive reinforcement is the way positive chemistry begins. In fact, it is the only way for positive chemistry to react and to start its intergalactic magic. When positive reinforcement reacts with positive energy, it produces chemistry. When chemistry exists within a team, within a family, or between two individuals, it creates a certain bond or power that propells the spirit across the sky of glittering lace, where a team can win 16 games in a row, or 50 games in a row. The team with better chemistry will most always beat the team with better talent in this age group-within reason of course, because talent is individual driven where as chemistry is team driven. The Rockies have chemistry. The Rockies have talent. The other teams have the same amount of talent. I know this because Six of us spent several weekends and evenings analyzing the talents of each player and their statistical achievements during try outs, just to make sure the teams were paired evenly so one team wouldn’t dominate and discourage the others.

BUT DOMINATE AND DISCOURAGE WE DID, The difference between us and the others is the ROCKIES have CHEMISTRY. And Rittman, and all the other super kids, and the parents, and the coaches, and the way the chalked lines were drawn in the field….and so on!

It has been an honor and gift to be part of this team, and with a victory tomorrow, this may be the longest winning streak any of us will be part of in this life time. At the beginning of the season the Rockies resembled the farm team for the Bad News Bears. I remember whistling the tune as they over threw, under threw, dropped easy tosses, and hit like-well they didn’t hit. and at the end of the season we are riding a 16 game winning streak, and one more will give us that allusive championship title that we all deserve.

It shows very evident that recruiting the services of Tracy, George, John, and Jeff were critical factors in piecing the puzzle together. I only wish I was able to be more involved like previous years, but everything blended together as though it was suppose to be like this. It meshed, and gelled and blended like a fine margarita does at the pool’s swim up bar in Cabo San Lucas.

Thank you for everyone’s commitment to excellence, for your time, and for your support in making this a very special and successful season. These youngsters are very fortunate to have such good parents, who sacrifice a great deal, in paving a smoother road for our children, and our children’s children. And a special thanks to my wife Ann Marie who handled the responsibilities of our Team Mom very well, to Tracy for his time spent chasing balls at workouts, to George who was instrumental in developing the team’s chemistry, and would walk across the Canadian Alps barefoot pulling his BBQ with broken fingers to have the chance to BBQ for you, to John for his incredible coaching knowledge and style, and to Jeff for his enthusiastic, subdued, skip kickin, sixth sense experience, and for stepping in and sharing his skills, for managing the team in areas I could not or was not capable in doing, for communicating like a skilled leader he is, and for throwing the fewest strikeouts in league history to our baby Babe Ruths. You got game Jeff. Thank you!

I salute, and respect each of you for your contributions.

Best wishes for happiness to everyone,

Coach Mike”

As we thought about our fall collection, the election kept percolating up. This election is historical for so many reasons…We couldn’t pass up the opportunity to have fun with the idea of Super Delegates. While an abstract notion with regard to the election process…Every parent can relate to our own little Super Delegates. How many times as parents have our intentions been thrown out the window as one of children has decided on their own course of action? Our kids are our little Super Delegates.

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