Draft night!

(this picture was from winterball, the first time they ever played on the same team)






Tuesday night was draft night for our little league. Kirk is the major player agent so he was responsible for running the draft. This will be A.J.'s second year in Majors and as most of you know he is on the Yankees. Because he was already drafted to the team last year he is a returning player. All three of A.J.'s coaches last year had boys moving up into the junior division. This meant the entire coaching staff plus nine of the twelve players were gone. Not knowing who was going to be on the team or who would be coaching it has caused alot of concern for A.J.
We were thrilled when we found out that our good friend, David (who by the way is Kirk's assistant coach on the traveling team) was picked to manage the Yankees. Adam, his son (a good friend to A.J.) would automatically be on the team. This was a great start! So we were really excited on tuesday night to see which kids would be drafted to our team. We were pacing the floor waiting for Kirk to get home and tell us! He had great news for us! Several of the kids drafted are close friends of the boys and we are good friends with the parents.

The most wonderful news of all though was that our little Austin was drafted to our team too! The boys will be playing together! Austin was the only 9 year old drafted to the Majors! Most of the boys are between 11- 12. The funny part was when David picked Austin the registration officer had to tell him that he didn't even have paper work for 10 year olds there, let alone the 9 year olds!
This should be a really fun season for the kids!