I'm still here! More to Come.

Okay. No post in a year. What can I say, it has been a very busy year with our business and with baseball. Our business is related to tourism in Mexico and as you can imagine 2010 was a tough year. Not as tough as 2009 which was abyssal but still not back to normal. We live in a very peaceful, culturally significant part of Mexico in Tepoztlán, a world apart from the violence reported on the border and other areas but people have a tendency to focus on the sensational and generalize about all of Mexico. But, thank God, things are starting to look up and reservations are slowly but surely on the rise.

But enough about business. It was a good year for baseball for me and my family. My sons are both playing well in both Morelos and Mexico City. My 6 year old played on a all-star team in Mexico City and became a home run phenomenon. He is now playing in a category above his age in 7-8 where they are just starting to pitch. He has a great (sometimes overwhelming and all-consuming) passion for it. My 2 year old hits a live pitched ball which is great for his age. Of course he still has a tendency to run to 3rd base first but that will come. Being the second child, he has the advantage of seeing his brother and towing the company line. He just got baseball shoes by default when we ordered a pair for his older brother that didn't fit so his brother generously donated them to him. We had to put socks on the inside because they were a little big. He loves them and has not taken them off since he got them. He thanks his brother profusely and tries to persuade his parents every night to sleep with them on.

I decided that it was time to have a 7-8 year old team in Tepoztlan and have been practicing in town in a very picturesque soccer field close to the mountains. The kids here have never seen a baseball game let alone played a game but my kids who now have 6 months are now competing with kids from Mexico City that have played all of their lives. We got a generous donation for new uniforms, received donations of equipment from friends and family, and have received support from the municipality for the field with an offer to create a new baseball field in town. There are going to be a lot of fun things coming up that I promise to report.

I am playing baseball at a very good level. I have kept up the exercise. I played on various teams in the state of Morelos and in Mexico City. I played on the national over-40 baseball tournament in Aldama, Tamps. for the state of Morelos and competed with some teams filled with guys who are still playing Mexican professional baseball. I received an interesting offer to play as a professional in Monterrey on Sundays. More on that later. Right now I am playing as a paid player for a team in a place that you for sure have never heard of called Jonacatepec in exchange for baseball equipment for my kids in Tepoztlan. As my wife found out last week, it appears I have groupies that come to my games.

Anyway, even though this blog has probably more members of my family following than anyone else, it is probably therapeutic for me. I will promise to write more often. If a blog falls in the forest does it make a sound?