Abby ‘Clarifies’ What Really Happened

27 Wednesday May 2015

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Bryce Harper, Dear Eli, Granddaughter, Grandson, Home Plate Umpire, MillersTime.net, Vampire, Washington Nationals

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A few days ago, knowing that my grandson Eli was not yet reading MillersTime.net religiously, I read him my post about his 22-year-old hero Bryce Harper of the Washington Nationals.

Little did I realize that four-year-old granddaughter Abby was also listening to the story of Harper’s ejection by the home plate umpire.

Later that night I got a text message from their mother.

It read:

Abby tells me that Harper got in a fight with the vampire and got kicked out of the game.

And that clarifies everything.

A Question From a 4 1/2 Year Old

10 Wednesday Jul 2013

Posted by Richard in Family and Friends, Go Sox

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Grandson, Losing, Nats, Red Sox, Winning

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I was playing the card game “Go Fish” with my four and a half-year-old grandson the other day when he said, “It’s OK not to win, isn’t it?”

That was a bit of a surprise, as in the last six months or so he’s found a way to turn every possible kind of play into a game that has a score and a winner. Plus, he’s been quite skilled at setting the rules, and resetting them, to favor himself.

So clearly I was surprised when he came up with the question about not having to win.

Was some part of his parental unit trying to teach him about winning and losing? Has a teacher or a coach said something to him? Just what was going on here.?

And what should I tell him?