Rob Warren

Hi.

I've been a baseball coach for 20 years.

A couple of years ago, I was coaching a team of 12 and 13-year-olds.

And I'd known most of these kids for years.

I'd coached them in various teams.

And it was late July.

And late July for 12 and 13-year-olds means it's the playoffs, which is very exciting.

My team was pretty good.

We'd won most of our games.

But there was one other team that was better than us.

And that team was better than us because the three coaches of that team had rigged the player draft so that they had the three best players.

And so they beat everybody, which was awesome.

And as luck would have it, on this July night, we had to play that team in the playoffs.

And it was a beautiful Friday, July evening.

It was late at night.

8 o'clock, which is late for 12-year-olds.

And it was under the lights, which is very exciting for 12-year-olds.

And because it was so late, all the families were there.

There were 75 or 100 parents spread out around the game.

And the game started out really well for us.