Happy Birthday Doug!

This kid is awesome.  He's kind, he's smart, he's intellectually curious, he's funny, he's a wonderful big brother and he's a really good baseball player.  Our oldest son turns 15 today, and it's still somewhat incredible to acknowledge we now have a kid in high school.  Doug played A LOT of baseball in 2021, after spending the first half of 2020 stuck inside with his parents and his younger brother Ben.  He began the year with the Dodgers, playing for his local Little League and then spent the summer months with All-Star Baseball, traveling to several different tournaments.  Finally, and after lengthy negotiations with his agents, he signed up to play for the South Jersey Rams, which was much closer to us and provided him an opportunity to play with a great group of teammates and coaches on a regular basis.  He'll go into 2022 looking forward to starting his high school baseball career with college (gulp!) baseball on the horizon.

Like I said, this kid is awesome.

Memory Lane
2006 to 2008 - Pre-The Phillies Room years
2009 - Doug turns 3
2010 - Took the year off . . . bad father!
2011 - A Shane Victorino card for Doug
2012 - Doug with the Phanatic, turns 6
2013 - Doug on the Braves, turns 7
2014 - Doug on the Marlins, turns 8
2015 - Doug on the Diamondbacks, turns 9
2016 - Doug and Pete Mackanin
2017 - Warming up with the Braves
2018 - On the mound for the Phillies

2019 - With All-Star Baseball and White Sox

2020 - Pandemic era baseball action

2021 - So much baseball . . . Dodgers, All-Star, Rams