GARRY
Listen up everyone. As a group of 10-year-olds—
COOPER
I’m 11.
GARRY
No you’re not.
COOPER
I’m gonna be 11 in less than a year though.
SANTIAGO
All of us are.
BRAYDEN
What were you saying, Coach Garry?
GARRY
I was ABOUT to say something motivational, but I got interrupted and now I forget.
LANDON
I think we’ve heard your inspirational speeches enough to figure out what you were gonna say.
GARRY
Alright genius, what was I gonna say?
LANDON
Something about how we have to go get ‘em.
HUDSON
And also something about how important it is to score more runs than the other team.
WESLEY
And then you’ll go on to explain that there’s a chance all the other teams are cheating and we just don’t know it.
GAVIN
Yep, then through in a conspiracy theory or two about aliens living among us and being on the other team.
GARRY
Whoa! I never said that.
GAVIN
It’s been heavily implied before.
GARRY
When?
GAVIN
When you said the person who hit a walk off home run against us must have been an illegal alien.
GARRY
Now now, remember we don’t speak of that incident.
COLTON
I’m pretty sure it happened more than once. That good pitcher, the second baseman who made a diving catch in the outfield, the center fielder who made an unassisted triple play…all illegal aliens.
GARRY
Alright well there’s no way to prove what I said isn’t true. But again, we don’t talk about what comes out of my mouth in moments of frustration.
LANDON
Oh, but I’m not allowed to swear. Got it.
GARRY
Nobody is.
LANDON whispers something under his breath. The rest of the team laughs.
GARRY
Alright I’ll just assume those were more swears and nobody is listening to me.
LANDON
You’re damn right about that.
GARRY
I’ll settle for it.
JAXON
Now that the game’s about to begin, can I go hit?
GARRY
Are you batting first today?
JAXON
Yeah. You didn’t know that?
GARRY
I did. Just making sure you can read.
JAXON
I’m 10. Not 1.
JAXON walks up to the plate. He hits a high fly ball but it robbed of a home run after the left fielder leaped to make the catch as the ball was crossing over the fence.
GARRY
Well that’s a shame.
COLTON
He must be an illegal alien.
SANTIAGO
Agreed, no human can jump that high.
HUDSON
What do you think, Coach Garry? Is the kid who made that great catch to rob us of a home run an illegal alien?
GARRY
I think it’s about time I start watching my mouth.