re: If the travel baller in your life has a birthday coming up

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I hear the Branson trip is fun too.....

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DO NOT do Branson. It is a ghost town of a development of shite that never developed and crap fields. There is one great field, two ok, and the rest are like someone built a field out of their pocket change and put out in a cotton field.

My son went up there. Played 5 pool then got rushed thru a rain delayed bracket play. Lost in the finals at about 2:30 AM with fog so thick. The only redeeming thing is the area is ok for when not playing. Lots of stuff kids like. And some of the dads that were staying on site stayed and watched us play the final while doing shots. They were chanting our kids names and cheering for them against this big name team out of Virginia who had flown in two pitchers for the semis and final, they had beat the hell out of everyone. We were beating their arse until we just ran out of pitching. Lost like 10-8.

At the end they realized they had no awards so they ran to the gift shop and gave our kids a few mis matched hats that said Ballpark of America. May be the first time I heard my kid cuss. 8-1 on the week and delirious from the time of morning and after 15 minutes of waiting here is a hat.