wanderingfrog
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Post by wanderingfrog on Nov 27, 2008 17:38:05 GMT -5
I've always wondered... if Kristy loves sports so much, and baseball in particular, why did it take her until eighth grade to even consider trying out for the softball team at SMS? Before she joins the team in #74, we never see her playing a real game, just coaching the Krushers or playing in the yard with her brothers. I know she played some organized softball when she was younger, like at that camp in her Portrait Collection, but why didn't she play on the SMS team earlier?
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wanderingfrog
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Post by wanderingfrog on Nov 27, 2008 19:56:09 GMT -5
I'm pretty sure they had a softball team before that, because the hazing was a "tradition." I do agree with you that she enjoys coaching more than playing, but I don't think Kristy realizes that until Kristy at Bat.
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Post by sparklymouse on Nov 28, 2008 11:21:52 GMT -5
I wondered the same thing when I read Kristy and the Copycat. Why she hadn't joined a team earlier, I mean. Being on a school team is rather time consuming, and she was always so busy already. If Kristy's life was a totem pole then I think her personal time (time she sets aside just for her enjoyment) would be squished at the very bottom, under the BSC, the clients, her family, the Krushers, schoolwork, etc. She may be bossy and controlling, but she's also the most generous with her time.
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Post by softball on Nov 28, 2008 17:07:02 GMT -5
Maybe she did not have time to be on a softball team before her mom married Waston because she had to watch David Micheal once a week after school, and a team sport has practices everyday after school.
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wanderingfrog
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Post by wanderingfrog on Nov 28, 2008 20:56:26 GMT -5
^I thought that maybe it was because of David Michael, too, but then I remembered that Charlie is on the football team, and a high school football team probably has a more intensive practice schedule than a middle school softball team.
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Post by greer on Nov 30, 2008 13:02:26 GMT -5
It is pretty strange, especially considering that her brothers were in little league. You'd think that Mrs. Thomas would have signed her up for the softball equivalent.
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Post by starrynight on Dec 1, 2008 12:55:20 GMT -5
I had the same thoughts about Kristy and softball. I just assumed it never occured to the writers to actually put her on a team.
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Post by softball on Dec 1, 2008 17:45:41 GMT -5
From what I remember about the book the team was not exactly the nicest of people. Maybe she never wanted to be on the team before
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Post by sparklymouse on Dec 2, 2008 16:33:19 GMT -5
She didn't really know the softball team before she joined, though, did she? So she wouldn't know their snootiness. If she joined in 6th or 7th grade then she would have been more likely to have sat on the bench while the 8th graders played anyway. That would be very frustrating for someone who likes to be in the middle of everything.
Or just signed her up for little league. The local teams around here usually have a girl or two on their teams because I don't think there is a softball team anywhere.
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Post by greer on Dec 2, 2008 17:39:21 GMT -5
Really? in my town there was a girls' softball league and my sister plays in one now.
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Post by msstock87 on Dec 2, 2008 17:47:22 GMT -5
I just always thought it was because she was too busy with everything else in her life. It would have made sense for her to be on the softball team, but when you think about it, between babysitting, coaching and all the other million BSC projects she was involved in, when would she have had time?
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Post by greer on Dec 2, 2008 18:13:59 GMT -5
when she was a little kid though? that's what i'm confused about. also, scouting doesn't seem to be big in stoneybrook either.
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Post by msstock87 on Dec 2, 2008 18:17:53 GMT -5
Well when she was a little kid, it may have made more sense for her to play. I agree that is a bit confusing. I was just referring to when she was in the BSC in my previous post.
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Post by wanderingfrog on Dec 2, 2008 20:11:13 GMT -5
Scouting like Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts, Greer? I've always found that Scouts and Guides aren't mentioned in very many kids' books except for books that are all about Scouting. I keep meaning to start a collection of Girl Guides/Girl Scouts fiction, but there's just so much of it out there (I mean older books from secondhand shops) that I hardly know where to start. I was totally thrilled when Guides was mentioned in a book by Jean Little or someone, because it's something so many kids do, but it's not mentioned often in fiction.
My brother was involved in Scouting until he was eighteen. I was always disappointed that I quit Guiding after I was thirteen. In Canada, Guides goes until age twelve normally,and then it's on to Pathfinders, but I started Brownies a year late. So did my best friend, though, so it was actually pretty great, because we were in Brownies and Guides together all the way through. But the Pathfinder leader in my area was this woman who had taught me drama when I was a kid, and although I liked her okay as a human being (my mom was in Girl Guides with her and can tell some pretty funny stories about her), I didn't like her as someone who was in charge of kids because she totally played favourites, and I didn't want to be in her Pathfinders group.
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Post by Amalia on Dec 2, 2008 23:23:05 GMT -5
I just thought that she had always wanted to join a baseball team but after seeing that there was no all-girls baseball team, she decided to settle for softball in 8th grade.
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