MM wrote:
He's good at the game and he's making an effort to show up for batting practice, but unfortunately chess club meets at the same time and he's really much more interested in that.
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Ahhhh, but he signed up to play ball. Now he has to decide whether he's going to live up to his comittment even though the coach calls practice more often than he'd prefer. Blaming the coach for calling practice is not a legitimate excuse for not showing up. (His father would tell him to "suck it up" and go.)
