Daniel's tee-ball coach had to chuckle as they came off the field the other night. He came over and said to us, "Did you hear what he just said?"

Apparently the coach had asked Daniel why he wasn't looking when a teammate threw the ball to him at first base. His deadpan response: "I am absent-minded."

In the same inning, a player on the other team became upset when he was tagged out. Daniel's description was more precise: "He is enraged!"
(In this program, all the members of each team get a turn to bat each inning, but they still try to practice force outs or tags. This is rare, however, so it's not surprising that the kid thought it was unfair.)

In a follow up conversation, Daniel explained how he knew the word "enraged."
"From Moby Dick--he is enraged and furious!" (We recently had a children's picture book re-telling of Moby Dick--linked above--from the library.)