The Pablo Sanchez of East Greenwich

As the weather starts to become normal again, and Axel the Avenger comes out of hibernation, more and more kids are starting to go back outside to "play." Whether you call it "play," "chill," "lamp," "bro-out," or "frolick," you can't deny that you are sick of your 51-kill streak on COD and now you want to go outside and drive around in various fast food parking lots. Or maybe you want to go outside and be a part of pick-up-sports.

Pick-up-sports are not like organized team sports that are comprised at the high school level. There are no fixed teams in pick-up-sports. However, pick-up sports-are just as competitive.

You weren't a true kid unless you played some sort of Backyard Sports game as a kid. Backyard Baseball was the pinnacle of these games. Sure backyard soccer, football, and basketball made their respective runs, but baseball was the greatest. Who didn't love the adrenaline rush when you struck out the kid version of Alex Rodriguez on a fireball while you played with Keisha Phillips? However, the backyard sports Heisman, All-American, or Gatorade Player of the Year was Pablo Sanchez. Pablo was good at everything he touched, despite not being able to speak a word of English. I guess this was Backyard Sports' way of showing that you could succeed in America without being literate in the English language...so we'll therefore blame Backyard Sports for America's immigrant problem.

But in East Greenwich, it takes a certain skill to be good at a backyard sport. Whether the game is miniball, wiffle ball, "pool wiffle," four-square, or frisbee the "jocks" aren't always the best at these games. You need to be a wily veteran to be successful. Eight years of saturday afternoons spent on a friends driveway or backyard deems you a wily veteran. Who cares if you spent eight years playing organized baseball, basketball, soccer, hockey, or football that doesn't make you the "Pablo Sanchez" of East Greenwich.

So as the grass greens, and everyone starts to come out of their house, keep your eye out for the true Pablo Sanchez of East Greenwich backyard sports. He could be a 3'4'' pot-bellied hispanic kid, or the kid you never expected to be good at sports.