Boys Of Summer #15: Benched
Don’t put me in, Coach. I want to stay on the bench.
I took Bo to the first basketball game of the year a week or so before Thanksgiving. He wasn’t very enthusiastic about going until I promised we’d end up at the gym where I work. Then he saw some of the players. “I didn’t know basketball players were this built,” he said as he watched both teams move up and down the court. “Why aren’t they bouncing around more in those loose shorts?” “Bo, you know they wear jock straps to...