Chapter 9
Jeff was not happy. He felt as if his first day of practice had been a bust. Sure the morning had gone well, and he had been able to see his team at work, but his afternoon had been a total waist.
He wasn't allowed to have his team on the field after lunch thanks to Dr. Hunter's oversight of none of his players being medically cleared. Jeff was not a perfect man by any means but when it came to his work he demanded as close to perfection as he could get from not just himself, but the people that surrounded him. It annoyed him beyond belief that because of the good doctor's mistake he wouldn't be having batting practice this afternoon with his team.
No his team was in the video room watching tapes of some of the teams they would be facing this season. The only problem with that was that even Jeff was getting bored with that so he could only imagine how his players felt about it.
Giving a nod to Luke to let him know to shut off the tape, Jeff went into his personal collection of movies and pulled out and old copy of Major League. It wasn't the most inspirational movie on baseball there was, but at least it was funny and entertaining.
He had found over his many years that a good way for a team to get along was to laugh together. It was something simple, yes, but it worked. Jeff glanced down at his watch. He wanted to stop by the training room and make sure everything was a go for the physicals today. He would be damned if he was going to let another day get wasted because of a minor oversight.
Standing Jeff walked out of the room and down the hall. This also gave him the perfect opportunity to check on his youngest child. He had been around Steven all day and had a brief interaction with Sarah earlier, yet he had not seen Elizabeth all day. She was the one he worried about the most.
He knew it was a little ridiculous, but he just couldn't help it. He knew Steven had his life together for the most part. He had a good job, he was saving up to buy a home and he had just started see Olivia, someone he was very much becoming serious quickly, so Jeff didn't feel the need to worry so much about him.
Sarah was smart and ambousous and very rarely took no for an answer. She had an open heart and would fall in love easily if she would stop looking for perfection. She was also very capable of taking care of herself. While Jeff worried a little about his eldest daughter, he didn't worry that much because he knew she would find her happy ending because she wouldn't except anything less.
Elizabeth though was his worry. She was his baby. She was also the only one of his children that had yet to show she had any sign of knowing where she was going in her life. He knew the only reason she took this internship was to please him. He knew she had no interest in baseball, even less so then Sarah. Although Zander was always around he also knew his daughter had no interest in the young man. Jeff had yet to see her in any type of romantic relationship and that worried him because he was afraid she was closed off to love.
He just worried that Elizabeth wasn't as happy as she could be. Maybe it was time for her dad to push her in the right direction in both career and love.
As Jeff walking the rest of the way toward the training room he began to form a plan. Now he just needed to find the right guy for his daughter.