Ok, first of all, don't be knocking softball. I just want to know what you're going to do one day if it's your kid that sucks? $5 says you'd still be going out for ice cream after games. Have fun with it. No, you don't have to go to every game. My dad missed all of my birthdays growing up except for two of them because his two weeks of reserve duty always fell on our birthdays (3 days apart). I survived. In your case, though, you're passing up excuses for ice cream.

I hate baseball-I hated watching my ss AND bs play baseball. i did not discriminate. However, I attended every game when ss lived here (about 1/2 of the one's on bms time too)and I have attended all bs's game if I am not working. Happy to say-bs lost interest and no longer plays. He plays SOCCER which I love watching. SS has continued to play baseball since he moved to bm's 3 years ago. I've never been graced with a schedule or an invite so no, I've never gone. This year, dh did get a schedule when he had about 3 weeks left of the season. Of course those weeks coincinded with our family vacation so it was pointless.