Worst day as a coach

Playing in 3 day tourney today. First game we won in a good game well played.

Second game losing 6-0 or so and a girl gets up and HC say to me "She is wearing Metal Cleats".

We are playing 14U and normally that's fine, but we are playing in a tournament sanctioned by an organization that for
some reason only allows 16 U and up wear them. We were forced to remove earlier in the summer. Our kids all are wearing
Rubber or plastic. I called time and asked the PU why they could wear them. He says that you can in 14U. I asked him to check
with TD and he said that we were right. Anyway the other coaches go nuts and start yelling all kinds of stuff at me. The ump made
them change which set them off more. The post game handshake they said one of our kid was hitting their kids too hard on the high five and
wouldn't shake our hands. I don't know who they said did it and as much as anything that upsets me. We go out of our way to try and promote
good sportsmanship and told our players that we won't allow that to happen.

Now they are letting teams wear metal tomorrow and Sunday which make our kids happy but it was the first time I remember where I just had nothing
left by the end of the game.

In the end I'm not really even mad at the other team for the way they responded. I really wish I had just let it go and not said anything. If they had asked
if they could keep wearing I would have said yes. Who I'm really mad at is the TD. I emailed him 2 times this season requesting us to be able to wear metal and was denied. If they are going to have a stupid rule like that then they need to enforce it or change it. We certainly didn't lose the game because of it but it gets old
when you are forced to follow a rule and the other teams aren't. My only positive is that I didn't get into a yelling match with the other team over it and kept my cool when some idiot fan tried to bait me. While I don't think their coached handled it very well I actually understand where they were coming from.

I think it's time to retire to the outfield.

There's one in EVERY crowd.

It seems like in every single game where someone gets heated over something, there is always someone who yells about a post game high five being too hard.... some people are just born to stir the pot.

Think the ump was wrong to make them change. I believe most rules call for ejection of the offending player and HC.

One game this year the opposing Team’s HC was tossed, then a couple parents the next inning. I thought it was an isolated incident but when we played them again I learned they were very poor sportsmen.

I will tell you one thing is the Ump is not going to toss me, the HC would toss me first.

That's nothing. Just wait until you're playing a team in a championship game, and you ID multiple illegal players.

High 5s at the end are more trouble than they're worth...

Had a girl refuse to high 5 an opposing coach she has had a bad history with. Immature, yes but she is 12 and we would like to deal with it internally. He, however, decided to follow her back to the dugout screaming at her for everyone on the field to hear. Really?? This is a grown man and a kid.

It seems from your post that you are not the HC, someone else is. Why did he not make the protest? Why did he put it on you? I'm missing something here.

Another thing about the other Team, they were a bunch of jerks from the HC down. DW wanted to complain to the HC about it after the game and I asked her to leave it go or go to the TD and leave the HC out of it.

I can understand kids yelling when a pitcher is delivering her pitch but the 3rd base coach doing it is just plain wrong.

My father almost got into a fight with the high five, he accidently hit a kid in their head and the parent dropped their kid off at home and came back to the park looking for him.

Seattlecoach said:

Had a girl refuse to high 5 an opposing coach she has had a bad history with. Immature, yes but she is 12 and we would like to deal with it internally. He, however, decided to follow her back to the dugout screaming at her for everyone on the field to hear.

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So, in other words, he proved her right?

PA SB Dad said:

It seems from your post that you are not the HC, someone else is. Why did he not make the protest? Why did he put it on you? I'm missing something here.

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HC was there but is having some medical problems that prevented her from heading onto the field. I had acted as HC all day. Hope that clears it up. Actually played
same team today and talked it out with the other coaches. While we aren't going to exchange Christmas cards, it was cordial.