Guys, I had exactly this situation about 4 months into a 7 year run with my travel team. A kid I considered the best athlete in her age group had a set of parents who were a) rich, b) obnoxious, and c) loved to win. Because our kids had played together , they knew that this was going to be a...
As a guy who has been there and done that for some years, one suggestion I have is to really try hard with any kid who tries back. I had two kids who played for me - actually one that played on my travel team and another who played on a off season team I helped with for the h/s. The travel...
Holy Jeez, you really cant make this stuff up. I thought I had seen some crazy parents. I guess thats the benefit of having only coached select - a crazy parent comes up and says something whacky like that to me - and they are packed and off the team. Someplaces, mostly high school ball...
I have found it best to be quiet about these things and just be happy that they may have learned something. On the other hand, it might be self-preservation, my oldest sweet flower of a daughter's last employer paid her to kill people, so I just smile a lot, hug my granddaughter, and shut my mouth.
As a pitcher's dad, I totally agree with gd, what a joke going on a regular basis to professional hitting coaches. What a waste of time and money ! Let DOD (dear old dad) teach, everyone knows that a kid takes lessons and instructions best from DOD, specially one who learned how to hit 25-30...
We got extremely lucky early on in my pitching dd's career in that I got to meet and spend some time talking to Lisa Fernandez. A bunch of the kind of questions that newbie parents had about a dd that may or may not have talent, I got to ask of the greatest softball player of all time. She was...
no no no, these are people I know - in my general area who advertised themselves as pitching coaches, based on their daughter having pitching talent. One, we always called him the best guy on our team, he and his daughter would get mad at each other , with dad saying ' no you must throw the...
We had almost the same situation but thank God, it was in basketball. DD1 played on a good BB travel team and the team consistenly won tournaments, my dd would pretty regularly win tournament MVP , cool. There were two girls on the team whose parents were convinced would be point guards when...
I too have driven my daughter to lots of pitching lessons - but I didnt pitch - my time on the mound was pitching baseball, not in the circle pitching a softball. I relied for the most part on her pitching instructors over the years. The advantage I had with her is I knew the drills she...