- Jun 12, 2015
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https://youtu.be/lmgSedM98z4
Context: we are a first year (06) 10U team. Very inexperienced, all but 1 from 8U coach pitch last year, and that one 05 played rec until this spring. We play mostly A tournaments, against mostly 05 teams, and mostly lose. Any team could look at our record and see that, as I'm sure this team did before we played them. I say this to point out that this was not a situation of a close, high pressure game between 2 evenly matched teams. At the time this happened, the score was around 10-0. The team we're playing here is the 05 Birmingham Thunderbolts. We had almost no shot of beating this team even if they had a pretty bad day.
There has been some debate about where 1B is standing - in the baseline, not, etc etc. I don't care about the rules part of it (though feel free to weigh in on that if you're so inclined). What I want to know is from coaches - this is pretty obviously coached behavior to me. It's clearly intentional and unnecessary, and the coach was not remotely concerned about his player doing something like that. A girl on another team got an elbow to the face from one of their players this weekend too. Is it pretty common for coaches to teach their players to try to take out the other team's players at this age level? This is the first time I've seen something this blatant in person and it felt very extreme to me.
Context: we are a first year (06) 10U team. Very inexperienced, all but 1 from 8U coach pitch last year, and that one 05 played rec until this spring. We play mostly A tournaments, against mostly 05 teams, and mostly lose. Any team could look at our record and see that, as I'm sure this team did before we played them. I say this to point out that this was not a situation of a close, high pressure game between 2 evenly matched teams. At the time this happened, the score was around 10-0. The team we're playing here is the 05 Birmingham Thunderbolts. We had almost no shot of beating this team even if they had a pretty bad day.
There has been some debate about where 1B is standing - in the baseline, not, etc etc. I don't care about the rules part of it (though feel free to weigh in on that if you're so inclined). What I want to know is from coaches - this is pretty obviously coached behavior to me. It's clearly intentional and unnecessary, and the coach was not remotely concerned about his player doing something like that. A girl on another team got an elbow to the face from one of their players this weekend too. Is it pretty common for coaches to teach their players to try to take out the other team's players at this age level? This is the first time I've seen something this blatant in person and it felt very extreme to me.