No, I would not have sat them for three games, The rest of that game most definitely. I struggled with coaching, one of the most difficult things for me was feeling I had no right to ask a player to sit, if I was not 100 percent willing to have my DD sit.
We have had several opportunities...
I think what you did is perfect, and in my experience does not happen enough.
When I was the assistant coach for my DD's travel ball team, she was on 1st, not really into the game, second strike was called catcher throws the ball to 1'st, it was overthrown, my DD walks to second, RF recovers...
We have someone locally, if you are approached by her family within a couple sentences the conversation turns to her, and how much better she is than any one else. Lately it has been how she is being wooed by Stanford. She went to their camp, and the coach clocked her at 70, even though we have...
My DD is playing out of state this weekend, I was planning on taking her, we have another girl from a different team joining us going to the same tournament. We have had her company on multiple different occasions. When we found out she was going I asked my wife if she could take them.
I just...
This is going to be fun.
But would be much easier if given a specific event, and age.
After thinking about a generic response, If they put my family in harm's way would warrant my intervention.
Core,
You are great to deal with, thanks for the getting it out so quickly.
Received ours Monday. Thank you for the prompt shipping, DD is enjoying it so far.
Again Thank you.
After reading all of the responses, which I tremendously appreciate, I have learned there are a lot of different ways this could have been handled.
None of them have been wrong, just different.
I think it will be great, one of the greatest things about TB, and the team being a distance away is all of the girls are very dedicated, work hard, and have little time to get involved in this kind of bs.
I would welcome someone who could possibly provide some insight/or an alternative view. I do appreciate your reservation until you are in a better frame of mind.
I was afraid that I may have been overreacting to the situation, my wife and I gave it a night, and talked about again the following...
After reading through it again I sit back and think "I sound like a complete moron" or someone with an extreme case of paranoia.
I was surprised at how many of the other's were aware of this, and yet no one said anything.
Several said, it was not something I wanted to get involved in. And, we...