Bucketpapi
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- May 28, 2008
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My DD was playing in a tourney this week end against team who's coaches crossed the perverbal line. I figured out the ASSistant coach was verbally signalling his hitters which pitch was going to be thrown.
This was 14U and the coaches called the pitches. The ASSistant coach would watch our signal our catcher. Just before the pitcher started her wind up this jerk would call out a "cue" word to his batter. The name of the team was Chaos. When our pitcher was delivering a change-up, this jack-A$$ would work in the word chaos. He would say: "Let's go, time for a little chaos". The batter wouls sit back on the incomming change-up and usually hit the ball hard. "let's turn on it" was a screwball and "give it a ride" was a fastball. After three innings of this I couldn't take it any longer and went to their dugout and told him to knock it off. He told me to sit down and he could do what ever he wanted. Of course I didn't sit down any the conversation got a little heated. By the way, I did wait until his players took the field before I confronted him. The other coaches and umpire came over and I explained what was going on and the ump told me to sit down, which I did. The four of the remained at their dugout for a while. The verbal cues to his hitters stoped and thier hitters struggled at the plate from that point on.
My question is:
Was I out of line or did I handle it correctly?
No girls from either team were aware of our discussion, only the coaches, me, the ump and this team's parents were privy to the incident.
I find signaling the hitters which pitch is coming is very bush league and unethical at the 14u level.
This was 14U and the coaches called the pitches. The ASSistant coach would watch our signal our catcher. Just before the pitcher started her wind up this jerk would call out a "cue" word to his batter. The name of the team was Chaos. When our pitcher was delivering a change-up, this jack-A$$ would work in the word chaos. He would say: "Let's go, time for a little chaos". The batter wouls sit back on the incomming change-up and usually hit the ball hard. "let's turn on it" was a screwball and "give it a ride" was a fastball. After three innings of this I couldn't take it any longer and went to their dugout and told him to knock it off. He told me to sit down and he could do what ever he wanted. Of course I didn't sit down any the conversation got a little heated. By the way, I did wait until his players took the field before I confronted him. The other coaches and umpire came over and I explained what was going on and the ump told me to sit down, which I did. The four of the remained at their dugout for a while. The verbal cues to his hitters stoped and thier hitters struggled at the plate from that point on.
My question is:
Was I out of line or did I handle it correctly?
No girls from either team were aware of our discussion, only the coaches, me, the ump and this team's parents were privy to the incident.
I find signaling the hitters which pitch is coming is very bush league and unethical at the 14u level.