- Jul 26, 2010
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I agree with a lot of what Ray said. I'm very against entitlement and I agree that sports are not fair and equal and that some kids are just better at sports then others. I do have recent experience with this though:
This was in response to: "I know I make mistakes and I appreciate it when you acknowledge that you do too."
Last weekend one of my daughters was in a 14u tournament. Player on 2nd and 3rd, hitter bunts. Play is close at 1B but blue calls out. The first base coach tells the runner to "keep going". Runner at 3rd had scored, ball was thrown to the catcher who now sees a runner trying to get to 2nd and makes the throw, runner who was at 2nd now scores.
Problem is that the play was illegal, blue caught it, called interference (from sending the out player at 1 to 2), double play resulted, second runner that "scored" returned to 3rd base and both runs removed from the book. Next play was a pop fly to center to end the inning.
The team was downtrodden, but instead of the coach pulling them together and saying "that was my fault, I messed up, get it back for me" (taking 10 seconds of his day), he instead chose to have a conversation with the other coaches about it while the girls left the dugout on their own accord to warm up on defense.
It's not the big stuff that makes a difference, it's the little stuff.
-W
I'm not sure where this is going...Is this that a coach should acknowledge that she is human? Or that the coach should take responsibility for a loss?
This was in response to: "I know I make mistakes and I appreciate it when you acknowledge that you do too."
Last weekend one of my daughters was in a 14u tournament. Player on 2nd and 3rd, hitter bunts. Play is close at 1B but blue calls out. The first base coach tells the runner to "keep going". Runner at 3rd had scored, ball was thrown to the catcher who now sees a runner trying to get to 2nd and makes the throw, runner who was at 2nd now scores.
Problem is that the play was illegal, blue caught it, called interference (from sending the out player at 1 to 2), double play resulted, second runner that "scored" returned to 3rd base and both runs removed from the book. Next play was a pop fly to center to end the inning.
The team was downtrodden, but instead of the coach pulling them together and saying "that was my fault, I messed up, get it back for me" (taking 10 seconds of his day), he instead chose to have a conversation with the other coaches about it while the girls left the dugout on their own accord to warm up on defense.
It's not the big stuff that makes a difference, it's the little stuff.
-W