OK so last year I coached a “coach” pitch team and now I’m an assistant coach for a “minors” team. Essentially the kids pitch but cannot walk the batter, the batter’s coach calls balls and strikes on his kids, and at 4 balls the batter’s coach steps in and pitches till the batter is out or hits into play. You meet alot of interesting people coaching other teams and I tell you most of them are trying to compensate for something in their life. I’m out there trying to get the players to understand what they are supposed to do. Where they should be playing, what base is the play too, hitting the cutoff, better yet what is the cutoff man.
Don’t get me wrong, some coaches are great too, but it takes only one to totally piss you off. Today we played the league commissioner’s team. It went pretty well but man-o-man I’m not sure I’d like him to coach my kid. Anyways, we were down 7-3 and our team did great and came back to tie the game. The commish asks if we have time for another inning and we’re like sure. Well we play the top of the inning his team scores 2 more times and then being the commish, he calls the game after the half inning. So tell me what I tell me kids? I know we’re not supposed to keep score, but the kids do. So tomorrow when they go to school and the other team, and you know they will, starts in with the “we won” talk, what do I tell my kids. I’m not saying we would have won, but we didn’t even get a chance for our team to try.
It’s this crap that makes people not want to get involved with coaching. This commish had the heart of his line-up coming up and he knew they would hit (and they did). AAARRRRGGGHHHHH, it’s frustrating.
