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pan6467 · 08-03-2004, 08:49 PM

I coached a team where I had players who didn't even know how to throw a baseball or hit. But we practiced every day, I taught them how to play for fun and how to keep score so anyone of them could do the book. I taught them everything I knew about the game because I had great parental support.

In the championship game we won, not because we were more talented but because my guys and their parents were there to have fun, knew what it took and believed in themselves.

The other team's coach was an asshole who pushed his team too hard and yelled and was just a jerk-off on and off the field. His team's parents had the same attitude as he did.

1997 Mansfield Ohio PAL Championship his team folded under the pressure and quit on him. My team went out had a blast and played thgeir hearts out and won.

It was one of the greatest moments in my life to watch these kids and to know I helped them. To this day when I see one of them they remember me. To me that's what LL is all about. I taught them self respect, teamwork and how to have fun whether you won or lost and for the ones I've seen since they have all said they learned something that summer from me.

08-03-2004, 08:49 PM	#14 (permalink)
pan6467 Lennonite Priest Location: Mansfield, Ohio USA	I coached a team where I had players who didn't even know how to throw a baseball or hit. But we practiced every day, I taught them how to play for fun and how to keep score so anyone of them could do the book. I taught them everything I knew about the game because I had great parental support. In the championship game we won, not because we were more talented but because my guys and their parents were there to have fun, knew what it took and believed in themselves. The other team's coach was an asshole who pushed his team too hard and yelled and was just a jerk-off on and off the field. His team's parents had the same attitude as he did. 1997 Mansfield Ohio PAL Championship his team folded under the pressure and quit on him. My team went out had a blast and played thgeir hearts out and won. It was one of the greatest moments in my life to watch these kids and to know I helped them. To this day when I see one of them they remember me. To me that's what LL is all about. I taught them self respect, teamwork and how to have fun whether you won or lost and for the ones I've seen since they have all said they learned something that summer from me. __________________ I just love people who use the excuse "I use/do this because I LOVE the feeling/joy/happiness it brings me" and expect you to be ok with that as you watch them destroy their life blindly following. My response is, "I like to put forks in an eletrical socket, just LOVE that feeling, can't ever get enough of it, so will you let me put this copper fork in that electric socket?"