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Originally posted by skysooner
FastShark,
The coach's son amazingly always played in the infield while being one of the worst players on the team.
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What's amazing about that?
We've had couple bad apple coaches, too. They didn't pay any attention to making sure everyone had equal playing time (hey, it's not competitive so let everyone play the same amount of time). The response to this suggestion, which was given in a very casual non-criticizing way, was a very snide-tone-of-voice "why don't you coach yourself??" (that comment coming from a person wearing a t-shirt emblazened with the message "PROFESSIONAL ROLE MODEL".
My wife was shocked and aghast at the response. I was mad but kept my distance.
I coached 10yr baseball (first year of overhand pitching for boys) when I was in college with a couple buddies. Since we didn't have kids on the team, there wasn't a compulsion to favor anyone. I learned a lot about kids, their abilities' and the behavior of parents.
I plan on trying to coach again soon...it's just a matter of being able to make a commitment to get out of work early once a day every week.