KEVINEHLE wrote:Hey Mike, what level of baseball is Chase playing? Peewee? Little League? T-Ball? or maybe Major League? Is his name Chase Utley?
Anyway, I miss coaching little league teams. If Chase is in the 6 to 12 range, it brings back fond memories when I was teaching multiple league teams that WINNING IS EVERYTHING! Perhaps I was too intense now that I think about those years.
Enjoy these times with your son. They grow up too fast!
Pissing moment coming..........
I have Coached my kid from 5 to 9 in Kidsports and Little League. I was always proud when a Mother or Father would come up to me half way through the season and ask me "which one of them is your kid." I treated them all the same and ripped them when they did bad and rocked them when they did good. They like that and want that.
This year I quit Coaching to focus on my kid and it has gone really bad. My wife and I decided to put him in Babe Ruth as we had hoped as we were lead to believe that it was all about winning and putting the best team out there. The 3 Coaches put their kids out there for every inning in every game and the rest of the kids share time. They don't help the other kids get better they just load up on their kids.
Chase is a very good SS but the Head Coaches son is just as good so I am fine with that. Here comes a Strat range moment... The other 2 kids play SS and 3B when he is pitching and I give them a range 5 because you cant have a 6. I am so pissed I can hardly sleep. It is all I think about because I know better. I am going to round up some of the kids and hold private practices to help them get better. The one Coaches kid cant move even after the ball has passed him by.
I want to thank you for letting me vent because I wanted to take all 3 Coached behind the Woodshed and this might just hold that off for a week.
I am even thinking about buying Frank a plane ticket
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