I'm a bit annoyed right now.
Many don't know but I coach a Little League baseball team, were not bad, but not very good either. We've played four games so far, and lost them all this year, so were working on a perfect record. Well at tonights game, apparently some of the parents aren't pleased with me.
One parent is mad at me because I shifted her son from Rightfield to Leftfield and didn't ask her permission first. I really thought I was the head coach and therefore did not need to ask anybody's permission if I decide to play one of my boys at one position or another. In fact I could take them out of the game if I wanted to. Then this woman was complaining that her son didn't get to play on the infield. The boy is 11, not very good really, hes slow, and heavy set, and has a tendency to day dream in middle of the game. He hasn't earned an infield slot, he also likes to stand in the batters box like a statue instead of swinging his bat to get the team a hit. The kid hasn't played since he was 6 this is his first time playing in five years.
Another mother was mad at me when her son who was pitching got hit, and I apparently didn't get out to him fast enough. First off I didn't know he got hit, from what I seen it looked like the ball hit the pitchers mound, not his foot. Second off, I am not allowed to run onto the field while the play is still live, so I had to wait for the play to finish before I was allowed to get out there and see if he was okay.
And yet another mother was mad, because when the boys make dumb errors (like throwing the ball to first when there is a runner on third or just standing there letting a ball go by them), they have to give me five push-ups for each error, when they do something really good, or I mess up, I have to drop and give them some push-ups. It's meant to be an incentive, and its worked, the boys are playing slightly better. She thinks that I shouldn't punish the boys, that they're just children. I'm like stop breast feeding him, he is 11 years old, and is well on his way to being an all-star this year, but I am not going to coddle him or anyone else on the team.
I had a couple get mad at me for the previous loss when I came down hard on the boys for their lackluster play. These kids looked like they were preferring to go home and play their Nintendo's and Sega's, and X-box's or whatever kids play these days. I did come down hard, but being a former player and someone who is passionate about the game I do not understand how any team can give up 7 runs to another team that only gets one hit into the outfield the entire game, I just don't understand it, I watched the game and still dont know how that is possible.
I am at the point of giving them the teams equipment, and telling them if you want it, its yours. Lets see how they like working all day, then setting up practices, rescheduling practices due to rain, having to call everybody on the team if theres a rain out, go umpire games, find someone to operate the score board and keep the score book and try to make sure that the team has all 9 players so we don't have to forfeit. Lets see them go through all the hassle and headaches I have to go through, and then let me be the monkey that jumps on their back over petty stuff. I am a volunteer, I do not get paid to go through all of this. I can find other things to do with my time.
Many don't know but I coach a Little League baseball team, were not bad, but not very good either. We've played four games so far, and lost them all this year, so were working on a perfect record. Well at tonights game, apparently some of the parents aren't pleased with me.
One parent is mad at me because I shifted her son from Rightfield to Leftfield and didn't ask her permission first. I really thought I was the head coach and therefore did not need to ask anybody's permission if I decide to play one of my boys at one position or another. In fact I could take them out of the game if I wanted to. Then this woman was complaining that her son didn't get to play on the infield. The boy is 11, not very good really, hes slow, and heavy set, and has a tendency to day dream in middle of the game. He hasn't earned an infield slot, he also likes to stand in the batters box like a statue instead of swinging his bat to get the team a hit. The kid hasn't played since he was 6 this is his first time playing in five years.
Another mother was mad at me when her son who was pitching got hit, and I apparently didn't get out to him fast enough. First off I didn't know he got hit, from what I seen it looked like the ball hit the pitchers mound, not his foot. Second off, I am not allowed to run onto the field while the play is still live, so I had to wait for the play to finish before I was allowed to get out there and see if he was okay.
And yet another mother was mad, because when the boys make dumb errors (like throwing the ball to first when there is a runner on third or just standing there letting a ball go by them), they have to give me five push-ups for each error, when they do something really good, or I mess up, I have to drop and give them some push-ups. It's meant to be an incentive, and its worked, the boys are playing slightly better. She thinks that I shouldn't punish the boys, that they're just children. I'm like stop breast feeding him, he is 11 years old, and is well on his way to being an all-star this year, but I am not going to coddle him or anyone else on the team.
I had a couple get mad at me for the previous loss when I came down hard on the boys for their lackluster play. These kids looked like they were preferring to go home and play their Nintendo's and Sega's, and X-box's or whatever kids play these days. I did come down hard, but being a former player and someone who is passionate about the game I do not understand how any team can give up 7 runs to another team that only gets one hit into the outfield the entire game, I just don't understand it, I watched the game and still dont know how that is possible.
I am at the point of giving them the teams equipment, and telling them if you want it, its yours. Lets see how they like working all day, then setting up practices, rescheduling practices due to rain, having to call everybody on the team if theres a rain out, go umpire games, find someone to operate the score board and keep the score book and try to make sure that the team has all 9 players so we don't have to forfeit. Lets see them go through all the hassle and headaches I have to go through, and then let me be the monkey that jumps on their back over petty stuff. I am a volunteer, I do not get paid to go through all of this. I can find other things to do with my time.
