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crystlemc said:
WV, if by calling pitches, you mean to my dd.... hopefully she and her catcher will be smart enough and taught well enough to call their own game. If you mean "suggestive selling" to the ump... well... c'mon! You're taking all the fun out of it... :lmao:
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I meant the pitching calls between the coach, catcher, and pitcher. In travel ball, it is one of those "inside" jokes that a pitcher' parents, in particular the dad, knows more about calling pitches than the coach does. Honest.. If you don't believe me, just ask a pitcher's dad.:D:D:D

Boy, nothing like kicking a nest of rattlesnakes, eh?
 
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crystlemc said:
This is her 3rd year playing, but her first year pitching. Let me tell you, it's gut-wrenching! I don't know how all you veterans have sat and watched dd's pitch and not thrown up! It was all good before she started pitching. I could sit and watch the game calmly and complain with all the other parents. Now, I'm on the edge of my seat, wringing my hands, feeling nauseous every time she pitches.
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LOL!! Gotta just sit and relax... ;)

Just wait 'til she walks in the winning run in a college game. But by then, you've learned to just sit and relax...
 
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It is what it is mom.......... the Dr recommends 2 advil and your choice of adult beverage...........Preferably after the game
 
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My son has played from a fetus all the way up to just finishing his HS season. Each time he gets on the mound I'm a wreck. Why? Probably because of my fear of his failure but probably more is that a bit of me is out there on the mound with him. I've been his primary pitching instructor the whole way and if he doesn't do well I feel as if I have failed him. In the past two years I've gotten an additional set of eyes to monitor off-season bullpen sessions but even then I'm the one steering the ship. So a few years ago when someone said "Hey you act as if it is you out there on the mound!" my reply was "Well it kind of is.". I'm both proud and fearful of that fact.

Now that my daughter is pitching I get the same way. It isn't any lack of confidence on my part (maybe?) and it doesn't bother me if she pitches a win or a loss but I just want her to do as well as she can. Through failure she grows but it still hurts to see.
 
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My wife would have taken that comment , like i said her butt was a large as a ball diamond......... WM.s wife must not be a member
 
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bouldersdad said:
My wife would have taken that comment , like i said her butt was a large as a ball diamond......... WM.s wife must not be a member
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My son is from my EX-wife. I'm afraid of my current wife and anyways, she is a saint, a scholar, a genius, a super model, and a potential UFC contender all rolled into one.
 
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My wife never uses genius in a positive manner. It always something derogatory.
 
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Its in her contract, wait for 30 years to come, that will probably the nicest thing she calls you
 
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For rec I'm ok if 8 show up because it is usually the 8 that care.
 
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I feel your pain. My dd is now a the starting pitcher on her high school varsity team (as a freshman)! It doesn't get any better. The nerves are there when she takes the rubber in high school and when she takes the rubber in travel ball (and she shares that time with two other very good pitchers)! Just remember that her accomplishments out weight that feeling!!

Good luck with travel tryouts and any other future games.
 
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You get what you pay for. If your league hires young, inexperienced umpires, why would your expectations of their abilities be any higher than that? That's just a reality of recreational ball that you have to live with- games played by young, inexperienced players will usually have young, inexperienced umpires.

An experienced umpire probably would have warned/ejected your coach for: 1) Being out of the dugout and behind the backstop, or; 2) Arguing balls and strikes with the "You got to call it both ways" comment.

The former is a standard rule that is easy to enforce. The latter is a common complaint, usually made by inexperienced coaches that don't know any better. It always bothers me to hear about an adult coach (who should know better) using such comments to intimidate a young, inexperienced umpire. It's no wonder that so many young umpires quit after a season or two.

I also have to wonder, if your pitchers weren't getting the borderline calls, why would they continue to throw the same pitch in the same location? Sounds like an issue with inexperienced coaching. Once you realize you're not getting that pitch, you have to adjust.

Does this sound a little harsh? Maybe it is. Would it soften the blow if I prefaced my comments by saying that I was, "Just venting"? I don't think it's really any more harsh than publicly ripping some teenaged umpire over a low-level rec league game on an internet discussion board.

I just get a little ticked whenever I hear, "The umpire lost the game for us", routine. We're getting a one-sided opinion- and a one-sided opinion by someone who obviously has an emotional stake in the outcome of the game, at that.

So, besides a few close pitch calls (which your pitchers apparently never adjusted to), I suppose nobody struck out, made an error or stranded a runner on base, and there weren't any wild pitches or passed balls or baserunning mistakes throughout the entire rest of the game?

Using the umpire as an excuse diminishes the efforts or your opponent and minimizes the shortcomings of your own team.
 
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Back to the topic, all I know is that the game got much more relaxed for me when I didn't have a DD in the circle. As a friend of ours says, pitchers' moms are another breed.
 
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