Garbage Mouth!

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You know what never sees to amaze me is how you can spend a whole season with a group of parents, talk softball stuff like hitting, the best players you've ever saw, the most amazing play you have seen and where to get the best steak you've ever had...You get my point! Then something happens where there kid or kids do not get asked back to the team for whatever reason such as causing a team disturbance or just there kid was too busy eating oreo's and ice cream and wasn't working hard and just couldn't compete!:lmao:

So then the parents anger and frustration turns tword's some other kid who made the team! Then unbenounced to that parent they gave the kid who's parent was trashing their kid a good recommendation for a team they went to try out for. Anybody got a story like this?

This story is completely fictional!;&

 

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UUUhhhhhhhhhh, what?

 

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You know what never sees to amaze me is how you can spend a whole season with a group of parents, talk softball stuff like hitting, the best players you've ever saw, the most amazing play you have seen and where to get the best steak you've ever had...You get my point! Then something happens where there kid or kids do not get asked back to the team for whatever reason such as causing a team disturbance or just there kid was too busy eating oreo's and ice cream and wasn't working hard and just couldn't compete!:lmao:

So then the parents anger and frustration turns tword's some other kid who made the team! Then unbenounced to that parent they gave the kid who's parent was trashing their kid a good recommendation for a team they went to try out for. Anybody got a story like this?

This story is completely fictional!;&

I haven't seen something like that since I was a teenager. At our first practice after tryouts, a parent of an "ex-player" showed up and went crazy yelling at the coach, going over to one of our players and pointed at him saying "I can't believe you picked this piece of s#!+ over my kid!", yelled and screamed some more, then peeled out and drove away.

 

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UUUhhhhhhhhhh, what?

Good question. I just got off the phone with him and I have no idea what he's talking about!! :lmao::lmao:

 

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Huh....I understood Scott perfectly.....

Len

 

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Huh....I understood Scott perfectly.....

Len

Len,
You must be one of the smart ones. I read it 4x and am completely confused. Lol

 

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Len,
You must be one of the smart ones. I read it 4x and am completely confused. Lol

Len has been Sampling those Off-brand Beers again. ;&

Fastpitch! Anything else and you're playing to SLOW!

 

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Len has been Sampling those Off-brand Beers again. ;&

Fastpitch! Anything else and you're playing to SLOW!

off brand......
OFF BRAND!

The tragedy here is that the mass produced american swill is still allowed to call their product.......BEER!:lmao::lmao::lmao:

Okay Scott, help me out here. This is the way I see it through my off-brand goggles:

A team and the parents this past season all got along and for the most part the experience was copacetic. However, there was one or two girls not pulling their weight nor trying to get better so they were not asked to come back for next season. This caused the parent or parents of these one or two girls to become quite irate so instead of having the "bawls" to quietly accept their fate and thank the coaches for the past season they decided to attack another player who had just made the team instead. What the irate parents did not understand was that the coach gave the ousted kid a positive nod to the coach of a team where she attended a tryout. Am I close Scott??

Len

 

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its not that hard to confuse wgman!

 

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you lost 95 % of the readers at "copacetic" including me LOL actually I understood the 1st time round

and yes Len I think you retold the story perfectly MD

 

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noce word choice there, len, ur teachers have taught u well
thats how i understood it..tryouts bring out the best in us

 

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Or when a player leaves for another team and the ex-team says she wasn't good anyways and those parents rip the kid.

 

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you lost 95 % of the readers at "copacetic" including me LOL actually I understood the 1st time round

and yes Len I think you retold the story perfectly MD

Too many off-brand brews and I think "copacetic" is a mouthwash........

Len

 

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Len,

Thanks for the "Say What? to English" Translation. :lmao: Now I get it. And I will say I could see that situation happening more common than we'd like to see in sports. But let's face it, there will be players that come along and show more than the ones you already have. Sometimes players (both amateur and pro alike) take their position on a team for granted, thinking their spot is "guaranteed" ad infintum, and next thing ya know, BAM! A player with moxy comes through the system, takes their spot, and parents are up in arms about how their kid lost their spot. I think giving the player(s) a good reference to another coach was a nice way to part ways. Hopefully the parents will eventually appreciate this gesture, and the coach will not have to regret vouching for them if the girls don't pull their weight on their new team.

off brand......
OFF BRAND!

The tragedy here is that the mass produced american swill is still allowed to call their product.......BEER!:lmao::lmao::lmao:

Okay Scott, help me out here. This is the way I see it through my off-brand goggles:

A team and the parents this past season all got along and for the most part the experience was copacetic. However, there was one or two girls not pulling their weight nor trying to get better so they were not asked to come back for next season. This caused the parent or parents of these one or two girls to become quite irate so instead of having the "bawls" to quietly accept their fate and thank the coaches for the past season they decided to attack another player who had just made the team instead. What the irate parents did not understand was that the coach gave the ousted kid a positive nod to the coach of a team where she attended a tryout. Am I close Scott??

Len

 

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Or when a player leaves for another team and the ex-team says she wasn't good anyways and those parents rip the kid.

funny or not... same thing happens on the job...

 

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Too many off-brand brews and I think "copacetic" is a mouthwash........

Len

I thought you were trying to say yo pathetic :lmao:

 

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Thanks for the explanation Len. Scott's gorilla way of typing a story really threw me off there!! Lol

 

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wgman, is your avatar with "what's his name comedian"... he is hilarious!!!

 

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noce word choice there, len, ur teachers have taught u well
thats how i understood it..tryouts bring out the best in us

:lmao::lmao::lmao: I actually have had some great teachers and applaud them becase I know I could not do that job. I don't know how you do it Ray.....

Not quite tryout related but in my youngest dd's first year of kid pitch the coach was trying to figure out who would be a viable catcher for the team. I played catcher in my youth (12 years) and I told the head coach that I had been working with my dd and her catching skills, she was doing fairly well, and that he might want to give her a look-see because she might just be a good fit there. He looked at me and said, "Nah. I want someone who's quick, can catch the ball, and has a strong arm." I just smiled at him, chuckled, and said, "Oh....okay", turned to Mstbozz (Mike) and Bill Downey and gave them that WTF? look. They both giggled and shrugged their shoulders in disbelief. I didn't go all crazy yelling at this coach nor the little girl that he wanted to be the catcher. I let it go and figured that maybe she would ultimately get a chance. Mike saw me working with Jess a few days later and told me that when his dd pitched and when Bill's dd pitched Jess was their catcher of choice and this coach was just going to have to deal with it.:lmao:

That coach and his dd left the team just before the preseason tournament, Mike and Bill took over, immediately put Jess behind the dish, went into the preseason tourney, and mid-way through the first game she threw out her first baserunner stealing 2nd....then another....then another...and so on. With Mike and Bill's kids pitching and Jess catching, we got 4th in the preseason, won our division of the regular season, and won the 10u post-season tourney with an entire team of 8 and 9 year olds.

I guess my point is when you don't like what a coach has to say, thank them for his or her time, and move on. Luckily I did not have to move....the coach moved for me.


Len

 

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"What have you done for me lately" ... works in coaching decisions, and friendships sometimes also.

As much as we all search for the Utopia of teams ... coaching + talent + no drama + parents bonding (yes, it can happen) ... travel/tournament fastpith is like a carnival traveling town to town each weekend ... and guess what? ... we are the Carnies

..... not that anything is wrong with that (for those of you that actually do work in a Carnival). ;&