Q. Why are you switching teams for your DD?
A. The coach (blah, blah, blah)
FAIL!
Once upon a time we were in a showcase 2 hours from home. My kid had homecoming on the first day of it. She told her coach about it as soon as she saw it was going to be a problem. He had more than 2 weeks to figure something out.
I remember getting a text from him about "commitment level."
I drove her there, she played one game, we left. 4 hour round trip to play a couple of innings in one game.
I noticed his own kid and his assistant's kid were both leaving at the same time, they had their homecoming the same day. No commitment level issue there, of course.
My kid, with her commitment level issue, played about 2 innings in the field the next day, and I think she may have batted once. Then again, he may have waited until she was in the box and called time before the first pitch was thrown so he could sub someone else in. He liked doing that to kids who he was mad at.
I understand that all of this is still my fault or my kid's fault and that every coach everywhere has been, is, and will be a saint with no faults at all.