.....then you might be a rec coach.

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When I saw the coach at the tournament wearing a FULL uniform...pants, socks and ALL, I figured he HAD to be a rec coach!!

 

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When you tell your team to be at the field 15 minutes before the game, you might be a rec coach.

 

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When you are mad that your team has to play 3 games in 1 day, you might be a rec coach.

 

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With my arthritis I don't need to be reminded about my playing days being over. My wife is always after me to buy new shoes but I get attached to a pair after they get broken in. I think I've had those cleats for 13 years. Maybe it's time to go shopping!

I'm just busting your chops...comfortable shoes are hard to find. How about this instead...

If you are wearing cleats because you heard there may be scouts in the stands.....you might be a rec coach.

 

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the chico post gave me an lol.. when my dad was coaching a little league baseball team his sponsor owned the Detroit Bar & Grill. the owner paid the fees for all the kids and bought the whole team uniforms and equipment, but the GHYL made the team take the sponsors name off of the uniforms and they were not allowed to use the bars name for anything.. some of the folks on here should get together and write a book, i would definitely pre-order..

 

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You yell to your catcher from the 3rd base dug out "Just hold onto the ball, don't try to throw it to [2nd, 3rd...]" as the opposing coach easily catches on has every base runner on 3rd in 2-3 pitches....

Just saw this on Tuesday, made me want to cry for the poor kids on the field!

 

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These are just too much.

I will say that my wife and I also coaches 5/6 grade CYO and we have had some real interesting situations:

- the other coach told us if we did not pull our pitcher (throwing 38-40) he was going to march off the field
- same coach after losing 8-1 refused to pray at Home Plate
- same coach told us the next year he was "going to kick our ***es"
- girl shows up at tryouts with no mitt and dad tells us he could not find a lefty......meanwhile she appears to be a righty............she has never thrown a ball before
- another girls shows up in her full Rec league gear and dad pulls us aside and tells us that she might be too advanced for these girls..............she quits after playing catch with my daughter because she was scared.....you can not make this stuff up
- yet another girls pukes during the first practice, then finally quits saying it is too much stress playing catch with these girls...........
- I swear a guy had his daughter throw at my 10U daughter because we were beating them like 12-0 and she was crowding the plate........it was maybe 30 miles an hours and Angie asked the ump if she could still hit.........and he let her........I am pretty sure that is against the rules...LOL

We love teaching the non-hard core girls but you will see some seriously crazy stuff. And you do cheer when a girl who could not throw the ball 10 feet throws it across the infield. Or when she actually hits the ball and even through it acts like a bunt you act like she just drilled a line shot gapper.

But coaching the travel games and watching these girls perform at such a high level is so enjoyable. It can be very hard to coach and watch the lower levels but those girls need help also. And every so often you can run into a player. Which is always nice.

 

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If your team is sponsered by Chicos Bail Bonds.....

I actually had a parent call and he had a bail bonds wanting to donate 1,000 but we had to wear a patch.........I told him no way.......seriously, like our girls are going to go around with a bails bonds patch on their uni.....

 

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When you give your parents the T.D. phone number the night before tournament complaining cause you are up against travel teams at a travel tournament and you know your gonna get slaughtered............this happened

 

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yes 6 parents called

 

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When you tell everyone your daughter hit 4 home-runs that day even though she grounded to the pitcher who the threw the ball over first base and the first baseman threw it over third....you might be a rec coach.

 

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When you are mad that your team has to play 3 games in 1 day, you might be a rec coach.

Got that going on now...LOL

 

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When your pitcher, who also pitches travel, is mowing down batters and the opposing coach starts freaking out saying she's illegal because she doesn't "present" the ball......

 

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when you hear the coach yelling at the batter,swing level,your dropping you shoulder,keep your elbow up,don't step back,keep your eyes on the ball,step torwards the pitcher,move back in the box,all of this before the pitcher has even threw the first pitch to the batter.

 

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oh,and after the batter sees her first pitch to her,he calls time to get her a diffirent bat

 

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Interesting reading considering the jabs are focused on the people who donate their time, are given 13 players, and by the way 5 never played the game before, presented a 12 game schedule with 5 practices, and don't forget those 5 practices are in the grass, you receive 3 little league bats and 3 mens slow pitch softballs, and 4 of your players don't have gloves.

As the coach looks at the team and says does anyone pitch? All 13 shake their head no.

Cool, let's make fun of those coaches who have donated their time to help the kids in the sport.

 

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If your team is sponsered by Chicos Bail Bonds.....

Toooooo funny:lmao:

 

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Interesting reading considering the jabs are focused on the people who donate their time, are given 13 players, and by the way 5 never played the game before, presented a 12 game schedule with 5 practices, and don't forget those 5 practices are in the grass, you receive 3 little league bats and 3 mens slow pitch softballs, and 4 of your players don't have gloves.

As the coach looks at the team and says does anyone pitch? All 13 shake their head no.

Cool, let's make fun of those coaches who have donated their time to help the kids in the sport.

I suspect most posting have been or are that person. I think it is fair to say that 90% of the folks on here are nuts and the other 10% are crazy all for fastpitch. And we all start somewhere. We got into travel because we believed that if we took some of these REC girls and trained them properly all year they could be good. And guess what....it is true. Take a kid who wants to learn and give them good instruction and they will get better and better.

And it is funny. Especially if you are currently on both fields. I love the kids with no mitts. I would like to pile drive their parents. I mean play catch with your kid once in awhile......

 

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My daughter played Rec Ball because her parents were too ignorant to even know about travel ball a few years back. She was 11 playing in an 18u league and man did we have fun. The coach, who has now become a good friend of mine, does and did a lot of the things that are funny on this post. He is loud and some say obnoxious, he instructs the kids how to hit while at the plate, he plays his kid wherever he thinks she should play, etc etc. The really funny thing is that he has a real passion for the game. He doesn't know everything and doesn't claim to, but he did and does enjoy teaching and coaching the kids what he does know.
We play travel ball now because he said my dd would never be seen by anybody playing rec ball. I'd like to thank my friend for showing me a passion for a game I barely knew existed until my dd came around and also helped her develop a passion for that game. Thanks to all the volunteer coaches out there who spend their time doing what they do just because you love the game.

 

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Chill out a little...as the original post reads.....

Coaches of any type should be thanked for their time and effort and this is no way meant to make fun of those who volunteer their time to help kids learn the game of softball. Rather its purpose is to have a little fun...
I have one in travel and one in rec and it is funny to see the difference.

Maybe we could a follow up of you might be a travel ball coach or you might be a pitchers dad (as I am). You have to be able to laugh at yourself...