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

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Your players ask you if you won after you just get done run ruling the other team.

 

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And conversely. You get run ruled and they ask you who won (my 9U team......).

 

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If a player asks Why do they call it softball when the ball is as hard as a baseball

 

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If a player asks Why do they call it softball when the ball is as hard as a baseball

Guess you have to know history to know this one. Not necessarily a determining factor on whether you can coach the game or not...Travel or Rec

 

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If one of your players ask ..How many points do we have ? you might be a rec coach

I always love this one...lots of parents say that and I say runs..they say what I say its runs not points were not playing football.

 

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I know this will draw fire but what the heck.

If you coach High School in the pre-season you might be a rec coach.

 

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This one always gets me,
If your coach asks the player wheres your MITT:yahoo:--U may be a rec coach:lmao:

 

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You Should Be A Rec Coach If ... You Want To Be Recognized For 2nd Place In League Play or You Brag About League Standings When You Lose In Sectionals

 

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if you think second base should be square to the front of homeplate, not first and third...

 

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If you think the first team to score in extra innings wins, you might....

 

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If you take your spit cup out with you to coach third base, .....

Im guilty, I have been known to take a spitter with me.......

 

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Well the Karma Gods smiled upon me this past weekend as due to unforseen circumstances we were left without a coaching staff...guess who took over.

At one point during our second game Saturday I was attending to our catcher who was laid out on the bench with cool towels, a short stop who couldn't walk, and a outfielder who was upset she dropped a fly ball, meanwhile we almost batted out of order, got caught running on an infiled fly rule, and got picked off third.

I looked to one of the other dad's who was helping and simply said...then you might be a rec coach.

Thank you Karma Gods for a wonderful weekend.

 

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I had the same coach for yeeears in baseball... he had every color of BIKE shorts they made. And he used the pockets too!!!!

:lmao::lmao:

My husband wore those BIKE shorts for the longest time until they mysteriously disappeared bout 17 years ago. We've been married 18. I still see him eyeing them in Dick's every once in awhile and I just look at him with the "No way in h@#$" look! I hated those things!

 

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How about if you have at least one child, plus one niece/nephew, plus at least 3 neighbor kids on the team and they never have to play outfield? That happened to my son a few years ago and my husband was an asst. coach and our son played the required innings and then sat.

 

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Oh yeah...this also happened that year...when the son is finally made to play outfield and he doesn't want to so he sits at shortstop until dad(coach) yells across the field "get up and get out there or I'm going to tan your hide!" He gets up, goes to center and hangs on the fence the whole game. It was amazing.

 

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This one is off topic a little but last night at a Rec game with mainly 10u girls a excited parent during a close game yelled at his own daughter that "you'll learn how to read a compass and find your own way home if you miss another ball and it doesn't matter if it's in the air or on the ground." I sensed they'd had this discussion before since he was so specific about his demands. lol. All the parents around him laughed making me think he's used this tactic to motivate before. lol. I had to laugh---how could you not laugh. lol.

 

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How about...you might be a rec parent if after every swung strike you yell, "nice cut" even if they chopped their bat at the ball as if they were trying to kill a bug on the ground.

You might be a travel ball parent if you're trying to figure out how to deduct softball and travel expenses on your taxes each year. (FYI - if anyone has any suggestions on this one, let me know.)

You might be a travel ball parent if you plan family vacations around softball tournament schedules.

 

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.....I asked him how he was doing and he said,"We are outdoors, playing the greatest game in the world, in the greatest country in the world." Amen brother.

Nice!

 

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This is my son's baseball team, but still...

You might be a rec ball coach (and friend of a board member) if you decide that it is MUCH better that have a LOT of boys on the team rather than too few, so you decide to keep one team of 20 kids rather than make two teams, even though a parent was willing to step up and head coach the other team and others were willing to help.

Now all of the kids are only playing half the games, because there is a "rotation". These kids play in games "A" and these kids play in games "B"

OH - and you might be a rec ball coach if you do your line up in order of what position the player played in the field....pitcher is lead off batter, catcher is second, first is third...etc

 

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Coaches are actually wearing tennis shoes to games? Not me. Seeing that would make YOU a rec coach, in this area.