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Sure....or you could also use "like a propeller on a B52 about to take off"

UMMMMMMMM B52's don't have props.

I haven't seen the most obvious one yet

If the shirt you are wearing says Coach on the back............

 

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I say it is a "strike magnet" and it also lets everyone know you are not bunting.
Rec stuff...

Note to self: next time we really need to get a bunt down have the batter wiggle the bat so the defense thinks it's a fake.

 

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UMMMMMMMM B52's don't have props.

I haven't seen the most obvious one yet

If the shirt you are wearing says Coach on the back............

Trying to get a picture of my last socker coaches shirt. Real cheesy, just said COACH in block letters on the front...HAHA!!

 

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UMMMMMMMM B52's don't have props.

I haven't seen the most obvious one yet

If the shirt you are wearing says Coach on the back............

I am sure he is referring to the originals...

The original XB-52 design, selected by the Army Air Forces in 1946, was for a straight-wing, six-engine, propeller-powered heavy bomber.

 

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Here's one for a "you might be a high school coach" thread and about the funniest/most endearing one I've heard: if you twirl your finger while coaching third base to get your natural righty to move from lefty slapping to the other side of the box, and she stares at you in confusion and then twirls in a circle while remaining in the lefty's batter box . . .

REALLY did laugh out loud!

 

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When you argue that a delay steal is illegal because the pitcher has the ball in the circle...you may be a rec coach.

Saw this very thing at a tournament last weekend. 5 minute delay explaining the rule.

 

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I heard the ultimate from a coach at a 10U Rec game tonight........

1st inning & the so-called coach yells out to the other teams 1B Coach & says "You all ain't gonna do that running stuff, are ya"

The reply - "We are gonna play fastpitch softball"
Pretty hilarious........

 

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Just sitting at my son's game tonight and thinking of all of these things and laughing to myself! At least it wasn't my DH that was saying some of these things!!!

 

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I am sure he is referring to the originals...

The original XB-52 design, selected by the Army Air Forces in 1946, was for a straight-wing, six-engine, propeller-powered heavy bomber.

I didn't even consider experimental aircraft. Good call! If I remember my history correctly, wasn't this aircraft nicknamed the "Whobblin' Gobblin"?

I did see some batters doing this at a tournament recently and I thought to myself, are you kidding me. Maybe the Flag Corp on Friday nights are in their futures???

 

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If your bunt sign is touching your belly for bunt and steal sign is the sleeve or shorts for steal...you just may be a rec coach.

 

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Many dads who coach rec ball gave young ladies the desire to get better and have a chance to join a select team. Nothing wrong with Rec coaches. I believe most of the select coaches came from Rec.

 

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K1K- you are correct. Nothing wrong with Rec coaches... nothing at all.... BUT with that said I had a good one from my youngest daughter's A-team (rec coach) last night that i have to share. First a little info.. She is 10, throws 35mph. Her rec coach came up to me and said "man, she is throwing good, she has been throwing this rise curve that is nasty"... I said "rise curve", ..... HAHAHA..... we get in the car to come home last night and she said "Dad, coach said I have a rise curve".... I simply said "yup" with a smile on my face and just turned the radio up... no sense in bashing her coach in front of her... Probably had to be there but it was funny....

 

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@k1k:

We've already stated several times on this thread that it is all in fun, that travel ball wouldn't exist in its same form without rec ball coaches, and that most of us have been there.

Travel ball also wouldn't exist without good pitchers, and there is a "you might be a pitcher's parent" thread that is also in good fun.

I'm just waiting for someone to start a "you might be a travel ball coach" thread which could have some equally funny things about how travel ball coaches act in that capacity.

We all can be reminded in the spirit of fun of the excesses, mistakes and omissions in our conduct. Because some of these things should and do bring a smile.

Here is one for travel coaches: "If you think there is nothing wrong with recruiting a player from an existing team during the season and effectively booting out an existing player on your own team by virtue of that recruit, you might be a travel ball coach."

 

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Many dads who coach rec ball gave young ladies the desire to get better and have a chance to join a select team. Nothing wrong with Rec coaches. I believe most of the select coaches came from Rec.

As a former rec coach, current travel coach, high school coach, pitcher's dad, and umpire......I can still find these observations very funny and quite true! I've seen these things in others and in myself. It's ok to look in the mirror and laugh once in a while.

 

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I didn't even consider experimental aircraft. Good call! If I remember my history correctly, wasn't this aircraft nicknamed the "Whobblin' Gobblin"?

I did see some batters doing this at a tournament recently and I thought to myself, are you kidding me. Maybe the Flag Corp on Friday nights are in their futures???

I know the F-117 was nicknamed the "Wobbly Goblin". The B-52's nickname was BUFF, but maybe it had other nicknames????

Len

 

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K1K- you are correct. Nothing wrong with Rec coaches... nothing at all.... BUT with that said I had a good one from my youngest daughter's A-team (rec coach) last night that i have to share. First a little info.. She is 10, throws 35mph. Her rec coach came up to me and said "man, she is throwing good, she has been throwing this rise curve that is nasty"... I said "rise curve", ..... HAHAHA..... we get in the car to come home last night and she said "Dad, coach said I have a rise curve".... I simply said "yup" with a smile on my face and just turned the radio up... no sense in bashing her coach in front of her... Probably had to be there but it was funny....

Translation: Rise Curve = ball released from in front of the hip with weak snap that allows ball to rotate east to west, instead of north to south. Found naturally in 99.98625% of kids who "pitch" for the very first time.

 

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...ok what are coaching shoes...no I don't wear cleats to coach either!!

 

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.....one of your players in the middle of the game asks, "coach, can i go over to the playground?"..... You know your a recreational ball coach when you think 'what the hell' and then say to this promising seven year old, "Sure, why not honey.... have fun!" (i'll yell for ya when your up to bat!)

 

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If the opposing coach ask how many foul balls does she get before she is out (yes this did happen)

 

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If you ask if we are playing with 3 or 4 outfielders.