Things you HATE to hear...

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Name something you hate to hear a coach telling a player during a game....
I'll start: Go halfway! Halfway!! --- on a fly ball that is obviously FOUL. What would the point be of going half way if the ball is FOUL?

 

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How about telling a pitcher.....THROW STRIKES!!

 

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How about telling a pitcher.....THROW STRIKES!!

Your right, they should be yelling..."Throw the ball somewhere within 3 feet of where the sign was given!!!" or "You've got to be kidding me, at least throw it towards the backstop!!"

 

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The last thing that I want to hear from players, coaches or parents is.....don't lose her. The pitcher is down 3-0 and everyone is telling her not to lose her. Great idea to put the negative idea into her head. How about a little positive reinforcement people??

 

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LOL wgman,

Got another one like that. Glenn McCoy likes to tell the story of a dad that constantly yells to his dd once she gets 2 strikes ... "go down swinging" ... great advice, she usually does just that.

How about, ... "it only takes one, knock the snot out of it!"

The last thing that I want to hear from players, coaches or parents is.....don't lose her. The pitcher is down 3-0 and everyone is telling her not to lose her. Great idea to put the negative idea into her head. How about a little positive reinforcement people??

 

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I'm sure the positions differs greatly in here on this topic, but I would say the thing I hate most is during a game when the opposing team cheers THE ENTIRE GAME NON-STOP, one mindless memorized line of drivle after another.

Last game we played, every time our pitcher threw a ball, the opposing team would do that stupid chant... "We're slowly putting pressure on the pitcher and the catcher!"... over and over and over. It got so annoying, but I didn't want to be a crybaby and say anything b/c we were up 2-0, but last time I checked, ANY chant directed toward the opposing team is illegal. Cheer FOR your team, not AGAINST the other team. Just my 2cents.

 

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A girl on your team makes an error in the first or 2nd inning of a game in which you win and plays flawless ball after that error. After the game during coaches meeting with the players he says " put that error out of your mind, everybody else has" Ummm you just brought it back up and put back into everybodies mind lol.

 

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I like when a ball bounces in the dirt three feet in front of the plate or is 4 feet over everybodies head and you hear "good eye, good eye" from everybody.... Good eye?????!!!!!!! Stevie Wonder wouldn't even swing at that pitch.


However, we all have our Mr. Obvious moments now and then. I was at a family reunion last weekend and saw my cousins walking up from their car carring their covered dish and dragging their cooler. They were about an hour or so late and before I could think my mouth said, "What, you just getting here?" He just looked at me and I immediatly realized what just transpired. Hello, Mr Obvious????

 

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What about " What were you thinking"

 

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I was at a game where a girl threw a no hitter and her relative told her the batters were just swinging at bad pitches. Boy that was a moral builder.

 

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I hate it when a parent tells their DD to "Watch for the change-up!" However, I love it when an opposing coach says it because that is the last pitch that batter will see.

 

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I'm sure the positions differs greatly in here on this topic, but I would say the thing I hate most is during a game when the opposing team cheers THE ENTIRE GAME NON-STOP, one mindless memorized line of drivle after another.

Last game we played, every time our pitcher threw a ball, the opposing team would do that stupid chant... "We're slowly putting pressure on the pitcher and the catcher!"... over and over and over. It got so annoying, but I didn't want to be a crybaby and say anything b/c we were up 2-0, but last time I checked, ANY chant directed toward the opposing team is illegal. Cheer FOR your team, not AGAINST the other team. Just my 2cents.

I will remember this next time we play you :lmao: :lmao: :lmao:

 

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I hate it when a parent tells their DD to "Watch for the change-up!" However, I love it when an opposing coach says it because that is the last pitch that batter will see.

Maybe the opposing coach is saying it so you won't throw the change-up! :lmao: :lmao:

 

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How about telling a pitcher.....THROW STRIKES!!

I so agree on this one. Do we really thing the pitcher isn't trying to throw strikes and knows they are not hitting their spots. It;s like stating the obvious.

 

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C'mon... Level swing now!

 

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Hitting team's coach yells to hitter as she steps into box, "now lay off those high ones" ... guess what's coming now ...

 

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I agree with Lenski. I think the absolute worst thing a coach or parent can yell to a hitter-- besides, "You stink. You'll never get a hit!" -- is "watch for the change up!" If you're looking for the change up and don't get it, you might as well sit down because any other pitch is going right by you.

That being said, it's perfectly all right to go up to the plate and sit on the change up early in the count if the pitcher has been throwing a lot of them. Just stand there with your bat on your shoulder and wait until the ball is on the way before you lift your hands. If the change up comes, you'll have time to lift, turn and hit it out of sight! If anything else comes, you won't have time to do anything but let it go. I think it's something every coach should help his/her team to learn to do. Every once in awhile, especially at the 12 and 14U levels, you'll face somebody who is either really slow or who throws the change about every third pitch. If this little speech, "all right girls, let's go up there this inning and sit on the change up just the way we practiced," is in your arsenal, you've got a good chance to knock her out of the circle in a hurry.

But when your hitters have two strikes, DON'T YELL "WATCH FOR THE CHANGE UP!" Say, "Keep your hands back and put the ball in play," instead.

 

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But when your hitters have two strikes, DON'T YELL "WATCH FOR THE CHANGE UP!" Say, "Keep your hands back and put the ball in play," instead.

Exactly!

 

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I love this one if a parent(NOT ALL) has a DD that is a pitcher you have to hear that parent talk about the 10 pitches she has(odds are she can only hit 3) and then when she does hit it
for the next 5 min I will hear WOW<WOW did you see that WOW

 

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I like when a Rec Ball coach gets a taste of Fastpitch and thinks he knows what he or she is doing"it takes time"