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17. How selective a coach actually is when putting together a team is inversely proportional to how selective they sound when advertising for players on OFC. IE, if it sounds like they won't settle for anything less than Cat Osterman with a perfect set of parents don't waste your time going to their tryout. Making their team probably won't be a very good experience for your family.
18. Farm kids are beasts. Farmer girl, with her Herculian strength, can play 5 games a day 6 days a week and 8 games on Sunday and finish looking stronger than anyone. How? It's a mystery known to only those who grow up on a farm.
19. Parents who wear t-shirts and sweaters with encouraging slogans about their daughter ("Go Maddy!", "Team Maddy", etc) come in two varieties. Some are plain obnoxious, especially if their daughter is an awesome softball player, and they wear those slogans as a way to brag and let everyone know they're the parents of an awesome athelete. And some are the sweetest, nicest people you'll ever meet and are being genuinely sincere by wearing those shirts as a way to support a daughter they love very much. They're the kind of adorable couple who bakes snacks for the entire team, puts together and maintains the team web site, keeps the stat book, runs the fund raisers, volunteer for EVERYTHING, and even become friends with their daughter's opponents and opposing coaches. Likewise, their daughter is also a respectful person on and off the field and together they represent the family that we should all hope to have.
18. Farm kids are beasts. Farmer girl, with her Herculian strength, can play 5 games a day 6 days a week and 8 games on Sunday and finish looking stronger than anyone. How? It's a mystery known to only those who grow up on a farm.
19. Parents who wear t-shirts and sweaters with encouraging slogans about their daughter ("Go Maddy!", "Team Maddy", etc) come in two varieties. Some are plain obnoxious, especially if their daughter is an awesome softball player, and they wear those slogans as a way to brag and let everyone know they're the parents of an awesome athelete. And some are the sweetest, nicest people you'll ever meet and are being genuinely sincere by wearing those shirts as a way to support a daughter they love very much. They're the kind of adorable couple who bakes snacks for the entire team, puts together and maintains the team web site, keeps the stat book, runs the fund raisers, volunteer for EVERYTHING, and even become friends with their daughter's opponents and opposing coaches. Likewise, their daughter is also a respectful person on and off the field and together they represent the family that we should all hope to have.
