What Aren't You Looking Forward to This Softball Season?

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So I guess the $ amount justifies the behavior?

No, I forced my dd to be in the room by 8:30 in the bed, watching tv with tv off by 9. If an 8 am game, in the room by 8 pm. The hotel we stayed at was set up more like apartments (which they use to be). I honestly thought we weren't that loud. It was the fact I don't think they ever experienced a team staying there before and they didn't know how to handle it.

 

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:lmao:

Ok, we had a hotel that told us if we didn't stop being so loud, they'd kick us out. We had them booked for another tourney. Let me see, 30 families @ $100 a night, ok we can go somewhere else. They kicked out the wrestling team instead. :lmao:

Yeah, okay.

It just seemed that when you prefaced and closed your post with :lmao: that you found the hotel staff asking you to not be so loud, or they would kick you out, to be a laughing matter.

Then you gave them the ultimatum that you could go elsewhere with your 30 families @ $100 a night, so they kicked the wrestling team out instead. Apparently this was also funny.

No, I forced my dd to be in the room by 8:30 in the bed, watching tv with tv off by 9. If an 8 am game, in the room by 8 pm. The hotel we stayed at was set up more like apartments (which they use to be). I honestly thought we weren't that loud. It was the fact I don't think they ever experienced a team staying there before and they didn't know how to handle it.

The fact that a team was staying there shouldn't change anything. That is not a valid reason for making excessive noise. I'm sure some hotels do come to expect a certain amount of noise when a group of young people are staying there. But if it crosses the line of what they feel is acceptable, and ask that it be kept under control, I would hope that people do the responsible thing, and honor that request. They are most likely making that request with the other guests in mind.

Last year, we were a second year 12U team, and played a tournament in Columbus, IN. We spent two nights at a local hotel, and when checking out on Sunday morning before heading to the fields, the front desk staff made a point of telling every parent what well behaved girls we had. Because it was a team staying there, they had expected noise and running around. It was apparent that is what is the norm in most cases. It's kind of sad that good behavior is the exception anymore.

 

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Merlion,

Thanks for posting about the hotels. That is part of the reason we bought a camper this year. We were tired of waking up to kids running down the hall and banging on doors at 11pm, 1am, etc. Have a little common courtesy and respect for others. Much of the time, we would have been better served by sleeping in the truck.

 

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Campgrounds are a nice place to go. Usually FORCED quiet by a certain time at campgrounds.

 

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The 2nd :lmao: was dealing with the fact they kicked out the wrestling team. I won't deny it, if you knew the whole story, you'd laugh too (especially if you met the wrestling coach). You put a 14 or 16U guys wrestling team, and a 14U softball team together in the same hotel, there was going to be noise.

The ultimatum I honestly don't know. At the time we were in a recession and knowing you (as a hotel) knew you had us booked for another $10,000 (ballpark) and we were your only business, you may want to think twice. No one really complained that were we loud. But if you take a hotel that traditionally takes only business travelers during the week, it is a high class hotel, quiet would be the norm. So if that is the norm and they NEVER handled a travel team before, then it would be considered loud. The loud was the girls playing in the pool, which was outside.

We left every hotel on great terms but that one. We weren't loud. We just wasn't going to allow only 2 girls in the pool at a time so it stays quiet. In my opinion, both made bad judgement calls. The hotel shouldn't allowed us to stay there because they never dealt with a team before with a bunch of 10 yr olds and we shouldn't have gone there because they never dealt with a teams before.

 

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kids running down the hall and banging on doors at 11pm, 1am, etc. Have a little common courtesy and respect for others.

I love hearing kids run down the halls laughing and bonding, especially if from different parts of the state. I do agree that was too late and should have stopped.

however, if I bought a camper I'd have issues. I hear everything. But love camping. I don't make sense.

 

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Also not looking forward to parents who seem to forget that softball is a TEAM sport its not all about your kid if that were the case we wouldnt have 9 young ladies out on the field at a time.
There is always one in the bunch...now to see who it is going to be this season. Maybe lucky and not have that with either team That would be awesome!

 

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1--the first place that does not sell walking tacos
2--Stingray tourney parking
3--my phone dying because I'm always on it
4--realizing i left the ketchup or mustard at home during a cookout
5--being in the bathroom and someone asking me, "are you statman?"
6--35 mph speed limits when i'm already late
7--no tim hortons
8--passing out from having too many cheese fries
9--flip flop tan lines
10--saying goodbye, goodbye, goodbye

 

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Seeing members of our team misbehaving around the hotel while wearing our team's apparel. Whenever it happens, we immediately scold them for bringing shame upon our organization and send them back to their room to put on the Buckeyes shirt they got from Lasers Black. jk :lmao:

 

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Besides table tennis it's the worst sport to watch live, it's horrible even at the professional level! Besides girls play it not men so enough said!........:

It's also funny how not many of these girls get to play in the worlds and it actually means something!

 

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Oh, my. It would be rude to write anything more.

 

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Back to the original purpose of the thread. I am not looking forward to dealing with arrogant coaches who think the game is about them. Coaches that jump up and down and scream at their players. Don't walk by and say "we should be beating this team by 75" to the assistant coach of the other team.


If you teach them well enough, then you shouldn't have anything to scream about. If you need to scream at a player, that is most likely a "you" problem, not a "they" problem. Teach them well, and then enjoy the show they put on. If anyone sees me acting like a jerk, please feel free to remind me.

 

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Back to the original purpose of the thread. I am not looking forward to dealing with arrogant coaches who think the game is about them. Coaches that jump up and down and scream at their players. Don't walk by and say "we should be beating this team by 75" to the assistant coach of the other team.


If you teach them well enough, then you shouldn't have anything to scream about. If you need to scream at a player, that is most likely a "you" problem, not a "they" problem. Teach them well, and then enjoy the show they put on. If anyone sees me acting like a jerk, please feel free to remind me.

If you are talking rec then I agree but in travel screaming is a great tool for teenage girls. It's a great way to get through to them or get their mind off boys and back in the game.

 

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If you are talking rec than I agree but in travel screaming is a great tool for teenage girls. It's a great way to get through to them or get their mind off boys and back in the game.

What level of travel are you talking about here?

 

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What level of travel are you talking about here?

I hope he was joking in saying that. I assume that he was.

 

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I am pretty sure the wink meant they were kidding.

But sometimes we all need a kick in the backside. Someone said it best, some people yell because they are loud and passionate and some yell because they are mean bastards...........lets hope the bastards are weeded out before we all have to fix their teeth.

 

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Sparty -- I'll go for that.

 

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Although, the last season I coached, we were in the field, and after a couple lackadaisical fielding attempts I went "Hoosier" on the girls.
I called time, called all 9 girls to the circle, and forcefully, but I didn't yell, tell the girls that anybody who didn't feel like playing -- it was a hot day -- could go sit on the bench for the rest of the game, and that who ever was left in the field, that's who we'd finished the game with. The girls all looked at each other. I asked them who was going to take the rest of the game off? Nobody said anything. So I went back to the bench and we didn't win, but they played well the rest of the game.

 

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Although, the last season I coached, we were in the field, and after a couple lackadaisical fielding attempts I went "Hoosier" on the girls.
I called time, called all 9 girls to the circle, and forcefully, but I didn't yell, tell the girls that anybody who didn't feel like playing -- it was a hot day -- could go sit on the bench for the rest of the game, and that who ever was left in the field, that's who we'd finished the game with. The girls all looked at each other. I asked them who was going to take the rest of the game off? Nobody said anything. So I went back to the bench and we didn't win, but they played well the rest of the game.

That is a great way of handling things, screaming does nothing. If a coach screamed at my DD, they better have a darn good reason or she would probably put her fist in their mouth or if she had a ball in her hand they would probably get a rise ball in the teeth, she takes no **** from anyone, god I love her......

 

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Oh, one of the funny things was walking back to the bench -- our parents were dumbfounded. They couldn't have heard what was said, but the looks on some of the faces were priceless.