Last night we played baseball and boy was it cold with the wind blowing hard off the mountains. We lost by a couple of runs but more on that later. It’s supposed to rain and/or snow on and off for the next 4 days or so meaning today is our last nice day.
Ok, here we go. Lori made it to the game by 7pm which was the starting time and Ty and his friends played hard the whole game in a field next to ours. We had a rough start but then tied the game with an inning to go. The coach and I had a different philosophy as he elected to play a couple kids who previously had errors which then cost us the game. Our other assistant coach was also confused as to why our coach played these kids. Now to be honest, there were plenty enough errors earlier that cost us the game (none by Jag!) but we were in a position to win and with the late roster moves, there’s no way we would. I woke up to three texts this morning apologizing for his attitude and thanking me for all my help. I know he was trying to put certain kids in pressure situations to see if they could work through it but if we would have managed to win (like in real baseball) we would have won. He told the team after the game how disappointed he was in the individual play with little to no teamwork and then asked me if I had anything to say to which I simply said, “guys, if you as individuals continue to make errors, we’ll just need to bench you, we cannot continue to make errors on basic plays we have practiced over and over.” My point is, we’re past the ‘everyone gets to play and everyone gets a trophy” stage. If you play well, you play, if you continuously screw up and have poor technique, you sit, simple as that. As for Jagger, he played great and looked like a real ball player up there. If things don’t change, he’ll need to move on to a more talented team. We basically have 4 guys out of 13 that can’t hit, then another 2 or so that’ll swing at bad pitches but I can work around that. What killed us was lazy plays by some kids trying to one hand the ball when hit to them or a couple kids (one in particular) that cannot catch a fly ball. That kid dropped two in a row last night and the coach insisted on playing him when the game was tied. I’m all for helping him, and have tried, but would not have played him in a tie game with 20 minutes to go. Oh well, things could be worse, time to let it go so that’s it. I’m meeting with the coach today and trust me, that will not happen again.
I’m worn out from rehashing this so time to go, take care, God Bless.