Little league baseball rant (1 Viewer)

[Standing Hampton]

At my son's 12year old game on Friday. They were home team down 12-1 in the top 4, they play 6. Guy gets on, my son's playing first and I tell him not to hold the runner on, they're up 12-1 and they won't be stealing. The coach at first looks at me and says, "yes we are" and sends him. I tell the guy, "that's the difference between daddy ball and baseball". He just kept sending them. I live in north Georgia and this guy was a true redneck.

If you are a little league coach, DON'T DO THIS. Show sportsmanship. Teach them at least that.

 

[Emerson Biggens]

Unfortunately, there are those coaches everywhere. Saturday, a team was beating my son's team by about 10 in the last inning. The other team (up at least 10) had a couple runners on. We brought in a new pitcher to basically try him out in what was a lost cause. The second pitch he was going to throw, while in the stretch, the other team sends their runners while the pitcher is still set, before he started his motion, and they kind of clapped and yelled at him. It lead to a balk because he was thrown off by them already running and stepped off the rubber wrong. Our team was pissed at that bush league crap.

 

[Wrigley]

I too often see coaches that don't know how to coach, and parents that don't know they are not coaches.

 

[DoubleG]

Unfortunately, there are those coaches everywhere. Saturday, a team was beating my son's team by about 10 in the last inning. The other team (up at least 10) had a couple runners on. We brought in a new pitcher to basically try him out in what was a lost cause. The second pitch he was going to throw, while in the stretch, the other team sends their runners while the pitcher is still set, before he started his motion, and they kind of clapped and yelled at him. It lead to a balk because he was thrown off by them already running and stepped off the rubber wrong. Our team was pissed at that bush league crap.

We had a team that did that against us last year (11 & 12 year olds). We played them twice. They won the first game by 2 runs. The second game we were pounding them by about 8 runs or so (we only lost 2 games last year), and some of the boys on my team started doing it back. I told them (fairly loudly) to cut it out - it's not good sportsmanship and they look like a bunch of girls. It worked - several ways.

 

[Standing Hampton]

Unfortunately, there are those coaches everywhere. Saturday, a team was beating my son's team by about 10 in the last inning. The other team (up at least 10) had a couple runners on. We brought in a new pitcher to basically try him out in what was a lost cause. The second pitch he was going to throw, while in the stretch, the other team sends their runners while the pitcher is still set, before he started his motion, and they kind of clapped and yelled at him. It lead to a balk because he was thrown off by them already running and stepped off the rubber wrong. Our team was pissed at that bush league crap.

We had a team that did that against us last year (11 & 12 year olds). We played them twice. They won the first game by 2 runs. The second game we were pounding them by about 8 runs or so (we only lost 2 games last year), and some of the boys on my team started doing it back. I told them (fairly loudly) to cut it out - it's not good sportsmanship and they look like a bunch of girls. It worked - several ways.

Good for you. I'll bet their coach didn't even get it. I've used the "if you want to chant, got play girls softball" a couple of times.

If you don't know what I'm referring too go watch any girls softball game.

 

[DoubleG]

Unfortunately, there are those coaches everywhere. Saturday, a team was beating my son's team by about 10 in the last inning. The other team (up at least 10) had a couple runners on. We brought in a new pitcher to basically try him out in what was a lost cause. The second pitch he was going to throw, while in the stretch, the other team sends their runners while the pitcher is still set, before he started his motion, and they kind of clapped and yelled at him. It lead to a balk because he was thrown off by them already running and stepped off the rubber wrong. Our team was pissed at that bush league crap.

We had a team that did that against us last year (11 & 12 year olds). We played them twice. They won the first game by 2 runs. The second game we were pounding them by about 8 runs or so (we only lost 2 games last year), and some of the boys on my team started doing it back. I told them (fairly loudly) to cut it out - it's not good sportsmanship and they look like a bunch of girls. It worked - several ways.

Good for you. I'll bet their coach didn't even get it. I've used the "if you want to chant, got play girls softball" a couple of times.

If you don't know what I'm referring too go watch any girls softball game.

Unfortunately you're probably correct. I could tell by the reactions of his team that some of the boys understood (and I actually talked to my team at practice later that week about respecting the game and your opponents.)

 

[lgamble82]

At my son's 12year old game on Friday. They were home team down 12-1 in the top 4, they play 6. Guy gets on, my son's playing first and I tell him not to hold the runner on, they're up 12-1 and they won't be stealing. The coach at first looks at me and says, "yes we are" and sends him. I tell the guy, "that's the difference between daddy ball and baseball". He just kept sending them. I live in north Georgia and this guy was a true redneck.If you are a little league coach, DON'T DO THIS. Show sportsmanship. Teach them at least that.

Can't a coach teach his kids how to steal, no mater how ahead they are, or what inning it is?

 

[Standing Hampton]

At my son's 12year old game on Friday. They were home team down 12-1 in the top 4, they play 6. Guy gets on, my son's playing first and I tell him not to hold the runner on, they're up 12-1 and they won't be stealing. The coach at first looks at me and says, "yes we are" and sends him. I tell the guy, "that's the difference between daddy ball and baseball". He just kept sending them. I live in north Georgia and this guy was a true redneck.If you are a little league coach, DON'T DO THIS. Show sportsmanship. Teach them at least that.

Can't a coach teach his kids how to steal, no mater how ahead they are, or what inning it is?

There's a time for that and it's not when you are way up. In baseball, you begin to run station-to-station, or not taking the extra base, when the game is out of hand.That is baseball etiquette. You don't ask your kids to stop hitting, but stealing is something you CAN control. What is the point of stealing when you're up by 11 runs late in the game? What's the message you want to send to your players?