Guest WHOLETDADOGSOUT Posted June 12, 2009 Report Posted June 12, 2009 I heard the 9 year olds played a very tough game tonight against Groves but lost 6-5. Good game kids. Way to hang tough. Next year you will do much better, especially since you should have a much better coaching staff then you had this year. No way a coach who won a total of 2 games during the regular season should be allowed to coach an all-star team! The coaches on this team were a complete JOKE!!
Guest yankee fan Posted June 12, 2009 Report Posted June 12, 2009 Yes they are. The young one w/ blonde hair. Likes to yell "SWING" while certain GROVES kids were batting!!!!!
westend1 Posted June 13, 2009 Report Posted June 13, 2009 Wow! Pretty harsh criticism of a guy who is a volunteer coach, freely giving his time to the league. :-[
Baseballfan62 Posted June 13, 2009 Report Posted June 13, 2009 Wow! Pretty harsh criticism of a guy who is a volunteer coach, freely giving his time to the league. :-[ The board selected these coaches and to me it was wrong. Coaches from the championship team should have been selected. Certain kids were placed in positions who did not belong there which ended up costing them the game last night. They had over 2 weeks of practices to get it right and still had kids in the wrong positions. The coaches lost this one, not the kids. The kids managed to win 2 games in spite of them. I am hoping with a new board next year, this will not happen again. If it does this league will go to the dogs (no pun intended). The only agenda these coaches should have is to win, not to make their kids a star.
Guest kf89 Posted June 13, 2009 Report Posted June 13, 2009 2 of the 3 guys who were voted on for the manager of the team were coaches on the team.the 3rd guy refused to be a coach cuz he didnt get the manager position.so 1 of his assistants replaced him & he pretty much ran the team during league.so take your pick on manager the outcome would have been the same.the players decide the final outcome of the games any way, the groves kids got 1 more run then ned. now all that the ned. kids learned from hearing parents& grandparents is to blame the coaches for getting beat. by the way the league championship team was the exporters and the highest finish of any of the managers for the 9's was 3rd.maybe the 4th coach from the exporters should have gotten the 9 yr old team since they won the championship,if its all about winning 1st in league?
Baseballfan62 Posted June 13, 2009 Report Posted June 13, 2009 2 of the 3 guys who were voted on for the manager of the team were coaches on the team.the 3rd guy refused to be a coach cuz he didnt get the manager position.so 1 of his assistants replaced him & he pretty much ran the team during league.so take your pick on manager the outcome would have been the same.the players decide the final outcome of the games any way, the groves kids got 1 more run then ned. now all that the ned. kids learned from hearing parents& grandparents is to blame the coaches for getting beat. by the way the league championship team was the exporters and the highest finish of any of the managers for the 9's was 3rd.maybe the 4th coach from the exporters should have gotten the 9 yr old team since they won the championship,if its all about winning 1st in league? I guess you are right. The manager, who only won 2 games all year long in league play, really knew the kids well and every position they were strong at all year long. He was a really great judge of talent. Guess no matter who he played where there would still have been 6 costly mistakes in the infield. Such as easy pop flies dropped.
Guest Brubaker Posted June 13, 2009 Report Posted June 13, 2009 This is some big time sour grapes and very CLASSLESS posting. You lost, teach your kids to win and lose with class, you seem to be the biggest problem in my opinion Let me guess, little Johnny not get much playing time? Either way, play like a champion, lose like a champion, post like a champion... you have A LOT to learn buddy.
Dog4Life Posted June 13, 2009 Report Posted June 13, 2009 This is some big time sour grapes and very CLASSLESS posting. You lost, teach your kids to win and lose with class, you seem to be the biggest problem in my opinion Let me guess, little Johnny not get much playing time? Either way, play like a champion, lose like a champion, post like a champion... you have A LOT to learn buddy. Wrong, So wrong pal. No sour grapes to that post. You obviously have NO CLUE. Our kids KNOW how to lose with class as Nederland ALWAYS has. This year though, wasnt the kids fault!!!!!!Our coaches STUNK!!!! We went from winning 8yr olds last year and being the team to beat to being the joke of the league?? Give me a freeking break!!!!!!!! The kids deserved better. People wonder why select is taking over? This is the reason! Incompetent and daddy (and granddaddy) ball coaching at this level! Bunch of CRAP!!!!
Baseballfan62 Posted June 14, 2009 Report Posted June 14, 2009 Wrong, So wrong pal. No sour grapes to that post. You obviously have NO CLUE. Our kids KNOW how to lose with class as Nederland ALWAYS has. This year though, wasnt the kids fault!!!!!!Our coaches STUNK!!!! We went from winning 8yr olds last year and being the team to beat to being the joke of the league?? Give me a freeking break!!!!!!!! The kids deserved better. People wonder why select is taking over? This is the reason! Incompetent and daddy (and granddaddy) ball coaching at this level! Bunch of CRAP!!!! You hit the nail on the head Dog4Life...select ball is taking over and will continue to take over. League ball talent will continue to erode due to this crap! It's ashame you have to pay extra money to get kids, who work hard and earn their positions, their fair shake. I know some are saying "geez, they are only 9 years old, winning is not everything". Well if it isn't, then tell me why in the hell did they practice for 3-4 hours per day, over 2 straight weeks? Why were player stat sheets passed around before the last game for the prior 3 all-star games. Apparently the coaches never looked at their stats for the regular season. Apparently they completely overlooked who was performing in practice and who was not. It was a complete waste of time since they already made up their minds on positions. Why were the players made to do pushups after making an error? Maybe the coaches should have added up the number of pushups each kid had to do and put that on a stat sheet. I guess all this was a great lesson on life to these kids....no matter how good of an education you get, no matter how hard and good you do your job, it will not guarantee you diddly squat unless you have a sugar daddy pulling some strings. I know the melt down between 2 coaches during the last practice, in front of the entire team, left a great impression on these young kids. One of the coaches stormed off the field saying he quit. Now that was a great lesson in sportsmanship. I have said enough on this subject. Call it sour grapes or whatever you want to call it. Kids who earn their spots deserve much better than this.
gablfan Posted June 14, 2009 Report Posted June 14, 2009 i have to agree. I seen 2 of the games and the coaches are jokes. As far as making them do pushups when they make an error, thats wrong! They wouldnt have done my boy that but 1 time and we would have had a little talk. In the last inning they had a runner on 2nd with either no outs or 1, i cant remember. But they have there kids swinging away and striking out. Bunt and get that kid on 3rd! I rarely heard the coaches voices. These kids are 9, you still have to tell them what to do and "coach" them.
Guest Penny Posted June 15, 2009 Report Posted June 15, 2009 i have to agree. I seen 2 of the games and the coaches are jokes. As far as making them do pushups when they make an error, thats wrong! They wouldnt have done my boy that but 1 time and we would have had a little talk. In the last inning they had a runner on 2nd with either no outs or 1, i cant remember. But they have there kids swinging away and striking out. Bunt and get that kid on 3rd! I rarely heard the coaches voices. These kids are 9, you still have to tell them what to do and "coach" them. Which was it no outs or one out, if I'm making a judgement on these guys being jokes, I need to know. Cuz if you suggest bunting with a man on second and one out, then I'm going to make my own judgement about who's doing the judging.
westend1 Posted June 15, 2009 Report Posted June 15, 2009 i do volunteer. Been volunteer for 6 years. Coach or umpire?
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