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I really liked the Courage the Cowardly Dog one... 
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I am a Superhero.. the sweetest commercial. 
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Went to practice pitching with the youngest and another dad asked if it was OK to give a tip or two. We both said yes and then he proceeded to tell my son all the stuff I've been telling him for the past 2 years. *sigh* Sometimes the same lesson is better learned from someone other than family.
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So you have no credability. =P
Doing impresses more than telling. Especially in sports.
When teaching my current team (12-15yr old girls) about catching and throwing the runner out at second, I started talking about the importance of it. One of the girls who wanted to be a catcher promptly said that she couldnt throw it that far. I simply showed her footwork and technique and rifled a few. And lo and behold, she started getting the ball to second on the fly. A bit of an arc, but I can work with that.
Same for throws from the outfield. Talk the talk, then show them. And then they start trying because they see that the coach can do what he says can be done.
Hitting, pitching... all the same. Talk it, show the form, then do it. And then they will start doing it too.
Coach Netminder
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"I am not sure if my portrayal of being insane is accurate, but damn its fun all the same."
Yes Coach.
I have no trouble with any of the boys on the team, except my son. 
But he is much better. It is so much fun to see how much everyone has improved. 8-10 year olds. Played the #1 team and after making 12 errrors, 
we came back and scored 11 runs in the last two innings to almost win that game. 3 more games left and then the playoffs start.
(Now if I can only keep the squirels off the field. Right fielder comes in the other game and says the squirels were distracting him. All I could do was laugh.)
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Ok Coach. A teaching moment ... for me. Let me know how I could have handled this better.
Boy started the season as one of my main starters. He had never pitched before but he threw hard and was fairly accurate. His parents were taking him to lessons and I could see some real potential with him. He pitched several games in practice games and in the early season. First 1 then 2 innings and was one of our better pitchers.
One game he goes through two innings in about 20 pitches so I ask, how he's feeling. Fine. So I send him for a third. Gets the first out and he runs out of gas, walks a few so I pull him.
Then problems start. He stops with the pitching lessons. He stops throwing hard. Starts aiming. Stops throwing strikes. We work with him and in practice he is great. Gets into a game and there are only 35% strikes. So I stop using him. I don't want his poor pitching to effect his hitting.
Now the problem. Last practice the boys asks why he hasn't been pitching. I dance around the matter and he seems fine. He talks with his mom and the mom comes back 4 minutes later and asks the same question. I again dance around the matter, the starter completes 3, another boys goes one, closer finishes the last two, we just haven't been able to work him in but we'll try. She asks me why the other boy has gotten the one inning in the middle and not her boy.
Warning flags go off but I felt it was better to be honest. I told her the other boy throws a lot of strikes. What about her boy she asks. Well, he isn't throwing strikes. I then add that he isn't throwing hard anymore like he was earlier and without those two things it is hard for me to put him in a game. "Oh" she said and turns, gathers up her son and leaves.
So, did I do ok? Should I have said something else? Should I have not answered her at all? What would Net do?
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How can his poor pitching affect his hitting? I'm a bit confused.. isn't this supposed to be about having fun? Did you explain early on to the child when his ability started to wain that he ought to keep his focus or you'd pull him? I guess if you expect to turn out a few future major league players then I can see why you'd pull the kid from pitching. I dunno.. not a big sports fan.. probably don't know what I'm talking about but I can see his moms reaction reflecting how I'd feel. Basically, she saw it as her child being substandard in your eyes. She reacted to protect him from feeling that way.
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Only one mistake. You weren't completly honest from the get go about his pitching. As soon as a problem develops, and you notice something out of the ordinary (like not practicing, not throwing hard, control issues), say something to both the player and the parents.
And you have to present it from the team's perspective, not the individual. The player in question's hitting is irrelvent to his pitching. Its his high percentage of balls and likely hits (low speed) that are leading to runs allowed, which leads to losses, which leads to poor team morale.
Coach Net
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Thanks Coach Net. You're right, I should have mentioned something once I saw he was having a problem but at the time, I thought he was still having lessons and thought his coach would say something. Didn't realize he had stopped the lessons. I'll give a full explanation to the parents tomorrow. (Diplomacy, another reason why I'll never be President.)
And GP, his hitting was effected by his pitching because when he didn't pitch well, he tried to make up for it by trying to hit home runs every at bat instead of just hitting the ball hard. So, instead of hitting a home run, he didn't hit anything and got even more frustrated.
Oh, and it is about having fun. It was terrible watching him after not pitching well. I don't know how he felt but I was ready to cry for him he was so down.
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I would also watch for when a player in any sport starts doing something detrimental, like not using the right form to shoot a basketball, or "aiming instead of just throwing", or tackling with his head instead of his chest. When they're that age (8-10), they should be concentrating on repeating the same good actions. Not only will they learn bad habits, but they might start doing things that are dangerous for themselves and others. If a player of mine started showing bad habits, I'd have no problem sitting them on the bench until they could show me the right way to do things.
What you're describing might also be a sign that the child isn't enjoying what he's doing. Kids go through stretches where they really like playing something, then they decide for whatever reason that they'd rather do something else.
Loose --> not tight.
Lose --> Did not win, misplace, cannot find, subtract.
One extra 'o' makes a big difference.
My son Tristan has Aspergers and has "perfectionist" issues.. I can see him reacting that way: Not pitching as well as he could, letting the frustration overwhelm him and sapping his other abilities leading up to a complete blow up.
(He won first place in a track and field relay race this week. I was very proud of him.. had no idea he was a good runner.)
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Well I coached my first gorls softball game, and much to my father's amusement, I did not get ejected. (Seriously. He has a running wager that Ill get thrown out of at least one game.) The girls got smacked 22-6 but for those keeping score at home take this statistic to heart:
First 4 1/3 innings, zero walks issued, 8 runs (5 earned) given up. The score was 8-3 at that point.
Last 2 2/3 innings, 10 walks issued, 14 runs (all earned) given up.
Talk about the tale of 2 games. My pick for my starting pitcher was spot on, and Im willing to write some of it off as first game jitters, but its all about throwing strikes. 3 of our 6 runs came from runnigs being walked in. Oh well. We have a pre-game practice on Thursday to go over some key mental mistakes.
And I think I have set a new mark for things I never want to do again: I goaltended a hockey game in someoneelse's gear. I had finished ref'ing a game and was exiting the Ref Room when the team that was playing next was in a panic because they had no goalie. I was spotted and asked, to which I responded that I didnt have my armor with me. "No problem, we have gear just no-one to put it on." So I quickly donned some of the most funky smelling gear I have ever had the displeasure of wearing. Thank goodness its only spring, because I could tell it was sitting in someone's trunk for a couple of days. After posting the win, I couldn't get it off fast enough and home for 2 showers.
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When I evaluate a game I don't count the walks against the team since the team had no control over that. Not much lets the air out of a team like walking in a run (or 2 or 3)
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Ultra Proud Father moment today:
My son is 6 and in the first grade. They were doing an assignment on what they want to be when they grow up and they had to draw it. My son wanted to be a soldier. So he drew 2 bases, each with a flag, and the guys fighting between the bases. The color of the bases..... Red vs. Blue.
My wife is not amused, but Im lovin' it. And for the record, he is on the Blue team.
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So I take the family out for lunch on Saturday. Sitting at a table near ours is a clutch of teenage girls. One of them is wearing these jeans that are just super low slung on her hips, and I kid you not, she's got a couple of inches of crack showing. So of course, my daughter (in the non-modulated full-throated voice of a 5 year old) proceeds to ask me "Daddy, why is that girl's butt showing?"
It was like that old EF Hutton commercial, where everything comes to a complete silence.... and then people started laughing and looking around and pointing. I thought my wife's head might explode from embarrassment, and the girl in question too. But, the moment passed, and all was fine. Until we got up to leave, and as we're going, my 3 year old son actually drops a penny into the aforementioned crack.
Ain't parenthood fun?
�Life's hard. It's even harder when you're stupid.� ― John Wayne
�Just think of how stupid the average person is, and then realize half of them are even stupider!� - George Carlin
And why don't you have a video recorder on them all the time when they do stuff like that? Hmmm?
That is priceless. I keep threatening my boy that if he continues to show off his underwear to everyone, I'll stop washing them.
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So I take the family out for lunch on Saturday. Sitting at a table near ours is a clutch of teenage girls. One of them is wearing these jeans that are just super low slung on her hips, and I kid you not, she's got a couple of inches of crack showing. So of course, my daughter (in the non-modulated full-throated voice of a 5 year old) proceeds to ask me "Daddy, why is that girl's butt showing?"
It was like that old EF Hutton commercial, where everything comes to a complete silence.... and then people started laughing and looking around and pointing. I thought my wife's head might explode from embarrassment, and the girl in question too. But, the moment passed, and all was fine. Until we got up to leave, and as we're going, my 3 year old son actually drops a penny into the aforementioned crack.
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Teenage clothing is getting out of control!All the girls are trying to dress LESS than Brittney Spears and Beyonce. They haven't even full gotten in to puberty let alone out of it, and they are all trying to dress like the covergirl on Playboy! And how are the parents letting them wear this?
The boys aren't much better either. the waist of jeans around their knees, or running around shirtless or unbuttoned down to their stomach to show off their 4 chest hairs. Laughable.
The one youngster fashion I can understand is the new evolving "emo" styles.... They aren't all black anymore. I drove by a high school last week at dismissal time, and there was a pack of about a dozen boys and girls dressed in black with pink or blue hair styled wild, rock band t-shirts, black jeans, spiked wristbands, chains on the wallet/keys/ipod/phone/backpack and Doc Martens. PUNK! Punk is back! These kids look like they fell out of an early 80's Danzig Video. Wow.
Made me smile.
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I'd rather my daughter went punk than ****.. I mean honestly.. I'm really happy she's not into make-up and has her own look.
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So I take the family out for lunch on Saturday. Sitting at a table near ours is a clutch of teenage girls. One of them is wearing these jeans that are just super low slung on her hips, and I kid you not, she's got a couple of inches of crack showing. So of course, my daughter (in the non-modulated full-throated voice of a 5 year old) proceeds to ask me "Daddy, why is that girl's butt showing?"
It was like that old EF Hutton commercial, where everything comes to a complete silence.... and then people started laughing and looking around and pointing. I thought my wife's head might explode from embarrassment, and the girl in question too. But, the moment passed, and all was fine. Until we got up to leave, and as we're going, my 3 year old son actually drops a penny into the aforementioned crack.
Ain't parenthood fun?
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Teenage clothing is getting out of control!All the girls are trying to dress LESS than Brittney Spears and Beyonce. They haven't even full gotten in to puberty let alone out of it, and they are all trying to dress like the covergirl on Playboy! And how are the parents letting them wear this?
The boys aren't much better either. the waist of jeans around their knees, or running around shirtless or unbuttoned down to their stomach to show off their 4 chest hairs. Laughable.
The one youngster fashion I can understand is the new evolving "emo" styles.... They aren't all black anymore. I drove by a high school last week at dismissal time, and there was a pack of about a dozen boys and girls dressed in black with pink or blue hair styled wild, rock band t-shirts, black jeans, spiked wristbands, chains on the wallet/keys/ipod/phone/backpack and Doc Martens. PUNK! Punk is back! These kids look like they fell out of an early 80's Danzig Video. Wow.
Made me smile.
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I have seen 8-11 yo girls wearing the **** fashion, so its not just teends.
Seeing little girls dressed like that is a really big OMG thing.
Since the little girls do have no real control over their own clothing.
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I have seen 8-11 yo girls wearing the **** fashion, so its not just teends.
Seeing little girls dressed like that is a really big OMG thing.
Since the little girls do have no real control over their own clothing.
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So, what you are saying is, the young mothers who no longer fit into said slutty clothing, are vicariously exploiting their daughters to express their own "daddy issues" there-by giving the little girls even bigger "grand-daddy issues?"
Wow. What a great time to write a child psychology dissertation.
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I wish I still had my Nosferatu shirt.. she'd look so cute in it.
I was helping my friend fold some of her step daughters laundry one day and I was frickin shocked.. Shorts that showed off half their butt cheeks?!? Tiny little halter tops? My friend was not too impressed with my little speach that began with: "You let them go out dressed like this?!?" Talk about sexual predator bait up the wazoo. Jeesh.
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I wish I still had my Nosferatu shirt.. she'd look so cute in it.
I was helping my friend fold some of her step daughters laundry one day and I was frickin shocked.. Shorts that showed off half their butt cheeks?!? Tiny little halter tops? My friend was not too impressed with my little speach that began with: "You let them go out dressed like this?!?" Talk about sexual predator bait up the wazoo. Jeesh.
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My niece stole my Nosferatu, and Tzmisce T-Shirts when she went to Oz-Fest. I STILL haven't got them back.
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"Did your Phantom Army just take the Elevator? Imaginary People riding Elevators? *facepalm*
Unfortunatly I have the same problem but with uncontrolled outside sources.... namely her biological father. My teen-age step-daughter occasionally brings home.... a far more revealing outfit than what we (my wife and I) permit in our house. And since she is too lazy to do her own laundry, some of those items go "missing". =)
Got a bin full of stuff in the basement that she can have back when she leaves the nest.
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Thanks so much for the kind words you two.