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Originally posted by isaacvanwart:
Please don't act like these HS coaches are gods. For goodness sakes, they are human and make 99 mistakes a day with respect to baseball decisions. They favor some kids over others for opportunities on a whim--on nothing more than personality or style. Remember, there are 5% superstar players that no coach can deny (and won't, even if these players are arrogant twits). There are bottom 20% who simply don't make the grade. The 75% in between are of equal or about equal talent levels. That crunch is where the coach decides, plain and simple, which kids to favor with the opportunities to develop. This man's son has fallen out of favor based upon some prejudice, or personality thing, or style thing, or because he did not suck up well enough. Let's be honest here--among that 75% in the crunch, the coach cannot distinguish based on talent so he picks his favorites and plays them all the time and we end up with a self-fulfilling prophecy. The kids who get the reps grow into players. The kids relegated to the bench don't. Reverse it and see who succeeds.
You can't be serious, can you? I can't tell if this is sarcastic or serious.
