Coached on a u11/travel team that ended up beating up our Mothers Day opponent pretty bad in both ends of a dblhdr... Regardless of the outcome we had bought roses for each boy on each team to bring to their mother - it was the good will gesture for scheduling to play on that day... Well come playoffs, it turns out a few moms didn't forget the losses and somehow convinced the coaches (e.g. their husbands) to use their best pitcher against us - they won that game... We had developed a good relationship with the other team and they let us in on it... Pretty funny now of course ;-)... Still based on our overall record in the round robin playoff, we qualified for the regional tourney and finished 4th - not bad for a "town team" where town is defined as less than 6K residents. Almost all those kids played college ball somewhere. Suffice to say the moms never forgot how these games are always scheduled on Mothers Day, but never on Fathers Day (season was over, but that's not the point).