Filed under parents have agendas too ...
Our middle school had 7th and 8th grade teams. The coach would coach the team both years in 7th and 8th. Then he would get a new group of 7th graders.
I arrived early to an away game. I was chatting with the coach. He liked me. He was new to coaching. I had funneled a lot of drills to him through my son (give this folder to the coach). And he liked to talk baseball.
He warned my son wouldn’t be playing that day along with another one of my travel kids. Three mothers had gone to the middle school athletic director complaining their kids weren’t playing a lot while my son and the other kid had played every inning. He was forced to bench them for the game.
It got back to me the next couple of days one of those mothers was bragging her son had beaten my son out at short. He was the new shortstop (the kid peaked at ten in LL).
The coach found a solution to the problem. In 8th grade the roster was only fourteen instead of seventeen. Anyone want to guess which three players didn’t make the team.