Reply to "What to do when coach starts playing "Daddy Ball""

IrishDad10+ posts

This is my first year coaching.

I have 0 parent support. I have 0 parents attend practices. I am a 2 hour baby-sitter. I don't even have an assistant coach. I have the occasional Dad who can be dragged over to coach at 1st base. But all he does is stand with his hands in his pockets the entire time.

I spent the same $150 that everyone else did to enroll their son. I spent another $150 on baseballs and other equipment that the league only supplied meager quantities of.

None of my parents even attempted to garner sponsorship for the team, so I sponsored the team myself (another $300). and no, I do not make much money, I am an enlisted Navy sailor.

My kid will play whatever position he wants, and he will bat in any spot in the line-up he wants.

Fortunately, his stats back him up, as he is batting over .600, and has an opponents BA of less then .150 when pitching.

I might coach next year, but I will draft parents, not players.

4/27/062:04 PM

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