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Coaching visit

coach2709coach270910,000+ posts
Middle of an inning and a batter strikes out. The defensive team's coach tells his catcher to come over to talk to him. Time wasn't called and the coach stepped out of the dugout to have a quick meeting with the catcher.

It did delay the game slightly and the catcher had to leave the plate area to have the discussion. It wasn't like on a ground out when the catcher was coming back from backing up first and something was said.

I don't think anyone called time.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. Thomas Jefferson

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jjkjjk500+ posts
Why a visit?
OBR
Rule 8.06 Comment: If the manager or coach goes to the catcher or infielder and that player then
goes to the mound or the pitcher comes to him at his position before there is an intervening play (a pitch or other play) that will be the same as the manager or coach going to the mound.
granbyfangranbyfan1,000+ posts
Last year I saw the coach ask if he could talk to his catcher. Blue said sure you can. It took about 15 seconds and when he was done blue goes that was a trip. Coach goes crazy saying u said I could talk to him and blue says you didn't ask if it was a trip. That was the longest Ive ever seen a coach loose it on an ump and not get thrown. It was great!
M Matt1310,000+ posts
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Originally posted by Jimmy03:
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Originally posted by granbyfan:
If you ain't cheatin you ain't tryin. I wouldn't call it bush just pushin the limits.


High School baseball is, by definition, an extension of the classroom. How many other teachers are teaching their students cheating is just trying?


At least one. Eric Cartmanez.
LB luv baseball5,000+ posts
Hmmm....sign stealing, balk moves, asking for time as pitchers wind to deliver, chatter from the dugout, spiking. Seems to me that the game is full of borderline stuff that is done for competative advantage.

As far as the school itself I'd say that teachers teaching to the standardized tests skew the results so yeah shady stuff is happening everywhere.

Not condoning it but the Jeanie is out of the bottle.
Jimmy03Jimmy031,000+ posts
What I was addressing was the phrase I often hear school coaches advise their students: "If you ain't cheatin' you ain't trying." I have never heard that phrase uttered in an indoor class room, outside of the the athletic department.

High school sports, in my opinion, is an opportunity to impress upon young people the best the that competition has to offer character development. Not the worst.

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