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Is this right in any way.

F Frtitans28Member
Here's the situation. Our second basemen screwed up two plays in the first two innings. Not big things just things like 1st and 3rd coverage and not being at the bag when the guy was stealing. Anyway kid gets back to the bench and coach asks him what's up. The coach tells him straight up he doesn't want excuses. But yet the kid goes and blames the short stop and catcher for his screw ups. The coach then replaces him, and as he is being taken out he turns and looks back at our coach and says " you've got to be ****ting me coach". Then he procedes to go get thrown out of the game and goes to the bleachers where he rips off his jeresy and throws it down. Well what ticks me off is the kid wasn't punished and to top it off he even got to START the next game. Is what happened to him after his choice words right in any way?
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N NHFundamentalsDad100+ posts
Hi All,

Sounds like the type of thing that starts a kid on the road to acting like a Delmon Young.

Act like an ***, and be rewarded for it. It's amazing how just a few incidents like that will undo years of good parenting and home discipline. The kid starts to think it doesn't matter what i do, coach needs me to win.

Too bad the parent's didn't penalize the kid by pulling him from the team.
L lafmom5,000+ posts
I, first of all, would have supported the coach in whatever decision he made regarding discipline but would hope for something that truly made an impact and sent a message.

However, in the mean time, if this was my young man, he'd be spending a lot more quality time with his mother because he would have no car keys and no life!
PopTimePopTime500+ posts
Gone, rest of the season, bye-bye. Wasn't there a kid I cut on the last day of tryouts who had so-so talent but was very coachable and hustled his butt off? I think your uniform will fit him just fine. Oh? NCAA University has shown some interest in you? Jeez, I hope they don't call and ask MY opinion. Don't let the door hit ya where the Good Lord split ya!
FutureBack.MomFutureBack.Mom1,000+ posts
Sometimes there are situations where the teammates, especially a leader-type, need to step in and 'educate' the boy. As I understand it from a friend of the BJ Upton family (no, I am not throwing names around LOL ), when Mr Young threw his hissy fit, BJ was in the dugout and let him know about life in pro ball, what was acceptable, etc., and apparently in no uncertain terms.

Our son has always had players on his teams who are more than willing to step up to the plate (pun intended) and let their misbehaving teammates know what is and what is NOT acceptable. Our son did it a few times in college, especially when a pitcher would be removed from the game by the coach and then show really poor decorum as he left the field. Peer pressure in this case can work wonders in straightening some of these kids out.

JMHO
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