Excuses you've heard why a kid didn't make some level of high school ball. I'll lead with ....
1) Daddy ball /Reality, coach's kid is good
2) He couldn't show his speed trying out on a muddy field / Reality - can't steal first
3) For some reason the coach doesn't like him personally / Reality- kid is a punk
Next ...
On June 15th we can do, "Why my kid didn't make LL all stars."
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It's all political
They don't pick on skill, they pick on size
How about:
He just gets a lot of bad hops.
or
The field has bad lighting.
Politics is my favorite.
Second favorite is "coach has no idea what he's doing"
I'm starting to have flashbacks to a recent thread...
Coach wanted me to swing down and hit a ground ball to the right side. I was taught to hit the ball in the air.
It took a bad hop (we were on a turf field and it was a 20 hopper to him)
One of the most ridiculous is "their personalities don't mesh." It's on the player to conform to the coach's personality.
I don't see why this is a fun, or humorous, or whimsical topic. Kids getting cut from HS teams is a sad business, whatever the reasons, real and/or imagined.
I've seen a lot of kids' dreams end this year. They are not great players, but they are good boys who love the game, and it's been a tough time for parents and children alike.
Respectfully since we are not calling out anyone specifically I find this very fun... The pitching was too slow, he is too good to hit that. They didn't give the kids a long enough look, I could tell they were barely looking at my son (because they knew in the first 30 seconds he had no chance). He had a horrible say - I have never seen him hit that bad before. The weather was bad so tryouts were indoors, there is no way you can tell anything from an indoor tryout.
I could go on but have to be polite and leave some for others.
JCG posted:I don't see why this is a fun, or humorous, or whimsical topic. Kids getting cut from HS teams is a sad business, whatever the reasons, real and/or imagined.
I've seen a lot of kids' dreams end this year. They are not great players, but they are good boys who love the game, and it's been a tough time for parents and children alike.
The thread is about delusions, not crushed dreams. There was a kid at our high school handed a starting position soph year. I couldn't figure it out. I thought the coach made a mistake. The kid struck out seven times in his first eight at bats. He looked bad striking out. He made a couple of bad errors in the outfield. Another kid got a shot and took the job. The exact same thing happened the kid's junior year. The only reason the kid got a shot junior year was another starter had to DH until an injury healed. The kid didn't show senior year. The dad was upset he never got a fair chance. That's delusion.
Well, this is kind of the opposite - This is an excuse as to why his batting average was so low and he should make the travel "a" team - he was put in a lot of "sacrificial" positions and he had "quality at bats". Yup - the coaches kid. Funniest thing I ever heard. This was for a 10u team.
"They took our 14 year old leader Drake away."
Kid was throwing 90 just a couple of days ago. I don't know why he's only 81 today.
I don't know why he didn't make the team, he had a new glove (stiff as a board), new bat (which he had never swung and was a drop 3 rather than drop 10), and new shoes (which were not cleats)....no idea why he didn't make that team.
