I have been coming to this site for a few years now. I have learned many new ideas and techniques that have helped me better serve my players as their coach. The one thing that evades my mind is why are their so many on here that think their way is the only way to coach a ballplayer.
You have many who come on here and spout off what they know but if someone disagrees with them, they start down-grading and critizing the poster who disagreed with them. My question is why down-grade because of someone disagrees with you?
Baseball to me is a sport of different styles and theories. No one way is right or wrong. What makes the difference is the results of the team or player you coach. If the player or team is successful then obviously your doing something right as a coach but on the other hand if they are performing poorly then it might be a good thing to find the missing element or a different approach to get your advise across to the player or team.
The next thing is why reply to a post if your not going to answer a question asked of you with a statement, why answer it with a question? I think alot of posters on here think they have the cure all for a player but in reality they have nothing but their individual style or theory. Is that wrong or right? no it is not but the way someone else thinks isn't right or wrong either. They just see things in a different light than you.
To Teacherman and Bluedog,
You always seem to have a smart@$$ remark for everything someone says but you fail to answer anyone's direct question about any aspect of the game of baseball. You love to down-grade high school baseball coaches for no reason at all and I wonder why is that so? A little advise to you ( don't know if it is like this everywhere)but here in Mississippi, most of the time the high school baseball coach is the head football or assistant football coach. Another thing, you always get angry and hostile towards others that don't agree with your theories about the game of baseball and I have often wondered why is that so? I have been around baseball since I was 4 years old and I have yet seen two players do the same thing identically to one another. So who has given you the right to place judgement on others for their personal ideas and views.
In closing, I believe coaches that have become successful in their chosen sport has done so by polishing their coaching styles over the years and have added or thrown out ideas and views about how they were going to coach and teach their teams. I also believe that the same coaches have been able to get their players to buy into their particular system which in the end will make the team, the players, and you successful.
Scooter P
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