My best player chose not to play all-stars based on her experience last year.
There is a rule that each person has to play at least 6 defensive outs (2 innings), and during the first game, she was sent out for her second inning then brought back in to sit on the bench. She only got to play 1 inning.
Her mom was upset, as any mom should be, and made some phone calls. The coaches were about to get in some serious trouble. They had to prove that she did play 2 innings.
The manager of the team cornered this girl, age 11, and chewed her out for making such a claim and demanded several times that she recount her story while she cowered in the corner crying.
Since they had recorded her playing the second inning, (the one where she was brought back to the bench before the inning started) the coaches got away with their error.
She was my best batter and best pitcher and best all around player last year, and we took 1st. So that is saying something about her ability.
The second coach in charge of the line up admitted to me that she was used as an "extra" and was subbed in and out with the other "younger girls". She was in the top 3 in the league and was used as an EXTRA!! Her and her sister WoN the league for our team with their pitching, and since I was not voted to be the all-star coach, the guy who was voted in, used his daughter and mostly only his daughter to pitch.
She was never treated well after that incident. So, this year, she chose not to play.
The punishment for not fulfilling the "mandatory play" rule is the Coach is suspended from the next 2 games. He wouldn't even be able to be there, nor be on the phone with anyone who is there. Pretty serious mistake to pull at a Little League Tournament.
This year's team:
There were 4 girls nominated for all-stars that never should have been. Three of them were the coaches own daughters. . . .the other one can't even throw a ball. (The one that can't throw didn't make the team.)
All the coach's daughters made the team. Go figure.
Kinzie made the team. (She should have made it last year!)
The first practice, the coach was pitching to one of these girls, and she could not hit the ball! Not once!
Kinzie is having fun so far. She was nervous since the asst coach is the 350 lb. coach who YELLED at me for protesting him using 2 girls from the 2nd place team to beat us and take us out of 1st place.
Four girls off my team made the all-star team. Six of them should have considering who did make the team.
4 comments:
I'm so glad you're done with all that. Please tell me the LL coaches are not in charge of the HS team? Not even as assistant??
Pretty pretty please!
Didn't you coach all-stars last time? I thought Kinzie made the team last year, too.
Drat, Josh was signed on. That was really my comment.
To save you from scrolling to last year, I did not get "voted" to coach last year. Kinzie did not get voted to be on the team either.
It is tradition that the coaches kid gets "voted" onto the allstar team, since I will vote for your kid and you vote for mine....
But it didn't happen for me, cause they were still so mad at me for beating them.
Kinzie should have made it last year on her playing ability also.
This year, she has caught up with all those allstar girls her age that were on the team.
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