- Jun 8, 2016
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Tying a note to a water bottle and throwing it into the dugout during the top half of the 7th is how NOT to do this.
Tying a note to a water bottle and throwing it into the dugout during the top half of the 7th is how NOT to do this.
Here's the problem as I see it from the other side as a coach. This year, I had 12 players on the team. Every weekend the starting 9 for bracket play on Sunday was solely determined by game performance (BA and OBP) in Saturday's pool games. All 12 batted and played as much to equal time as possible during pool play games and everyone had a new opportunity every weekend to make the starting 9. Unfortunately, it happened to be the same starting 9 every weekend with the exception of 1 tournament. Why? Because the top 9 worked their butts off at the game year round while the bottom 3 treated it like rec ball, never came to practice to learn the right mechanics/techniques and never worked on their game at all until the season restarted at the end of May. The bottom 3 just can't compete at the same level as my top 9.
Now, I'm not saying that this is the case for anyone here but I wonder to myself if that particular player was simply outworked. If they weren't, then they were working on the wrong mechanics for Hitting, throwing, fielding, etc. and making the situation worse instead of better. Either way, they still can't compete against girls that are much better than them at the game. So every time I hear people complaining about situations like this, I always take it not with a grain of salt, but with the entire salt shaker.