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Originally Posted by Flasch186
Jon
You should just come watch for a week
I’m coaching 11/12u baseball rec and it’s an abject disaster
I’m having to coach the parents to spend time playing catch at home because there’s kids who can’t catch, can’t throw, and some who can’t do either.
The idea of even talking wins and losses versus discounting those completely in front of the parents, while risking Uber dad being mad for not throat stepping other teams, would be higher risk in that we go o-10 and the kids are mad because at the beginning of the season I set the bat based on that. I told the parents I don’t care about wins and losses at the end of the game as that’s uncontrollable. I couched it with let’s try to win more pitches than the other team and then we have a chance to win… see what I did there? Lol
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If you dig waaaay back, I've
been in something close to that situation myself. And a couple decades before that, my special coaching project was the one kid on a team who was that kid amongst a reasonably talented group
in a highly competitive league. I believe I told the story of his game-winning bunt single at some point, one of my happiest moments on a field as a player or coach.
You may not be able to go 10-0 if you're in a tough talent situation, but you never don't
try to give those kids their best chance to win.