Coaches being coaches...

[Velho]

One of those that make me shake my head and laugh at the manager after the game.

LL Majors game last Saturday (75 minute 5 innings - that was sweet). R3, 2 outs. Batters interference on a wild pitch that bounced to 3B side near the fence (batter backed up and ended up sitting in F2s lap). I get BI, inning over.

As normal OT coaches aren't happy and squawk ("it wasn't intentional", "he got out of the box", etc.) and negotiate ("why not send R3 back to 3B?", me: "because that's not the rule Tom"). I end the discussion was happy with my game management.

The funny part was talking to an assistant coach in passing I alluded to the exchange with his manager and he said "Oh, Tom knew you were right. He told us so." And I'm thinking to myself, then why all the hullabaloo?, until I remembered: that's just coaches being coaches.

[ArchAngel72]

Yep.  They all feel they need to protest for their kids to make the kid feel like "well yeah Coach thought I should have been ok."

 

Meh its LL   It is what it is..

 

[Velho]

24 minutes ago, ArchAngel72 said:

They all feel they need to protest for their kids to make the kid feel like "well yeah Coach thought I should have been ok."

I wish it were this calculated. I think it was simply him being emotional and upset things didn't go his way. So he reacted (vs responded) and argued. To break that reactive state and be self-aware enough that 1 second later he was "that was the right call" is the interesting part to me.

It is daddy ball (no non-parent coaches this year) so that is a key factor I keep reminding myself.

[maven]

2 hours ago, Velho said:

As normal OT coaches aren't happy and squawk ("it wasn't intentional", "he got out of the box", etc.) and negotiate ("why not send R3 back to 3B?", me: "because that's not the rule Tom").

But you DID send R3 back, right?. You missed an easy win!