PITCHER IN SOFTBALL!?!?!?
May 8th, 2010
I’m fourteen years ancient and i play slow pitch softball. I haven’t been playing long but i have a lot of untreated ability, sensitivity, and overall athleticism. I do feel as if i have a dis-advantage compared to my other teammates considering they all played in view of the fact that they were three, there parents are very involved with softball, and they have all the expensive equipment. But i managed to gather everything by myself like i do with everything else and im pretty excellent and surpass then a lot of players but i wish i could be the best. Also i pitch and i just started at the end of last season but when must i try quick pitch? I feel left in the dust because all my team mates are on traveling teams and tournament teams but im confused on even how to get on one. I’ve struggling to play softball, I use to beg my mom when i was modest to initiation softball young but she didnt let me, she never went to my games, ever practiced with me, i was alone when i hit my first home run, and the only thing i would question for on my birthday was softball gear and i even went to my game on my birthday. Also, the couch whos team always wins couches the all star team ( which i was on last year) and he despises me! he even makes fun of me and i cried on the field. He never played me and he never even knew how excellent i could play! One last thing when i played on the all star team it was all the couches kids and the well loved people and i didnt feel lucky because i play softball to laugh and be with friends but those people arent my friends. I have fun playing on a regular team and we all take pictures and what not but i wanna go far in this. WHAT SHOULD I DO!!
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Tags: athleticism, couch, couches, fast pitch, fourteen years, game, games, heart, mom, natural ability, parents, pitch softball, play one, slow pitch, star team, team mates, teammates
to late i am in "Spring Training
Ahw I am so sorry I know about some of the stuff you are going through.
Although I play fastpitch softball, I can kind of relate.
Last year I had the worst ‘summer ball’ coach, his daugher sucks, and i seriously emphasize SUCKS! he place her in to play over me just because she was his daugher, it didn’t matter how many times she struck out, or how many popflies she missed (we both play centerfield) I always went home and got with my high school coach to practice, so that way I would be more in tune when I got to summer ball, well it didn’t matter how excellent I did, his daughter still got to play. I left many many MANY tournaments last year in tears, softball is my life, and messing with my talent, with my mind, and my emotions was not the thing to do, he made me feel like I was the worst player EVER, and so I cried, I would go home and reckon that I had to do so much practicing to prove that I was excellent, my high school coach finally just said that my summer coach didn’t matter, not to listen to him because he was a jerk. There were so many times that summer that I thought that my parents were going to "have words" with my summer coach, but that never happened.
What you need to do, is to work when your at home, and when your stupid coach sees that you are really excellent, you might not get as much of the stupidness of your coach. I’m sorry that you have to go throught this like I had to go through, it was the worst time of my life, tears are really coming to my eyes just divulging you about this.
I’m getting on a new team this year, so I can be around a posative atmosphere, and also my parents said that I couldn’t play with them anymore, because it hurt me so much…. All the tears was worth going to another team. This year I reckon I’m going to play up a level, so I’m excited!
Just keep practicing, that’s the best advice I can give you.
I wish you excellent luck!
and I am truly sorry that you have to go thought this also.
I am guessing that your mother is a single parent. She may be a modest self-absorbed reckon that as long as you are playing ball she knows you are safe and she can go do other things. I once had a player who’s parents thought that as long as he was with me he was OK and they could go to the bar.. They thought baseball was their babysitter. I told them that he would no longer be allowed to play unless they were at the game (I couldn’t really enforce this rule but they didn’t know that), they came to their first game and I told him that he gets to play anything he wants – he was our starting pitcher that day. I pulled the team together and told them that it was his day and his parents were getting to see him play for the first time and they were excited to help him look excellent and impress them in their first game as spectators. We lost that game by 3 runs (this wasn’t a hollywood tale) but his parents were so excited about the game that they never missed another game or practice.
You have the right attitude. You are around the incorrect coaches. Too many people who coach at your level are more concerned with their own ego and winning than they are about teaching the game – and more importantly, teaching kids to like the game. IT IS just a game.
One of the most influencial moments I have ever experienced in coaching happened because I spent time with less talented players – I used to make drills that were fun just to keep the kids involved. One drill is called "dive drill" – I had all the players doing full layout dives to catch balls in practice and it didn’t even matter if you caught the ball or not, the whole team judged you on form – slide length.. whether you place a knee down etc.. It was fun. What they didn’t realize was that I was really teaching effort without dread of stoppage and rule number one on any of teams is that you cannot criticize anyone else on your team and it is your responsibilty to help everyone else. The coach who made you weep is an idiot (please quote me, print it out and take it to him – tell him he is free to call me but he is a F$%& Up as a coach and must not be allowed to coach baseball and has no thought what he is doing). Some of these coaches are more motivated by their egos and do not know the differnce between coaching talent and developing talent – it takes less effort to coach the best players than it does to make them. I have coached several players who are in MLB but my most moving following in coaching is really about the kids that most people say suck at baseball.. In our city championship my right fielder who only played the minimum and was not well coordinated, he was the "worst" player on the team – he may have been painstaking one of the worst in the league but his parents wanted him to join something – He sucked all year, but I made him play anyway.. I also made him try and made everyone else promote him to try. 5th inning of the championship game he made a laid out diving catch of a glide ball against the right field fence to save a 1 run lead with 2 on and 2 out. It had nothing to do with talent it was about encouragement and effort without someone making fun of you for trying. That game was tied in the next inning and we had a weak hitter up. His mother was a modest frightened of him playing because he had never played before and was not very atheletic.. not the guy you want hitting here but I could have substituted for him and he thought I was going to when I called time out but I was more determined to make him win something than I was to win the game (I used to play a BP game everywhere I loaded my glove with 8 balls and told them if they knocked the balls out of my glove they get another 8 balls in batting practice)-but they have to swing at every pitch – he always hit well in BP but could never do it in a game. I called time out as he hit the batters box and whispered in his ear that he only gets 3 pitches – he will swing at every pitch, I don’t care if its in the dirt, hits you.. hits me at 3B.. whatever. I taught you to hit anything thrown and I know he is going to grove one to you – If you stike out on 3 dirt balls, it’s my fault and I will tell everyone it was my order but you will swing. He hit the first pitch 2 inches from the top of the center field wall. The largest hit in his life – he stood at 2B and jumped up and down and his mom was in stands standing up yelling that’s my son.. I didn’t care if we won, I had to leave the dugout to weep.
The game is small. You like playing for the right reason – you like the game. So just show up, play your best, like the game and ignore the other people.
If I were still coaching, I would take 9 of you before I would take the 9 best players in your town – and I guarantee I would win.