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I've been in a pissy mood the last few days.
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I kind of let my anger get the best of me and went off at my daughters softball coaches (she has had the same coaches for 3 years now).
Story is they made the all star nominations and my daughters coaches did not nominate her even though she had the best stats of any player on the team.
But yet all three of the coaches daughters who statisticaly did not do crap all season not only were nominated but made the team.[:(!]
When I confronted the coaches about this they admited that Makayla was probly the best player on the team but denied that there was any favortism towards their daughters.
The husband of one of the coaches was right there when I went off on them and after I was done he said I was 100% right and felt that I had every right to say the things that I did and admited that Makayla was definatly more desrveing of a spot on the all stars team than even his own daughter.
I am going to go to the people in charge of the league and recomend that coaches no longer nominate players from their own team and only nominate the other teams players to try and do away with the favortism BS.
Story is they made the all star nominations and my daughters coaches did not nominate her even though she had the best stats of any player on the team.
But yet all three of the coaches daughters who statisticaly did not do crap all season not only were nominated but made the team.[:(!]
When I confronted the coaches about this they admited that Makayla was probly the best player on the team but denied that there was any favortism towards their daughters.
The husband of one of the coaches was right there when I went off on them and after I was done he said I was 100% right and felt that I had every right to say the things that I did and admited that Makayla was definatly more desrveing of a spot on the all stars team than even his own daughter.
I am going to go to the people in charge of the league and recomend that coaches no longer nominate players from their own team and only nominate the other teams players to try and do away with the favortism BS.
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Seriously, though. You do have a good solution in mind.
I kind of let my anger get the best of me and went off at my daughters softball coaches (she has had the same coaches for 3 years now).
Story is they made the all star nominations and my daughters coaches did not nominate her even though she had the best stats of any player on the team.
But yet all three of the coaches daughters who statisticaly did not do crap all season not only were nominated but made the team.[:(!]
When I confronted the coaches about this they admited that Makayla was probly the best player on the team but denied that there was any favortism towards their daughters.
The husband of one of the coaches was right there when I went off on them and after I was done he said I was 100% right and felt that I had every right to say the things that I did and admited that Makayla was definatly more desrveing of a spot on the all stars team than even his own daughter.
I am going to go to the people in charge of the league and recomend that coaches no longer nominate players from their own team and only nominate the other teams players to try and do away with the favortism BS.
Volunteer next year to be coach and you can have your daughter on the all star team. Problem solved. A perk of volunteering, not getting paid, and having to listen to parents gripe (not saying you, but parents in general). If I volunteer and have to put up with all the parents that do nothing but gripe, then my kid is at least getting on the team. Plus, their kid might suck compared to yours, but they have to live with their kid being disappointed if they don't make the team. I know it's not right, but that's life.
I see the favoritism crap going on at work. One of our newer
officers was steaming the other day, and saying he is thinking
of leaving. Sometimes the harder worker doesn't get the
recognition they need. I've got 2 many years in to make
waves in my situation now...gonna bite the bullet and retire
where I'm at hopefully. I'm at the top of my pay scale and
looking at a new grad who makes as much as I do. I'm going
to take a 2 week vacation....no one is expendable, but I
know...I will be missed big time.[:D]
quote:Originally posted by *_r_done
I kind of let my anger get the best of me and went off at my daughters softball coaches (she has had the same coaches for 3 years now).
Story is they made the all star nominations and my daughters coaches did not nominate her even though she had the best stats of any player on the team.
But yet all three of the coaches daughters who statisticaly did not do crap all season not only were nominated but made the team.[:(!]
When I confronted the coaches about this they admited that Makayla was probly the best player on the team but denied that there was any favortism towards their daughters.
The husband of one of the coaches was right there when I went off on them and after I was done he said I was 100% right and felt that I had every right to say the things that I did and admited that Makayla was definatly more desrveing of a spot on the all stars team than even his own daughter.
I am going to go to the people in charge of the league and recomend that coaches no longer nominate players from their own team and only nominate the other teams players to try and do away with the favortism BS.
Volunteer next year to be coach and you can have your daughter on the all star team. Problem solved. A perk of volunteering, not getting paid, and having to listen to parents gripe (not saying you, but parents in general). If I volunteer and have to put up with all the parents that do nothing but gripe, then my kid is at least getting on the team. Plus, their kid might suck compared to yours, but they have to live with their kid being disappointed if they don't make the team. I know it's not right, but that's life.
I do coach my sons baseball team. There is no way I can coach both baseball and softball at the same time or I would consider it.
And as a coach I do not pull any favortism towards my son. If anything I am harder and expect more from him than the other kids on the team.
I'm not saying that the other coaches should treat their kids like I do mine as far as how I coach them, but they should treat them equal and use the stats (the stats are kept every game in the score book) for chooseing the players for the all stars team. After all these girls are going to represent our town in a huge state tournament.
Good luck-
burd
you have and had every right to be pi55ed. and i would definately see about doing something to change this. growing up, parents could coach, but they could not coach a team that their kids were on. it helped quite a bit.
sorry that your daughter has to go through this crap, and good luck in your mission to bring about change.
Something like this happened with my step daughter, she made the all star but the coach benched her. When i asked why i was tolded she wasn't good enough to play with his girls, i tolde Amanda what was said and why she wasn't allowed to play. Please keep in mind this was the older leagues, she was 16 at the time. She didn't say a word. When game time came all she did was walk out to the pitcher mount and sat down. It took them 2 1/2 hrs to get her to move. And i think the only reason she moved was because she had a date that night.
That's awesome, it takes great fortitude to take a stand (Or sit in this case) like that. Very admirable.
It's unfortunate, but a life lesson. for better or worse.
*, I think your right, that sucks for your daughter and its hard to teach her a lesson in all of this, adults ruin it for the kids that just want to play. I agree also with your idea about picking all stars for next year, maybe that will fly. My nephew went to another town and played ball because his parents didn't care for the politics of it.
Think they dont like yo and what yo represent?