Baseball...

Drama....

This crap drives me nuts.  We need to play a make up game now :(  All the games in Bport were canceled Monday due to the holiday.  That happened over a month ago by our commissioner.  Well the team we were scheduled to play showed up and said they didn't know the game was rescheduled. They were the only ones there, no umps, no concessions, every thing locked up tight. Really? they were the only team that showed up that day and there were 3 games (at least) that had been moved to Tuesday.  He called our coach and asked him if we were going to play and he was told then no the game was moved to Tuesday and we would see him then.  So last night we all get ready to play and they don't show up. We call and he said he didn't know the game had been rescheduled.   Yes he did he just wanted to be a pain in the ass.  So the baseball president has to say reschedule the game. SO we tried... and tried.... and tried.  Play offs start Monday, and they are setting the schedule and brackets Saturday morning. It has to be made up by then.  SO we asked them to play Wednesday in neutral town. No we either have to play in Bport or their town. We already played them there and were are not doing it again.  A little unfair to get home field advantage twice.  So we off Thursday. Nope cant do it. We have finals and graduation.  Well what finals are you going to have the last day of school, especially when its only a half day?  And we looked it up the school website says graduation is at 5. Why cant they play a game at 8?  That's right because they don't really want to.  So we offer Friday and Saturday morning but he cant do that either because he is going out of town with his son those days.  So he has said no to every single day for a possible make up.  We want someone to day this is the day and time for your makeup game either show up and play or forfeit.  We are waiting for that call today.

Now let me tell you why all that matters.  Our kids have worked their butts off and have made it to the play offs tied for first right now. Each team only has one loss (to each other). The problem is if we don't play this game they will have one more win than we do and that will drop us into second.  The first place team gets a bye in the first round of play offs.  Now if they make up this game and lose that's one thing but to just take away first place after they have worked so hard is just wrong.  The other coach not wanting to make up the game is for just the opposite. He has the same number of wins as the team placed below him however he has one less loss right now.

Ok so this is Drama #2

When 2 teams go undefeated during the season when they meet it makes for interesting games.  The first one we lost :( it was a hard one the second time we played at their field and even before we knew how good they were we worried about playing there because everyone had been talking about their umps being home town umps and even threw out a few coaches.  When we played in bport there was a little drama.  We didn't like some of the calls but then the other coach was talking shit to our coach while he was coaching the bases.   Being a class A jackass.  Well let me tell ya our head coach is 21 and a good friend of ours.  Well his dad was there. Long story short the coach told the dad to  be a fan and let the coaches handle the field.  Dads response: "Because that coach you are being such a prick to is me son."  The other coach didn't say another word while he was standing there.  However he did say something to him again and I don't have a clue what it was but it was enough to make my husband ( who is the assistant coach) ask him if he wanted his ass kicked. I know not the right thing to do and he was told to shut his mouth. After that all seems to go ok. Games over we lose.  Then we play in their town.  First drama there.. the book keeper says we are batting the same kid twice. Nope. Our last batter was ___. Then they say that kid isn't even on the line up and he is an out.  Well let me tell ya our book keeper is picky. She marks everything and you don't tell her her books are wrong.  She gets pissy.  Well turns out he was on the line up they just forgot to write him down.  Then the field umps tells our first baseman that he cant stand on the bag. He has to stay off it and out of the base line or the runner is automatically safe.  We have to tell him he is wrong and have the plate ump tell him the rules.  Then one of the boys on our team hits a home run.  The kid in the out field trying to catch the ball calls it a home run, the plate ump calls it a home run, the first base ump calls it a bounce over and he has to stop at second. Well eventually we just said we are petitioning the call and if we lose we will petition the game but we won so there was no need to petition.   So apart from bad calls (and I do mean bad calls) for the whole game from the first base ump the rest of the game was without too much drama.  Oh apart from the other team kids talking crap and ours starting to respond ( one of mine being the main one. oh did I rip him a new one) and our coach yell loud enough for everyone to hear that his players were not going to act like that or stoop to that level of ball play because they were better than that.  At that point the other coach put a stop to their taunting as well.  Not a great experience but not too bad either.

Now all that being said there is a parent from the other team talking all kinds of trash about our head coach (on fb non the less). Telling people he has had the cops called on him 3 or 4 times (not true by the way) that he threatened to whoop someones ass in the parking lot after the game, he was flipping people off and cussing at everyone including the kids. That he is a 21 year old punk that is a terrible coach and shouldn't even be allowed to coach.  As I said we know him, he is a friend of ours. He doesn't cuss at the kids, he doesn't flip people off and the man my argue with you for hours but he is not going to threaten to kick your ass after the game because he is not a fighter. We knew him as a coach (football) before we ever knew him as a friend.  He is a damn good baseball coach.  He is 21, he has no kids. The only reason he does this is because he enjoys it. Every time he rips one of the boys a new one about some thing , not only does he tell them how to fix what they are doing wrong but also tells them something they are doing right. And when they do fix it he lets them know how great they are doing.  He has not only worked on the mechanics of baseball but also the game.  Its fun to watch.  I think he is the best baseball coach my kids have ever had; friend or no friend.

As I was typing this I realized that this lady talking about our coach may have him confused with another teams coach because I do believe that some of that did happen on another team.  And he was a really young coach as well.  I do believe that the commissioner told him he wasn't allowed to coach any more and I have noticed that he is no longer on the field when that team plays.