organized sports???

[cr25096er]

i can not stand playing baseball, i was pressured(old coaches calling, parents wanting me to do it) into signing up this year but this is my last. there is like 20 games and what gets me is there is an A and a B team. im 15 and there for on the A team. But the B coach calles me every goddamn time he needs a guy and usually when i get there a few players had already shown up so im stucking playing bs ball. Also last week they got me to play on sunday(that means no riding!!!), i go and theres 3 of my team mates there. we warm up then to find out the game was cancled. now that pisses me off. i dont really know what im trying to say but is it me or do organized sports take a certain type of person? one w/ patience of steel. I have "grit" as some say, im fast, strong, and i learn well but i just cant stand it. Id rather ride.

 

[Jamir]

This is almost a flame subject yo. I say, screw the coaches!!! I had a coach in high school that always wanted me to play football because I was a big feller. Then he wanted me to cut my hair. Then he wanted me to take certain classed because they were taught by the coaches.


I basically told him to get bent.

 

[mx547]

Originally posted by cr25096er
i can not stand playing baseball

so why are you playing? are your parents making you? finish the season, then don't sign up again.

i'm a youth soccer and basketball coach. i don't make my kids play but if they do, they have to take it seriously: no loafing, no skipping practices, no half-hearted effort. if they start a season, they have to finish it. also, i leave no doubt to the other parents as to when practices and games are scheduled and/or canceled.

 

[cr25096er]

im playing because i signed up and also im on a 1st place team. if these coaches were ass holes i would have said forget it a while ago. if i said i quit, they would keep saying stuff but if they didnt say anything back id be able to go throught w/ it. I guess i have too much of a concense. im by no means a bad player, but the game isnt as exciting as it was when playing tourdament ball when i was 12. i have no parental support like alot of these guies, at least the good players. all the coaches sons are the stars basically. in this league(G.V.A.A.) there was a whole team about a week ago that walked off, losing by 3 w/ an inning to go so they just left. in my eyes something is wrong. MX, when you coach do you consider your team members lives? i mean where im at i had 4 games in a row, who the hell would like to play that much?

 

[mx547]

Originally posted by cr25096er
MX, when you coach do you consider your team members lives?

we usually practice twice a week for one hour or so then have one game a week.

 

[XRpredator]

Okay, I may be in the minority here, but the one thing I miss most about high school is football. There ain't nothing like being a defensive tackle who clears the line and gets to lay a wicked hit on the QB.

I'd damn near give my left nut to do that one more time . . .

 

[Jamir]

That was a post representing a drunk old man reminiscing about the old days if I have ever seen one!

 

[XRpredator]

blame it on the PWI

damn the Maker's Mark . . .

 

[Patman]

Yes I think it DOES take a certian type of person to play organized sports. One that is committed to doing their best at something they enjoy. Racing is an organized sport as is soccer, riding is not so you CAN make it fit around other things you enjoy but it's work. In high school I was on the swin team, wrestling team and I rode dirt bikes when there wasn't snow on the ground which ment I was skiing. I had the swim coach tell me one day I needed to pick skiing or swimming so I walked home and got my skis. It wasn't organized team skiing but my brother and I were asked to be on the Jr. Olympic Development Team and it seemed like too much structure so we both opted out. We did it for fun and making it like work sort of makes it less appealing. Now my son plays Select level soccer and is a Sr. 2nd degree black belt in TKD, plus is on the honor role at school. Pretty big commitments for a 10 year old (keeps mom & dad pretty busy too!). On the flip side he also enjoys riding dirt bikes, racing was in the plans at one point but there just wasn't room once he moved into the higher level of soccer. Sure I would have liked him to have chosen to race instead of moving up to a more intense practice and game schedule but that's not what he wanted to do. Now I'm sort of glad because he's really blossomed into a great soccer player. Maybe he'll choose to focus on racing next, maybe not. Either way we'll have fun and that's what both the organized sports AND the riding is really all about. :)

If your commitments seem to be too much like work then don't be pressured into playing again and do what YOU enjoy. Maybe that even means playing ball on a rec. level or church league.

 

[yzguy15]

Hey cr25096er, is all the baseball causing you to sleep through English class or what?

XRP, I also enjoyed laying a wicked hit on a QB, or stuffing the hole and eating the running back for lunch, but the rest of football I really do not care for, hence the reason I quit. My mom was pretty disappointed when I quit about a month before my first varsity game, but I had to play for me, and that I didn't like doing. Football is too serious. I think that most organized sports nowadays have gotten that way, where they are like a job as opposed to a game. If a sport isn't fun then why the heck would you bust your balls day in and day out for it?