Root, root, root for the home team!

Kacie had the last games of her softball season last Saturday. Her team played a double-header for the championship- and lost. It was a very disappointing loss for the girls, coaches and parents since they had kicked serious ass all season long. The worst part wasn't the loss though. It was the coaching on the other team. The ump spent half his time arguing with the belly aching and bad mouthing of the other coach and had him on a "this is your last warning before I throw you out" basis for half of the first game and all of the second. None of us know why he didn't throw him out, especially since the ump himself said that this guy was the biggest slimeball he had seen umping. He actually said slimeball. His team was on the field saying things to our girls like " you suck" and " you guys can't hit anything" while they were on base. That makes a lot of sense since they were on base. I digress.

This coach, a fifty something year old guy coaching 8, 9, and 10 year olds would stand on the side and when our girls were up top bat would yell "swing!" and when our team was trying to field a ball would yell "throw it!!!". It was gross. It got so bad that our coach felt the need to go over to the other dugout and rally their girls to just have fun out there. That's the kind of coaches we have. I am so proud of her for that. She's a bigger person than I am.

It used to be parents on the sidelines we had to worry about being jerks and stressing the kids out. I was so horrified to see a head coach act this way. I need to report him to someone. I know from another parent on his team that he yelled at his girls all season long. No one deserves that. Not when you are eight years old. We are so lucky to have had the season we did. The kids worked hard and improved every game. Kacie started the season afraid of the ball and in the last game caught two fly balls in a row. So, it turns out, it really was a good day.