Ok....Just so you ALL know....I was soooooooo thinking about you and this thread last night at our game!!! It was so funny I just had to roll laughing!
Of course I was already having a GREAT night because after months and months of hard work and determination, I finally got my girls (league ball....not travel) fired up for a game. They finally acted like they were there to play ball and that they did!! Final score 15-4. 43 out of 65 pitches were STRIKES!!!! woohoooo!!! I was not only a proud Coach but a proud fan and MOM too!!!
Ok....anyways....back to the SITCH that had me thinking about ya'll. Opposing team had a grandfather outside the fence watching the game. When they started getting beat pretty badly, the yelling started. I mean this man had a voice like none I have ever heard before. It was like thunder. The kids up on the T-ball field could hear him, he was so loud. At first he was just yelling at their team to get the ball. This and that. It was annoying and distracting because it was coming from the outside of the fence and a lot of the opposing team was getting confused as to where the plays were to be made at and they couldn't hear their coach over this man. All you heard was HIS voice in the entire park. But then he started in telling them how sorry they were and putting them down. I mean YELLING at the top of his lungs. Now I'm a loud woman....that's just the coach in me, but he by far surpassed me. It was almost comical at first but then once he started putting the girls down and the confusion started, I felt there were safety issues. I mean it scared the girls to hear him yell and when a ball was hit to them and he started yelling to get it they would freak out! Finally opposing coach had enough, called time and EVERYONE knew what it was about....she went to the fence, and the man KNEW what was about to happen so without a word having to be said, he walked away from the fence. Then all the girls on BOTH teams, all coaches, all fans and even the Umpires all started clapping! So we all laughed it off and after a few minutes, he came back, sat down and watch the rest of the game without saying a word.