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Originally Posted by wadeintothem
Another thing in the "when I'm wrong, I'm wrong" category - different game, this one 12U Rec - coach decides he wants to try a new girl at catcher and she tells me she never caught before.
So here comes a pitch - the girl doesn't move, shes frozen. The ball wacks me. So I take another one and I tell her "girl you need to move that mitt and catch the ball." I took a few more hits, I tell her to catch the ball.. she would catch the ones that came straight to her.. but essentially, she was a statue for anything inside or high. I took a few off my mask, shoulder, leg. Finally I took one to my hip/groin region and I'm ticked off. I tell the coach that "If I take another shot and she doesn't even attempt to catch it shes gone. I'm not a backstop". Well now she's crying and upset, but trying to catch it.
I'm gun shy and pretty much watching the ball for where I need to move and not strike/ball and just calling everything not swung at a ball. This has the effect of a long inning. I start realizing I goofed up, now she is moving though, but still can't catch. I took a another hard foul off my mask other shots. I tell the coach that I shouldn't have said that and if he wants to use her as a catcher I will just call the game for his side from behind the pitcher. So he changes her out.
Can't coaches try out a new catcher during .. oh I dint know, say - practice!
But I still goofed up saying that..
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I have a similar one. A few years ago I was working a fall league, 16u. One team was a traditionally strong program all from the same school. After two innings of being hit by nearly every pitch that wasn't a strike, I told the coach his catcher was killing me. He's reply, "Sorry Blue that's my SS, my catcher is at home with the flu." I shook my head and walked away.