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Originally Posted by bobbybanaduck

you will be enlightened when her book comes out. i only had a small taste of it as i was only on her crew after we returned from the strike until she went home with a concussion (which was legit, she got smoked and it knocked her into last month...) about 5 weeks in.

for two small examples, a catcher who will remain nameless asked me two nights after she got smoked by a passed ball, "did you see me let that one get her the other night?" that, among other things he was doing that pissed me off, led to a pretty heated discussion between he and i that lasted for the duration of the game. i was not conspicuous about how i felt and it brought the manager out between innings to see what we had going on. hopefully he learned something from it cuz he was called up and started shortly thereafter, and he he's going to be a regular starter in the bigs soon.

the second was a DH that got dumped then spit his gum at her and screamed, "you don't belong here, we know it and you know it."

I can understand how this all comes to play. We have two females in our HS association. I helped train them and worked many games with them. I let them get their balls busted and came to their defense as needed (just as I would with any other partner). However, I never allowed anyone to run up their back side just because they were "and easy target". It was a bit of a struggle but they were accepted as equals in the association. I think that after five years, they even have the respect from most of the Varsity coaches now.

So this is what I was referring to in my earlier post. I personally have no problem working with a female partner. As a matter of fact, these two women are more competent than some of the "old farts" in our association. Now, when these same women tried to join up into another association for Summer ball, they were not welcomed at all. They paid their dues (monetary) but were only assigned LL Minors games together. They were not welcome to the post game bull-sessions or even the meetings.

When they explained what was going on, I advised them to finish out the season (only a few weeks left), take the pay and not return. I then got them into a Summer association that welcomed them with open arms doing 90" diamond work only.

Hyprocritical? No, it is called being practical when I say "if you are accepted, fine. But if you are not (and that seems to be the way pro-baseball is about women), why fight an already lost battle?"

Regards