Taunting or Good Clean Fun

[TexBlue]

Originally posted by Dakota
What age level was this? This guy has no business coaching - youth or adults. A heat stroke means organs have begun shutting down, doesn't it? The signs were all there (throwing up, etc.) Very dangerous. Since this was a national, I can only hope this guy was from the snow belt and was just ignorant. Although it strikes even here in MN - the Vikings lost a player in training camp - held in MN - to heat stroke a couple of years ago. The other option is he is willing to sacrifice his players' health, even life, for a win.

PONY age-14-U. The clown was from down around the King Ranch somewhere, Brush Country, I think. He shoulda known better. Even more importantly, he should have known to replace her if she is showing any signs of ill health. You don't screw around in this stuff. Heck even if that dummy (the coach) was suffering from a hangover, you don't play around with this heat. I don't care if it's a headache, allergies, asthma ( which can be brought on by extreme heat) or just a plain ole cold. Mother Nature is always gonna win if your body isn't in it's best condition. We had a coach from Illinois I had met 4-5 years ago when the big heat came through for a coupla weeks. The Nationals were up there and we (my partner and I, we were both from Texas) worked with the coaches on how to handle this stuff. We knew more about it than anybody else up there, since Illinois isn't known for extreme heat. They were playing on WHITE dirt, which just bounces the heat right back up at you. Anyway, he was here at this Nationals and he came over to me after one of the games and said they are still using the things we discussed with them a long time ago and never had had a problem with their players in heat situations. Kinda makes you feel good, sometimes, ya know?

And yeah, heat stroke is the bad stuff. It affects you a whole lot worse than exhaustion, and it can take years to recover, if you ever do, completely. Heat exhaustion, you can recover with 3-5 days. You don't have any resistance to heat for a long time, but you can function in almost normal conditions. Not heat stroke.

[Edited by TexBlue on Jun 14th, 2004 at 12:53 PM]