ANYONE EVER DONE IT BEFORE......MY SON WILL PROBABLY START PLAYING NEXT YEAR.....JUST CHECKING TO SEE IF ANYONE HAD ANY EXPERIENCES...

7/18/2006 2:41:27 PM

be sure to punch the litte kids in the face when they mess up a play

tough love

7/18/2006 2:42:40 PM

Quote :

"GOOD JOB SLUTTER....I MEAN SLUGGER"

7/18/2006 2:45:54 PM

i've coached u8 & u10 co-ed soccer - it was pretty simple and very fun - how hard could t-ball be

7/18/2006 2:45:58 PM

DON'T WORRY...IF A KID GETS OUTTA LINE HE IS GONNA GET SOME CHIN MUSIC....

7/18/2006 2:46:11 PM

T-BALL IS A SPORT....SOCCER ISN'T

7/18/2006 2:46:37 PM

Baseball is a sport...tball isnt

7/18/2006 2:54:21 PM

Quote :

"T-BALL IS A SPORT....SOCCER ISN'T"

hitting a ball off of a tee is definitely more "sport-like" than soccer at that age - right......

7/18/2006 2:56:09 PM

how hard can it be to coach pee-wee T-ball, its herd-ball for the outfield team since they'll all chase around the ball no matter what, and you just have to tell the little kids when to swing

just say... "NOW"

7/18/2006 2:57:08 PM

LOOK GUYS I KNOW ITS EASY TO COACH.....I WAS WONDERING WHAT LEAGUES YOU WENT THROUGH....OBVIOUSLY I WOULD LIKE TO SIGN UP MY SON TO PLAY BEFORE I COACH...ANYONE KNOW OF ANY LEAGUES??

7/18/2006 2:59:47 PM

Quote :

"LOOK GUYS I KNOW ITS EASY TO COACH.....I WAS WONDERING WHAT LEAGUES YOU WENT THROUGH....OBVIOUSLY I WOULD LIKE TO SIGN UP MY SON TO PLAY BEFORE I COACH...ANYONE KNOW OF ANY LEAGUES??"

nothing about that is obvious due to the lack of information in your first post

most people on this board don't have a kid old enough to play t-ball though - maybe try singledad.com or something like that

[Edited on July 18, 2006 at 3:01 PM. Reason : ...i guess you could probably ask other tkes too ]

7/18/2006 3:01:20 PM

THIS IS WHAT I GOT FROM SINGLEDAD.COM.......THATS WHY I ASKED WHO COACHED T-BALL BEFORE TO SEE WHAT ORGANIZATION THEY COACHED THROUGH......BECAUSE I KNOW THERE AREN'T ANY OTHER SINGLE DADS ON THIS SITE...YET

Quote :

"This is the placeholder for domain singledad.com. If you see this page after uploading site content you probably have not replaced the index.html file. This page has been automatically generated by Plesk. "

7/18/2006 3:03:49 PM

heh you actually checked to see if the website existed - gg

7/18/2006 3:35:14 PM

HEY YOU NEVER KNOW...I MIGHT BE INTERESTED IN MY SON PLAYING SOCCER TOO....HE SEEMS TO LIKE IT AND I'M SURE THERE ARE SUMMER LEAGUES BUT I'LL BE DAMNED IF HE COMES BACK TO ME WHEN HE IS OLDER AND IS LIKE "DAD I WANT YOU TO KNOW I'M GAY" AND I'M LIKE WTF???....THEN HE'LL BE LIKE "IT ALL STARTED THAT SUMMER I SPENT PLAYING SOCCER".....I CAN ALREADY PICTURE IT NOW....

7/18/2006 3:39:03 PM

way too lazy to look it up - but i bet there isn't a correlation of men that play soccer to being gay

i'd bet there is possibly one for men that didn't play sports at all though

7/18/2006 3:41:48 PM

^ITS ON SINGLEDAD.COM

7/18/2006 3:45:31 PM

call the rec dept and ask

does he do day care? ask some of the parents or his teacher

7/18/2006 3:58:47 PM

HE'S IN DAY CARE IN DC....WHEN HE IS DOWN HERE I HAVE HIM IN SPORTS CAMP...I'LL CHECK WITH THEM.....

7/18/2006 4:01:00 PM

I coached youth basketball back in High School...it was a fucking blast. But I lost twice in the Final four and both times by one point. Those fuckers cried their eyes out.

[Edited on July 18, 2006 at 4:15 PM. Reason : dfsdf]

7/18/2006 4:14:44 PM

I hate kids

7/18/2006 4:42:13 PM

Coaching kids in any sport really isn't that hard. The trick is making sure they understand what you're talking about and keeping things simple. Not too hard for t-ball. I used to coach 5 - 12 yr olds (i know, big age difference) in basketball. Kids also respond best when you use the "formula" of encourage, correct, and encourage. You have to be able to get their attn on the field, and have two different "yelling" voices. One for when you are mad, another just to be loud so they can hear you. Otherwise.. you end up with crying kids on the field

7/18/2006 9:34:05 PM

if you coach, we're all gonna go to the games and get liquored up and threaten the kids with paddles

a la Dazed and Confused

7/18/2006 9:36:58 PM

people that coach little kids in t-ball are really great people, IMO. to encourage young kids to get involved in athletics, and help them learn to play and appreciate the game, is really something admirable.

7/18/2006 9:38:41 PM

Thats the worst advice ever. At the begining of the season I gave all the parents a letter saying shit about "teamwork, sportsmanship, etc" but in practice I told the kids losing sucks, at that I won't accept losing. I ran a complicated trapping defense and just drilled, the team was rewarded w/ 5 mins of offensive practice at the end of practice if they behaved. The first slip up and we ran, and we always ran at the end of practice. Now these kids were only 12, but they busted their asses to a 12-1 record and beat some team 64-12. Kids want to have fun, winning is fun; losing isn't. Hell one kid on my team was a freaking 5'8 monster but he was a pussy who hadn't ever played but by the end of the season he was confident as fuck. And speaking of fuck, kids love swearing and the more you swear the more respect they have for you. And finally, if you do scrimmage, bring your friends and play your kids and wipe the fucking floor with them...the kids get pissed and try harder and that carries over to games. Nothing like swatting some 12 year old and rubbing it in his face. When your team loses in the playoffs and cries like schoolgirls you know you did your job.



[Edited on July 18, 2006 at 9:42 PM. Reason : GOD I MISS THAT SHIT]

7/18/2006 9:38:48 PM

You can guess the genders of Picaflora and Restricted without looking. Picaflora is why women lose at everything except making sandwiches and filing papers.

7/18/2006 9:45:24 PM

yeah yeah I suck at life. But it was a church league... so some of my options were limited. Plus... kids don't play when they cry. They stand there and let the other team run past them (It's how we lost probably our biggest game)

7/18/2006 9:56:10 PM

congrats man...

he seemed like a good kid and t-ball is fun to watch

good luck, it will be fun.

7/19/2006 12:58:10 AM

Of all little league baseball, I'd imagine tee-ball and the first year or two of normal little league would probably be the hardest to coach.

7/19/2006 1:38:44 AM