chatter from the Library Monkey

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The Tigers have lost and won in the last two days — but looked really good. Of course, as the Tigers pick it up, so have the Cleveland Indians. It is interesting — in the AL Central it is very tight.

Had a very active inactive day. Listened to the Tiger game and now I am listening to the Dodgers beat up the Rockies. I also rode my bike some.

I don’t know how much of the helping coach I am can take. Some has to do with the fact that I joined kind of late in the game. Some bad habits by the kids are in place. For one there are a couple kids that think they are the coach. That is partially due to the fact that those same kids had an inexperience coach last year. During the game on Friday one of the worse kids kept pointing to the third baseman. I thought something was wrong, but eventually realized he was telling us to put the third baseman in as pitcher. What is annoying is not that the kids have ideas or suggestions, but how they present them.

This kid comes from a family that in general is nice (his mom is the scorekeeper), but it is clear that everyone in the family is not what is best for the team, but what is best for the individual. We are combining our sports team with another school that is even smaller than ours. The mom was against it because she didn’t want her daughter (or son I guess) sitting on the bench so one of the other players could play.

As it is, neither would be on the bench, I think it is because the mom keeps score… Not so much that, but the coaches favor the kids. The daughter is the only pitcher on the softball team and she is fairly mediocre. I shouldn’t say that, for our league she is pretty good, but if we were in a bigger area, she wouldn’t be able to compete with the JV team

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