Wow our team has developed a real bad aura. Instead of being encouraging and helpful to our players many of my teammates have become the type that screams at people for every little mistake and instead of encouraging someone puts them down. It's no wonder we haven't won a game in a long time, everybody is tense, uptight, worried and angry which makes for walks and hit batters from the pitcher, passed balls from the catcher, errors from the fielders.

Not saying you shouldn't be intense and have integrity but there's a fine line between being competitive and being an absolute jackass that makes the whole team look bad.

Some examples:
Centerfielder is ****ed that someone just got walked to bring in a run and throws his glove against the fence and folds his arms and doesn't budge.

Shortstop gets called out at first and comes in the dugout throwing his helmet and yelling explicit remarks at everyone.

Centerfielder pulls a bonehead baserunning mistake and takes off on a ground ball (no force) and when he gets there the runner ahead of him is still on the bag so he comes off the field yelling and screaming at the runner for not moving even though the runner on 3rd did the right thing.

Pitcher yells at me because I simply got burnt in Right Field, the ball was to the track on a line and our coach has me play shallow and he starts telling me that I need to learn how to go back on a ball and that I should be playing back there even though my coach wants me shallow (yes he yells this from the mound)

Anybody makes an error Centerfielder, Shortstop and the aforementioned Pitcher(also plays RF) just go off on them and they happen to have more errors than most people on the team and the emotional explosion just stops everything.

Catcher yells at someone else for a pop up he drops because they need to talk to him about the fence even though he barely moved and everyone told him he had room, he just dropped it.

Centerfielder and 3rd baseman get into a screaming fight back and forth on the field.

Centerfielder tells 2nd baseman (CF's younger bro) after not making a very difficult play on a looper that Mr. CF should've gotten too "Stop being a burden to this team make a play for once in your god **** life!"

As you can tell some pretty bad attitudes on our team and it gets really annoying because we don't have a lot of people to put in to bench someone to teach them a lesson and our CF and coach are best friends for the most part yeah a 19 year old hanging out with a 67 year old man.

I get sick of it and more than just these things go on our C and CF almost got in a fist fight one game the things I mentioned just stick out in my mind the most. We also have people yelling at our batters for swinging at a bad pitch which yeah you don't want them doing that but you don't need to be screaming and cussing at them.

It's also a consensus among our SS CF and the P/RF I mentioned that every batted ball should have an out made on it unless it's over the fence in which case our CF said he really thinks it should be called an E1. They don't understand that sometimes a hit is a hit.

Ain't you "DA MAN" who drills batters between the numbers ?

In that thread I said our team does that, I've only pitched once and it was because we were getting creamed and my coach thought I could eat up some innings with my knuck.

I think it's okay to hit a batter in the numbers if they deserve it but not the head or the knees.

You actually said WE. We includes me. Sounds like a moron coach. Most batters I know would take a hit to get a free base. My son just graduated from a small D1 and has never been asked to hit a batter. If he was asked he would refuse.

Yeah I understand where you're coming from, but isn't this a topic for the thread about hitting batters?

And our coach doesn't really tell us too, he brings up the idea and sort of gets the pitcher to do it but tells the pitcher and catcher to make the ultimate decision, we have some pitchers that would never throw at somebody even a dirty player.

Citrus,
I agree with Bobblkehead, the coach must be a moron to allow this to happen if you have other options I would get out of there asap. We would never allow a kid to degrade a teamate for any reason if that happens you are either suspended for a game or if extreme enough thrown off the team, throw a helmet or bat you sit,swear, you sit, not hustle you sit, throw at a batter you sit immediately in the middle of the inning, we had a new coach this year that asked me what was the catchers sign to throw at the batter, are you kidding me!!

This is the coaches fault, make the rules, enforce them and these type of problems disappear pretty quickly.

Baseball is a game of failure, that is what mekes it so great.

I thought bobble head was just reffering to throwing at batters.

But yes I agree our coach is way too passive and unfortunately I don't have other options because I live in Wyoming this is the only chance I have to play baseball is this Legion team.

Next year though most of these bad attitudes will be gone and I will be a senior and hopefully with the responsibility of my seniority and the other kids my age we can become leaders on our team and try to cut down on this.