redzone wrote:Another week, another Heybucket brouhaha. It's amazing what a change of perspective can do to an incident. I'm the Firecracker scorekeeper, sitting next to the dugout. So here's what I saw:
Our hitter gets nailed in the back with a pitch. It wasn't a changeup. She grits her teeth and runs to first. Two our three batters later, the Thunder third baseman is crying. Timeout is called. The umpires come out to check on her.
In the Firecracker dugout, the girls have no idea what has happened. The Firecracker parents in the stands also don't know why the third baseman is crying. Some speculated that she was not feeling well.
Our parents didn't find out what happened until Ken came into the dugout for the next half inning. Our girls didn't find out until after the game.
This idea that the Firecracker players would celebrate when opponents are crying is absolutely insane. After the game, Ken calmly explained the situation to the Thunder coaches, who appeared to agree and understand.
The Firecrackers win more games than we lose, and we're a competitive team. But it is apparently much easier to lob misinformation inside the anonymity of a message board than it is to talk with any of us in the stands.
Just play softball.
Okay, so I'm with Spazsdad on this one... what happened??
You claim to have the authoritative version, and based on that we should forget it and "just play softball". But you really didn't add anything new.
Why not?
Why was the 3B crying? What "situation" did Ken have to explain to the Thunder coaches?
If you're going to respond to your coach and players being called out, then why not address the charges?
Just curious. And I take back what I wrote a while ago about 14's being the most interesting in SoCal this Spring. It seems 12's will forever be much more fascinating, at least when it comes to extracurricular parental character studies.