"Top Ten Reasons You May Not Be An A-Ball Team..."

[3monkeys]

With a lot of talk about watered down teams, let's have some fun by throwing out some stuff you have seen that makes you wonder if a team really should be playing A-Ball...

10. You just lost your first bracket game and with less than an hour before your elimination game, your pitcher is finishing her 3rd Dr. Pepper. Your shortstop just ordered the baked potato with the works. Your left fielder who "hurt her leg at school" is chasing after your catcher's pet yorkie.

9. Your two pick-up players are still wearing their league uniforms.

8. If your coach still gives 2 or more players (not including his kid) a ride home after every practice and tournament.

7....

6....your turn......

[Wooahhhh]

7. the kid you just picked up is playing on her 9th team in the 12u age bracket

[CrushersDad]

6. the manager and head coach of your team show up on Sunday hung over from drinking all night. Yes, their daughters (your middle infielders) were with them until 2am.

[PAPA COACH]

5. The head coaches daughters is the #1 pitcher
the asst. coaches "who is is next door neighbor" daughter plays 2nd
the other asst.coaches daughter plays shortstop & leads off with a 195 batting average & an 205 on base. & the rest of thier classmates play 3rd catcher & 1st. the head coaches brother is their hitting coach.

[SOFTBALLS]

6. to add to that is if the coaches are getting drunk between games and/or during the games. You my friend are not an A ball team.

[SneakyCleats]

5. Coaches DD, walks into the dugout after warming up for 3 minutes "feeling sick", chows down a frito-pie, candy bar and jumbo soda just in time to walk out to the mound to start the game. (Seriously, this actually happened)

[aquarius]

10. You just lost your first bracket game and with less than an hour before your elimination game, your pitcher is finishing her 3rd Dr. Pepper. Your shortstop just ordered the baked potato with the works. Your left fielder who "hurt her leg at school" is chasing after your catcher's pet yorkie.

Classic.

5. Your head "coach" continuously brags about his past accomplishments and aquaintences within the world of softball, yet you keep stumbling upon evidence to the contrary without even trying. Meanwhile, said guru consistently hangs baserunners out to dry in ways that blind granny would even know better.

[SOFTBALLS]

4. If you play on a team that is named after a dog (pugnatious) and not even a scary dog at that. Or if your uniforms look like you made them at home.

[~φ~]

3. If saturday after 8am & 12pm pool games with your first bracket game @ 8pm and the Wife of the head coach is asking for all the girls to come swimming at thier house so the girls can bond and "cool off" for a couple hours.

Great thread

[dallasFP]

2. There is a full A tourney in your area but you elect to go to a B so you can brag about your VTD ribbons. You then decide to go to PCB or Southern Nationals.