Christian Park Softball
Well the All-star team is getting ready to go into 3-day training period - Thursday, Friday and Saturday. The last two practices have been wasted because both fields were taken. I should have just made all practices at Brookside. It's nice to get away from all the "park" people so the girls can focus on the game. There are way to many distractions at CP.
I guess I'm going to have to step up and be a jerk, scream at them or something. This team just does not seem to have any focus. I should have kept the team small 10 or 11 players, instead of 13.
I think in the future I'm going to blow off all-stars. The girls that take the game seriously loose interest, because there are two few of them. The rest just show up because of mom & dad, or because there's nothing else to do. I know their kids and don't care that it takes time out of my life and my family's life, nor do they know or care that it cost about $100.00 to be in this tournament. It's not about winning the tournament so much, as I would like to seem them put some effort into. Why should I waste my time, if they're planning on losing or worse just don't care.
Next year, if I do this, there will be an A/B team - girls that want to play to win and the rest. I'm still mad we drafted players this year. Instead of ending up with a dominant team and a training team, we ended up with two training teams. Both teams trained differently and now we have to spend a week retraining them to play the correct way, my way. Of course, the girls see it as being told they're wrong and "we did it this way all season".
Anyway, just trying to find that magical thing to turn them and myself around. I haven't had much luck this year. I miss the fun of last season.