Boston Red Sox and the Tampa Rays on TBS is Horrible
As I write this, I am watching out of the corner of my eye, the cartoon depiction of the American League Championship Series that MLB.com provides as a play by play for every game. This would be fine if it were the middle of August, but this is the American League Championship Series and I can’t watch it because it is on TBS and I don’t have that station on the DirecTV family plan.
How crazy is it that I live within driving distance of Tampa and I can’t watch them play on TV? I thought to myself, no problem, they will have a local station broadcasting the game so I can watch it, certainly there is some kind of exemption. I know when the Redskins used to play on ESPN they would pick it up on the local station and rebroadcast it there, but no. Me and millions of others can’t watch the American League Championship Series! That is asinine.
And they wonder why the ratings are down? Here is someone that would be watching every pitch, but I can’t. Certainly there are millions of people just like me, I am not that unique, who would be watching the game if they could, but they can’t! This is just stupid.
Do you feel the championship series should be on cable? We are depriving the country of their pass time, the poorest among us can’t find pleasure watching the game they love taking them away from daily crisis and financial crisis providing an escape, because it’s on cable. Horrible decision MLB. Maybe a few more dollars today, but a loss of many more in the future.
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Attitude So Bad They Bring Your Whole Team Down?
Image via Wikipedia Can One Player Destroy a Team?
The trading of Manny Ramirez today makes me ask the question, is a single player’s attitude enough to bring an entire team down? An analyst on ESPN today wondered why in an "individual sport" the Red Sox would trade their best player. How, he asked, could one player bring down an entire team?
Absolutely
This may or may not be true at the major league level, but in youth sports I say ABSOLUTELY a bad attitude can destroy an entire team. A bad attitude on a weak player will probably not effect a team, but a star player w/ a bad attitude will destoy the entire team’s moral.
Just Say No
I know coaches, and I am one of them, who will pass on a player w/ an attitude even if he or she has more talent than the next selection in the draft. I will take 12 average players with good attitudes to 12 superstars that can’t get along or don’t listen. I will usually win also. It is amazing how you can bring a team together with eager kids and a lot of hard work. It is equally as interesting how much faster a team can be torn apart by a kid with an attitude.
What About the Parents?
Another thing that will tear a team apart is a disrespectful parent. How will a kid ever respect the authority of a coach if their parents don’t show the coach respect? I once had an all-star team of fairly talented players. We were playing a team we should have beaten. I had the tying run on 3rd and one of my best bunters at the plate. I gave the squeeze sign. The ball came in at a perfect bunt level, the runner took off for home, and the kid swang and missed! Easy out. We never recovered.
What angered me the most was the look the kid gave me after fanning at the pitch. It was as to say, "I am not going to listen to you because my dad said I don’t have too". I know his dad had told him this because his dad did not respect me. I really don’t care what his dad thought of me, but as parents, we have to instruct our kids to respect the authority figure.
Of course this guy was a regular season coach as well and could have put in for the all-star team. He chose instead to sit in the stands and critisize me constantly. Again, I don’t care, but the effect it had on the entire team was disasterous.
Get Rid of the Cancer
Apparently the Red Sox thought that Manny was such a cancer on their team that they were better off without him! How bad of an attitude do you have to have to get traded from the team that you have delivered over 100 RBI’s and hit over 300 for 8 years for? I can relate, I will NEVER draft another kid with a bad attitude or a bad parent. Life is too short not to have to put up with an ungrateful parent or kid.
What is the worst experience you have had with a kid?
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