We all love baseball and enjoy teaching and coaching youth baseball. It is a very rewarding feeling to have a youth baseball player actually follow thru in a game with what you have taught and coaching.For instance a kids first strikeout or a fly ball being caught. However, there are some things that come along with it not so rewarding. The following list is for humor purposes but does reign true. 🙂 This list has been reproduced from Barton’s Youth Baseball
Top 20 Reasons to Coach Youth Baseball
- You get to spend most of your summer with other people’s’ kids instead of your own.
- You get to rake fields and set up bases just like a real ground screw member.
- You get the credit when a kid isn’t playing well.
- You get to put off your vacation until right before school starts.
- You get a great farmer’s tan.
- You get to be the last one home after a game.
- You get thick skin by being second-guessed about 2500 times or so by parents.
- You get to spend a lot of evenings on the phone instead of with your wife.
- You gain deeper insight into the game by hearing such novel bits of wisdom as “straighten it out” and “throw a strike” from the stands.
- You get to drive around a bunch of dirty kids in your car.
- You have lots of meaningful conversations with parents, like about how great their kids can pitch.
- You get great insight into emotional disorders in children, for when you want to pursue a career in counseling.
- You get to spend your own money on extra balls and equipment.
- You get to leave work early to get to the field early.
- You get to leave work even earlier to pick up kids without rides.
- You develop humility when the kids get credit for wins and you get blamed for losses.
- You get the honor of coaching a bunch of kids that think they’re doing you a favor by showing up.
- You get to have a party at your house after the season with your own food and soda.
- You get a small gift certificate after the season for a restaurant you don’t even like.
- ? ? ? Put your own top reason in the comments!
