Ok, so today was pretty hot, there were not a ton of people at the field so we mixed groups with advanced and new players. There is an understanding in such a situation that you snap shoot single balls at new players, and play harder against advanced. It tends to work pretty well actually, giving the new players a good chance, and improving skills of others.
Its late in a game, I make a desperate run into the snake, dive in hard and loose my glasses in the process. Now i have less than 20/400 vision without them, so I am basically blind shooting to me teammates calls. This is actually a new experience and I think I might practice some like this, it really does help you learn to listen. Anyways.. when I had hit hard one of the other players wife was standing outside, and asked me if I was ok, because I had tried to superman slide but had just kinda hit instead, and had a good mark on my head. She also looked back to make sure my glasses were out of the way. So the game got close to time, and I figured on a dramatic move to open it up. I knew there were players two bunkers outside of the other end of the snake, which I was in the middle of. I knew I could make it to them and bunker them I asked her if they were new players or not, and she told me new... so I didn't - letting time run out.
As I'm coming off the field one of the guys who has brought two tournament players approaches me. He has already been yelling at the lady I was talking to. He tells me "in a tournament I would make sure you were thrown out for that." I, being the non-confrontational person that I am (did anyone here beleive that line LOL), reminded him this was not a tournament. After he berated me about cheating for a few minutes, threatened to go to the owner (I was kinda hoping he would) I finally looked at him and told him to some extent "I asked her if they were experienced or new players in the angle. If they were expereienced I was going to bunker both of them. And if this was a tournament I would have. However, this is rec day, and I think it would be rather inconsiderate of me to play as hard as I can against everyone on the field out there. If you want to do things that way, we can do it that way the rest of teh day". It didn't go over well, but it pretty well shut him up.
Why do people think that every day is tournament practice day? The kids he was coaching (and not sideline coaching, but showing pointers here and there) were not that great. Had the advanced players (and there were a lot there) gone all out, these kids would have got very little play time. What is up with the attitudes at the fields today? I mean, the guy wasn't even on the field and he feels the need to berate me for something that was none of his business?
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Its late in a game, I make a desperate run into the snake, dive in hard and loose my glasses in the process. Now i have less than 20/400 vision without them, so I am basically blind shooting to me teammates calls. This is actually a new experience and I think I might practice some like this, it really does help you learn to listen. Anyways.. when I had hit hard one of the other players wife was standing outside, and asked me if I was ok, because I had tried to superman slide but had just kinda hit instead, and had a good mark on my head. She also looked back to make sure my glasses were out of the way. So the game got close to time, and I figured on a dramatic move to open it up. I knew there were players two bunkers outside of the other end of the snake, which I was in the middle of. I knew I could make it to them and bunker them I asked her if they were new players or not, and she told me new... so I didn't - letting time run out.
As I'm coming off the field one of the guys who has brought two tournament players approaches me. He has already been yelling at the lady I was talking to. He tells me "in a tournament I would make sure you were thrown out for that." I, being the non-confrontational person that I am (did anyone here beleive that line LOL), reminded him this was not a tournament. After he berated me about cheating for a few minutes, threatened to go to the owner (I was kinda hoping he would) I finally looked at him and told him to some extent "I asked her if they were experienced or new players in the angle. If they were expereienced I was going to bunker both of them. And if this was a tournament I would have. However, this is rec day, and I think it would be rather inconsiderate of me to play as hard as I can against everyone on the field out there. If you want to do things that way, we can do it that way the rest of teh day". It didn't go over well, but it pretty well shut him up.
Why do people think that every day is tournament practice day? The kids he was coaching (and not sideline coaching, but showing pointers here and there) were not that great. Had the advanced players (and there were a lot there) gone all out, these kids would have got very little play time. What is up with the attitudes at the fields today? I mean, the guy wasn't even on the field and he feels the need to berate me for something that was none of his business?
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*irony*
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