How about things Coaches Love!

[baseballdad]

I think the thing I love most is when we work on a new skill in practice and I see players perform it well in the next game.

[bbb3601]

I am a softy for a walk off hit. We have had two this year. The best was from our 9 hitter after a intentional walk. I also love team gatherings with the parents, and helping with homework at practice!

[songtitle]

To see a T-Ball kid get their first hit before the last game of the season.

[AgentX]

Good looking moms!

[songtitle]

Good looking moms!

Shhh. We use the GLM secret code here.

[RodCarew]

a well executed Sac Bunt.

Something very satisfying about seeing a teamate give up his at bat to advance a runner in a close game.

We don't do it often, but its pretty cool when its done right.

[BleacherCreature]

Good looking moms!

Hot moms make figuring out the bottom of the roster decisions pretty easy...If you have 3 kids of equal ability and 1 roster spot left to fill, the kid with the hottest mom makes the team....Decision made!

:happy:

[cubsphill]

Good looking moms!

Players enjoy good looking moms too. I graduated last year and I'm assisting on varsity right now, so I'm enjoying good looking sisters too.

[songtitle]

Players enjoy good looking moms too. I graduated last year and I'm assisting on varsity right now, so I'm enjoying good looking sisters too.

I didn't want to hear this one. hmmm. Will have to approve wardrobe and seat locations for my daughters from now on.

[bbb3601]

GLM'S make those pool party tournament nights so much more fun. Our team has been blessed with many

[Newyouthcoach]

Parents that cheer on every kid on the team.

Parents that get kids to practice on time.

Kids with good attitudes.

[rkbenn]

An 8 run 2 out rally in the bottom of the 6th to win the game, like we had last night. Oh, and some hot moms to witness it.

[shake-n-bake]

Effort!!!!

[coach scotty]

The kid that is not very good but always shows up early to practice and games, plays as hard as he/she can and always has a smile on their face.

[Jake Patterson]

Effort!!!!Agree... The thing I appreciate the most is effort.

[dolphindan1]

Agree... The thing I appreciate the most is effort.

Hustle, positve attitude and effort...usually if a kid has 1 he will have all three...just from my experience

[dolphindan1]

GLM'S make those pool party tournament nights so much more fun. Our team has been blessed with many

Yeah we play in Myrtle Beach this weekend and are staying on the ocean and 3 kids asked my son if his mom was going and if she was wearing her Bikini...These kids are 12...its too funny

[PhilliesPhan22]

Parents that cheer on every kid on the team.

Parents that get kids to practice on time.

Kids with good attitudes.

:thumbsup: good attitudes all around. And parents that support the coach because they know that he is doing his best to play all 18 kids in a game when he doesn't have to.

[CoachW]

1. Players that say, "I want to get better, can you help me get there?"
2. Parents that are supportive and root for all kids on the team.
3. Players that are constantly talking in the field to keep their teammates in the game.
4. Great catchers
5. Pitchers that throw strikes consistently
6. Players that "sprint" to their postion on the field
7. the double play
8. seeing a kid get so excited after getting a base hit or hitting a ball for the first time in their life.
9. teaching kids baseball fundamentals
10. teaching hitting to players
11. smart players
12. fundamentally sound players
13. players that hustle 100% of the time

Just a few:)

CoachW

[Prouddadof5]

Watching Timmy D get his first hit!!!! (smile)















G.G.

[Ursa Major]

Watching Timmy D get his first hit!!!! (smile)Seeing an unathletic kid get his first hit ... ever, and hearing the incredulous shriek of joy of his mother when he crosses first base.

But first on the list is alway this:

"Thank you, Coach."

Nothing more is necessary ... or more appreciated. Maybe one thing.... "Thank you Coach. I'm signing up again next year."

[2zwudz]

1) My favorite play is a right handed batter push bunting to second base and past the pitcher.
2) I have had a couple of boys ask me for EXTRA help this year.
3) I have boys who tell me THANKS after games and practices!!!!
4) When parents say thanks.
5) When the boys ask questions after you explain something to them.
7) When my assistant coaches tell me good job.

Mark
13U

[azmatsfan]

When parents ask if I'm coaching again next season, and if so they'd like for me to coach their son again.

[Jake Patterson]

How about???

"Hey coach! Great seeing you again! Coach, this is my daughter Courtney. Courtney this is my old coach, Mr. Patterson."

[bbb3601]

How about???

"Hey coach! Great seeing you again! Coach, this is my daughter Courtney. Courtney this is my old coach, Mr. Patterson."

You a very lucky man Mr. Patterson. I hope some day I am able to make a similar post.

[Jake Patterson]

You a very lucky man Mr. Patterson. I hope some day I am able to make a similar post.It's been a great journey...

[Ursa Major]

(I'm starting to feel inspired here...)

Pitchers who tell a fielder who makes an error, "Don't worry about it; you'll get the next one..." and meaning it.

Infielders who hustle over at the end of an inning to the first baseman whose scoop of a bad throw saved them from an error, and say, "I owe you Coke."

Having your best player leap off the bench between innings when he's sitting out and going out to warm up the near-corner-outfielder, who's probably the weakest player on the team.

Looking across the street from the practice field and seeing a group of scraggily, unkept, droopy-pantsed, pasty-skin kids smoking and hanging out with nothing to do and no place to go and whose parent don't know where they are and don't particularly care.... and then looking into the dugout and seeing a kid (particularly if it's your kid), grabbing his catcher's mitt because a backup pitcher asked if someone could catch him in some post-practice bullpen work.

Hearing your third baseman tell an otherwise weak-hitting opponent who cruises into third with a triple, "Nice hit, dude."

Watching a kid you used to coach now playing in high school and smoking a good fastball into the outfield with a perfect rotational swing that he never had before you worked with him.

At the Opening Day parade (and yes our team has one), seeing the flags and hearing the local high school band fight its way through the Star Spangled Banner, while two hundred kids actually pay attention, even the teenagers.
http://s95294420.onlinehome.us/userfiles/JackiePicture156.OpeningDayA.jpg

(Note that this picture was taken before the band played the Anthem, so the kids did not need to remove their hats yet.)

[shake-n-bake]

UM, you reminded me of a great memory and something a coach as well as everyone else likes to see.

Your best hitter smokes a ball into RF. It's the bottom of the 6th with the winning run on base and 2 outs in a playoff elimination game. The RF is not a particularly gifted player, but makes a tremendous game saving catch. 19 times out of 20 that catch probably isn't made, and everyone could still be running.

The batter, who's a very competitive kid and at first obviously dejected, then realizes how this kid in RF feels. He sprints out and congratulates him. Starts back to the dugout, but pauses to yell, "That might be on tonight's web gems - sweet catch!" Hustles back to the dugout and he's the one kid smiling on his team. He says to his teammates, "what can you do guys - he made a heck of a play."

[azmatsfan]

At the Opening Day parade (and yes our team has one), seeing the flags and hearing the local high school band fight its way through the Star Spangled Banner, while two hundred kids actually pay attention, even the teenagers.
http://s95294420.onlinehome.us/userfiles/JackiePicture156.OpeningDayA.jpg

(Note that this picture was taken before the band played the Anthem, so the kids did not need to remove their hats yet.)

This reminded me of one of my proudest moments as a baseball dad. Last year when my oldest was 10, we went to a 11/12 LL AS game to watch our league play. My son was playing a pick up wiffle ball game at the field beyond the CF fence before the game started. As the Nat'l Anthem was playing I glance out beyond CF. As all the other kids continued the wiffle ball game my son stood at attention with his hat off and hand over his heart. For a dad that moment beats any catch or hit he had on the field.

[bbb3601]

This reminded me of one of my proudest moments as a baseball dad. Last year when my oldest was 10, we went to a 11/12 LL AS game to watch our league play. My son was playing a pick up wiffle ball game at the field beyond the CF fence before the game started. As the Nat'l Anthem was playing I glance out beyond CF. As all the other kids continued the wiffle ball game my son stood at attention with his hat off and hand over his heart. For a dad that moment beats any catch or hit he had on the field.

I really like this. Before every game at our fields they play the National Anthem on the Pa system. It is really nice seeing all of the kids on the newly chalked lines and everyone in the stands looking to the flags. I know all sports do this, but to me with baseball it's different almost more genuine.

[shake-n-bake]

A little off topic, but my wife is a big supporter of a group called adoptaplatoon.org She's been sponsoring entire platoons and individual soldiers for about 10 years. I cannot tell you how proud I am of her, nor just how genuinely wonderful a person she is. Anyway, my kids have become really involved as well. It's really cool when they think of him or the unit that we sponsor and send them letters or things they've made in school. You bet, it makes a parent proud to see the patriotism and respect. He's sent baseballs signed by all his teammates, things like that.

[Jake Patterson]

A little off topic, but my wife is a big supporter of a group called adoptaplatoon.org She's been sponsoring entire platoons and individual soldiers for about 10 years. I cannot tell you how proud I am of her, nor just how genuinely wonderful a person she is. Anyway, my kids have become really involved as well. It's really cool when they think of him or the unit that we sponsor and send them letters or things they've made in school. You bet, it makes a parent proud to see the patriotism and respect. He's sent baseballs signed by all his teammates, things like that.As a former U.S. Army Combat Engineer Officer I can't tell you enough how cool this is.
I am certain it's greatly appreciated.

[JRH11]

Well done!!

:applaud:

[wilson68]

This is always good.

When parents ask if I'm coaching again next season, and if so they'd like for me to coach their son again.

1. Kids getting better. I know it is ego, but I like to see a kid do something right, and realze that I taught them that.

2. Defence. Especially since I am currently coaching eleven year old rec players and it is still the exception.

3. Strikes. Good, hard, low strikes. Even from opposing pitchers.

4. A good rotational swing that produces line drives off good pitching. Especially if it didn't exist before I started coaching her.

5. Kids who come to practice. Goes hand in hand with #1, I find.

6. Little girls, on other teams, who I have coached in clinics, or previous years, coming over to say hi before our first game of the year.

7. Watching a kid do something right for the first time, it doesn't just have to be hitting. The first time my niece, playing third base,with a runner at second, yelled at the catcher, "If she runs, throw it to me."

8. Good umpires.

9. Good opposing coaches. Coaches his players, his team, tries to win, fairly, and doesn't act like an ass. The kind of coach who has parents quoting azmetsfan from above, and that you wish you could be more like.

10. Interested parents. See #5 and, subsequently, #1.

Bonus track: Hot moms. It has only been the last three or four years, for me, that the moms have been younger than me, on average. It is a good thing.

[BigandUgly]

A little off topic, but my wife is a big supporter of a group called adoptaplatoon.org She's been sponsoring entire platoons and individual soldiers for about 10 years. I cannot tell you how proud I am of her, nor just how genuinely wonderful a person she is. Anyway, my kids have become really involved as well. It's really cool when they think of him or the unit that we sponsor and send them letters or things they've made in school. You bet, it makes a parent proud to see the patriotism and respect. He's sent baseballs signed by all his teammates, things like that.

I'm sure the guys overseas truly appreciate it.

I was fortunate enough to spend a year in Afghanistan. We would get packages from supporters of AnySoldier.com. Realizing that people that don't even know you are thinking about you and care about you really helps you get through the rough days.

[shake-n-bake]

I'm sure the guys overseas truly appreciate it.

I was fortunate enough to spend a year in Afghanistan. We would get packages from supporters of AnySoldier.com. Realizing that people that don't even know you are thinking about you and care about you really helps you get through the rough days.

I know they do. I know this is a baseball site, but this is a really nice story. For Mother's Day my wife and kids made 100+ handmade beautiful cards for the guys and gals to send home. It was such a huge hit and we got so many thank yous and my wife even got two of the cards back for Mother's Day. It really does feel good to give. I'd encourage people to check out this organization or the one you listed.