Winning At The High School Level

[MainerMikeBrown]

When I was in the ninth grade, I played for a Babe Ruth baseball team.

I'm grateful to the coaches who volunteered their time to make the team happy. However, the coaches, as well as many parents of my teamates, took winning too seriously. Hence, us players did as well. And when we only won two games that year, taking winning too seriously made it less fun to play the game.

It's different if it's Varsity high school baseball. But as for us at the Babe Ruth level, I would've enjoyed myself more if we didn't focus as much as we did regarding winning games. I'm not saying don't try to win, just don't take it too far. The whole idea of being on the team was to have fun, so how many games we won shouldn't have been taken so seriously.

 

[retro]

I'm one of the people that has a whole helluva lot more fun when I'm winning than when I'm losing. So I'd rather focus on the winning portion of it, so I can enjoy those wins. That being said, I was almost always the best player on a horrible team when I played baseball. :24:

 

[Darrell]

People constantly propose this argument, but where competitive sports are concerned who can HONESTLY say, they have fun losing? Not me. :dunno

 

[rback33]

I fucking hate losing. Even at Fantasy Football. I may never speak to Nic again after last weekend and what will likely happen THIS weekend....

 

[MainerMikeBrown]

Even if our team wasn't so concerned with winning, it still would've hurt to lose, just not as much.

 

[Kyle B]

I played AYSO soccer when I was like ten. Since I hated soccer (my parents made me play) I didn't care if we won or lost. And most of the time, we lost. Our team was so used to losing that we didn't even pay attention to the score. I'm also going to assume that the younger you are, the less you care about winning(?). When I was in high school I bowled on a league, and always had a decent team. My team was consistently high in the rankings, and we won first place on a few occasions. The bullshit thing about bowling, is that in order to level the playing field, the team with the lower averages is given extra points at the beginning. So, there isn't much room for messing up if you start out 200 points behind the other team. If the other team bowled a little better than usual, and you only bowled average, they could easily win even though they still bowled like crap. It pissed me off like crazy!!!! It sure makes the game more interesting though.

 

[MainerMikeBrown]

We had a mother of one of the players on our baseball team who would defend her son when he made a mistake during a game.

For example, when her son and one of the other players were trying to catch a fly ball, neither kid said that they were going to catch it. As a result, neither player caught it. The mother then insisted that they other child called it, as she wouldn't admit that her son screwed up along with the other child.

I'm sorry, but that's pathetic and downright weird.

 

[porterjack]

Downright weird and pathetic is right

 

[MainerMikeBrown]

You'd think that the mother, an intelligent lady, would've realized that everyone else would easily get that she was merely defending her son and see right through her childish way of defending him who clearly screwed up on that play, as well as during other plays he messed up on.