Am I the bad guy?
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008I’m sorry that I am a bit of a sports elitist and I feel that the accruement of specific skills for each individual sport relative to the level (i.e. pee-wee, junior varsity, varsity, etc.) of play needs to be achieved for that athlete to be allowed to compete. I ask you, does that make me bad, bad Leroy Brown the baddest man in this whole damn town?
Recently I have gone about trying to help young athletes reach these levels through my own form of reverse psychology negative reinforcement. The necessity of this program came into fruition when traveling about I saw a youth soccer game in which the little kids were playing without a goalie, had a cookie break in the middle of the game, and they didn’t keep score. I mean what in the world kind of game are they teaching these kids; this isn’t frigging recess.
I decided to immediately stop in and start the negative reinforcement program pronto. The first step was to yell at a little boy who was getting circles ran around him on defense, literally they were running around him in circles while he was sitting on the ground pouting, so I kindly offered the advice, “Hey coach tell that boy that there is no crying in soccer”. Apparently the parents of this child weren’t too happy and they told me that the he was actually a she. The only response I could muster was, “Well then tell her to grow a pair and start getting tough on defense, you know it ain’t to late for testosterone therapy.”
The worst was the conditioning program of these teams or should I say lack of conditioning. As I scanned the field sitting on the bench was this little porker so I yelled in anger, “Hey coach tell Pudgy Paulie over there to lay off the pound cake and start pounding the pavement for some extra P.T., I mean I have seen petrified poop that played with more purpose than this portly pile of play-doh.” I mean does that make me bad, bad Leroy Brown the baddest man in this whole damn town?
