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re: Have you ever made a mistake in sports that haunts you?
Posted on 8/28/19 at 7:47 pm to TH03
Posted on 8/28/19 at 7:47 pm to TH03
I should have learned to be a switch hitter. I was a lefty swinging and couldn't hit a lefty to save my arse.
Got me a college scholarship though.
I could slap hit like a boss
Got me a college scholarship though.
I could slap hit like a boss
This post was edited on 8/28/19 at 7:49 pm
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Posted on 8/28/19 at 7:48 pm to SouthEndzoneTiger
No, I'm a grown adult who isn't haunted by high school sports mistakes that happened 15 years ago.
Posted on 8/28/19 at 7:50 pm to TH03
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No, I'm a grown adult who isn't haunted by high school sports mistakes that happened 15 years ago.
HS? Half of us are talking about when we were 8. Lol. I’m not sorry we tried to win.
Posted on 8/28/19 at 7:50 pm to Bama and Beer
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I should have learned to be a switch hitter.
Well then your posts to this point have been misleading.
Posted on 8/28/19 at 7:51 pm to CatsGoneWild
While I would never say it haunts me i do wonder how things might have been had certain things happened. And this was rather small things in little league and pee-wee football. Sorry in advance for how long each one will be.
My final year playing little league/dizzy dean i decided that I would rather have fun and play with (i think it was called either the city league or the park team which basically are the kids with are not as good but just want to have fun and the parents were not trying to get their kid recruited to LSU or whatever during the game) than play dizzy dean and have less fun. My mom brings me to sign up and the dizzy dean coach (who was new to the park) comes up and talks me into trying out. So i decide to try it and got picked. I was a catcher and the catcher they had was a way better hitter than I was so I played other positions. The coach would use me during practice to help the pitchers (cause i actually was a better catcher than the starter) and help them with their delivery and what not. I had to spend a godawful amount of time with one pitcher who was fricking terrible and I told the couch that this guy shouldn't pitcher unless nobody else on the team had arms... that kid was the coaches son..... I wasnt aware of that so the coach basically just kept me on the bench for a few games. The final game i played with them they stuck me in right field after the coaches son made 2 errors in one inning.... I made the final out held the ball up and ran to my team to celebrate because we had just beat one of the top teams. The post game speech from the coach was pretty much 5 minutes of telling me i need to stop showboating and be a team player yadda yadda yadda. I quit the next practice and joined the 'city/park' team and had a ton of fun.
The other time I decided I wanted to try out for football. My mom was against it and my dad told her to let me try it and if i didn't like it i could just play the one season and be done. Now mind you I was 8 or 9 and had only played street football so like most kids on the team starting out I didn't know anything about technique. First day of pads i was on the offensive line and I was holding the defensive end. The head coach says to watch him (coach replaces me on the line and im roughly 5 feet away?)... the assistant coach comes up to me and starts screaming at me. Telling me that 'you don't get to take plays off' and other shite. I was so confused because it was obvious that a 30 something year old man was on the offensive line at the position i was playing..... it didn't take a mensa member to see what was happening. So my mom had been at that practice saw what happened and asked the head coach what i was doing wrong. The head coach in so many words said the the assistant was 'old school' and harder on the kids. Head coach said that I actually did nothing wrong and that the assistant was wrong. That night i was laying in bed and i heard my folks talking about the situation. My dad got livid and said he was going to the next practice and if that coach looked at me wrong he would beat the shite out of him. At the time my dad was was a different person than he is now or even 5 years afterthat.. he would have done it. So not wanting my dad to go to jail i just said i didn't want to play anymore.
My final year playing little league/dizzy dean i decided that I would rather have fun and play with (i think it was called either the city league or the park team which basically are the kids with are not as good but just want to have fun and the parents were not trying to get their kid recruited to LSU or whatever during the game) than play dizzy dean and have less fun. My mom brings me to sign up and the dizzy dean coach (who was new to the park) comes up and talks me into trying out. So i decide to try it and got picked. I was a catcher and the catcher they had was a way better hitter than I was so I played other positions. The coach would use me during practice to help the pitchers (cause i actually was a better catcher than the starter) and help them with their delivery and what not. I had to spend a godawful amount of time with one pitcher who was fricking terrible and I told the couch that this guy shouldn't pitcher unless nobody else on the team had arms... that kid was the coaches son..... I wasnt aware of that so the coach basically just kept me on the bench for a few games. The final game i played with them they stuck me in right field after the coaches son made 2 errors in one inning.... I made the final out held the ball up and ran to my team to celebrate because we had just beat one of the top teams. The post game speech from the coach was pretty much 5 minutes of telling me i need to stop showboating and be a team player yadda yadda yadda. I quit the next practice and joined the 'city/park' team and had a ton of fun.
The other time I decided I wanted to try out for football. My mom was against it and my dad told her to let me try it and if i didn't like it i could just play the one season and be done. Now mind you I was 8 or 9 and had only played street football so like most kids on the team starting out I didn't know anything about technique. First day of pads i was on the offensive line and I was holding the defensive end. The head coach says to watch him (coach replaces me on the line and im roughly 5 feet away?)... the assistant coach comes up to me and starts screaming at me. Telling me that 'you don't get to take plays off' and other shite. I was so confused because it was obvious that a 30 something year old man was on the offensive line at the position i was playing..... it didn't take a mensa member to see what was happening. So my mom had been at that practice saw what happened and asked the head coach what i was doing wrong. The head coach in so many words said the the assistant was 'old school' and harder on the kids. Head coach said that I actually did nothing wrong and that the assistant was wrong. That night i was laying in bed and i heard my folks talking about the situation. My dad got livid and said he was going to the next practice and if that coach looked at me wrong he would beat the shite out of him. At the time my dad was was a different person than he is now or even 5 years afterthat.. he would have done it. So not wanting my dad to go to jail i just said i didn't want to play anymore.
Posted on 8/28/19 at 7:51 pm to baldona
Are you truly haunted by it or do you just remember it and it pops in your head sometimes? Those are completely different things. 
I just read your story, it's the latter so it's not what I'm talking about.
I just read your story, it's the latter so it's not what I'm talking about.
This post was edited on 8/28/19 at 7:52 pm
Posted on 8/28/19 at 7:52 pm to Bama and Beer
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I should have learned to be a switch hitter.
Sup
Posted on 8/28/19 at 7:52 pm to CatsGoneWild
Layup on the wrong goal. It was awful.
Posted on 8/28/19 at 7:52 pm to AmosMosesAndTwins
Got me? Good timing dude
Posted on 8/28/19 at 7:52 pm to TH03
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No, I'm a grown adult who isn't haunted by high school sports mistakes that happened 15 years ago.
Translation: “I ate lunch by myself and my guidance counselor told me none of those bullies will be anything 10 years from now.”
Posted on 8/28/19 at 7:53 pm to AmosMosesAndTwins
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Translation: “I ate lunch by myself and my guidance counselor told me none of those bullies will be anything 10 years from now.”
Stop projecting.
Posted on 8/28/19 at 7:53 pm to TH03
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Sorry you peaked in high school
Really? What motto do you live by? People can’t have fond memories? Regrets? You live strictly in the moment? You don’t look back on your childhood? But worse, you frown upon people who do to the point of insulting them? What prick cock sucker. And to be real, YOU are the one with the issue here. 99% of the posts in this thread are legit, you apparently live in a different world. Argue with me.
Posted on 8/28/19 at 7:54 pm to CatsGoneWild
To the OP. This scenario of bases loaded and 2 out, curve ball hit outta there, happened to a friend of mine’s son 2 years in a row that ended their HS playoff run. He was a really good pitcher but the guys that hit those taters were better! What terrible luck for the kid.
For me, it was when I was 10 and coach put me on 3rd base when he changed pitchers and I came off the bench. Ground ball through my legs and the other team wins. That sucked and haunted me a while. I still think of it, like now. It is what it is.
For me, it was when I was 10 and coach put me on 3rd base when he changed pitchers and I came off the bench. Ground ball through my legs and the other team wins. That sucked and haunted me a while. I still think of it, like now. It is what it is.
Posted on 8/28/19 at 7:55 pm to SouthEndzoneTiger
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What prick cock sucker. And to be real, YOU are the one with the issue here. 99% of the posts in this thread are legit, you apparently live in a different world. Argue with me.
Simmer down, uncle Rico. I truly believe you can throw that ball over them mountains.
I feel I read a different thread title than y'all did.
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Have you ever made a mistake in sports that haunts you?
If it haunts you, you need perspective in life.
Posted on 8/28/19 at 7:55 pm to TH03
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Stop projecting
shite those were glory days. It’s my life now that’s sad. 14k posts.
Posted on 8/28/19 at 7:55 pm to AmosMosesAndTwins
Posted on 8/28/19 at 7:55 pm to TH03
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Th03
Cat dick, I’m not “haunted”. WTF? We are reminiscing.
Posted on 8/28/19 at 7:57 pm to TH03
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Simmer down, uncle Rico. I truly believe you can throw that ball over them mountains.
Lol’d
Posted on 8/28/19 at 7:58 pm to SouthEndzoneTiger
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Cat dick
Welp, everyone at work has a new nickname tomorrow.
Posted on 8/28/19 at 7:59 pm to SouthEndzoneTiger
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Cat dick, I’m not “haunted”. WTF? We are reminiscing.
The thread title I replied to was about being haunted by mistakes in sports. I did not reply to you. You got upset because of my response to the title of this thread and lashed out.
I made no comment on your reminiscing, only the premise OP presented that grown men are haunted by mistakes in youth sports. Those are 2 separate things. Please try to realize that and simmer down.
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