Why don't we talk about coaching blow ups today. Believe it or not there is a time to flip on your team, but there is also an art to doing it.
You must demand respect and discipline from your team, but you must also show them that you have their backs.
The time to freak on your team is not when they strike out or make an error, it's when they disrespect the game of baseball. A great example of this is a player going into a base with his cleats high. You don't let him get away with something like this. When he gets back in the dugout, you light him up.
There's a misconception here, however. Lighting a player up does not mean to degrade him or tear him down as a player or person. It means to show passion for the game. If you can show passion for the game with your attitude, you will win more baseball games because your players will have more passion for the game... Only if you also have their backs. Which means, if a player goes into YOUR second basemen with his spikes high, you have to get fired up and show them that you have their backs.
Passion like this will create a camaraderie that will help your team overcome obstacles that other teams aren't able to overcome.
The teams that fail are the teams with coaches that freak out on their team and never have their teams' back. They tear down their own players and never admit that they are wrong about anything.
On the other side a team with zero discipline and passion for the game will fail in the long run too. The problem with a lot of teams today is that most coaches are one of these two extremes.
Obviously parents are a big problem when it comes to getting on kids, but if you do it the right way and still have the kid's back, the parents will enjoy the team camaraderie and winning... trust me.
If you are a coach on either of these two spectrums that I've wrote about today, you know who you are. Consider this me calling you out as a cancer to the game of baseball. In no way am I saying that you are a bad person or that you can't change your ways. Changing your ways will not only make your kids better baseball players, but it will also make them much better human beings.
Tip of the Day: Respect the game and it will respect you back.
Until next Time!
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