Coaching Disaster Spoils T-Ball

* We began T-ball season in Port Heuneme with high hopes. But my son’s coach missed the first practice. Oh, well, a nice coach on another team let us join him. We fit right in and he agreed to let us join his team. I called the league and was informed that changing teams was against the rules. Period.

Second practice. Coach and a woman show up. Turns out the original coach can’t coach and she is taking over, but she admits she has no knowledge of the rules. She says her husband who coaches another team will help out. He is good but only comes twice. Practices go badly and the parents agree we need a coach who knows the rules.

I go to a board meeting and complain. Next we have another coach. This coach’s idea of T-ball is to choose positions for the “better” players and stick the others out in the field forever.

My son was not a better player. He became a substitute and until another mother and I complained to the league president, the coach would not even guarantee that he would play each game.

So next year we will not play in the Hueneme League. The morale on our team was so low that at the end of the season we had no ending party for the boys who certainly deserved one. Did we have fun?

CAROL GOLDREYER

Port Hueneme