I coach softball, how do I keep the players cool in the dugout during hot weather?
As a former basketball coach, I have had the same problem in the past with very hot indoor basketball stadiums. The best method I found, other than hand held fans was to get ice packs and let them thaw a little bit... Then put them on the major points on the body where the veins are closest to the skin. The wrists and the back of the neck were the best places to put the cold packs and really work!! Good Luck!
Why do mlb players only give baseballs to kids and women?
They don’t. I’ve received a number of balls from players, and seen many more tossed to men.What you’re referencing is, in fact, the origin of Fake News. See, giving balls to men isn’t interesting, unless there’s a special situation. In fact, we look like the pathetic geeks we are, going after 50-cent baseballs. But. Moms and kids - cuteness factor, YouTube hits, late-night soft news closer.So you watch the news, and YouTube, and you draw a conclusion from what the publishers have chosen to show. That men don’t get baseballs tossed to them. Not true, but the media seems to say it is. They don’t, of course - they are just showing what sells. As long as watchers / readers know there’s a heart-warmer coming at the end, they’ll keep watching.In other words, Fake News as often described is simply publishing what sells. Left, Right, doesn’t matter. Show what I want to show, and a certain segment will buy. And my news business / YouTube channel makes money.MLB players are all men. They tend to naturally gravitate towards women and children. But talk to them man-to-man as opposed to overaged-child to spoiled brat athlete, and they will respond.
Who provides the bat boy for the visiting MLB club? Does the home team provide for each team or do they travel with the team?
Wikipedia:During any given major league game, both the home and visiting team batboys will be drawn from the city where the game is taking place (batboys typically do not travel on the road with their team, unless they are relatives of a player). Home batboys often have regular jobs with a team, and thus may wear their first names on their uniforms; visiting teams, on the other hand, usually do not know who will be serving as their batboys on the road, and thus will send uniforms of various sizes to accommodate batboys of varying heights and weights.Wikianswers:Except in very rare circumstances, bat boys don't travel on road trips. Home and visiting bat boys are both employed by the home team. When a team goes on the road, they pack a bat boy equipment bag to take along, which holds uniforms for each of the teams they'll be visiting on that road trip. Since road teams don't know the size of the visiting bat boy assigned to it the team has to bring along a variety of sizes.
Why don't MLB teams have cheerleaders?
Notice that only games with time clock have cheerleaders. Baseball is so perfect a sport that it needs nothing else to make it better. Cheerleaders are about as useless as a tux at a square dance.
When did baseball players who hit a home run stop doffing their caps to acknowledge the crowds who are cheering for them? It seems to me that their concentration is on the congratulations of his teammates, not the people who paid to see them.
It happened around the same time that men stopped removing their caps when going indoors, stopped opening and/or holding doors for women and elderly folks, stopped…well, you get the idea.
Why do MLB pitchers and catchers talk into their gloves? Is there anyone who really cares about what they are saying?
The rest of the Will Clark myth is that Maddux and company say it didn’t happen. Somewhere sometime a pitcher thought he saw some player looking at him and thought he was reading his lips.Pitcher’s do it because as someone said below they are paranoid and creatures of habit. Think about it, a pitcher and catcher chat about the sequence perhaps or a pitch the pitcher wants that the catcher doesn’t.The batter is 60 feet away and probably not looking. The dugout is farther away and the on deck hitter is at least 75 feet away. Even if they are looking how many players do you believe can read lips from that distance?If it isn’t the hitter how does this magic lip reader get the information to the hitter?If the pitcher says it so someone can read their lips, what are the odds the information can be trusted? The players I’ve heard discuss sign stealing are split on whether they even want to know. They think it might be a trick designed to throw them off and they would probably be right.Going back to Maddux he would give a batter something early in a game in order to take it away later; yes he thought that far ahead. All of this glove talking is farce and players do it because they’ve seen it done and think why not, what can it hurt? It can;t hurt but it sure looks silly.
Why are softball players so annoying?
Everytime I listen to a softball game on TV, each team is like "lets go girls" and "get a hit, get a hit, dont hit someones mitt" its so stupid and annoying. i can see the crowd groning and they think "ok, we get it that shelly needs to get a hit, and she has the strength, but we'd appreciate it if you kept it to yourself." If your a softball player, tell me why you thhink its socially acceptable to yell during the entire game.
Why do I see empty seats right behind home plate in the playoffs?
I don’t think it would surprise anyone to know seats right behind home plate are expensive. My favorite team (Seattle Mariners) were charging about $25,000 per seat for season tickets behind home plate about 6 years ago. The Yankees I think charge triple that amount. My point in saying this is only people or businesses with oodles of cash can purchase these tickets normally.I am merely speculating here based on all my years of following sports, hearing stories on the internet and word of mouth. A common theme you hear from people familiar with the demographic of people who purchase those seats is they aren’t really the biggest sports fans a lot of the time. In fact, a lot of those premium seats that everyone wants in a stadium or arena are usually owned by big or local businesses who in turn take potential clients to games to schmooze them. I saw this when I worked for Boise State’s athletic ticket office for two years. This is was during the Kellen Moore-era when the team was really good. All the tickets in the nice press box and a lot along the 50-yard line were owned by businesses who I swear came with different people every game. I overheard some conversations between the season ticket holders in these areas of the stadium and their guest(s) and it sounded very business in nature.I believe the same thing happens in regard to your question. Those seats behind home plate could be in the possession of a big-time entrepreneur or business who gave them out to a potential client in hopes it may impress them. Then they didn’t show up for the game. It sounds crazy that someone wouldn’t use their tickets for a big playoff game. But maybe that potential client just wasn’t a big sports fan and had no interest in going. In the world of business where nice seats are used to impress people, I don’t see what I described being totally impossible.