EP88 Parents Giving Their Kid a Gatorade in the Dugout? Is It a Big Deal?

In this episode, we discuss the separation between parents and their players in the dugout. Some coaches recently were arguing on twitter about handing off drinks during a game, so Dan weighs in. Also discuss how much extra work to do following a bad outing, and should 11 year olds learn sliders?



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EP88 – Parents Giving Their Kid a Gatorade in the Dugout? Is It a Big Deal?



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Hey, welcome back to dear baseball gods. This is Dan Blewett. And in today’s show, we’re gonna start a little bit about parenting and coaching and I guess, general rules as far as, uh, the separation between. Parent and coach goes, so this is spurned by a tweet that I was a little bit tuned in. I resisted the urge to comment.



Um, but it was one that I was actually surprised a bunch of my, either friends or coaches that I know were commenting on this. And so the basic of the tweet was, uh, that a, it was either a tournament company or someone else said, Hey, you know, parents bringing drinks to their kids during the game, you know, handing Gatorades into the dugout out is a bad look and, uh, I generally agree with that now, you know, as Twitter is people just love to get angry about stuff.



And a couple of coaches, again, a couple who I either know very well or just know and respect in general. Also some coaches that I know and don’t respect, but, um, They the comments vary, but they’re all like, yeah. Like imagine us as college coaches not recruiting a kid, who’s really good because his mom handed a Gatorade, you know, into the dugout.



Now that wasn’t certainly what the tweet was about. The tweet was just in general that, Hey, this is something that doesn’t need to happen. You know,