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I just thought this was an interesting 20 seconds in my life I thought others might like to hear.

I'm sitting at home on the couch with my 10-year-old nephew watching Boston/Detroit baseball game. He's really into baseball and plays little league. After viewing several innings he turns to me and says this :
"My coach has us do these drills over and over, he hits ground balls to our infielders and we get in line and run down the 1st base line making sure we run hard all the way thru the bag. If we don't, he yells at us. I never see any pro do this, and I'm gonna tell him tomorrow that it's not important."

Sure enough, we watched every ground ball, and everyone pulled up short before the ball got to 1st, they jogged , or in Manny Ramirez's case- stopped 1/2 way down the line and went back to the dugout.

My response (a bit emarrased at what I'm seeing on tv))-- "Do what your coach tells you, he wants you to get exercise and he's trying to improve the team." ( for lack of anything else that popped into my feeble mind).
What should I have said??

That's a toughie. First I'd tell him that Manny made a mistake & that there is never an excuse for anyone cutting for he dugout before the play is over. The rest falls in the same category a one-handed catches. Good luck.

It's just Manny being Manny.

Run hard, run hard. It may only happen 1/100 times but the ball will be overthrown, juggled, grounded or whatever and that can be the gamebreaker.

I wold of told him pros are lazy and poor exapmles of overpaid roid junkies, your cooach is trying to instill a vlaue of stiving to be the best instead of just being mediocre.

Yah, that's sounds better. Or I could have said "The players make millions of dollars, much more than the coaches, so they make their own decisions on how to play." So, run hard, play hard, work hard, then when you get to that level, you can loaf all you want!"

You officially got a gut-splitting guffaw out of me

The more obvious and vexing quandry is the ability to nail the spelling of 'mediocre' rather than 'wold', 'exapmles', and the ever-popular mis-spelling of the Hawaiin island of 'Vlaue.'

(Just teasin' B-Lord!)

The message was definitely accurate, but slightly difficult to decipher

Tell him that they(major league players) do a lot of sprinting drills as well. Take him to a training camp if possible. Tell him the infielders do a lot of "stop the ball, throw to first base," so they rarely make mistakes. In little league, the kids don't have all the fundamentals down, so misthrows are more likely, but if he doesn't run to first base, any chance to get the H will be gone. Besides, the sprinting through build leg speed, which he will need for most other sports he might want to play in the future.

My 5 year old daughter plays soccer and was also in tap. I tell her when she starts goofing off that she's wasting her time, me and my wife's time(and money) and the coach's and team's time.

typos, not spelling. i type wicked fast, and dont' go bakc and check stuff most of the time, also you'll notice i post at 3 or 4 am somtimes when i am work,fatigue ya knwo, and no i do't takeit perosnally

Have him ask Andrew Jones what Bobby Cox thinks of not running all out to first.

sort of like league's bowling lessons.

no confusion, just opportunistic. you know what they say, paybacks are ****.

You're too modest league, none of my stories could match the joy followed by tragedy and the sheer human drama of "My Bowling Adventure" by Leaguegolf.

league could of auditioned for abc's, wide world of sports introduction and taken the "agony of defeat" spot