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Message: [QUOTE="nelsonmuntz, post: 4724995, member: 833"] Both the best and worst coach I ever had was around 13 in little league baseball. This was in the mid 80's, and they must have been short coaches because this guy in his early 20's who was kind of friends with my brother was my coach. He was a total stoner, and disappeared for 3 weeks during the season to go on a safari in Africa. His friend (also a stoner) took over while he was away, and his friend didn't know anything about baseball. A bunch of 13 year old kids were running their own practices and the coaches weren't even showing up to all the practices, so we would just be doing our own thing in some random park in the dark. This whole situation was completely inappropriate, even by 1980's standards. On the plus side, the stand-in coach let us do whatever we wanted, so we would make our own lineups and positions. The stand-in remained the Head Coach when his buddy returned. One of the best players on the team decided we were going to spend a lot of time on outfield in practice, and we became the best outfield in the league, which was good because one of my buddies was the #2 pitcher and he threw every pitch right down the middle of the plate. Since everyone tried to kill it when he was pitching, we would just play way back in the outfield and run in on the fly balls. I had so much fun that season, and we ended up winning the league title. [/QUOTE]