I Don't Understand

[basedog]

I think another problem is we have a little bit of reading our own headlines problem. Everyone has told them all fall and winter how they were going to be this elite offense and they think they can just turn it on whenever they need it. Outside of Jordan, no one can do that.

I don't know about that; I would think it would be more pressure from the coaching staff to prove themselves. If players are listening and getting advice they will be much more from fans and taking all that in, then they are wrong.

[StarkVegasSteve]

I don't know about that; I would think it would be more pressure from the coaching staff to prove themselves. If players are listening and getting advice they will be much more from fans and taking all that in, then they are wrong.

That is the problem though. We have a culture issue. I have yelled it from the rooftops for 3 years now. We have a certain sect of fans, middle age males and females, that have a weird obsession with our players. They want to constantly hang out with them, go out to bars with them, and Snapchat with them. These are the people these players are listening to and they constantly tell them how gosh darn amazing they are. I understand if little kids idolize these players and put them on pedestals but we have grown men and women doing it. It is a culture issue that the staff has yet to put a stop to.

[Johnson85]

That is the problem though. We have a culture issue. I have yelled it from the rooftops for 3 years now. We have a certain sect of fans, middle age males and females, that have a weird obsession with our players. They want to constantly hang out with them, go out to bars with them, and Snapchat with them. These are the people these players are listening to and they constantly tell them how gosh darn amazing they are. I understand if little kids idolize these players and put them on pedestals but we have grown men and women doing it. It is a culture issue that the staff has yet to put a stop to.

Players getting felated by middle aged fans doesn't stop Lemonis from running good practices. If it did every professional team would suck at the little stuff.

Whatever strengths Lemonis may have as a coach, he just isn't good at the fundamentals and the little stuff. Staying alert while baserunning. Communicating on fly balls. Forcing the runner back to the prior base in rundowns. We constantly make little league mistakes on stuff that shouldn't even have to be taught at this level, but just reminded and practiced. We out talented USA all night, but they didn't make bushleague mistakes and we did. If Lemonis can't recruit well enough to overcome his coaching and/or he can't hire an assistant to take care of the little things, he won't be our coach for long. I don't think either of those are likely because we're not going to have the funds available to do either.