We are on our way to a new and exciting lacrosse season. Try outs are starting and our house has turned into a sweat shop of activity. Protein shakes, early morning work outs and extensive training sessions have begun. Glass insurance has been secured and doubled (boarding up the windows with plywood didn’t work so increasing the glass insurance was the only other option). To small equipment has been replaced and new mouth guards are on the shopping list. I have vowed to turn over a new leaf this year and try to be as professional a manager as possible. I already know what your all thinking: “Ha, that will last about two days!” Your wrong. This year if someone complains (bitches) about something I will be prepared. I am going to show up to every game, practice & team meeting with a special clipboard and writing implement to promptly shove in the complainers face and tell them if they don’t like it and feel they can do a better job then I would be so extremely grateful if they would shut up and take on the job themselves. It’s all fair and good to stand on the sidelines and bitch but I predict that most of the bitchees will not step up and do the actual work. I will try my very best to do this in a very diplomatic, respectful manner.
My saving grace in this whole adventure is that the Head Coach is just as sarcastic as I am (if not more) and whenever I go off on a crazed tangent about an ‘issue’ (lets be honest here the issues are usually the parents) he either supports my decision to smack someone or calms me down enough that I will not end up on Jerry Springer’s first ever Sport Managers Gone Postal episode. However supportive Coach is I am already anticipating our first Manager – Coach argument: The Road Trip.
NOT. GOING. TO. HAPPEN. Need I remind you of last year’s fiasco?
I will be calm, I will be calm, I will be calm.
I mean come on people its not the NLL were talking here (yet?).
