At one point during a game, the coach said to one of his young players,
"Do you understand what cooperation is? What a team is?"
The little boy nodded in
the affirmative.
"Do you understand that what matters is whether we win
together as a team?"
The little boy nodded yes.
"So," the coach
continued, "when a strike is called, or you're out at first, you don't argue or
curse or attack the umpire. Do you understand all that?"
Again the little
boy nodded.
"Good," said the coach.
"Now go over there and explain
it to your mother."
