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Title: Chip On His Shoulder, Time On His Hands...
Review: This guy knows his baseball coaches. He's apparently seen every bad one in the book. And if you're a player stuck with one of these lousy coaches (they're all lousy, by the way, none of them are interested in helping kids, they are all in it for themselves), his advice is glib, snide, and misguided.Imagine a guy who thinks he's Dennis Miller, stretching every joke to the last possible descriptive metaphor. Imagine a guy who seems obsessed with the idea that all coaches only volunteer for Little League so they can turn their own sons into the MVP of the team. Imagine a guy who thinks kids need to be armed with cynicism, not idealism, as they enter Little League.Imagine a guy who finds "Field of Dreams" to be a waste of celluloid.That's who you're dealing with here and it translates into a really boorish, frustrating book that serves no real purpose except letting a frustrated coach/writer vent his spleen. Maybe he needs a blog. Or a hobby.
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