"Cathy Kearns" wrote in message
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"bizby40" wrote in message
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Hi everyone,

I'm a bit annoyed at my son's baseball coach for many
reasons which I might get into later if anyone is interested.
But the one thing I wanted to ask about is this:

Are black baseball pants considered to be "softball
pants?" We get our uniforms next week -- the league
provides a shirt and hat, and you are expected to
provide your own baseball pants. We had a pair
of white pants at one point, but despite bleach and
pre-treating and washing right away, etc., eventually
the mud just wouldn't come out anymore. So when
it came time to get new pants, I got black ones. This
was for my DD last year. She wore them all season
with nary a word from the coach.

I don't have girls or boys that play baseball. But my friends have said
the
first year the coaches pull aside the moms and explain about cups and
pants
that need to have room for cups. Is it possible he's concerned the black
pants, that may fit your daughter just fine, don't have room for a cup for
your son? Maybe he's not good at communication, and was trying to find a
way not embarrassing to him to get you to buy roomier pants for your son?

Well, first of all, DD's pants are just plain old baseball pants
gotten at Dick's Sporting goods. They don't have "girls
baseball pants" and "boys baseball pants". If we'd been
shopping for DS at the time instead of DD, we likely would
have gotten the exact same pair (well, smaller since he was
younger then.)

Second, the coach doesn't know the pants we have were
originally gotten for a girl.

BTW, this is from an e-mail from the coach:
"-FYI FOR PARENTS THE GRAY IS EASIER TO CLEAN -DUE TO THE

VIRGINIA CLAY, IT'S ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO CLEAN WHITE PANTS"

I agree about the white pants being almost impossible to clean. I just

hope he's right about the gray.



I think we should just put DS in the pants we have and
screw the coach. But DH says you don't want to tick
off the coach or it'll be DS who pays, so he says we
should buy the gray ones.

And that's a real good point.


Grrr. Okay, I've decided to get the gray pants anyway, but
it troubles me to think that so many people accept this as
a possibility. Is that really the kind of person that chooses
to coach 6 year olds? The kind that would pass them over
for the prime positions or bench them just because their
mom didn't get them the right color of pants?

Sheesh!

Bizby