The INDEPENDENT, August 1, 2001
Page 11
Letters to the Editor
From page 10
problems in any area, to please
- follow through. I encourage the
Vernonia School District to
continue
this
screening
process, whatever it takes.
The ramifications are truly pro
found for all concerned.
PLEASE let your readers
know they are free to call me,
503-429-0159 for more info.
Michelle Blum
Vernonia
Winning isn t always
a negative endeavor
To the Editor:
The following is my own
opinion and in no way do I
speak for the [Vernonia Sum
mer Youth] baseball associa
tion, except as a coach of one
team.
In response to Don Bruers’
letter “Winning shouldn’t be
kids primary focus”, I would like
to offer a different perspective.
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As many of my players do
possess exceptional skill and
talent and play very competi
tively. Do you think it is fair to
them to be on a team with oth
er players who are only on the
team because their parents
paid money and they have
nothing better to do during the
baseball season? Oh yeah,
and then ask those players to
compete against teams who
are made up of the most talent
ed players in their towns/cities?
Our team’s success this
year raised a lot of eyebrows in
our league and also statewide.
We didn’t start the season just
to have fun, we also wanted to
win a championship. Winning a
championship requires a lot of
desire, effort and discipline
from all involved.
Along the way, we were able
to reinforce lessons of sports
manship and integrity that my
players have already been
taught by their parents and pre
vious coaches. But, in “raising
the bar”, we were able to chal
lenge the players to dig deep
and help them to recognize
skills and talents they were not
aware they possessed and will
be able to draw upon in other
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I have heard so many peo (sooner than we, as parents,
ple say “winning or losing don’t would want), an adult world
matter, as long as you have that requires that you do your
fun.” I played baseball from tee best in order to succeed.
ball through my late teen years.
In life, the individual, or
Along the way, I was on both team, that is the most talented,
championship teams and los prepared, and focused, usually
ing teams.
succeeds, and those that want
Speaking from personal to compete with them try hard
experience, if you are not hav er to reach that level of suc
ing fun just playing baseball, cess.
then you shouldn’t be doing it,
Colleges and companies do
but for those who are really not recruit the least qualified
dedicated to the sport, winning applicant, and as these young
is more fun than losing.
men are soon to be a part of
The group of young men that world, why not start
that I coached this year, for the preparing them now.
most part have played together
At what age do we start ask
for most of their lives. They are ing our kids to live up to the
a special group who possess potential we, as parents, teach
above average skills, and ers and coaches, recognize in
played in a very competitive them? Do you start when they
league this past season reach their adolescent years?
because of it.
Or would you rather we pander
To me, baseball (and, for to them all through their
that matter, sports as a whole), teenage years and tell them
are a reflection of life. You learn they deserve the same as
to face challenges and share another for less effort? Is that
the ups and downs of a season how it works in life?
as a team. You also learn that it
The more talented teams in
takes a concerted effort from our league were made up of
everyone on the team, or the players who had to go through
individual (depending on the try-outs, and those teams were
type of sport), to be successful. able to take the most talented
The young men I coached players from which they built
this past season are entering their teams.
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