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To: The Wharf who wrote (21834)	9/6/2012 8:41:13 PM
From: Jorj X Mckie	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24758

Hello TW, I absolutely agree with you. This conversation goes back a year. It had its roots in something completely unrelated and then I made the mistake of using the time that I volunteer with little league as an example to make a point. Sixty2nds used this as a launching point to attack my integrity. Part of this is that I clearly stated that my underlying motivation for coaching was completely selfish and was to spend quality time with my son. This is the case for most volunteer coaches/managers. They may give a variety of other reasons as motivations, but if you look at the fact that the vast majority of volunteer manager/coaches cease to manage/coach after their kids have aged out of the sport, it is clear what the underlying motivation was. Where it may seem like I was dissing volunteer coaches, that is not the case. In the past 8 years I have coached four soccer teams and 12 baseball teams. I ran the fallball program at the little league for 5 years and was a spring division commissioner for six years. Now that my son has aged out of little league, I too have moved on from little league. If I continued coaching little league instead of spending time with my son and following his sports activities, do you agree that parents would be wondering why I was spending time with their kids instead of my own?