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5 Things I Don’t Understand About Girls Softball | Softball is For Girls
They (US, PARENTS) pay for it all – and THEN, just to add a little insult to injury, they have to stop at the gate, put down all the crap they are carrying that took way too long to unload from the car, just to pay again, to watch their daughter that they already pay for, play a game they pay for her to play. (Insert scratching head emoji)
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And She’s Waiting at Home | Softball is For Girls
Pitcher Problems | Softball Is For Girls
Oh BOY do we LOVE pitchers! Today, we share 8 common (yet surmountable) pitcher problems that may help your pitcher take her game to the next level.
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You Know You’re a Softball Parent IF…. | Softball is For Girls
You know you’re a softball parent if There is absolutely no SHAME in your socks and flip-flops game on those chilly mornings when the days will turn warm later.
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The 5 Types of EYEBLACK Wearing Softball Players | Softball is For Girls
The “I fell in a wet cow patty and got literal sh*t all over my face” eyeblack wearer. This girl just doesn’t know when to stop and she smears it all over her face with such random abandon that it honestly looks like she fell face first into the wettest pile of cow poo she could find
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An Open Letter to The Girls Who Have a Softball Mom | Softball is For Girls
October is Breast Cancer awareness month. But I can say for sure, that for me, and for my family – every month is breast cancer awareness month. Today, I want to write an open letter to all the girls out there who have a softball mom, because I lost mine 3 years ago to breast cancer that had metastasized to her brain.
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How to EARN YOUR SPOTS | Softball is For Girls
After weeks of messing around with positions and line-ups, trying to figure out the ones that work best for the team – and listening to plenty of parent complaints in the meantime, the time had come to do that thing that nobody wants us to do. We sat the girls down, told them this was our last week of dilly-dallying, and that each child was personally responsible for earning their own spots on the field and in the line-up.
The bomb had dropped
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The Best Nine | Softball is For Girls
We took a poll on our Facebook page this week and asked whether or not school ball teams should play the BEST 9 on game day, or whether seniority should play a role. You can see that poll HERE
Y’all actually participated and commented (which we LOVE btw) and overwhelmingly the answer was that come game day, and especially come championship time – THE BEST 9 PLAYERS are who should be playing on the field.
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5 Things at 5pm | 5 Softball Parenting Truths | Softball is For Girls
Softball parenting is a hard gig. For that matter, parenting any athlete, or child for that matter, is a hard gig. Todays 5 things at 5pm, are 5 hardcore softball parenting truths that are realized over and over again on a daily basis by softball parents around the world!
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5 Things at 5pm (Inning 2) | Softball is For Girls
We’re back for our daily 5 things at 5! Super short, and sweet (sometimes not sweet) random straight forward tidbits of inspiration and knowledge and softball words of wisdom. Today – 5 Things at 5 – The subject is How to be a Good TEAMMATE! Keep your ears open and your mouth closed. In other…
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5 Things at 5 (Inning 1) | Softball is For Girls
Because we know that nowadays most of us have the attention span of a fly when it comes to actually reading things on the internet…. We hope you will enjoy our very short and sweet new editorial addition to our website, where we share 5 things at 5pm (Eastern Standard Time)!
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Types of Softball Coaches | Softball Is For Girls
Softball Coaches. Those special men and women who take it upon themselves to coach teams! Today, we share 10 types of softball coaches you may or may not know. SENSE OF HUMOR REQUIRED!
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Tips for Helping Softball Player “Feel Good” to “Play Good!”
It’s no secret that a female softball player needs to ‘feel good’ to ‘play good.’ Often, there is a direct correlation between their performance on the field, and what is going on in their lives and their emotional state. When there is any sort of drama, or emotional dysfunction, or lack of confidence, or discord,…
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Just Shut Up and Hit the Damn Ball | Softball Is For Girls
And despite all the well-meaning, and ABUNDANT advice from everyone about how to fix her hitting, she becomes so overwhelmed that it just gets worse and worse, and she even begins to close her eyes at the plate and JUST pray that the bat and ball make some sort of contact or even better that if she leans in just a little she will get plunked and make her way on base.
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6 Things Your Daughter Said in the Dugout | Softball is For Girls
I will sit out!” (Who said that? Is someone whispering?) We LOVE this one! You always have those girls that are the first to offer to sit out. Maybe it’s hot, or maybe they are tired, or maybe they just don’t wanna play and are perfectly happy cheering on their teammates from the bench. BUT…. as soon as the game starts you can bet your sweet butt that I will sit out’s kinfolk will breathing down the back of the dugouts neck asking their daughter they arent playing. And suddenly Ellie Sue turns into a liar and says, “I dont know” because she certainly is NOT going to admit that SHE is the one who asked, and offered to sit out. Next up, is a conversation where the parents complain about the money they are spending for their daughter not to play – and sometimes even a heated conversation with the coach, who typically will not tell Ellie Sue’s mom that her kid offered to, WANTED to sit out, because not only will the parents not believe them – but they also don’t want Ellie Sue to endure a long, wrath-filled ride home.
