I have been coaching for 17 years.  This is my 7th year coaching Little League baseball.  We have only had compettitve playoffs for the last 2 years.  The first year we had competitive playoffs our team was good, but got knocked out in the first round.  The next year our team was given the first overall pick in the draft.  The following year, they determined the draft order randomly and I pulled the first pick again.  We won a championship (co-champions actually in a situation I wrote about here).  Heading into this season, just before the draft, I pulled the second overall pick...but the team who got the first pick had their son placed in the first round...so we ended up with the first selection AGAIN.  This year there are two years combined in our league and the player we got first not only is head and shoulders above everyone else in the league, but also has a younger brother in the division who is excellent.

People are not happy...and by people I mean other coaches.  Obviously nothing was done wrong, but just two games into the season there are already rumblings.  To make matters worse, he missed our first game and we still won.  In our second game, he pitched 4 shutout innings and crushed a home run in his first at bat.

This really is supposed to be fun...