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   At one point during a game, the coach called one of his 9-year-old
baseball players aside and asked, 'Do you understand what cooperation is?
What a team is?'

   The little boy nodded in the affirmative.

   'Do you understand that what matters is whether we win or lose together
as a team?'

   The little boy nodded 'yes'.

   'So,' the coach continued, 'I'm sure you know, when an out is called,
you shouldn't argue, curse, attack the umpire, or call him a pecker-head,
dickhead or asshole.  Do you understand all that?  '

   The little boy nodded 'yes' again.

   He continued, 'And when I take you out of the game so another boy gets a
chance to play too, it's not good sportsmanship to call your coach a
"Shithead" is it?'

   The little boy shook his head 'NO'.

   'GOOD', said the coach . . .

   'Now go over there and explain all that to your grandmother!'