Comments ... 9 found!

: 3/8/2010
I went to the Sherman Invitational baseball tournament this weekend, and the cats did a great job. It was a well run tournament and some excellent baseball was played. My only complaint is this. The guys in the press box used to play really good music between innings, during conferences, etc. This year the music was not nearly as good as in the past. Much of it really "sucked". Way too much loud "headbanging" junk, they even played "rap". This is not just me with this complaint, as several of the fans sitting around me in the stands felt the same way I did. To the press box guys: More "baseball friendly" music in the future, and less "garbage". Go cats, and best of luck on a successful season.

Bearcat Fan

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bearcat baseball : 3/8/2010
I agree with what has been written concerning the poor sportsmanship shown by our players and some of our "fans". Why the coaches don't stop it is beyond me. Actually it was much worse in basketball, and our principals and assistant principles do absolutely nothing to stop it. Why they turn a deaf ear and blind eye to all that nonsense is absurd. If they don't have the "*&!#$" to stop it then let's get someone in authority that will.

Embarrassed fan

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Bad Eggs : 2/26/2010
Cat Alum: I totally agree with you on the collective naughtiness that I have witnessed from Bearcat teams and not just in baseball. The coaches are the real bad eggs because they SHOULD have the authority to stop it. Some of the parents aren't much better. Come to think of it, the apple doesn't fall far from the tree, does it? Maybe the new coach and AD, Kinne, can get a handle on "em this year. Miracles happen every day!

buzzie body

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Time for Change : 2/26/2010
As much as it pains me to say it, I have to agree that our Bearcat baseball teams have shown some rowdiness and poor sportsmanship the past few years. My friend is a coach at one of the Denton shools, and I went to sit on the visitors' side at a game two seasons ago. The obscenities the pitcher screamed at the Guyer players came through loud and clear. I was, frankly, appalled. Indeed, the players were standing outside the dugout laughing and taunting the opponents. One of our boosters had to go settle them down. My coach friend said that our Bearcats were tagged the "verbal bullies" of the district. I talked to Coach Young (then AD) and for a time the team behaved better. Last year I noticed that the jeering outside the dugout had returned. I can't imagine why the coaches allow this type of behavior. Come on, Bearcat coaches and parents. The talent of the team needs to be paired with good sportsmanship. Represent Sherman with class. It's a life-lesson worth learning. GO CATS! Win it all!

Cat Alum

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What? : 2/25/2010
MOM and Backer, are you kidding me? I've always noticed that Sherman sports writers are supposed to be ridiculously "over glowing". So, here Mr. Spinks is being positive and he gets run down? Sherman (and Mr. Spinks) has every right to feel like the district title is theirs to lose. IT IS! There wasn't anything negative to Mr. Spinks write up....at all! As a Denison fan, I'd love to have this kind of problem with our baseball team. Fact is, Sherman's baseball team is and for the better part of the last decade, has been very solid. With all the returning starters from an already very talented team, shouldn't it be okay for the local sports writer, that covers that team, to have that kind of enthusiasm and confidence? The people that have a problem with that write up are the same ones that will line up with the excuses if the Cats don't win district. They should win it all. They are the best team in this district. They better believe it themselves. Be a little strange if they didn't.

Backing Spinks??

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Cats Strike Out on Sportsmanship : 2/7/2010
Whatever the sport, one hears coaches say the the first objective is winning the district championship. I don't understand what you feel is negative in Mr. Spink's writeup! As a Sherman graduate now living in
Denison, I have a favor to ask of you concerned parents and the Bearcat coaches. I follow both Jacket and Bearcat baseball. I have tremendous respect for the Cats' baseball program.... with one exception. I can't understand why the boosters parents, or coaches allow the players to line up outside the dugout and jeer, poke fun, laugh at, and heckle oppontents during the game in an appalling manner. As a Sherman alum, I find it tremendously embarrassing. How about your boys just yelling SUPPORT to their own players instead of berating the rival? Denison and McKinney coaches NEVER allow that kind of behavior from their players. Your athletes are too fine to be tarnished by that juvenille behavior.

Ex Cat

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spinks : 2/2/2010
Wow, you have been in Sherman for eleven whole years. That is great for you. I have never heard of you until, Tyler Clifton was ousted late last year. That was bogus. But "whatever". I agree with Bearcat MOM, you appear to be a bit negative. Postitive reporting is all she asks.

Diamond Backer

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Thanks for your feedback : 2/1/2010
I didn't know striving at your best ability to win a district championship after finishing second the year before was a negative connotation, but whatever. Ask your son if if that is so — I doubt he'll say yes. Baseball season is still two weeks away, let me remind you. And rest assured, I wouldn't be starting my 11th year working in Sherman if I didn't like it. Enjoy the season. I will be.

Bill Spinks

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Hope you do better : 2/1/2010
As a parent of an athelete in Sherman, I sure hope you do a better job on the upcoming Baseball write ups than you have in this story. Keep in mind that some moms, like me, put every article in a scrap book for their sons, so be kind. And it's not District or Bust, that is nothing but negativity. If you don't like you job, then go somewhere else to write. We are proud of our Bearcats no matter how they do.

Bearcat MOM

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