Enjoyed the new “In the Booth!” episode of the Trap Draw and look forward to these future episodes. Thought this would be a good place drop any lab puppy tips for @MerchCzar or pee wee soccer coaching tips for @Cody and any other random stuff the refuge likes to throw out there.
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I’m sure @Cody is going to do a great job at all things soccer coach related. Love seeing parents take part in things their children are interested in. I would expect nothing less from him.
That said, if he wants to win, find some European kids that seem to have a soccer skill base with a high floor. Your local butcher or favorite deli might be a good place to start. Make sure the games don’t interfere with any meat deliveries they might have to help with. Meat comes first after all. Maybe start drinking a lot of coffee during the games to keep that energy level high throughout. And you can’t forget the uniform matching track suit, really keeps moral up.
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@Cody two or three games into the season…
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This is the top tier commenting I came here for! Truly a chef’s kiss well done @FamousFoot
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10000%
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make sure if you have a kid that is really good you pull them after you get a decent lead because the next thing you know they bump the kid up an age bracket after you win 9-0 and your team is hollowed out. (not that this happened to me or anything)
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Don’t try and yell from the sidelines. The kids aren’t paying attention and you’ll be drowned out by parents yelling “KICK IT!”
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Currently happening to my 7 year old son’s basketball team after we just won our last two game 56-0 and 50-3
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Hell yea. 7 year old has indoor soccer Saturday mornings. Can’t wait to roll in tomorrow morning buzzing on espresso and yell “kick it!” Good times
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I thought of this video while @MerchCzar was talking about the highs and lows of living in NYC.
I’ve never lived there, but I’ve spent a lot of time in NYC visiting friends and family and on work trips. And on my last trip I came to the realization that it is the height of convenience and inconvenience at the same time. Having to carry a houseplant 10 blocks in the rain cuz all the cabs are full, because of the rain. Some subway rides being magical and quick and opening the whole city to you, and some being maximum sweat and claustrophobia and taking 45 minutes to go from queens to also queens.
So here’s to you Neil for giving it another go. And here’s to greener pastures in the future.
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Puppy tip:
A tired puppy sleeps well. I had a tennis ball I would throw up and down our stairs about a dozen times after dinner. Made sleeping much better.
That said, I think she may be broken now as an adult:
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I need to listen to that part of the podcast again because as @MerchCzar was going through it I have felt so many of the same feelings in my relationship with the city. I’ve felt so many of the feelings touched on in the video as well. I got my job in the city right out of school and spent the rest of my 20s living in Hoboken and working in the city. It provided me everything while at the same time always having the feeling that I could live anywhere why do I subject myself to all the downsides. I am now 35 and reached the point where I’m the suburban dad and my wife and I still go back and forth all the time on if we should be here or not. I find it interesting that I feel this way when I’m home but anytime I visit somewhere else I’m ready to come home after a week at most because I can’t stand how slow things are moving. I’m originally from the Philly area and my wife from the NYC area, we dream of living outside the northeast until we leave it and quickly realize we don’t know how we could survive anywhere else without going crazy. It really is a constant emotional swing that clearly, I could ramble on forever.
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Good lord this speaks to my soul. I think being a New Yorker in particular makes you have these emotional swings but I’m pretty sure I couldn’t live anywhere else, I would miss this crazy place way too much.
Heck, my wife and I sill sometimes talk about “retiring” and moving back into our old building in LIC. We were eager to get out of there but we also have so many good memories. It truly is a drug
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Live look at @Cody visiting a new boro
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10 minutes of training, twice a day with a new pup is great advice.
As an owner of numerous labs in my life, one thing I would say is - between you and Carson, try to be as consistent with your commands and rules as possible. Can’t have a good cop / bad cop situation or she will learn very early on she can take advantage of that situation.
Rules are rules, this isn’t 'Nam, and make sure the pup does what you’re asking. If you give a command, you give it once, and be sure the pup does it. Make her sit if she doesn’t sit after you tell her to. Make sure she “drops it” after you tell her to.
Oh, regarding potty time: just say “go potty, girl. Go potty” and don’t allow it to become play time. Don’t give her attention/pets/whatever - until she does her business, then act like a total goofball, be super excited she did what she was supposed to.
Lab Puppyhood…those were the days. Super excited for you.
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My wife shockingly agreed to move to Hoboken when we got our first place together and she was upper east side. We rented the whole time there because we just missed the boat on buying. We tried so hard to buy something we could rent while having kids and jump back to after they left the house. The final tipping point to moving to the burbs was actually golf and on the verge of kids. We knew we couldn’t do a family there and were leaving every weekend to go play and wasn’t worth the rent anymore.
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I played on my fair share of bad little dribbler’s team. But 56-0 and 50-3, those kids should be kicked out of the league. Pick up a different sport, kids.
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For the reading list, @Cody.
You may also want to research José Mourinho press conference answers to manage angry parents.
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For kids soccer if you can teach spacing you’ll win a lot but you’ll also be teaching the base skill for the game. After that it’s the triangles.