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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]14:56 -- most of these tasks can be done either a few minutes before the game starts, or during the game itself.  It's not a big lift.  Field prep is usually some dads out raking the fields and re-chalking lines if necessary.

If the team uses teamsnap, you can have a health check filled out in there -- thus eliminating the need to have a "covid" coach.  If someone needs to do the screening, that can also take place as kids arrive for warmups.  So you show up 5 minutes earlier than the kids are scheduled, and sit on the bleachers and check the kids in.

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14:56 here - sorry to hijack your thread, OP, I'm just finding this kinda fascinating (though entirely theoretically for me at this stage).

Yes, I see that a lot of these jobs are small, and not a big lift. But I also assume that "Majors" means you're not talking about five year olds. If my 11 year old is in Little League, I might not go to every single game. And when I do, I might often have other, younger kids in tow that make a volunteer task (even a small one) difficult to handle. Or I might be dropping him off for warmups and then running an errand and coming back. Or whatever. And again, for me personally, I could see a situation where I'm the Girl Scout troop leader, doing tons of work for that, and not planning on doing any volunteering for baseball, as it would just be too much.

I would absolutely expect to be ASKED. Perhaps even begged and pleaded with - and if it was a small task and my kid really loved baseball, I might even cave. But there's so much space, to me, between that and getting a "Here's your assigned volunteer times. Switch if you're busy" email which, again, if it wasn't made clear up front that pitching in was required, I would find really, really presumptuous.[/quote]

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