Disappointed

I'll be honest, I'm disappointed in the way this baseball season has gone.  Robert is not playing much, but that I expected.  While he is not a bad player, he is far from the best player on the team, and of course as a teenager who does not have a passion for the game, he chooses not to work at it.  Don't get me wrong, he ENJOYS the game and has fun, but he does not have a passion for the game.  That's fine.  I get that.  The part I am most disappointed in is how my husband has been treated by the head coach, a man that considered Andrew his best friend.  This man has shown no respect for my husband of his opinion, and it's gotten worse as the season has gone along.  I know it stems in part from a difference in coaching philosophy.  My husband feels that even though this is a select team, it should still be about developing the boys as players and that they should not be called out individually in front of the rest of the team for their errors.  He feels they should be motivated and built up while being given constructive criticism.  I've seen my husband pull players aside and talk to them individually between innings when a mistake was made as an effort to teach without embarrassing.  I suspect that because of my husband's enthusiasm for the positive (which is truly part of his nature) this man sees my husband as "soft" and not committed to winning.  This man's body language towards my husband offends me, especially since this is a man I considered a friend.  Sadly, at this point my husband just wants this season to end, and frankly so do I.  We would never quit because that is not the right thing to do (although I'm fairly certain this man wouldn't care if we did since Robert isn't playing much and he doesn't seem to respect anything Andrew says), but we are both looking forward to the end in two weeks.  Next year if Robert wants to continue playing we are back to rec ball...it's a better fit for our family, and Andrew can be the head coach again if he wants.