Just busting your balls!!
I never played baseball in my youth, or really watched it much to be honest... but what sort of happens is lots of people sign their kids up for t-ball where everyone wants to coach and then as you keep going through the years eventually the # of wannabee coaches gets smaller. You get to know people and then eventually get asked to "help" I don't think I coached until my kids 3rd season. They just didn't have enough people to do it.. What I tried to do was find a dad that knew the game but didn't want to be the "head coach" but someone I could rely on to help with practice drills and such. But I ended up coaching a lot of softball and baseball. Looking back it was fun, but I didn't take it too seriously.
my first son didn't play baseball until the 3rd grade and even though I worked with him as much as I could that year he was the worst kid on the team. The HC for that team was the typical jerk. My kid and the other "bad one" batted last every game, sat out the maximum time they could every game and never really got encouraged. I really believe that coaches philosophy was "treat the bad kids like shit so they don't come back" I don't think he even got a hit until the 7th game. I was surprised he stuck with it.
The following season we had a very loud yelling coach, but it was in a positive way. He put a lot of energy into all the practices and made my kid go from the worst kid on the team to the middle of the pack just by caring a little..I remember him telling every kid on the team that he wanted them to pitch at least one inning. It really helped their motivation to practice.. &it helped he really knew the game.
I guess the 3rd season all the good (coaches) left so we got those emails "if we don't have some parents step up to coach we wont have teams this spring" so I talked another dad into doing it with me and we had a blast and were above .500. The dad that helped me was so anxious about being in front of the kids I think he would shotgun a beer in the parking lot to get over his nerves. I never saw it but that's my suspicion..
I was probably too nice to the kids after the ordeal my kid had. I would always put the better kids in the position to win, but also let everyone play some infield time, pitch, etc..but I didn't have the heart to make the same kid bat last every game, and I rotated who sat out equally and such. I also stole the previous coaches idea of offering every kid a chance to pitch & sometimes you would be amazed when the nerdy kid with glasses strikes a few people out!
But I do highly recommend coaching or assistant coaching a season once you go through a couple years, even if it makes you nervous and you don't know what you're doing, your kid will always remember it & in 20 years someone in their group will post the 3rd grade little league team photo (on snapchat) and you will be in it!