Muscle Shoals Baseball: Gate-Crashers & Cat Killers?

 

Blake Beck Says Gattman is His Field?

Until yesterday we had never heard of Blake Beck and certainly had never considered anyone would actually pay cash money to watch Muscle Shoals High School (or any high school) play softball or baseball. Then we received three communications from various individuals about Muscle Shoals City Schools attempting to "steal" the four Gattman Park fields from the citizens.

Consequently we have learned three things about Muscle Shoals baseball and its new coach...and none has been good. We're sure we'll receive some interesting rebuttals about this, but right is right and wrong is wrong. 

1. Thou shalt not steal - Why does the school system want the fields? It seems if the school shares with the little league, etc., Muscle Shoals students and their families gate-crash the games, lying about which game they're attending and getting in free. Yes, we need to add that God frowns upon lying also. 

2. Treat others as you would wish to be treated - That means the new baseball coach shouldn't yell at some lowly park worker for simply doing his job. The worker may be in your way, Coach, but he's doing his job per the REAL owners of the fields - the city.

3. Respect what God has created - What kind of man kills a small (apparently female) Lynx Rufus simply because he's mad at not bagging whatever he really wanted to kill that day? No wonder we have mass shootings in schools considering the examples presented to young men by coaches and teachers. (We discovered this act on Beck's Facebook page while looking for a photo of the new coach causing all the complaints.)

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Here's one of the emails concerning the possible take-over of the fields:

Lockhart, Basden and Holden have decided the city ball fields are going to be controlled by the school - It appears the New Muscle Shoals’s Baseball Coach (Blake Beck) has taken up the Football Coach stance that all is mine! The new coach has claimed Gattman Park as his! and has Mayor Lockhart on board and going along with it, as to Buying gates to Lock them down; the baseball and softball fields, I was told the new Coach went as far as to tell a City employee who was working on dragging the infields “to get off his field”, now to my understanding all that land the Park and the Recreation department sits on was donated to the City from the Gattman Family and was to be used for the city citizens to use and to serve for youth sports, this is NOT SCHOOL PROPERTY, it’s CITY PROPERTY!! I think it’s time to boot High School Athletics out of Gattman Park immediately and they can carry that awful wood fence with them, maybe cover up that gaudy looking tennis court with advertising signs all over it!! I don’t see Tuscumbia schools putting fields in Spring Park, what are you thinking!