Muscle Shoals Coach Blake Beck Slugs City Employee

 

You knew that it was coming, judging by past behavior of this five year-old boy trapped in the body of a grown man who should know better. This was our blog from February:

Muscle Shoals Coach Blake Beck Again Attacks City Parks & Rec Department

We received three accounts of this uncalled for incident from May 4th; we're going to first publish the account with the most complete info:

Park and Rec director met new baseball coach in January at Gattman park, park and rec director told him it’s city fields and would like to have good working relationship, at the first meeting baseball coach started complaining about everything and wanted tons of stuff done. Wasn’t a good first meeting, wasn’t a good work environment after that first incident. 

The first altercation has already been mentioned and it was totally true. The incident on May 4th, park and Rec had games schedules on big field at Gattman. At 2:30 park and rec was informed the baseball coach had destroyed field that was set up for games that night, giving lessons for kids which 25% should go to recreation for using fields that he does not pay, same as tennis and golf lessons that a percentage is paid to rec. 

Park and Rec employee asked mayor to come to Gattman because nobody was present, park and rec employee asked coach Beck if he was going to fix field back and he said no, if he was such a “smart coach” he should know not to get on a field that was already Freshly drug and lined for games. Mayor was present and park and rec employee told mayor everything was fine.

Approximately 30 minutes later coach Beck approached park and rec director and talked to him very rudely, talking down to him. Complaints were sunflower seeds were on field and there was a small patch of weeds on baseball field, plus numerous others. They went onto ballfield and he kept complaining, park and Rec director told Beck he would see him in February when his next game was and said he was done with the conversation.

Director walked off and was talking to an individual with his young son and baseball coach jumped between them and started screaming at director. Director apologized to individual and walked off. Baseball coach followed director and started hollering at his wife who decided to press record on her phone; he put his hands on her and another park and Rec employee tried to break everything up between wife and coach along with director. 

At that time baseball coach shoved director (for the first time) trying to step up to the woman, director was trying to separate them and baseball coach punched director in the arm (Beck's second physical action) and stated bring it on, and that the director didn’t “want none of this” from him in an aggressive manner. 

Somehow, even in the heat of the moment, the director, maintained his composure. Softball team saw everything and it’s on video. Park and rec director met with mayor next morning with a park board member present, Director said he was going to ask for a lifetime ban of high school baseball coach from all city property at park board meeting Monday night. Mayor was all in favor of it. 

Rumor has it, later in day mayor talked to park and rec director and told him that baseball coach can come to practice and games. Director told him no, it’s out of his hands and park board will handle it. Things would not have escalated to this point had the mayor acted appropriately and responsibly after the first incident a month ago. 

What park and rec does for the school: Basketball practices at their gyms, tennis plays on their courts, volleyball uses gym for tournaments, golf teams use Cypress, baseball and softball use facilities for practices and games. All at no cost!! That doesn’t even include the $200k a year city pays for football field and workout facility, luckily that will end in a few years. Park and Rec doesn’t need school, school needs park and rec and we are tired of spoon feeding the school. 

If money would go to education and safety of kids we are all for it, not for just athletics. This does not include the schools use of fields for field day, splash pad, school functions at rec and sport banquets at cypress, which again is all free and we pay employees to work. 

Also, rumored was high school had game at new NWSCC turf field and that Beck was told what he could and couldn’t do and that he was asked not to return to their baseball fields from NWSCC baseball coach because he did something that he was not suppose to do.

There is absolutely never any reason for a coach or anyone else to push a woman or take a slug at a city department head of anyone else. Parents and all Muscle Shoals citizens, is this what you want teaching your children?