Personal Narrative: My Experience With A Pro Baseball Player

An experience that has helped to shape my life was an incident I had with a pro-baseball player during the 2012 and 2013 baseball seasons. According to my viewpoint, the conflict started after we were assigned to our respective leagues for that season. I started observing that “the player” (name that I would use to identity and protect the person’s identity) did not want to follow the strength and conditioning program as the rest of his teammates. ‘The player’s” behavior had several implications: one, “the player” could get injured since he was doing what he considered was best. Two, other players thought I had favoritism with "the player" and tried to do the same. And three, I could had lost my job if any team player got injured by not abiding to the program stipulated.

Despite the many conversations I had with “the player”, he ignored them all. My initial perception of “the player” was that he was avoidant and defiant. As time pass, I have to admit that I allowed his attitude affected mine; I was increasingly becoming dominant and harsh with “the player”. The situation escalated to the point that we engaged into a very heated dispute. Although we grind some
“The player’s” behavior made the manager and team’s head coordinator to consider an expulsion of this individual from the organization. This would have been a relief for me; however, I advocate for the sports psychologist intervention. At that time I perceived many things which I mention to the team staff: “the player” can be a troublemaker, or he may have some type of psychological disorder, or something is bothering him. “The player” was not expelled; it was discovered that he was having several personal problems at his home while he was away, and apparently that was his way of coping with problems. That year I learned that sometimes we have to dig deeper before passing a final