Posted by  Portable Power, Florida on 05/16  at  11:04 AM

These comments give irony to the title of the artcile.  No wonder.

Posted by  Disgusted with people, Tampa, FL on 05/15  at  09:04 PM

It seems Freedom has a bunch of ignorant, self-righteous, self-involved a-hole parents who need to worry more about teaching their kids respect and manners than they need to worry about who is coaching a team. Instead they act like a bunch of spoiled brats and their kids act the same way. I am disgusted with how ignorant our society has become.

Posted by  Still Astonishing, Tampa, FL on 05/15  at  04:45 PM

Wow, looks like there’s entirely too much poison flowing over at Freedom High School.  The softball coach is one of the most amazing teachers I have ever met - she is truly dedicated to her students and to her profession.  I think there are quite a few people up in New Tampa who would do well take a look at their own lives and quit judging others so harshly.

Posted by  Enlightened, Tampa on 05/15  at  08:35 AM

Frank Camara...you are wrong. You spew useless information with half-truths and outright lies. Noone laughs at the girl you referred to. Your children are wonderful...obviously they haven’t learned much from you.

Posted by  Baseball Fan, Tampa on 05/13  at  11:29 AM

Someone with good coaching skills please step up and take on Blake’s baseball team.  Those young men show up and play as best they can.  They have incredibly great attitudes faced with such adversity (not a single win this season).  They show great sportsmanship and from appearances look like they would be a great group to coach.  They really deserve a GOOD coach to give them a fighting chance.  Hang in there guys!!!

Posted by  FCAMARA, NEW TAMPA, FL on 05/13  at  01:13 AM

However,lets talk about my life. Life is good since the new principal is coming. If the AD attended more softball games (it is hard to see games from his house) he could have verified my kid competed. Sickles game base hit(1 of a few) and a 2RBI at bat with 2 outs last inning . Leto 2-4. Your mom, the crib great comment. Sobbing Parent at Cross Creek was a pretty funny comment maybe you have a future in comedy when your day job doesn’t work out. There was no need to take a shot at my kids.Lots of class Sobbing Parent.

Posted by  FCAMARE, new tampa, fl on 05/13  at  01:07 AM

I don’t need to hide I go and tell those Freedom Admins directly (face to face) when they’re wrong. Unfortunately, no one seemed to care. ESPECIALLY WHEN AN ADMINISTRATOR WAS LAUGHING AT THE MENTALLY CHALLENGED GIRL WHEN STUDENTS WERE THROWING CHANGE AT HER(ALLEGEDLY,ACCORDING TO NUMEROUS REPORTS). I told Bartels and Gaffney nothing happened. There have been more coverups at Freedom than an OLIVER STONE MOVIE.Next, My finances are fine and about to get better because an admin lied about me(in writing) and I have a voicemail from a school board official verifying my statements. Is that libel? I don’t need loans(my child either) next year and I think the football coach has enough to worry about.

Posted by  FCAMARA, new tampa, fl on 05/13  at  01:02 AM

I don’t know why I was dragged in. However, I will respond since a freedom teacher told my child to look at this blog. Sobbing Parent must be an
admin, coach, or a coach’s pet.Why don’t you put your name? More on the identity(no pun intended)later. Oh, no comma after perhaps. Oh, I don’t think it was the English Teacher.
Wow, That comment about the softball coach seems like the comment I heard from the A D(with no prior exp)when I had a meeting in his office about the softball team with the coach.

Posted by  your mom, the crib on 05/12  at  09:56 PM

welllll you sobbing softball parent? why are you crying? you are exactly correct in Freedom’s softball team having the best record this year, but has it ever occured to you that it was the seniors who had played 3 years for another coach and maybe they had something to do with it and not the new coach? Or are you trying to tell me that the new coach taught those 5 seniors everything they needed to be so successful in less than a month? Yea that’s exactly it. Wow, how come I didn’t think of that? Thank you so much for enlightening me!

Oh and another thing.. How can a coach be so succesful when her players know more about the game than her?

Posted by  Sobbing Softball Parent, Cross Creek on 05/11  at  09:34 PM

Frank Camara aka Richard Hertz, maybe you should be focusing on your finances. Perhaps Coach Blackwell could assist you, being he DOES have a college degree. Freedom had the best softball record in school history with a first year coach. Maybe you should get a life & teach your kids to compete instead of taking out loans & buying their way to the top. P.S. Spell check comes free on most computers.

Posted by  Richard Hertz, tampa,fl on 05/10  at  12:34 AM

Freedom doesn’t need a Football Coach?
1-9, dropping F bombs, no college degree, Racist statements against Lennox. I know the AP/Girlfriend/Kelly King protected him. Good News Chris Farkas is no Bartels BYE BYE Marquel.Freedom doesn’t need a one win ISS Person who is worse than the ISS KIDS. How about the softball monitor?  She was the worst monitor ever I won’t use the term coach out of respect for those coaches that know how to coach. Fredom would welcome the TBT softball coach with open arms. Good news Chris Farkas will burn up the dead wood looks like a bon fire is coming to Freedom. In the words of MLK, Freedom is:” Free at last.”