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# 6-Year-Old Coach Throws a Perfectly Legitimate Tantrum About Being Rejected From the Game

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by 

[Rachel E. Greenspan](https://time.com/author/rachel-e-greenspan/)


## Rachel E. Greenspan


Jul 18, 2019 3:22 PM UTC

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[Rachel E. Greenspan](https://time.com/author/rachel-e-greenspan/)


## Rachel E. Greenspan


Jul 18, 2019 3:22 PM UTC

Drake [lost it at a baseball game](https://time.com/5599078/drake-trolling-nba-finals/) the other day. No, not that Drake, but a 6-year-old miniature coach who is this team’s secret weapon.

Coach Drake is an integral part of the Kalamazoo Growlers in Kalamazoo, Mich., a summer baseball team for college athletes. Though he’s usually found coaching his players, the little guy threw a bit of a tantrum between innings during Tuesday’s game. Apparently, he was kicked out of the game, and a video shared on the Growlers’ Twitter page shows he couldn’t handle it.

> [](https://twitter.com/kzoogrowlers/status/1151167816122458117)

Coach Drake is already beloved by Growlers fans and Twitter users alike and is a common star of the team’s social media pages. He even got to partake in the [now-controversial FaceApp age-yourself challenge](https://time.com/5629011/face-app-aging-schumer-ftc/), according to a [post on the team’s Facebook page](https://www.facebook.com/kzoogrowlers/photos/rpp.1403603179864827/2897888960436234/?type=3&theater).

The team shared another video of the “cutest mound visit ever” in a tweet on July 9 that showed Coach Drake giving players what we can imagine is the best pep talk ever.

> [](https://twitter.com/kzoogrowlers/status/1148597741662195712)


But it seems that Drake had a three-game suspension following that date, before returning to the field last week to keep up his hard work.

> [](https://twitter.com/kzoogrowlers/status/1149788300540022795)

He certainly takes after his name twin, the artist [Drake](https://time.com/5599078/drake-trolling-nba-finals/), whose sports fanaticism has stirred his [fair share of drama on courts and fields](https://time.com/5598602/drake-raptors-get-nba-finals-warning/).

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