AHole Parents of Kids Sports: Awful Parents Reliving Their Youth

I coach 9th grade basketball. When shit like this happens it's almost always the officials fault. Most 9th grade boys are capable of really dumb shit if the adults let the game get out of control/overly physical.

 

The little league all-star team a year ahead of me was really good, won state, went to regionals, all that. The coach kept the state championship banner for himself instead of letting the local little league have it. Allegedly had it hanging in his garage

Figured that belonged in here if I haven't already posted it

 

Especially in FL imo

 

Using bullshit tactics that won’t work by the time the kids are 11, to win games at the lower levels, drives me nuts. We have a soccer club in SE Michigan that is notorious for having its goalie run all over the field so they have an extra field player, because most teams don’t have kids who can score from midfield on an empty net in like 3rd grade. It won’t work by 11U, but congrats on winning some extra C league games.

 

That sounds amazing though. I wish our coach would start teaching the team how to play out of the back, this team isn't just playing out of the back, they're actively utilizing the keeper in it. That's fucking awesome

There's a good chance that it will actually continue to work for that coach and that team if the team stays together. They'll grow and learn more and become more comfortable in their roles

 

Similar happened at a small 6/7u local tournament with me too. The other team out all 5 kids in the field without any goalie at all. (4v4 plus goalie format). They made them put a goalie in and they took that to also mean he also had to actually play goalie. But yeah it’s ridiculous especially when the kids know when something is unfair

 

I didn’t think that’s what that meant. It sounds more like sending Everyone forward on a hockey power play

 

We (7U A Summer ball) encountered a team last week that was actively rooting for our kids to strike out. It’s an unwritten rule that you don’t cheer for kids to strike out in coach pitch. I get it in kid pitch but we aren’t there yet.

so we are losing in the fourth inning and they start getting louder when our batters got two strikes. Then when a third strike came through they would erupt. It was infuriating and worse…it was working. they did it to the next kid and he was out in three pitches. They were even yelling “batter batter” as the ball crossed the plate. Appalling behavior I had never seen before in this age division.

So in between innings I stood up and yelled at them. Told them they needed to grow up and they all should be ashamed for cheering against 7 year old boys to strike out. I was livid and honestly ready to fight one of these rednecks. My kid was about to bat and I think if they did it during his at bat I would have walked over there. They didn’t even acknowledge me. Just a few of them stared at me like I was speaking Chinese. But…they stopped for an inning and I thought I had taught them a lesson.

they picked it back up the following inning and it worked. Our worst batters were up to bat and we lost. Their fans were elated. During the final at bat the mother of our hitter ran over to them and chewed them out. I couldn’t hear it but I’m sure she said were name in the book. I didn’t blame her. I wrote an email to the commissioner after the game and I’m sure other parents did because that team has been quiet ever since.

anyways I will hate that entire community forever now.

 

3-on-3 has to be exhausting for everyone except the goalies

 

Late on this but whatever. I also never had a bat growing up and even into high level travel would borrow bats. That’s probably why I’ve purchased my 12yr old two top of the line softball bats. Neither of which she really cares about. 100% reliving youth on that.

 

Our coach is an idiot and thinks the team is good. (They aren't) and proceeded to sign us up for a 13u tournament this lovely memorial weekend. We have two 12 year old kids and the rest are 11. We lost the first game 28-1 , and the second 37-0. The coach had a kid who hadn't pitched the entire year throw the second game and the poor kid gave up 37 straight hits without recording and out and never once stopped and went out and talked to the kid. It was like a snuff film. I dont want to talk about the 3rd game.

 

No, they just put the goalie jersey on their best player and he ran around like a field player. By 5th grade teams were able to score on them from midfield and they put another player in goal and left him in the net. It was no grand soccer strategy.

 

Naw. It’s free flowing hockey with shorter periods and no face offs. It’s great.

 

Where the fuck is the mercy rule?

 

I'd cut all ties with that team immediately.

 

Leaving a kid out there to die on the vine is bullshit

 

There is none at that level until the 4th inning .

 

That’s fucking stupid in baseball/softball.

 

Not really. I’d be pissed if I drove 30 minutes or whatever to a game and have it last one inning and only 3 kids got to hit

 

These tournaments do seeding based on runs scored/allowed during pool play. It's fucked but teams have to keep scoring and run rules take a while to kick in.

 

Then cap runs per inning. 37 hits in a row without an out is absurd and a complete waste of time. Nobody is getting better at that point.

 

My kids have played on a few RBNY teams. They all play out of the back over all else. It sucks to watch at the younger ages because other teams wait for it and press and get easy goals but it pays off later (or at least that’s the theory.)

 

That's what me and a few other dads were talking about. We'd much rather see the boys concede some goals now at a very low level but
start to learn and develop that style/skill/ability whatever that will pay off in higher levels.

Instead our coach wants to just play a Route 1 and just launch the ball forward out of the back. I hate it

 

How young are we talking? Do you have build-out lines in your league?

 

I’ve never watched it so I don’t know if they shrink the ice. These are like 10 year old kids doing it so that wouldn’t surprise me. I think the game is only like 25 or 30 minutes.

 

I hope El Tiburon is able to smooth it over with the league

 

What’s the coach’s suspension for? Is a parents suspension only that they can’t come to games or does their kid also not allowed to play for a while?

 

u11. No build out lines. No one that we've played in the last two seasons (Fall and Spring) have played any kind of high press, just a lone forward or 2 up so attempting to play out is definitely available to learn at minimum risk

 

My 7yo’s “all star” team lost a scrimmage last night 34-11. The opposing team was a collection of 7 year olds from a much larger neighboring league…whose parents didn’t like which all star team their kids made within that league so they defected and created this independent team for the summer.

For 7 year old coach pitch baseball.

 

we have a lot of drama like that. there are 4 levels of all stars for fucking 7 year olds. pretty wild. because of all the drama they pretty much keep the same teams. so if your kid makes AAA as a 6 year old as long as he doesn't get much worse year to year, he is always going to be at the top level. It's really hard for a kid to break through to a higher level once they are set at 6 or 7. and god forbid if a kid does get dropped from AAA to AA usually the kids parents are going to go apeshit about how their kid doesn't deserve to be on that team. Which obviously is a slap in the face to the kids who are in AA or A.

this stuff does a really good job of revealing the character of people you otherwise wouldn't think would be massive selfish assholes.

 

We met a lot of asshole sports parents along the way, but you’re posting with a back-to-back-to-back training legends champion here. I’m pretty much 91-93 Jordan of 9U baseball.

1) Fuck off, you perfect game losers. I can’t imagine the amount of terribleness that goes on at those tournaments.
2) While my son may have done the playing, I’m claiming the wins as a true asshole sports parent.

 

Ghost?

 

Ghost and Demarini Prizm

 

We just have 2 ghost, the new advanced and double barrel

 

Felt like I was smoking crack for a second, none of this made any sense until I googled softball bats. Sounded like you were talking about rappers.

 

My girls is the double barrell. How does yours like the advanced? Ghost was a bit of an impulse purchase as I thought she could use a longer one and Dicks didn’t have the advanced at the time.

 

Well that’s really all we’ve ever swung, but the new one has a lot of pop, and a lot more durable than years past. 2020-2022 models we were going through about 4 a year, the new one isn’t even cracking or splintering yet.

 

So what I hear is if she had the Advanced the warning track triple from this past weekend would have cleared the fence. Hmm.

lol

 

First time posting in this thread. I have a coworker who I just know is the annoying sports dad. He now is the commissioner of his local youth baseball league. But he also I think assistant coaches for a team that was made up of players from the youth league, but instead of just calling it a travel team, he always calls it "all stars". He doesn't say my kids had baseball this weekend, it's always my kids played in "all stars" this weekend. He spends probably at least 10 hours a week on the phone with baseball stuff while at work.

Well today he's been on his phone the last three hours. He's so loud I can hear him two offices over, and it sounds like his kid didn't make "all stars" this year and he is PISSED.

My son is 3, and just starting to play sports in the yard. I pray I never turn into anything resembling that.

 

Awesome.

 

Go for 2?

 

I've played and coached a lot of sports over the years. Never thought I'd be one of these crazy parents. Took my two year old bowling this morning and I'm afraid I may have the bug. If I push him hard, he may be able to go all the way.

 

If he becomes another 2 handed bowler...

 

What's wrong with two handed bowling?

 

If Roy Munson can bowl with a rubber hand, we don't need to use two hands to bowl. simple as that.

 

Throw the ball any damn way you want, there's no rule against shooting free-throws underhand. I bet one hand bowling purists probably hate the designated hitter as well.