Same here. Sons current league seems like its mostly on the younger side so I wanted to get him in a different league. Was happy to find a different league that starts up immediately after the current one.
That's a trap. Do not draft her. She will immediately revert back to her non-5 level as soon as she's on your team. Lol
Yup. I feel like all sports are going on all the time here. I grew up only playing baseball and played spring, fall, and summer ball before even getting into AAU.
Yep, same. My son is in the 3rd/4th grade league and has been with the same group since fall 2023 and are looking like they're going to make the playoff bracket for the first time this season. Since everyone on his team is in 4th grade, they're able to rack up wins on the teams full of 3rd graders. But we lack anyone that can play QB competently, so we'll likely get bounced by one of the teams with a kid that can sling it. Our offense the last 2 years has basically been to spam plays to the 1 cheat code kid we have. Last year it was jump balls to the 4th grader we had that was almost 2 ft taller than everyone. This year it's dump-offs to our Hispanic Percy Harvin who has ridiculous speed, cutting ability, and field vision.
I'm assuming yalls Under Armour league is Under the Lights? That's what we're starting next. I just looked into it and didn't realize they do no blitzing which is awesome. League right now with K/1st graders and these kids don't understand the blitz rules so most plays you have 3 kids in the backfield before they even hand it off. So dumb.
I just saw sign for flag rugby, how in the hell does that work? Seems like you'd just be playing a sport very close to football without passing.
When I was growing up (dad coached my team) the coaches kid had to be drafted in the second round. It worked probably well since most of the coaches’ kids were probably top 3 rounders anyway.
my dad coached our 13 yr old Babe Ruth team- our area had 3 teams. One team had three dads coach who’s kids were the best two pitchers and best catcher my dad links up with his two miller lite drinking buddies who’s kids are literally the worst 13 yr olds myself included to coach a team coaches sons had to be the first three picks we went 0-10 and lost games like 33-1 most fun I ever had playing sports
I was the ahole parent yesterday. Kid loves swim lessons and we’ve been doing them for 3 years at the same place. He’s 10 and part of their “swim team” since he’s passed all the lesson levels. Yesterday the 8 person lesson was a 15 person lesson (guessing they had to cancel a day this week cause a kid puked/poo’d in the pool). It’s an hour long and around the 40 minute mark they were doing down, turn, and back for each stroke. They did backstroke and my kid caught the kid in front of him at the turn and they kept bumping into each other on the way back. Teacher yelled at my kid that he needed to “save space”, whatever he went when she told him, not a big deal. They switch to butterfly which he’s bad at and at the turn the kid behind him catches him and they are bumping the whole way back. This B grabs my kids ankles as he swims by, pulls him back, then picks him up by his armpits and starts yelling at him in front of the other kids for not following her directions. She yelled at him for being too fast at one stroke and too slow at another, aka a kid just trying. She was in over her head with the extra kids and took it out on him. Well the class is like 12 girls and 3 boys and my boy busts into tears because he just got yelled at and embarrassed in front of all the girls. I almost busted in right there but held better judgement since there was like 10 mins left. After the lessons they usually splash around or play Marco Polo for a while but my kid got out immediately and sprinted to the locker room to change because he was still crying. I went 100% papa bear and lit her up in front of everyone. She claimed he didn’t listen to her but I’m one of the 2 parents that actually watch their kids instead of their phones the entire time and quickly corrected her. The “coach” starts crying hysterically and now I feel like a dick surrounded by the other parents and kids. The manager asks if we can talk in private, she’s been there since the start so we’ve known of each other for years. She assures me that’s never happened before and that she’s just as angry as me. We have a fine adult conversation about it, she’s visibly upset as well, her eyes were watering the entire time we talked. Once my kid gets out of the locker room we talk and I ask him if he wants to do lessons elsewhere. Fucking sweetheart says “no, they’ve taught me a lot here”, I wanted him to cry and say yes so I could parade him in front of the manager to make her cry as well. Now it’s 6 AM, alarms about to go off and I’ve yet to sleep. Half my brain is pissed I didn’t bust into the pool the second she yelled at him and the other half is pissed that I spoke up and caused a scene afterwards. Parenting is hard shit.
I don’t think you’re an asshole if that helps. If it was just yelling about being slow or fast I’m sure you could shake it off for them having a bad day. Once she grabbed him by the ankles, ripped him out of the water and yelled at him in front of an audience she went way way to far. if it’s a safety thing I can understand the yelling, and did it many times as a coach, but the singling out and laying hands is a line too far
She was definitely in the wrong to start imo. Settled down now im sure she was over worked and stressed. I didn’t raise my voice or was threatening at all but im a big dude, 6’3 270, I’m a sweetheart but don’t look like it unfortunately. So I always feel awkward getting annoyed or raising my voice with women. I’m sure next week everything will be fine. Swim team will be normal, manager will shoot the shit for 15 mins about severance or BWJ. Just never expected myself to be a Karen.
I 100% said “does making a 10 year old cry help you sleep at night? Is that why you chose this as your career!?” When her eyes were watering from the prev verbal abuse. I wanted her to cry like she made my kid cry. She did. Not my best moment. WELP, time for work!!!
You are sort of the asshole imo, but I get it. My preference in these situations is to do the papa bearing behind closed doors. That way there are no witnesses when I say “The only people allowed to treat my child that way are me and his mother. I will fucking kill you if you do it again.”
That’s where I’m at. Should have just talked to the manager 1v1 in front of no one. The second DustBall started crying I could see on her face she was disappointed in herself. That should have been enough but she made my kid cry so I wanted to make her cry. JerkBall.
Naa, the second she grabbed his foot she was in for it. If she had just contradictedly verbally corrected one child, that would probably be better handled by a sideline conversation
Saw this morning. Also made me laugh its the newest limited Icon bat. Son's Team had a scrimmage Tuesday. Batting was great but it showed that we have not had much field time due to the weather. 2 hours of field work last night. Did similar drills to this but just nets and no ice cream offers that I am aware of.
Good program. A kid on my son’s team sometimes plays with them. They have Freddie Freeman’s kid on the other 8U team.
Ice cream is such a great motivator for kids. When I coached flag football I had a standing deal with all of my teams that if they shut out the other team in a game I'd buy them ice cream. I bought a lot of ice cream.
I think I might be an A-hole or just a high level of petty. I’ve mentioned my son was cut from basketball. For a while I’ve thought his team of rejects that was able to enter C team tournaments and went 14-4 would beat at least one if not both of our C teams. The last 2 weekends we have 2 common opponents with the better C team. We went 2-0 (+17 point differential) and they went 1-1 (+7 PD). Is it bad that I took some enjoyment watching my son’s friend’s team lose tonight to a team we beat?
Ehh, sounds petty to me. Two games that close in point differential don’t tell much about one team being better than the other. Or that anyone deserves to be on a different team, without more info that is.
All of our kids got cut. They have 10 players that were judged to be better than all of ours (and there are another 10 at the same level that they beat by 20). I’m not saying we are definitively better but I’m confident they don’t have the 10 best players and that gave me some satisfaction.
Yesterday was the first day of games at the ol’ ball field for the season. “Not Like Us” is going to rocket back to the top of Spotify charts thanks to suburban dads bumping it in the 4Runner to get lil Johnny pumped and then lil Johnny crip walking up to the plate when “Mustard on the beat ho” drops.
Probably my biggest disappointment with regards to my son not taking up baseball is missing out on curating the walk-up music for the team.
The kids love it. I just hate when the parents obviously choose the song instead of letting the kid pick it. I’d much rather my son walk up to the plate to Black Sabbath, but he wants some Fall Out Boy song so that’s what he gets.
Sounds like the teams are pretty even in talent, which would make cuts really difficult to get “right.” That being said, it’s a great lesson for the boys on your team that being cut doesn’t mean they should give up.
Making cuts is so hard. It legit makes me sad. I feel like some parents think once I cut their kid I hope he fails... I actually really want them to improve and come back out and help our program. I'm pulling for all these guys. Also.. I've had two meetings with parents with no positional awareness. Oh your son is a better player than our back up catcher? Well, does he catch? No? I see. Similar deal in basketball where parents were pissed that their tiny son didn't make it but a 6'5 kid with limited experience did. Mam, your son can't play center.
Last thing that's been driving me nuts... we see your kid for 3 days. It's possible he's really good, but if he didn't show it, how in the world can I know that? With juniors/seniors it's a bit easier.
This is 4th graders where they watch 70 kids and cut 30 of them after seeing them for 90 minutes. It’s a comically terrible process run by trainers in the city that work with players that were at the tryout (obvious conflict of interest).
Have a kid who has some talent. Can throw the ball really hard and has been making really good contact. Kid definitely has ADHD and can't sit still for a second. He and his mom went MIA for about a week and missed picture day yesterday. So we had a scrimmage today and they finally showed. The mom is a little strange and one of the other coaches noticed she has a ankle monitor. google of her name brings up multiple mugshots...
One dad tried to fight another dad of a kid on the same team yesterday. I kinda wish he had so we could have thrown him out of the club because he sucks at life
Keep being a positive outlet for him. Crazy some of the stuff kids have to deal with, sports can be a real life line for them.