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General Discussion => Essentially Flyertalk => Topic started by: _33 on May 19, 2016, 07:03:14 PM
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Everyone has their own helmet. Many with face masks. When I was a kid the coach had a big green canvas bag and dumped all the helmets on the ground before the game/practice. And then you tried to get the one that still had some padding left. Also, why do they even need helmets? Also bats. Everyone has their own bat. Im not buying an expensive bat for my 5 year old so those other little derp 5 yr olds can hit it against everything hard in the dugout. Would anyone else like to air some grievances about youth sports in general? Teaser: my next one is about Gatorade.
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I currently have a brown canvas bag in the back of my ride with 4 community batting helmets in it. It looks like I am carrying a body around.
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Everyone has their own helmet. Many with face masks. When I was a kid the coach had a big green canvas bag and dumped all the helmets on the ground before the game/practice. And then you tried to get the one that still had some padding left. Also, why do they even need helmets? Also bats. Everyone has their own bat. Im not buying an expensive bat for my 5 year old so those other little derp 5 yr olds can hit it against everything hard in the dugout. Would anyone else like to air some grievances about youth sports in general? Teaser: my next one is about Gatorade.
Is your Gatorade rant about why does the coach always get the yellow chowder to put in the jug even though he's the only one that drinks it? It should be.
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I bought my kid her own helmet for t-ball because other kids are filthy and probably have lice
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When did orange slices and Capri sun stop being the go-to post game snack? No, white Midwestern, my child doesn't want to cap off the night by drinking lemonade and pretzel sticks
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I bought my kid her own helmet for t-ball because other kids are filthy and probably have lice
#justoklahomathings
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Everyone has their own helmet. Many with face masks. When I was a kid the coach had a big green canvas bag and dumped all the helmets on the ground before the game/practice. And then you tried to get the one that still had some padding left. Also, why do they even need helmets? Also bats. Everyone has their own bat. Im not buying an expensive bat for my 5 year old so those other little derp 5 yr olds can hit it against everything hard in the dugout. Would anyone else like to air some grievances about youth sports in general? Teaser: my next one is about Gatorade.
Is your Gatorade rant about why does the coach always get the yellow chowder to put in the jug even though he's the only one that drinks it? It should be.
No, but that's a good one. Mine is that there is no jug. All the parents bring 32 oz Gatorades for their kids. I guess you do lose a lot of electrolytes playing in the dirt behind 2nd base.
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When did orange slices and Capri sun stop being the go-to post game snack? No, white Midwestern, my child doesn't want to cap off the night by drinking lemonade and pretzel sticks
It's probably because you live in the south.
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My favorite t-ball parent is the 'my kid hits way better at home' guy after little Johnny hits a ball 2 feet in front of the tee
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Toddlerdobber has a big head. None of the helmets fit him. I am not buying him a helmet for tee-ball.
Usually 5-6 kids on his team show up, so a few of the parents stand on the edge of the infield to keep some of the balls from rolling too far. It is not a competitive league by any stretch, but the kids who show up in cleats and baseball pants, man, their parents take it very serious.
Toddlerdobber wears sweat pants and he dgaf.
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Having kids sounds terrible.
My cousin is a high school softball player and her team was helping with a tee ball league the other day. Some kid didn't wait long enough after my cousin put the ball on the tee and nailed her in the back with the bat really hard. What an bad person!
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Spoiler alert, mrs gooch: t-ball aged kids don't swing that hard. Your cousin sounds like a giant weiner.
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dobber seems way too old to have a toddler.
Also, look out Mrs Gooch going all "kids are the worst" again. :rolleyes:
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dobber seems way too old to have a toddler.
Also, look out Mrs Gooch going all "kids are the worst" again. :rolleyes:
Young trophy wife :fatty:
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cousin should pack in case any other kids try to assault her
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cousin should pack in case any other kids try to assault her
Until I got to the "her", I thought you were suggesting that toddlerdobber should pack. He is a bit young to be carrying, but I was liking that you were sticking up for your cousin.
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SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED
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Spoiler alert, mrs gooch: t-ball aged kids don't swing that hard. Your cousin sounds like a giant weiner.
My cousin weighs about 90 lbs so I don't think it would take a lot of force. Plus the point is that the kid is an bad person.
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Having kids sounds terrible.
The kids are awesome. Youth sports are almost exclusively ruined by the parents.
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Spoiler alert, mrs gooch: t-ball aged kids don't swing that hard. Your cousin sounds like a giant weiner.
My cousin weighs about 90 lbs so I don't think it would take a lot of force. Plus the point is that the kid is an bad person.
Why are you doing this? It's really bothering me.
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turn off your profanity filter, rough rider
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So if I want both clean language and good grammar, I'm mumped?
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dobber seems way too old to have a toddler.
Also, look out Mrs Gooch going all "kids are the worst" again. :rolleyes:
Young trophy wife :fatty:
Nice. Your first wife, trophy or otherwise?
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Having kids sounds terrible.
The kids are awesome. Youth sports are almost exclusively ruined by the parents.
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Toddlerdobber has a big head. None of the helmets fit him. I am not buying him a helmet for tee-ball.
Usually 5-6 kids on his team show up, so a few of the parents stand on the edge of the infield to keep some of the balls from rolling too far. It is not a competitive league by any stretch, but the kids who show up in cleats and baseball pants, man, their parents take it very serious.
Toddlerdobber wears sweat pants and he dgaf.
Possibly true but also the kids with older bros will look like a millon bucks dressed out in the hand me down pants, backpack loaded with bats, etc.
I also enjoy the dichotomy of the hardcore baseball dads - with their kids its straight business in the low, don't eff with me voice and then it's the loud, aren't we having fun voice with the other kids.
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dobber seems way too old to have a toddler.
Also, look out Mrs Gooch going all "kids are the worst" again. :rolleyes:
Young trophy wife :fatty:
Nice. Your first wife, trophy or otherwise?
Actually, my wife is older than me, but she is a trophy!
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So if I want both clean language and good grammar, I'm mumped?
[redacted] respect
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Wow what timing.
I just got word I'm head coach of lil CF3's t-ball team, with games starting 6/4. Please post coaching advice for me. I plan to be firm but fair.
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Wow what timing.
I just got word I'm head coach of lil CF3's t-ball team, with games starting 6/4. Please post coaching advice for me. I plan to be firm but fair.
Be sure to ID and weed out all the FP, TC's, ETC ASAP.
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I helped coach lil Brockette's first t ball team. I was only an "assistant coach" so I didn't receive any of the calls and emails and texts and face to face chats about lil so and so's kid that the head coach got from the helicoptery parents. No joke man. It's tball and a couple of the parents were acting like a scout for the Yankees would be attending the games. If any parent tries to pull that crap on you just look at them like they're crazy and remind them it's tball and you're just trying to help their kid have fun and maybe develop some skills and get better along the way.
Coaching them is pretty easy, for the most part they will do exactly what you tell them to do.
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the first thing you need to figure out is what those little munchkins are gonna call you.
mr cartierfor3?
mr c?
coach cartierfor3?
coach c?
pick a name that best suits you because youre gonna ride a few of these kiddos to the majors and you want to be professional up front.
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Wow what timing.
I just got word I'm head coach of lil CF3's t-ball team, with games starting 6/4. Please post coaching advice for me. I plan to be firm but fair.
1980's coaching shorts are a must.
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i'm assistant coaching lil baby meow meow's 4 year old girls soccer team. I give them lots of high 5's and tell them how good they are doing, and mostly just soak in the adorableness.
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another important thing on the list is finding which kids have single moms and treating them extra special. offer to drop them off after practice, pick them up, whatever. ;)
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Get yourself a Fox 40. There is no substitute.
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the first thing you need to figure out is what those little munchkins are gonna call you.
mr cartierfor3?
mr c?
coach cartierfor3?
coach c?
pick a name that best suits you because youre gonna ride a few of these kiddos to the majors and you want to be professional up front.
if their asses want to avoid laps they will begin and end everything they say to me with the word "sir"
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Get yourself a Fox 40. There is no substitute.
i don't know what a fox 40 is. I googled Fox 40 and all that came up was a TV station in Sacramento.
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4 year olds can barely walk, how the eff are they supposed to play soccer?
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4 year olds can barely walk, how the eff are they supposed to play soccer?
yeah soccer sure takes a lot of skill
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4 year olds can barely walk, how the eff are they supposed to play soccer?
adorably
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lil CF3 completed his first season of soccer a week ago, this was the extent of the explaining the coaches did to the kids:
1. Do not use your hands, except you, goalie.
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Wow what timing.
I just got word I'm head coach of lil CF3's t-ball team, with games starting 6/4. Please post coaching advice for me. I plan to be firm but fair.
Don't practice longer than an hour.
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Get yourself a Fox 40. There is no substitute.
i don't know what a fox 40 is. I googled Fox 40 and all that came up was a TV station in Sacramento.
It's a whistle.
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Wow what timing.
I just got word I'm head coach of lil CF3's t-ball team, with games starting 6/4. Please post coaching advice for me. I plan to be firm but fair.
Don't practice longer than an hour.
oh we're set there. practice is from 630-730 sharp.
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These kids are going to eat you alive.
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These kids are going to eat you alive.
well i won't be carrying a loaded gun to practice like you would so maybe
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These kids are going to eat you alive.
well i won't be carrying a loaded gun to practice like you would so maybe
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These kids are going to eat you alive.
well i won't be carrying a loaded gun to practice like you would so maybe
Survival of the well armed is what I always say.
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Wow what timing.
I just got word I'm head coach of lil CF3's t-ball team, with games starting 6/4. Please post coaching advice for me. I plan to be firm but fair.
totally serious here - take all of the bats (as previously mentioned, the ones with older brothers will have at least 2) and hang from the backstop high enough only an adult can reach them.
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Wow what timing.
I just got word I'm head coach of lil CF3's t-ball team, with games starting 6/4. Please post coaching advice for me. I plan to be firm but fair.
totally serious here - take all of the bats (as previously mentioned, the ones with older brothers will have at least 2) and hang from the backstop high enough only an adult can reach them.
This seems like extremely good advice. Every practice/game that toddlerdobber plays in has about 400 near misses of a kid swinging a bat and almost hitting another kid.
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Wow what timing.
I just got word I'm head coach of lil CF3's t-ball team, with games starting 6/4. Please post coaching advice for me. I plan to be firm but fair.
totally serious here - take all of the bats (as previously mentioned, the ones with older brothers will have at least 2) and hang from the backstop high enough only an adult can reach them.
This seems like extremely good advice. Every practice/game that toddlerdobber plays in has about 400 near misses of a kid swinging a bat and almost hitting another kid.
yeah, I was amazed by how simple yet effective it is at avoiding child head injuries when a Dad with 2 older players did it at my kid's second practice.
Baseball is one of the few topics I will readily admit I don't know crap. Here are few things I have seen my kid's coach do that I liked
-have them play catch with a tennis ball, first without a glove but using the nonthrowing hand only - the kid that has been playing catch with his older siblings will really be able to catch, most will try to use 2 hands
-practice running the bases - running thru first & home but stopping at 2&3
-lots of fielding grounders and throwing to first
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I coach my kid's basketball teams and have helped with other sports (I also umpired little league ball for 7 years).
I've found that an email before the season to all parents reminding them it is about the kids, that you're out there for fun, and the like seems to prevent many problems.
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Also, the parents signed their kids up to be active.
Don't be afraid to make the little bastards run. The parents will thank you for making their kids tired.
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Most parents and kids are pretty cool. It makes for a fun narrative to complain about helicopter parents or disrespectful kids but my experience has been like 98% of them are great.
Also never make kids run unless they are learning a skill - like dribbling a soccer ball or chasing after fly balls in baseball or something like 3 man weave in basketball. You only have an hour - don't waste it on stupid crap the kids hate that doesn't do them any good in the long run. (some kids will actually like it, but they don't realize their coach is an idiot)
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At that age rotate them one spot every game and then have them hit at whatever position number they are at. And since you will have more than 9 just rotate the catcher or right fielder. Works great and there is literally nothing to bitch about.
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At that age rotate them one spot every game and then have them hit at whatever position number they are at. And since you will have more than 9 just rotate the catcher or right fielder. Works great and there is literally nothing to bitch about.
I'm not worried at all. This is a rec league that is pretty low key. I had a parent ask me what kind of glove they needed and where to buy it.
Most parents and kids are pretty cool. It makes for a fun narrative to complain about helicopter parents or disrespectful kids but my experience has been like 98% of them are great.
Also never make kids run unless they are learning a skill - like dribbling a soccer ball or chasing after fly balls in baseball or something like 3 man weave in basketball. You only have an hour - don't waste it on stupid crap the kids hate that doesn't do them any good in the long run. (some kids will actually like it, but they don't realize their coach is an idiot)
I plan on doing stuff like having them time how fast they can run the bases or stuff like that at the end of practice, but I would never have a team of 5 year olds just run. That's lame. I always like the "stations" approach to baseball practice. 1 coach has a throwing station with 4 kids, 1 coach has a ground ball station with 4 kids, etc. and you rotate every 12-15 min.
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At that age rotate them one spot every game and then have them hit at whatever position number they are at. And since you will have more than 9 just rotate the catcher or right fielder. Works great and there is literally nothing to bitch about.
yeah. probably not necessary for tee ball (but probably helpful), but I keep a google sheet of playing time for every game so I'm sure everyone is playing equally and with different players in soccer and basketball. And then I have it on my phone so its easy to access during games.
At that age rotate them one spot every game and then have them hit at whatever position number they are at. And since you will have more than 9 just rotate the catcher or right fielder. Works great and there is literally nothing to bitch about.
I'm not worried at all. This is a rec league that is pretty low key. I had a parent ask me what kind of glove they needed and where to buy it.
Most parents and kids are pretty cool. It makes for a fun narrative to complain about helicopter parents or disrespectful kids but my experience has been like 98% of them are great.
Also never make kids run unless they are learning a skill - like dribbling a soccer ball or chasing after fly balls in baseball or something like 3 man weave in basketball. You only have an hour - don't waste it on stupid crap the kids hate that doesn't do them any good in the long run. (some kids will actually like it, but they don't realize their coach is an idiot)
I plan on doing stuff like having them time how fast they can run the bases or stuff like that at the end of practice, but I would never have a team of 5 year olds just run. That's lame. I always like the "stations" approach to baseball practice. 1 coach has a throwing station with 4 kids, 1 coach has a ground ball station with 4 kids, etc. and you rotate every 12-15 min.
yeah. someone in this thread suggested running them.
And personally, I think it's stupid to have kids of any age "just run". I mean you can always wear someone out with a ball in their hand.
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how much are pitching machines?
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Wow what timing.
I just got word I'm head coach of lil CF3's t-ball team, with games starting 6/4. Please post coaching advice for me. I plan to be firm but fair.
Priority one is getting them to be able to play catch. Once you get that down always keep practices moving with small groups rotating various drills. Keep it fun. There is nothing worse for the kids than standing around 'scrimmaging'
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There is nothing worse for the kids than standing around 'scrimmaging'
:dubious:
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There is nothing worse for the kids than standing around 'scrimmaging'
:dubious:
what's not to get?
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that's not how i remember youth sports practices.
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Scrimaging is kind of a necessary evil so they have some idea where to line up in the games but it is super painful when most can barely hit
Also, little kids love to run if it is a race, especially if the can beat the coach
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Scrimmages are the best part of practice because it's the closest to playing the game. Drills are the sucky part
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If you just played a 1hr game every practice you would be the most popular coach ever
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Most parents and kids are pretty cool. It makes for a fun narrative to complain about helicopter parents or disrespectful kids but my experience has been like 98% of them are great.
Yeah, in my experience it's about 90%. But it's amazing the negative impact that 10% can have on a coach/team. Granted my experience is coaching high school kids.
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If you just played a 1hr game every practice you would be the most popular coach ever
yes, unless millenials have ruined scrimmaging too.
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toddlerdobber's 'league' practices for 30 minutes then they play a 30 minute game against another team.
Everyone bats one time. Last kid runs the bases, regardless whether out or not. Then rotate offense to defense.
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srimmaging is def the best part of most sports practices, but it sucks for baseball, especially with little kids.
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Cal Ripken and his brother Billy wrote a book on coaching little league that has a lot of great stuff. A contest at the end of practice is fun. Could be longest throw, most accurate throw, etc.
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"Run to (insert base or position on field)"
When they get there, then repeat. Killed more than 5 minutes yesterday doing this and the kids loved it.
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Wow what timing.
I just got word I'm head coach of lil CF3's t-ball team, with games starting 6/4. Please post coaching advice for me. I plan to be firm but fair.
Don't practice longer than an hour.
Post practice and post game speeches <60 seconds. Make sure your kid rides with someone else so you're not tempted to analyze their performance on the entire drive home.
Tom
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how much are pitching machines?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Louisville-Slugger-UPM-45-Blue-Flame-Pitching-Machine-Retails-169-99-/351737026261?hash=item51e52916d5:g:4p4AAOSwdWBXO6ue
You can pick these up for < $100. Works great for 1st -3rd year players (t ball thru machine/coach pitch). Eliminates the dad who wants to throw bp, but has a worse arm than his kid.
Tom
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A lot of great points in this thread. I grew up playing in Manhattan city leagues, and now my kids play in the same leagues. Two of the biggest differences I see are pop and cleats. It used to be that parents took turns bringing pop cans for after games. Now no parent would dream of bringing pop. This is a good thing I suppose.
Cleats are the other thing that changed. Back in the 80s we all just wore our regular sneakers, but now every kid has cleats. Why in the world would all those parents think they need to spend a bunch of money on cleats? After a season or two of wearing regular shoes I found a pair at goodwill for $5 and my kid was just about the happiest he has ever been in his life.
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A lot of great points in this thread. I grew up playing in Manhattan city leagues, and now my kids play in the same leagues. Two of the biggest differences I see are pop and cleats. It used to be that parents took turns bringing pop cans for after games. Now no parent would dream of bringing pop. This is a good thing I suppose.
Cleats are the other thing that changed. Back in the 80s we all just wore our regular sneakers, but now every kid has cleats. Why in the world would all those parents think they need to spend a bunch of money on cleats? After a season or two of wearing regular shoes I found a pair at goodwill for $5 and my kid was just about the happiest he has ever been in his life.
Cleats help. Cheap ones cost about $15 bucks. They work fine. 6-year-olds don't care that Starter cleats aren't cool.
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yeah, it's worth the handful of
JacksonsTubmans to have a dedicated shoe that doesn't need to be cleaned up to wear for other occasions. Also, the city league fields of MHK may well be freshly drug loam but out here in BV its an unfortunate mix of clay, gravel and oil dry.
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As I was enjoying the weather outside yesterday my neighbor (mom) complained to me that this weekend her boys had 3 baseball games and 2 practices and that they were whipped. Can anyone recommend a book to help me become more empathetic?
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During my 7 year old girls softball game yesterday the opposing coach yelled, for an extended period, at the teenage girl umpire for missing a call at home plate. I thought she was going to cry. What is this world coming to?
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you should have made fun of him in front of everyone
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you should have made fun of him in front of everyone
Yes. Would have been fantastic.
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my coach used to bring all the balls to practices/games in one of these :excited:
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Having kids sounds terrible.
My cousin is a high school softball player and her team was helping with a tee ball league the other day. Some kid didn't wait long enough after my cousin put the ball on the tee and nailed her in the back with the bat really hard. What an bad person!
Your cousin sounds like an idiot.
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Everyone has their own helmet. Many with face masks. When I was a kid the coach had a big green canvas bag and dumped all the helmets on the ground before the game/practice. And then you tried to get the one that still had some padding left. Also, why do they even need helmets? Also bats. Everyone has their own bat. Im not buying an expensive bat for my 5 year old so those other little derp 5 yr olds can hit it against everything hard in the dugout. Would anyone else like to air some grievances about youth sports in general? Teaser: my next one is about Gatorade.
Our team is still on that helmet/bat setup. Also all of the girls/parents are fun. If we ever run into a helicopter/annoying parent situation, we will just make them run at practice.
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you should have made fun of him in front of everyone
I said (mediium loudly) "Calm down buddy."
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During my 7 year old girls softball game yesterday the opposing coach yelled, for an extended period, at the teenage girl umpire for missing a call at home plate. I thought she was going to cry. What is this world coming to?
Brockette is umpiring games this summer and this sounds like what she has to put up with occasionally. Just last night they ended up tossing the coach for one of the teams because he complained non stop about the pitching machine, like would not shut up about it. The guy who runs the league here went on the field and reminded him that when games were played at their field last year that their pitching machine sucked too and all the other teams just lived with it and didn't complain :lol: Get over yourself bud this is a 7-8 year old league.
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My daughter's softball team won the other night. While we were packing up and high fiving, the other team was made to line up and run sprints the entire time from handshake to snack dispersed to clean up and leaving. They were still sprinting after I packed the car up. WTF? I guess when you play kid pitch and both teams combined for like 3 hits they just didn't want it enough?
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My daughter's softball team won the other night. While we were packing up and high fiving, the other team was made to line up and run sprints the entire time from handshake to snack dispersed to clean up and leaving. They were still sprinting after I packed the car up. WTF? I guess when you play kid pitch and both teams combined for like 3 hits they just didn't want it enough?
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How old were these kids?
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I might punch the coach.
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First year kid pitch (9yo) and umps have adopted new mlb strike zone. We one last week 11 to 2 with ONE hit. Team beats us this week 12-1 with 2 hits. Bad baseball.
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During my 7 year old girls softball game yesterday the opposing coach yelled, for an extended period, at the teenage girl umpire for missing a call at home plate. I thought she was going to cry. What is this world coming to?
I umpired tournament and participation league teams for 7 years. This is very common.
I threw out many parents and coaches during my officiating days. My most prolific game, I threw out a coach, 6 parents, and had to threaten the remaining parents with just the kids, the score keepers, and I finishing the game. The 6 parents got booted within 90 seconds of eachother because they were jawing at me and trying to start a fight with the opposing team's parents.
I did get to umpire for John Mayberry Jr, son of former Royal John Mayberry, for a couple of seasons.
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Sounds like you were terrible at reffing
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Sounds like you were terrible at reffing
You need a hearing aid.
I was pretty good at it.
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Sounds like you were terrible at reffing
You need a hearing aid.
I was pretty good at it.
you as well as your post need to get off of your knees..
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One time I almost tossed my dad's business partner from a game. I came home and told my dad and he :lol:
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I umped baseball for 10 years, if you had to throw out an entire section of parents that is v bad and probably somewhat your fault for being confrontational.
First year kid pitch (9yo) and umps have adopted new mlb strike zone. We one last week 11 to 2 with ONE hit. Team beats us this week 12-1 with 2 hits. Bad baseball.
In the early days when I umped that age kids, my zone was the size of north dakota. swing the bat or you're out.
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Ejecting stupid coaches and parents almost sounds like it could be fun, maybe I should sign up to be an ump.
In all seriousness though it's amazing how just 1 or 2 idiots can ruin what should be a fun activity. Last night Brockette came home muttering "I rough ridin' hate umpiring games."
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I kicked out some WT couple that was belligerent and trying to fight me during a growing ups game of kickball. rough ridin' idiots.
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I kicked out some WT couple that was belligerent and trying to fight me during a growing ups game of kickball. rough ridin' idiots.
I'm surprised a kickball league for grownups has participants who are not ultra mature.
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:lol: Add in alcohol and wannabe alphas trying to show off for the opposite sex.
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When is kickball season WackyCat08?
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I umped baseball for 10 years, if you had to throw out an entire section of parents that is v bad and probably somewhat your fault for being confrontational.
I didn't have to throw out an entire section. Their problem wasn't really with me. They were trying to start fights with the parents on the other team. They were both tourney teams so they saw each other in league play and tourneys. The parents for the better behaved team told the other parents to get over being pissed about the strike zone because it was little league baseball. The other team's parents got pissed at that and started being really aggressive with the better behaved team. I wasn't about to be the umpire who allowed a brawl to break out behind him without tossing parents, so I tossed 6 of them.
I was never one of those umps that made a scene about throwing people out. I would calmly walk up to them and say they had been ejected and they had to wait for the game to be over in the parking lot. Some coaches want the ump to scream while ejecting them so I never fed into that stuff.
I had one coach who was notorious for getting ejected one time try to pull every trick he could to get thrown out of a game when it was super hot one day. I walked over to him and told him that he should save his energy because I wasn't about to throw him out so he could go sit in the A/C in his truck while we were out in the heat. He looked up, laughed, and told me that it was worth a try.
In the early days when I umped that age kids, my zone was the size of north dakota. swing the bat or you're out.
I was the same way. I told the kids that if it was below their shoulders and just above their knees they should be swinging because I would call it a strike. Those walk-fest games drove me crazy. Never had a parent or coach that had a problem with that policy. Most of them loved it. I had parents that would get excited when they would see me because they knew I was really good about finishing games before the time limit.
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When is kickball season WackyCat08?
I'm done with it. I retired last fall. The extra cash wasn't worth the headache anymore. Plus, the new job. :thumbs:
It pretty much runs from March till early november. :Yuck:
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Retired at 30, what a life
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Retired at 30, what a life
:gocho:
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I umped baseball for 10 years, if you had to throw out an entire section of parents that is v bad and probably somewhat your fault for being confrontational.
I didn't have to throw out an entire section. Their problem wasn't really with me. They were trying to start fights with the parents on the other team. They were both tourney teams so they saw each other in league play and tourneys. The parents for the better behaved team told the other parents to get over being pissed about the strike zone because it was little league baseball. The other team's parents got pissed at that and started being really aggressive with the better behaved team. I wasn't about to be the umpire who allowed a brawl to break out behind him without tossing parents, so I tossed 6 of them.
I was never one of those umps that made a scene about throwing people out. I would calmly walk up to them and say they had been ejected and they had to wait for the game to be over in the parking lot. Some coaches want the ump to scream while ejecting them so I never fed into that stuff.
I had one coach who was notorious for getting ejected one time try to pull every trick he could to get thrown out of a game when it was super hot one day. I walked over to him and told him that he should save his energy because I wasn't about to throw him out so he could go sit in the A/C in his truck while we were out in the heat. He looked up, laughed, and told me that it was worth a try.
In the early days when I umped that age kids, my zone was the size of north dakota. swing the bat or you're out.
I was the same way. I told the kids that if it was below their shoulders and just above their knees they should be swinging because I would call it a strike. Those walk-fest games drove me crazy. Never had a parent or coach that had a problem with that policy. Most of them loved it. I had parents that would get excited when they would see me because they knew I was really good about finishing games before the time limit.
gotcha. in all my seasons of umpiring I probably ejected less than 5 coaches. 2 or 3 of those were tournaments where teams would play like 6 games in 3 days and by Sunday everyone is exhausted and sloppy and tired and grumpy.
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My daughter's softball team won the other night. While we were packing up and high fiving, the other team was made to line up and run sprints the entire time from handshake to snack dispersed to clean up and leaving. They were still sprinting after I packed the car up. WTF? I guess when you play kid pitch and both teams combined for like 3 hits they just didn't want it enough?
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How old were these kids?
12U
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I umped baseball for 10 years, if you had to throw out an entire section of parents that is v bad and probably somewhat your fault for being confrontational.
First year kid pitch (9yo) and umps have adopted new mlb strike zone. We one last week 11 to 2 with ONE hit. Team beats us this week 12-1 with 2 hits. Bad baseball.
In the early days when I umped that age kids, my zone was the size of north dakota. swing the bat or you're out.
Yes, that's how the season started. They must have had a meeting or something. It was apparently the home plate ump's second ever game behind the dish so we didn't gripe.
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Parents that think it's game 7 of the WS every pitch make me want to strangle them