competitive little kid sports

[Cartierfor3]

Lil SF plays on his school buddy basketball team still. There were like 2 other kids that were even remotely good at basketball and they moved on a couple of years ago so me and another Dad have kept the team together for fun the past couple of years. We are......not good, but it's something for them to do. We are in the pre season mode where they rank you for the upcoming season and somehow, we have kicked the absolute crap out of every team we have faced so far. Had to just be a scheduling quirk or something so now when the regular season starts, we are going to get put in the top league and just get destroyed all season. It's hilarious because all of the kids know this too and they talk about "how cooked" they are. It's going to be hilarious but there was nothing we could do about it. We will immediately get pressed by any decent team and get down huge because we have like one kid that can bring the ball up the court. I have no idea how there were teams that much worse than us or how we had to have played all of them.

My now 7th grader I mentioned above had a GABL pre-seas like that where we smoked teams and then in the regular seas lost by like 100 every game

[Cartierfor3]

My 7th grader has never played on a club basketball team but this year worked v hard on her school team. Last night she started for the first time on the A team which is both 7th and 8th! Was v cool! What's more awesome is she's going to join some club team so we can spend a billion dollars so she can develop her game for HS.

That's awesome.

Made me think of a question: what sport would you pick for one of your kids to be magically gifted elite abilities (for use at the HS level). Not talking about what would or wouldn't be a good sport to have a kid do in college, just what sport would you enjoy the crap out of watching your kid dominate at the high school level. Pretty sure that I would go with basketball.

Baseball or basketball. If they pitch, dominating in baseball would probably be the tip top.

[steve dave]

Your own kid on the mound is nerve wracking. I am happy lil sd is a backstop primarily because I can’t handle it when he’s on the mound. Inside I can’t, outside I’m cool at a cucumber.


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[nicname]

My 7th grader has never played on a club basketball team but this year worked v hard on her school team. Last night she started for the first time on the A team which is both 7th and 8th! Was v cool! What's more awesome is she's going to join some club team so we can spend a billion dollars so she can develop her game for HS.

That's awesome.

Made me think of a question: what sport would you pick for one of your kids to be magically gifted elite abilities (for use at the HS level). Not talking about what would or wouldn't be a good sport to have a kid do in college, just what sport would you enjoy the crap out of watching your kid dominate at the high school level. Pretty sure that I would go with basketball.

Baseball or basketball. If they pitch, dominating in baseball would probably be the tip top.

So hard to choose. Probably basketball. One dominant player can basically make any basketball team good. Not the case in baseball (even a pitcher imo), or football. Imagine your son or daughter just playing lockdown D and flying all over the court throwing down dunks and raining in threes all over the place while dropping dime after dime. Too sweet.

Football is the best team sport tho. There really is nothing like it.

[nicname]

My 7th grader has never played on a club basketball team but this year worked v hard on her school team. Last night she started for the first time on the A team which is both 7th and 8th! Was v cool! What's more awesome is she's going to join some club team so we can spend a billion dollars so she can develop her game for HS.

That's awesome.

Made me think of a question: what sport would you pick for one of your kids to be magically gifted elite abilities (for use at the HS level). Not talking about what would or wouldn't be a good sport to have a kid do in college, just what sport would you enjoy the crap out of watching your kid dominate at the high school level. Pretty sure that I would go with basketball.

Baseball or basketball. If they pitch, dominating in baseball would probably be the tip top.

So hard to choose. Probably basketball. One dominant player can basically make any basketball team good. Not the case in baseball (even a pitcher imo), or football. Imagine your son or daughter just playing lockdown D and flying all over the court throwing down dunks and raining in threes all over the place while dropping dime after dime. Too sweet.

Football is the best team sport tho. There really is nothing like it.

Funnily enough, you wouldn’t have to choose. Like, if someone is athletic enough to be a KSU caliber athlete they are going to be awesome at whatever they play.

[steve dave]

yeah, but that's not the hypothetical. I took it as one sport at least. maybe I swung and missed (baseball because that's the answer).

[steve dave]

on the one dominant player thing it is so true for hoops. lil sd's team played a small town NE team last weekend and they had one kid who was highest level, a couple mid level, and then a bunch of just small town havin' fun kids who didn't know how basketball worked for the most part. the elite kid scored like 35 of their 40 pts. beat us by 3. the one kid had probably 8 3s including a half time buzzer from the logo (if we had a logo). it's the same for baseball if you get that one kid on the mound you are cooked. we played a Hastings, NE team in state baseball this year and the kid was throwing upper 60s at 11U. just an elite player (mustache, el camino, etc). outside of the pitcher you can't do that in baseball though. and obviously that pitcher can't throw very much over a weekend. we'd have beaten their ass if they had anyone else on the mound (BOLD PROUD coach talk here). football obviously can't either. basketball a single kid can decide the game on their own.

[Cartierfor3]

7/10 times you can tell who will win a baseball game after you watch the two pitchers warm up

[steve dave]

7/10 times you can tell who will win a baseball game after you watch the two pitchers warm up

yep. I'd take our squad v. most teams in the omaha metro with our top 2 on the mound, we could win with our next 3, we will get destroyed after that mostly. baseball is brutal like that. pitching is such a commodity. one of those top 2 is also an elite bat. he could play with any of the top teams around here. thank god he sucks in the field (big boy who plays 1b obviously).

[Stupid Fitz]

7/10 times you can tell who will win a baseball game after you watch the two pitchers warm up

yep. I'd take our squad v. most teams in the omaha metro with our top 2 on the mound, we could win with our next 3, we will get destroyed after that mostly. baseball is brutal like that. pitching is such a commodity. one of those top 2 is also an elite bat. he could play with any of the top teams around here. thank god he sucks in the field (big boy who plays 1b obviously).

Yep, big tournaments can be tough. Our coach tries to strategize on who pitches as best he can, but we only have 2-3 "good" pitchers and after that it's a crap shoot. No better feeling than winning games in pool play and not using your best guys yet.

[meow meow]

daughter's team lost their middle school league championship yesterday on a 3 pointer with only a few seconds left (they had a 2 point lead).  from thinking they had won it (against an undefeated team that had previously beaten them) to that crushing realization they lost, there was a lot of tears, and i think it's harder/more nerve wrecking on the parents. 

[Cartierfor3]

7/10 times you can tell who will win a baseball game after you watch the two pitchers warm up

yep. I'd take our squad v. most teams in the omaha metro with our top 2 on the mound, we could win with our next 3, we will get destroyed after that mostly. baseball is brutal like that. pitching is such a commodity. one of those top 2 is also an elite bat. he could play with any of the top teams around here. thank god he sucks in the field (big boy who plays 1b obviously).

Yep, big tournaments can be tough. Our coach tries to strategize on who pitches as best he can, but we only have 2-3 "good" pitchers and after that it's a crap shoot. No better feeling than winning games in pool play and not using your best guys yet.

It's another discussion, but the tournament model is terrible (IMO). Often the championship games are complete trash because there's no pitching left.

[Cartierfor3]

daughter's team lost their middle school league championship yesterday on a 3 pointer with only a few seconds left (they had a 2 point lead).  from thinking they had won it (against an undefeated team that had previously beaten them) to that crushing realization they lost, there was a lot of tears, and i think it's harder/more nerve wrecking on the parents.

That sucks, but there's nothing better than sports and moments like that to teach lessons. I can imagine how intense the emotions were though.

Middle school daughter had team banquet last night and she won most improved player, which was awesome because she really did work hard. Her team had 3-4 kids I'd consider basketball players and the other kids were like her, strong athletic kids that play basketball, if that makes sense. Her coach cried giving out awards which was very sweet and fun.

[meow meow]

daughter's team lost their middle school league championship yesterday on a 3 pointer with only a few seconds left (they had a 2 point lead).  from thinking they had won it (against an undefeated team that had previously beaten them) to that crushing realization they lost, there was a lot of tears, and i think it's harder/more nerve wrecking on the parents.

That sucks, but there's nothing better than sports and moments like that to teach lessons. I can imagine how intense the emotions were though.

Middle school daughter had team banquet last night and she won most improved player, which was awesome because she really did work hard. Her team had 3-4 kids I'd consider basketball players and the other kids were like her, strong athletic kids that play basketball, if that makes sense. Her coach cried giving out awards which was very sweet and fun.

Yeah that makes sense.  Fun times, that even tho are nerve wrecking, i try to really enjoy them all as they are going by way too fast.

[Stupid Fitz]

7/10 times you can tell who will win a baseball game after you watch the two pitchers warm up

yep. I'd take our squad v. most teams in the omaha metro with our top 2 on the mound, we could win with our next 3, we will get destroyed after that mostly. baseball is brutal like that. pitching is such a commodity. one of those top 2 is also an elite bat. he could play with any of the top teams around here. thank god he sucks in the field (big boy who plays 1b obviously).

Yep, big tournaments can be tough. Our coach tries to strategize on who pitches as best he can, but we only have 2-3 "good" pitchers and after that it's a crap shoot. No better feeling than winning games in pool play and not using your best guys yet.

It's another discussion, but the tournament model is terrible (IMO). Often the championship games are complete trash because there's no pitching left.

yeah, its just a money grab in a lot of cases. We played in a small tournament last year that ended up having 4 teams in our division. They still ran 2 days of pool play. It was so stupid.

[Kat Kid]

Can I get some posts in the chat about what you guys say during games?

Nothing?

Only encouragement?

I know it is bad and I only do it a bit but I do yell a few directions/cues for my kid during soccer.

Something like “get to the line!”
“Take him!”
“Drop early!”
“Pressure!”

Am I a monster? Probably.

[Stupid Fitz]

Lil SF plays on his school buddy basketball team still. There were like 2 other kids that were even remotely good at basketball and they moved on a couple of years ago so me and another Dad have kept the team together for fun the past couple of years. We are......not good, but it's something for them to do. We are in the pre season mode where they rank you for the upcoming season and somehow, we have kicked the absolute crap out of every team we have faced so far. Had to just be a scheduling quirk or something so now when the regular season starts, we are going to get put in the top league and just get destroyed all season. It's hilarious because all of the kids know this too and they talk about "how cooked" they are. It's going to be hilarious but there was nothing we could do about it. We will immediately get pressed by any decent team and get down huge because we have like one kid that can bring the ball up the court. I have no idea how there were teams that much worse than us or how we had to have played all of them.

My now 7th grader I mentioned above had a GABL pre-seas like that where we smoked teams and then in the regular seas lost by like 100 every game

This is exactly what is going to happen to us and it isn't going to be fun. The good teams all start off with a press and it will just destroy us. Our coach is going to call the office, but I told him they aren't going to do anything since we killed everyone we played. He is going to try and basically tell them they can see the roster that was the same as last year when we lost every game we played in the lower division. ha

[Stupid Fitz]

Can I get some posts in the chat about what you guys say during games?

Nothing?

Only encouragement?

I know it is bad and I only do it a bit but I do yell a few directions/cues for my kid during soccer.

Something like “get to the line!”
“Take him!”
“Drop early!”
“Pressure!”

Am I a monster? Probably.

Good question. I keep pretty quiet for the most part and I think that is how it should be. It drives me nuts hearing parents scream at their kid the whole game. I remember a guy last year during a baseball game yelling, "watch it all the way in" every pitch for every player. It was enraging after like the first inning. For the rec stuff, which is all of Lil SFs sports outside of baseball, I will yell out every once in a while. Baseball is an absolute no no. Our coach is great and he sees things before me anyway, but we all know not to get involved during the game outside of encouragement. He is very positive and doesn't want any negativity regardless, let alone from dumbass parents.

[Skipper44]

Can I get some posts in the chat about what you guys say during games?

Nothing?

Only encouragement?

I know it is bad and I only do it a bit but I do yell a few directions/cues for my kid during soccer.

Something like “get to the line!”
“Take him!”
“Drop early!”
“Pressure!”

Am I a monster? Probably.

i probably over compensated by cheering too loudly for the other kids the team, especially the ones i coached and all thru the elementary years. 

[steve dave]

The good thing about being the coach is I get to yell whatever I want up to and including swear words


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[Cartierfor3]

The only thing I ever yell other than praise ("nice pass!" etc) is stuff like "hey let's pick up the energy!" when the team starts dragging. Baseball is so slow it has so much room for yelling, I could write a book with the dumb crap people yell at baseball games.

[Cartierfor3]

At my 3rd grader's soccer game this year there was a super annoying grandma who came to every game and would try and coach in the least helpful way possible. "Ok now get open for a pass, ok now down the field, let's set up the corner, look back at number 12!" for the entire game. After about the 3rd game I just spoke up and said "let the coaches coach please!" very loud for all to hear. I was given a death stare by her but then like 8 parents came up and thanked me. I'm like why is this on me but ok I'll be the hero.

[steve dave]

The only thing I ever yell other than praise ("nice pass!" etc) is stuff like "hey let's pick up the energy!" when the team starts dragging. Baseball is so slow it has so much room for yelling, I could write a book with the dumb crap people yell at baseball games.

WHATEVER YOU SAY BLUE!


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[Cartierfor3]

I am kind of a sucker for the nice baseball ways people tell you they don't like a ball/strike call though. I kind of enjoy it.

"Ball"
"Oh man! Cory nice pitch, that's exactly where I want it way to hit a spot kid"

"STRIKE!"
"Hey way to look at that one 22 I don't want you chasing outside."

[steve dave]

I am kind of a sucker for the nice baseball ways people tell you they don't like a ball/strike call though. I kind of enjoy it.

"Ball"
"Oh man! Cory nice pitch, that's exactly where I want it way to hit a spot kid"

"STRIKE!"
"Hey way to look at that one 22 I don't want you chasing outside."

I have a massive arsenal of these. the classic "nice pitch" or a slightly revised "your missing real close" or the more aggressive "looking good from over here" to the hugely confrontational "where was that one John Doe? missing just outside? ok, thank you"