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b00ts

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Now that soccer is wrapped up, my son starts 7U coach's pitch. The coach asked for me to help out, so I'm listed as a team contact for parents. My mom, step-dad, and dad did the same for my teams when I was younger, though I played year-round, and I remember them always being stressed and didn't understand why.... until now. From petty shit questions like "dO mY bAbY gEt SnAcKs" to "Excatly what shade of light grey for the pants", my phone has been blowing up. Then you add in the fact that most of these kids are small, so you have to make sure the parents buy the correct bat to conform to the rules, make sure they buy the right socks, etc. It's been a fucking nightmare. Plus we have Snookie from Jersey Shore as the "team mom" who bothers us with dumb shit. Then you have kids not catching balls and getting popped in the mouth and you're having to tell someone else's kid to not be a pussy and get back on the field.

Sorry for the mini-rant
 
Hauler

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b00ts said:
Now that soccer is wrapped up, my son starts 7U coach's pitch. The coach asked for me to help out, so I'm listed as a team contact for parents. My mom, step-dad, and dad did the same for my teams when I was younger, though I played year-round, and I remember them always being stressed and didn't understand why.... until now. From petty shit questions like "dO mY bAbY gEt SnAcKs" to "Excatly what shade of light grey for the pants", my phone has been blowing up. Then you add in the fact that most of these kids are small, so you have to make sure the parents buy the correct bat to conform to the rules, make sure they buy the right socks, etc. It's been a fucking nightmare. Plus we have Snookie from Jersey Shore as the "team mom" who bothers us with dumb shit. Then you have kids not catching balls and getting popped in the mouth and you're having to tell someone else's kid to not be a pussy and get back on the field.

Sorry for the mini-rant
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Pics of the Snookie team mom.
 
Hauler

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It's about the kids playing the best sport in the world. Fuck all their meaningless shit.

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it only gets worse as they get older. i once got in a fistfight with a coach at a 10 yr old allstar game and we werent even playing each other.
 
Filthy

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b00ts said:
Now that soccer is wrapped up, my son starts 7U coach's pitch. The coach asked for me to help out, so I'm listed as a team contact for parents. My mom, step-dad, and dad did the same for my teams when I was younger, though I played year-round, and I remember them always being stressed and didn't understand why.... until now. From petty shit questions like "dO mY bAbY gEt SnAcKs" to "Excatly what shade of light grey for the pants", my phone has been blowing up. Then you add in the fact that most of these kids are small, so you have to make sure the parents buy the correct bat to conform to the rules, make sure they buy the right socks, etc. It's been a fucking nightmare. Plus we have Snookie from Jersey Shore as the "team mom" who bothers us with dumb shit. Then you have kids not catching balls and getting popped in the mouth and you're having to tell someone else's kid to not be a pussy and get back on the field.

Sorry for the mini-rant
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my dad coached Little League for me and my older brother for our entire LL career.
While working nights at the factory.
And running the hog farm during the day.
 
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Little league is the worst thing to ever happen to summer. I hate it with all my soul. I told my son he's a race traitor if he doesn't switch immediately to basketball.
 
Filthy

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Hauler said:
It's about the kids playing the best sport in the world. Fuck all their meaningless shit.

Gray is a shade between black and white.
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that was my dad's philosophy. If you practiced, you played. There was all kinds of drama around picking teams and schedules...my dad said "Kids that want to play are on my team."

We were barely a .500 team for every year I played, but it was always about being better than you were last game. Just kids playing a kids' game.
 
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johnny longarms said:
it only gets worse as they get older. i once got in a fistfight with a coach at a 10 yr old allstar game and we werent even playing each other.
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I was on the All-Star team the last year that my dad had both me and my brother on the same team. He was a legit All-Star. I was the coach's son, and was on the All-Star team for no other reason. Some of the parents of kids on other teams that didn't make the All-Stars were pissy.

My dad told the other parents that I hadn't missed a practice in 3 years, and neither had he.
"If you want a say in next year's All-Star team, you know what you need to do."
 
maurice

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Great thread. Fits right in with my youth basketball rant threads. Baseball is better, if only for the fact that you play outside in the summer. Seems that it has 1/4 the participation rate as basketball tho.
Filthy said:
"If you want a say in next year's All-Star team, you know what you need to do."
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Our 3rd grade basketball all star picks this year were my kid and the other kid who practices the most frequently. They dominated every statistical category by a WIDE margin, as any rational person would expect. The head coach's kid did not make the cut, having shot less than 10% from the field, though he'll probably be a better player in the long run because he's taller.

Some mom was still pissy that their kid didn't make the team. I'm thinking, "Bitch, he didn't pick HIS OWN KID, and you think that your kid (3rd in scoring, 1st in airballs, 1st in turnovers) should've made the top 2?" Just amazing narcissism.
 
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used to ref kids sports when I was like 19
so many Dads wanted to fight the refs
 
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maurice said:
Great thread. Fits right in with my youth basketball rant threads. Baseball is better, if only for the fact that you play outside in the summer. Seems that it has 1/4 the participation rate as basketball tho.

Our 3rd grade basketball all star picks this year were my kid and the other kid who practices the most frequently. They dominated every statistical category by a WIDE margin, as any rational person would expect. The head coach's kid did not make the cut, having shot less than 10% from the field, though he'll probably be a better player in the long run because he's taller.

Some mom was still pissy that their kid didn't make the team. I'm thinking, "Bitch, he didn't pick HIS OWN KID, and you think that your kid (3rd in scoring, 1st in airballs, 1st in turnovers) should've made the top 2?" Just amazing narcissism.
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LMAO @ 1st in airballs
 
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