So… I was coaching my son’s coach-pitch (6-8 years old) baseball team at the championship final game and right after the game is over (we lost) I’m told by one of the league officials that they are going to escort me to my car because a twenty-something dad whom I have never seen before at a practice or game is going to “kick my ass” because I didn’t play his 6-year old on second or third base like he had demanded in his email to me.
I would hope this was a joke, but sadly I’ve heard of this kind of thing too often to really believe it is.
Don’t know what to say other than I feel sorry for that kid. Not because you didn’t play him (I know your post didn’t say that you didn’t play him, only that you didn’t play him at THOSE positions), but because he has to put up with that dad for his whole life.
If it were me though, I’d have refused the escort and if that dad really wanted to follow through, let him. He’s already in for threatening assault. Let the assault happen, and the resulting hospital stay…
Stick to swimming and water polo. Much safer parents.
I coach my kids swim team and assist-coach soccer. I’ve never had any problems, although I’ve had to tone some some parents who push their kids a bit too much.
However, several years ago I had a mother threaten to kick my then-7 year old’s ass while playing hockey. I’m not kidding. This beatch threatened my son because she thought he had pushed her kid around. She got a lot of verbal abuse from me, needless to say. Anyway, my point is that hockey parents are the worst.
That happened to me this spring here in Houston. A local father was upset with me for not placing him higher in the batting order. Except I am the twenty something and he is a 40 something. I told him to eat a dick.
Baseball parents are the worst! I have umped in the past, coached and I am a parent of a competitive baseball player, and I always sit back and listen to parents in amazement. My son plays about every sport known to man and I have never seen anything like the behavior of baseball parents.
And most the time they have no frame of referrence or any idea what the strategy of baseball entails.
No way hockey parents are the worst, bad but not the worst. I played hockey for 16 years and never saw anything like I did playing 1 year of t-ball…actually less than 1 year.
Funny story about how my illustrious baseball career was cut short.
So I’m 5 and playing a game in the local t-ball league (of course I was an all star…in my own mind and the eyes of my parents), when one of the members of my team hits one to deep left and proceeds to run around the bases…the wrong direction. One would think, no harm/no foul the 3rd base coach was on his way to direct him around the proper way when a woman leaps from the stands grabs the child by the hair and drags him to first base by his hair…via home plate first.
Unfortunately that was my last t-ball game and the end to a potential hall of fame career.
Really sad how involved parents get in their children’s lives. Probably why there is an ever growing number of kids on prozac and ritilin (don’t know how to spell those…never had to take em).
prozac and ritilin (don’t know how to spell those…never had to take em).
LOL! My dad was an old-school (WWII vet, had a black bag, used to make house-calls) pediatrician and every time a parent came in and wanted him to prescribe Ritalin he asked several questions and listened carefully to their responses and then more often than not told the parent: “that sounds like a parenting problem, not a medical problem…” He was very well respected so more often than not they listened to him, although he knew a few who sought out other doctors to find one who would prescribe the Ritalin.