New Jersey Man Threatens Lawsuit Since Daughter Didn’t Make All-County Softball Team

It has become a bit ignorant and over the top. I see parents making their kids cry when they do bad during play. We're talking 6-10 year old children. This is supposed to be fun to them and teach them a little something. Now it seems all it does is present psychological damage in the form of demeaning and over-demanding parents.

I know some parents whose daughter was being outplayed in her age group so what they is dropped her an age group the next season and all of a sudden she is a star. Ridiculous.

 

We just take sports too seriously as a society, IMO. It's just a fun past time. Unless you're a degenerate gambler, if the result of game has you in a bad mood the next day, you probably need to relax.

The over-competitive parents are just the most egregious because, well, getting that worked up over little kids playing sports is r****ded.

 

*arkoe bets heavily on Little League Baseball.

 

Wow, just wow at the parenting...

 

I am currently coaching an all star team here in Austin with my 8 year old son.

The parents are amazing, but what is worse is all the dad's that voted for the A, B, C, D, and E teams....

I proposed a straight up open meritocracy vote, where parents could see where there kid was rated on a set criteria by scouts and their coaches.

Daddy ball overuled it, and as a result we have several kids on teams they should not be on, or at that level while some that should be on higher teams get put on lower teams because their dad did not coach or have a vote.

It is sad really......

My son is the starting SS on the "C" team, and we just waxed our "B" team because of this stuff, too many of our kids should have been on their team and vice versa.

But that is not all, we have 12 kids on the roster, only 9 can play, and our head coach is basically going to have to sit 2 kids most of the time because they are not on a decent level.

Everyone gets to bat, but not everyone is guaranteed to play in the field, which pretty much sucks.....

Our "A" team is a lock for state, and one other team from our region will go, if we want to get there, we have to sit players and play the 9 or 10 that are more consistent.....

If we don't, we will be out in 2 weeks at regionals......

For the record, I am tired of baseball, and would go the "Everyone plays" route...

But that would be cheating some of the kids out of a legitimate shot at going to a state tournament....

Man, my head hurts.......lol....

BTW - we went undefeated in pool play this weekend and are seeded 4th in tomorrow's tourney of 14 teams......gonna be a long day.

DD

 

More.....

The "A" team coach yells and screams at his players, and even through a batting helmet that almost hit his own son.

Worse, he shook his kid because he didn't hustle. He was reported and has calmed down some, but the dude is an absolute asshat.

What bugs me though, is a good friend of mine nestled up to him for a year to get his kid on the "A" team....while his kid is a nice little ball player, he is really small and not really that caliber...and what I consider worse is sacrificing his morals to get his son that slot.

I told him that seeing a coach shake a kid was almost as bad as being the kid that got shaken.....

Totally ridiculous....but this guy is LIVING in the baseball of his sons playing select ball every weekend....

My son, plays seasonally, and he has not locked into one sport, nor would we ask him too....travel ball at 8? Are you FRICKEN KIDDING ME?

DD

 

While I see a need for some pushing, I think that some parents take it waaaay too far.

My parents allowed me to do as I saw fit and perhaps that is why I never really stuck with anything. When things got hard or the least bit boring I would quit, no matter how good I was. I feel that my parents should have pushed me a little, told me that I should stick with it. Children don't really understand the thought process behind quitting and not sticking with things.

I spent short times in basketball and soccer. I spent the most in softball and Taekwondo, and even now I wish I would have stuck with the martial arts. It seemed like such a large intrusion in my life when I was a teen, but I would be in much better shape now if I had.

As far as an overbearing parent, I've never had that issue when it comes to sports. Even when I went to sporting events I never saw an angry or screaming father/mother. This guy should really quit his biatching and get over it.