OT: Pathetic Parents Throwing Hands at a Little League Game
BRAWL AT LITTLE LEAGUE GAME: @LakewoodPDCO are looking for the adults who got into a physical fight at a Little League game on Saturday.https://t.co/4WHQnbYoFY pic.twitter.com/e88K8MMBjs
— Anica Padilla (@AnicaPadilla) June 18, 2019
BRAWL AT LITTLE LEAGUE GAME: @LakewoodPDCO are looking for the adults who got into a physical fight at a Little League game on Saturday.https://t.co/4WHQnbYoFY pic.twitter.com/e88K8MMBjs
— Anica Padilla (@AnicaPadilla) June 18, 2019
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Add to that, who gives a rats @$$ about baseball?
Other than if your team is in the CWS. ...or if the Tigers ever did anything.
Was that lady calling on Jesus to break up the fight?
My 8 yr old plays little league, and I can imagine the trauma he'd go through if all the parents pulled that crap. It's hard to believe how fucking stupid people are, but we keep seeing valid evidence of the idiocy. Far too often...
Live a good life so you don't have to live vicariously through your kids.
Worse than the trauma, the modeling these asshats are providing their children is sure to lead these kids down some bad decision paths in their futures. Some people just shouldn’t be parents.
I was at a 11U game and a mother from the other team stood behind home plate and was giving her kid, who was pitching, signals for the pitch she wanted him to throw.
The vast, vast majority of 11u kids should have one pitch: 4-seam FB. If they want a change of speed pitch the best answer is "throw harder".
Parents are what ruin kids sports. Every parent thinks their kid is the next great thing and a bad call will derail their DI scholie when they need to realize that’s not happening and let the kids play a game and ha e fun. People are just idiots
I totally agree. I have 3 boys who played little league this year and am amazed by the parents watching and appaled by some of the coaches. It really turned me off to the whole league by how it was run, teams were stacked by coaches who were all on the board, and many coaches only cared about their own kids.
When my kid was in 4th grade, he was a perfectionist, and often got upset with himself if he didn't play well. So after the first practice, my husband went over to the coach to offer advice and give a heads up about it. After my husband explains the situation to the coach, the coach says to my husband, "What do I look like, a psychiatrist?" My husband said he was thankful there was a chain link fence between them because he wanted to choke the guy. After the season, the dad was permanently relieved of his coaching duties. He was a real nut job, screaming at people who got too close to the dugout, etc...These kids were 10U!
I used to get overly upset with myself for not performing well. My dad fixed that by telling me that I was embarrassing him.
My son was embarrassed about it on his own; he didn't need me to tell him.
If he fixed his own problem, there should have been no need to bother the coach. Coach doesn't want to hear any excuses for bad behavior.
Thanks for your opinion. I watched my kid go from falling apart on the mound when he was 11 (and other stuff way before then in every other sport he played) to pitching in college with a reputation for having ice in his veins in high-pressure situations. He accomplished that himself, with no shaming from his parents. I'm more proud of that than anything else.
I have two boys and I almost don't want them to play sports. For the most part, everybody involved with the little leagues in most sports are complete assholes. At least that is what I have found. I have looked and found a couple of places that offer a lot of beginner leagues that are cool and stick with those. A lot of the Parks and Rec type offerings in fairly affluent areas and filled with the worse kind narcissistic assholes who are actually measuring worth of children based on their ability in sports at 4 and 5 years old.
F all that. I will take them golfing.
1. A woman coaching 3yo soccer told a kid, “Pay attention while in goal or you might get hit in the face—(then whispers), and it might be me.” I was a parent volunteer. I picked up my kid, walked off the field, and sent an email to the organizers. She was consistently berating and complaining to us parents about bleeping 3yos.
2. Our neighborhood has community summer track that is just about getting kids to run. They have three “contests” towards the end of summer, one each week. A former neighbor of ours who our son played with won his heat the first two weeks but finished second or third the last week. His dad is hyper competitive—played D3 baseball or something—he was (I get it) proud of his son for being a fast 5yo, but was way too competitive in comparing how our sons performed. My kid finished last each time, but he dressed as a dinosaur half the time and lives in his own world. We were just happy to get him exercise—and dude, they’re 5. Running is important part of our family life, but who tf puts that much pressure on babies?
These kinds of stories keep me away from organized sports as a parent. It’s a damn shame.
There is a large segment of people who try to base their entire personality around being the type who reject "participation" trophies. These people will do just about anything to steer a conversation toward the concept in order to make it a huge, loud point that they hate this "participation trophy" culture and that only "winners" should get trophies.
I am like, dude, these kids are like 4 or 5 years old. Most of them fully believe that Spiderman is an actual existing person who can shoot webs from his hands and swing from building to building. Most kids who receive these trophies will probably spend a nice day inside turning it into their own version of the Piston Cup.
People are beginning to take youth sports way too seriously and it takes it from just being a fun family and interest building activity and makes it something kind of corrosive. It is a damn shame really.
I coach my two oldest kids soccer rec teams (4 and 6) in Plymouth and went to a coaches meeting with a USA soccer coach with a lot of experience. It was great to get a new perspective on how to run practice and help reinforce things that were working. One of the things that stood out was how he spoke about coaching at the youth level. You can coach with a focus on winning or a focus on kids getting better. He had coached college players and joked that he didn't care about how many games their teams won when they were 11.
Kids are funny though. They keep track of who is winning and figure out who the best players are quickly.
What someone sees as pathetic. Another person can say they are passionate lol
At least there parents care??? (Sarcasm!!!)
I thought this was America.
Hey Bat Dad!!
I didn't hear no bell.....
"That's my guy."
Randy No!!!
lol this is exactly what i thought when i read the op
"Throwing hands"
Wut?
When I first read the title I honestly thought it was some kind of idiomatic gambling reference.
I thought they were throwing giant novelty foam hands. Which would've been fine.
I thought the same thing. I figured they were throwing foam fingers at the outfielders to heckle them.
throwing hands = fisticuffs as you old wise men would say.
Wise old men call it a knuckle sandwich
Or a donnybrook
though think that is more of an old hockey guy term
I prefer brouhaha ... especially if the expression on the other person's face says that they have no idea what the hell you're talking about.
But "throw hands?" I remember hearing that back in the 80's.
I’ll go with “fracas”
Open a can of whoop ass
You could call it a dust-up, which in this case would be literally true.
No offense but if you don’t know what throwing hands mean, you are officially old and out of touch lol
No offense, but if you think your particular generation's vernacular for fighting is the measure of age and out-of-touch-edness, you're officially wet behind the ears and a tad naïve. LOL!
Personally I would have gone with "Fists of Fury"
Had one happen at my kid's baseball game 2 years ago. Pretty unreal. Coaches fighting parents. Moms throwing hands with other moms. Thankfully the kids got off the field without issue and weren't involved. I was flabbergasted. Fighting at little league baseball. Who knew it was worth fighting over?
I have to admit, I would probably find "mom's throwing hands with other moms" entertaining.
7 yr olds playing and a 13 year old umpire. Yeah, let’s go for blood, that makes a lot of sense.
I had a run in when I was 14 umpiring a 9 year old game. I made a controversial call, which was correct, but one coach started using every word in the book. Ejected him but he wouldn’t stop coaching from the stands. Many parents on his team were heckling. That was long ago, probably would’ve been a brawl in today’s messed up society.
And this is the saddest part to me - 7 year olds PLAYING with a 13 year old umping. You're better than this, adults. So very shameful.
Sounds very similar to an experience I had! I was working the field, part of a 2-man crew. I couldn't have been older than 13. Runner on first, ground ball, fielder throws to second-baseman who tries to step on second for the force, but he missed the bag. I saw it, called the runner safe, everyone lost their minds.
To his credit, my partner behind the plate just asked me: "you know there was a force there, right?" I just said "he missed the bag", and he backed me up on it.
Team batting ended up coming back that inning to win the game. Walking away afterwards, I had parents from both teams flagging me down to either congratulate me (from the winning team, telling me I made the right call) and to let me know I was blind (from the losing team).
Crazy amount of stress for a 12 or 13 year old.
Sounds very similar to an experience I had! I was working the field, part of a 2-man crew. I couldn't have been older than 13. Runner on first, ground ball, fielder throws to second-baseman who tries to step on second for the force, but he missed the bag. I saw it, called the runner safe, everyone lost their minds.
To his credit, my partner behind the plate just asked me: "you know there was a force there, right?" I just said "he missed the bag", and he backed me up on it.
Team batting ended up coming back that inning to win the game. Walking away afterwards, I had parents from both teams flagging me down to either congratulate me (from the winning team, telling me I made the right call) and to let me know I was blind (from the losing team).
Crazy amount of stress for a 12 or 13 year old.