A movie that sucked also sucked in another movie?...
Stories of bad actors in youth sports…
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A movie that sucked also sucked in another movie?...
About 40 years ago I was playing LL baseball, and a dad from the other team drove 15 miles to the game with a couple of buddies to drink and yell at his kid and the coach the entire game. I can't remember all of the details, but I think he had been helping coach the team and had just been 'fired'. I know he left during the game, I think they threatened to call the sheriff if he didn't leave.
I don't know that I ever went after a ref when my kid was playing sports, but I did yell at the coach a few times. Her senior year VB the school got a new coach, upper 20's whose mom apparently is a legend in Illinois. They were playing a tournament and playing one of the best programs in the state. First set was close, second set was bad, so the third set she put in all the subs and let them go. The score was 15-2 and she was sitting on the bench just watching, so I yelled and told her to do her job. She wasn't playing my daughter anyway, so I didn't care if she didn't like me at that point. One other game later in the year also got a quick outburst from me. I know several other parents talked to the AD about her. She left the next year to go coach D-II college ball out east.
I don't know that I ever went after a ref when my kid was playing sports, but I did yell at the coach a few times. Her senior year VB the school got a new coach, upper 20's whose mom apparently is a legend in Illinois. They were playing a tournament and playing one of the best programs in the state. First set was close, second set was bad, so the third set she put in all the subs and let them go. The score was 15-2 and she was sitting on the bench just watching, so I yelled and told her to do her job. She wasn't playing my daughter anyway, so I didn't care if she didn't like me at that point. One other game later in the year also got a quick outburst from me. I know several other parents talked to the AD about her. She left the next year to go coach D-II college ball out east.
What made that coach in Aardvarks story a dick was announcing it to the world first and foremost. Second. A physically disabled kid? Come on. And last, was this was freaking tee ball for crying out loud.
But, make no mistake about it. Any coach in any league, especially competitive is thinking the same thing as that coach was. Just maybe not shouting it across the field for all to hear and maybe not about disabled kids. Last night at my daughters volleyball game. You think those girls are serving the ball to the other teams best player? Hell no.
agreed; different outcome as between 'bad baseball player' and 'physically disabled kid'. different outcome entirely. and people wonder why some don't have any instincts toward justice.
That's why they started throwing at you every at-bat and you never got to hit a ball again.
That would make sports fun for me.
This is false. My team won the Great Plains Shooutout at u14 that year. We won beating a team from a Lincoln that we lost to the day before 7-1. Beat them 1-0 in a downpour. I do remember this team being absolute A holes though.
Must have had to do with where they were from.
I know you didn't say it was a final nor do I remember what year it was we won. We shouldn't have because we were usually the 3rd-6th best team in the state at any given time and lightyears behind West Des Moines Attack and QC Strikers.
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If you were attacks age you were a year older than I and the team from Lincoln you played was likely capitol city gold. ( RED AND YELLOW HAD A RED HEADED KID THAT PLAYED ATTACKING MID, HIS NAME WAS MITCH FWIW. )Maybe u13 for us? The year was correct if you remember the rain though, we played like 2p mi ute halves and they sent us to "PKs".
I don't think we won that year. We lost to a team from south dakota in the finals if I remember correctly.
Not recently, but when my son was in Middle School and into early High School basketball and football. I was continously shocked at all the pre-madonna coaches (acting like they are in the pros) and some absolute nut job parents who also acted like it was the pros. Not much you can do beyond explaining to kids some reality when needed, and just shake your head and laugh a bit..
I mean this sincerely basketball might be the worst. We should be calling technical fouls on fans way more. I wouldn’t even toss them, I’d just keep racking up techs and let the other team shoot a million free throws.
I once had a parent get tossed from an 8 year old flag football game for dogging the refs. She left the field, but was standing on the sidewalk at the parking lot screaming back that the ref was cheating. Game had to stop again until she got in her car.
At the time this happened our team was down 28 points and the game was totally out of hand anyway.
Yeah that's right. I was one age up. I hated that team but I think we only played them 3 times or so. Our big rival was from Fargo, ND. They threatened to fight us in the Mall of America after beating them.
Not gonna lie, I’d probably need to be stoned to watch middle school anything lol.
Best I've seen was years ago at a little league wrestling tournament. The officials for the tournament were all collegiate athletes doing all the ref work as a team fundraiser. One four year old (who had a Mohawk, of course) ultimately got dq'd for too many illegal holds (the ref let multiple slip and explained what the kid was doing every single time he called him for it). The father, who was a 300 plus pound slob lost his mind and started going off on the official, who happened to be a 197 pound all American the year prior. I don't know wtf this fatty was thinking because the ref would have MURDERED him. Security ended up coming over and immediately started mocking the father, advising him he was about to get his ass whooped if he didn't stop. They ultimately let him stay with a warning and the situation ended there. Same dad got into it with another father a couple hours later and was ultimately thrown out.
They had 2 Asian kids, the Kirosawa's that played on UNLs club team I met during my time in Lincoln, I played with Mitch and they also had a left back named Nielsen, who is one of my best friends, and an absolute headcase. They also had 1 or 2 kids go to Simpson. I played with Mitch and Nielsen in college. Mitch and I 4 yeared, Nielsen dropped out after wrapping his car around a tree drunk as shit one night with some broad in the car.
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A couple of really dumb posts here. The number of folk that are willing be officials and have people bitch at them, when they are barely paid, is not going to deter bad officiating. They are paid crap, they have to travel for most of their games.
The only thing that will be deterred will people refusing to do the work. This isn't their "job". Most of them have children and family events this miss to officiate. Plus there is the annual training.
If you guys think it is easy.....I suggest you get off your ass, go the training, grab a whistle......otherwise STFU. Either way, I don't care what these parents and athletes think they are entitled to. It is youth sports, not the NFL or NBA.
The only thing that will be deterred will people refusing to do the work. This isn't their "job". Most of them have children and family events this miss to officiate. Plus there is the annual training.
If you guys think it is easy.....I suggest you get off your ass, go the training, grab a whistle......otherwise STFU. Either way, I don't care what these parents and athletes think they are entitled to. It is youth sports, not the NFL or NBA.
Really???? Then who brings the cut up oranges and Capri Suns?
My adult children still laugh about their fanatical mother who had to leave the stands at her 4th grade son’s baseball game and when the ref stopped the game at her daughter’s 5th grade soccer playoff.
I still say the refs blew GIANT CHUNKS and sucked. 😂
I honestly get what you’re saying. My son was going into 9th grade and the rec league for the 4th grade needed refs so he did it.
The coaches could write critiques of the umps and my son came in the house in stitches because in his pay envelope was enclosed a critique where the coaches said that kid who umped our game is a blind prick. He and his Dad laughed about it for hours.
