On Facebook I now see preteen travel kids flipping bats and doing dances. If it’s getting posted it’s because the parents think it’s cute.
When my travel players (13u to 16u) mouthed off I got on them. A second offense got them on the bench. A couple of times the mouthing off was deserved. I had to bite back laughing while trying to scold them.
One time it was my son that needed the scolding. After everyone was gone I told him what he said and who he said it to was one of the funniest insults I ever heard. What made it funnier was my son’s idea of getting fired up was saying “let’s get some runs.”