If you think BASEBALL parents are bad...

Been there, done it, coached it through 18U/G. A friend has a theory the problem is too many torqued up, ex baseball playing dad coaches ticked off they didn't have a boy.

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Originally posted by redbird5:
you should see SOFTBALL parents!

I coach my 10 year old daughter's team and HOLY COW...they are psycho! The parents wanted to hold a prent meeting becase I wasn't "practicing them hard enough". We practice 2x per week and work on nothing but the fundamentals.

Well, yur runnin' em til they hurl right?

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Originally posted by Dad04:

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Originally posted by redbird5:
you should see SOFTBALL parents!

I coach my 10 year old daughter's team and HOLY COW...they are psycho! The parents wanted to hold a prent meeting becase I wasn't "practicing them hard enough". We practice 2x per week and work on nothing but the fundamentals.

Well, yur runnin' em til they hurl right?

"We're not leavin', 'till we're heavin' "

There are three kinds of people in this world. Those who can count, and those who can't.

****ah

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Originally posted by OLDSLUGGER8:
This is another of the threads that keep me from posting, so delete the whole **** thing. This site has evolved into a potential mess

Huh? How is that?

Hi RedBird! Our 13U son plays on travel team with non-dad coaches now, so my husband and I were looking forward to coaching our daughter's 10U softball team this spring. Our daughter played her first season of kid pitch in the fall for another coach and now refuses to play. She got tired of being one of only 3 kids at practice (herself and the coaches kids) and getting run-ruled every game. During the fall season, one of the parents actually complained to the league director that "little Sally's" team never won games and she never got to pitch. Huh??? Sally never once came to practice and could not throw overhand - much less pitch a fast-pitch softball.

We thought it was just a fluke in our town that the softball parents were nutty.

Our U11 LL team has some trouble focusing especially during practice. The kids never get punished, they might get a verbal warning or something and thats it. I told them the kids need to run more. but the coaches say no, some parents complain. I think kids needs to run, it helps them focus, it lets them know the coach means it. As a coach on the team , im tired of telling the kids 3-5 times to do something, my voice hurts. Now not all kids can be delt the same way I understand.

LAball, how about making the kids do ONE pushup everytime they don't listen or something gets messed up due to lack of attention.

The single pushup will end up being a short, fun way for them to get the point. And a push up won't take several minutes away from practice.

We had this "punishment" on one of my son's teams. I can't remember what the player did wrong but in the middle of an at-bat in a real game, the batter instinctively dropped down and did a push up right there in the batters box!

Having coached a bunch of sons through baseball, and a daughter through softball, the difference in atmosphere is amazing. Even at the rec level, the softball dads and coaches are uptight. Never could figure it out.