On the positive note, I look at parents doing this as another advantage to my son come recruiting time. Either the dads shoot themselves in the foot when college coach sees what they are doing or they drove their sons out of baseball before college.
Not baseball but another sport. I watch a lot of hs and younger wrestling. My youngest wrestled through HS and is now an assistant at the same HS.
You hear the same thing almost every Match:
SQUEEEEZE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We see this a lot in teaching - it even has a name. "Lawnmower Parenting" or "Snowplow Parenting". A parent tries to remove all obstacles for their child. They try to make the path as easy as possible by constantly teaching and coaching and directing. They take care of issues that arise that might cause their kid problems.
What these parents fail to realize is that they are raising kids who will be incapable of doing anything for themselves. When they face challenges they will not how to react or deal with them because mom or dad is not around.
I have no doubt these parents have the best intentions for their kids, but they are actually crippling them rather than helping them.
adbono posted:Francis7 posted:I recently passed by a HS JV game. I knew the kid in the batter's box. He's a 16-year who has been playing baseball for 8 years now.
His dad was positioned directly behind the backstop with his nose practically up against the fence during the AB.
Literally, as the kid is in the box and as the pitcher was in his delivery, the dad is talking to the kid. "Stay back, extend through. Remember, stay back. Stay back and extend through." Like it was on a recorded loop. Repeatedly. And, it was loud enough that I could hear it from 40 feet away.
Why do people do this?
Its annoying, isn't it? Its the kind of annoying behavior that you like to see corrected as nobody likes to listen to that. Another thing that nobody likes being subjected to is a steady diet of poorly veiled humble brags about their 15 year old child. That isn't the purpose of this forum.
Steady diet?
Francis7 posted:adbono posted:Francis7 posted:I recently passed by a HS JV game. I knew the kid in the batter's box. He's a 16-year who has been playing baseball for 8 years now.
His dad was positioned directly behind the backstop with his nose practically up against the fence during the AB.
Literally, as the kid is in the box and as the pitcher was in his delivery, the dad is talking to the kid. "Stay back, extend through. Remember, stay back. Stay back and extend through." Like it was on a recorded loop. Repeatedly. And, it was loud enough that I could hear it from 40 feet away.
Why do people do this?
Its annoying, isn't it? Its the kind of annoying behavior that you like to see corrected as nobody likes to listen to that. Another thing that nobody likes being subjected to is a steady diet of poorly veiled humble brags about their 15 year old child. That isn't the purpose of this forum.
Steady diet?
Yes. A steady diet. That means all the time. I have tried to be good natured about this and not have to call you out publicly. But if you want to spar with me instead of taking a hint I won’t at all mind noting specifics. What you don’t seem to understand is that there are people on this board whose kids (and them) have done amazing things. And you never see them posting brags. On the other hand you post every possible brag about your kid and attempt to cloak it in a disguise. “Do kids wear Varsity letter jackets in your town?” Really?!? Like the point of that isn’t to let everyone know your freshman kid made Varsity. Cmon man! Nobody cares !! But you couldn’t stop there, could you!? You had to follow up with more posts about uniform numbers and Varsity jerseys. Ridiculous! There is so much wrong with so many of your posts but to sum it up politely I would say that most of them offend my sensibility.
Adbono - sorry that I've managed to offend and annoy you...so much. It was never my intention. Again, my apologies for all the harm caused.
No harm done.
adbono posted:No harm done.
Actually what I should have said is “no harm done to me.”
If your son is going to turn into an accomplished athlete (which is yet to be determined) your social behavior ( if not corrected) could actually harm your sons chances of advancing his baseball career.
No worries. I plan on disappearing from the internet within the next year.
Francis7 posted:No worries. I plan on disappearing from the internet within the next year.
If your son wants to play college baseball the next three years will be relevant and past participation irrelvant. Also, parents can learn more here than how to help their kids along the journey. They can learn how to be athlete’s parents.
adbono posted:Francis7 posted:adbono posted:Francis7 posted:I recently passed by a HS JV game. I knew the kid in the batter's box. He's a 16-year who has been playing baseball for 8 years now.
His dad was positioned directly behind the backstop with his nose practically up against the fence during the AB.
Literally, as the kid is in the box and as the pitcher was in his delivery, the dad is talking to the kid. "Stay back, extend through. Remember, stay back. Stay back and extend through." Like it was on a recorded loop. Repeatedly. And, it was loud enough that I could hear it from 40 feet away.
Why do people do this?
Its annoying, isn't it? Its the kind of annoying behavior that you like to see corrected as nobody likes to listen to that. Another thing that nobody likes being subjected to is a steady diet of poorly veiled humble brags about their 15 year old child. That isn't the purpose of this forum.
Steady diet?
Yes. A steady diet. That means all the time. I have tried to be good natured about this and not have to call you out publicly. But if you want to spar with me instead of taking a hint I won’t at all mind noting specifics. What you don’t seem to understand is that there are people on this board whose kids (and them) have done amazing things. And you never see them posting brags. On the other hand you post every possible brag about your kid and attempt to cloak it in a disguise. “Do kids wear Varsity letter jackets in your town?” Really?!? Like the point of that isn’t to let everyone know your freshman kid made Varsity. Cmon man! Nobody cares !! But you couldn’t stop there, could you!? You had to follow up with more posts about uniform numbers and Varsity jerseys. Ridiculous! There is so much wrong with so many of your posts but to sum it up politely I would say that most of them offend my sensibility.
I find the irony here thick...
On one hand you have a guy displaying a proclivity for posting nonsensical threads. He's been called out for it both here and other sites yet lacks the self-control to stop.
On the other hand, you have a poster opening a thread that he knows is going to push his buttons and then responding to it. Thus displaying a total lack of self-control.
Pot, meet kettle.
Let’s not drive Francis off. He’s not getting personal with anyone. His posts can be ignored. If it’s that bad there’s the “ignore” function.
Right now his son’s goal is to play college ball in the future. It will take help. Isn’t there a coaching philosophy of don’t penalize the kid for the sins of the father?
Now I have an important question. If you carpeted Florida how long would it take to vacuum?
RJM posted:Let’s not drive Francis off. He’s not getting personal with anyone. His posts can be ignored. If it’s that bad there’s the “ignore” function.
Right now his son’s goal is to play college ball in the future. It will take help. Isn’t there a coaching philosophy of don’t penalize the kid for the sins of the father?
Now I have an important question. If you carpeted Florida how long would it take to vacuum?
Depends on how close to the backstop you vacuum.
Or, 4,800 years.
I'll let my wife answer the vacuum question.
Why do people do this? Because they are allowed to do it?