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Kid punished for being too good?
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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 188294" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>The parents can have a way of ruining these things for the kids. The kids just want to play and have a good time ... and then the parents get in to it and spoil it. Divide up the teams as evenly as possible, teach the kids skills and sportsmanship, then let them play and have fun! Sheeesh!</p><p> </p><p>I will never forget hearing our elementary school principal talk about umpiring a kids summer league baseball game between one of our teams and a team from a neighborhing county. I know many of the people who umpire these games and they all bend over backwards to be fair. He wasn't even a regular umpire, just sitting in for someone who didn't show up. The mother of one of the visiting players got so upset when he called her kid out, she completely lost it. She had no idea who he was, just that he had called her boy "out" at the plate. Had she been able to get at him, she would have attacked him physically, and he's a pretty big guy! She was screaming at him and cursing him and actually started to climb the high chain link fence behind the plate so she could jump on him! All this in front of these kids! They had to call the police who had to pull her off the fence and cart her off to jail and she is now forever banned from attending any more ball games! Way to go, lady! I feel sorry for her poor son! He was probably wishing the earth would open up and swallow him!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 188294, member: 1883"] The parents can have a way of ruining these things for the kids. The kids just want to play and have a good time ... and then the parents get in to it and spoil it. Divide up the teams as evenly as possible, teach the kids skills and sportsmanship, then let them play and have fun! Sheeesh! I will never forget hearing our elementary school principal talk about umpiring a kids summer league baseball game between one of our teams and a team from a neighborhing county. I know many of the people who umpire these games and they all bend over backwards to be fair. He wasn't even a regular umpire, just sitting in for someone who didn't show up. The mother of one of the visiting players got so upset when he called her kid out, she completely lost it. She had no idea who he was, just that he had called her boy "out" at the plate. Had she been able to get at him, she would have attacked him physically, and he's a pretty big guy! She was screaming at him and cursing him and actually started to climb the high chain link fence behind the plate so she could jump on him! All this in front of these kids! They had to call the police who had to pull her off the fence and cart her off to jail and she is now forever banned from attending any more ball games! Way to go, lady! I feel sorry for her poor son! He was probably wishing the earth would open up and swallow him! [/QUOTE]
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