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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 295778" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>You have no idea how glad I am to be out of all that! My son played ball for eight years, starting with tee-ball, so we've seen it all! If they kept the parents out of it, the kids would be a lot better off!</p><p> </p><p>Our community is so small, they usually could only come up with two teams of each age group. One of the coaches (who also happened to be the league president) was coaching the 11 & 12 year olds when his own son was 12. There can be a huge difference in sizes of the kids at that age and they had always divided up the 11 and 12 year olds so they wouldn't have all the bigger kids on one team. All the teams they played against divided up their kids that way too. UNTIL this one guys kid was 12, and that year he decided to put all the 12 year olds on one team and the 11 year olds on the other! Of course, the 12 year olds won every game they played ... and the 11 year olds lost every game but one! Mine was 11 that unfortunate year. The next year, when <em>his</em> kid was in another age group, it went back to the way it had always been! </p><p> </p><p>Some parents are just plain nuts! I'll never forget hearing our elementary school principal talk about a kids ball game that he had umpired. He didn't get paid for umpiring, he just did it because they had a hard time finding umpires, and he had always been more than fair in calling the games. He called one little boy out at the plate - it was a kid from the visiting team, and the catcher had tagged him out. It didn't bother the boy, but his mother in the bleachers turned into a mad woman! She got up and started screaming and cussing at the principal ... in front of all those kids! She went on and on screaming at him and threatening him and then she actually tried to climb the high chain link fence between the bleachers and the field so she could get at him! And the whole time, her little boy was standing there in tears saying, "Mama, I was out!" Someone called the police and they had to actually pry her off the fence like a deranged monkey! </p><p> </p><p>Another time we actually had the father of a visiting player take a swing at one of our high school basketball players! When the father of <em>our </em>player saw this guy take a swing at his kid, he got up and started to slowly and purposely make his way towards the other guy, and everybody was just holding their breath ... our kids' dad was about 6'6" and at least 300 lbs. Nicest guy there ever was but you don't mess with his kids! Lucky for the visiting guy, the police got to him before Randall did! In fact, he was probably very thankful to be arrested!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 295778, member: 1883"] You have no idea how glad I am to be out of all that! My son played ball for eight years, starting with tee-ball, so we've seen it all! If they kept the parents out of it, the kids would be a lot better off! Our community is so small, they usually could only come up with two teams of each age group. One of the coaches (who also happened to be the league president) was coaching the 11 & 12 year olds when his own son was 12. There can be a huge difference in sizes of the kids at that age and they had always divided up the 11 and 12 year olds so they wouldn't have all the bigger kids on one team. All the teams they played against divided up their kids that way too. UNTIL this one guys kid was 12, and that year he decided to put all the 12 year olds on one team and the 11 year olds on the other! Of course, the 12 year olds won every game they played ... and the 11 year olds lost every game but one! Mine was 11 that unfortunate year. The next year, when [I]his[/I] kid was in another age group, it went back to the way it had always been! Some parents are just plain nuts! I'll never forget hearing our elementary school principal talk about a kids ball game that he had umpired. He didn't get paid for umpiring, he just did it because they had a hard time finding umpires, and he had always been more than fair in calling the games. He called one little boy out at the plate - it was a kid from the visiting team, and the catcher had tagged him out. It didn't bother the boy, but his mother in the bleachers turned into a mad woman! She got up and started screaming and cussing at the principal ... in front of all those kids! She went on and on screaming at him and threatening him and then she actually tried to climb the high chain link fence between the bleachers and the field so she could get at him! And the whole time, her little boy was standing there in tears saying, "Mama, I was out!" Someone called the police and they had to actually pry her off the fence like a deranged monkey! Another time we actually had the father of a visiting player take a swing at one of our high school basketball players! When the father of [I]our [/I]player saw this guy take a swing at his kid, he got up and started to slowly and purposely make his way towards the other guy, and everybody was just holding their breath ... our kids' dad was about 6'6" and at least 300 lbs. Nicest guy there ever was but you don't mess with his kids! Lucky for the visiting guy, the police got to him before Randall did! In fact, he was probably very thankful to be arrested! [/QUOTE]
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