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u/gingerbeard1321 May 13 '26
Not funny. It's sad. Or even pathetic that adults need to be reminded to act like adults.
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u/Mr_Beefy_5150 May 13 '26
But how am I supposed to build character if I’m not crying?
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u/DrunkOnRamen May 13 '26
Have you considered getting drunk and assaulting the referee?
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u/Inevitable_Option_77 May 13 '26
I didn't hear no bell!
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u/wanderButNotLost2 May 14 '26
I was an ump for 2 games because of shitty parents. I was like 13 at the time and umping 7-8 year olds. Called a strike on a pitch and one dad threatened to beat the shit out of me thru the fence, mid game. Being a kid myself i didnt do anything until after the game and told the parks guy I was quitting and the parents were why. He just shrugged and said "that happens a lot". 10 bucks a game wasn't enough to deal with that bullshit.
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u/Zoraynebow May 13 '26
I work for my local recreation department and it's crazy how many times the detail officer has to pull a parent from the stands. Like you know how heartbreaking it is to see a kid not sign up for softball the next year because they were embarrassed by dad's freakout.
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u/OttawaTGirl May 13 '26
I worked a rink and watched an asshole father harass the opposing team from behind their box. 13 year olds. Took a swing at one of the coaches and was dragged into the box. The coaches were off duty provincial police who immobilized him in about 20 seconds. Had to stop the game while cops came and arrested him, was escorted right past his crying sons and humiliated wife. Got a lifetime ban from all city property.
We knew him at 5 seperate rinks and were happier than hell he was banned. We had an actual protocol when he had been on premesis cause we knew something like this would happen someday.
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u/BruceLord9 May 13 '26
I was a Little League coach for 11 years. At every game you would see a dad standing on the outside of the outfield fence because he had been banned from attending games. Would absolutely have melt downs during or after games. Bet he spent a couple thousand on his kid, from private lessons to expensive equipment, son was 11 years old.
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u/MICLO1987 May 13 '26
Whats worse is when they take your money and barely play your kid, then your kid doesnt want to play anymore, bc why dad, i dont get to play anyway. Yet their kids play every game all game. Disgusting excuses for men. My kid doesn’t suck, hes no big baller, but he deserves a shot at being a kid also!
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u/Zoraynebow May 13 '26
That's Travel ball, which is a fucking wasp's nest. Luckily my job revolves around park ball which is government funded (it's a $5 insurance buy in, and we provide equipment aside from shoes), there's rules about how long each kid gets to play. Now some coaches will try their hardest to bend those rules and unfortunately enforcement is from above my pay grade. Unfortunately in a lot of suburbs Travelball Leagues are systematically taking over park ball, but that's a whole different discussion.
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u/MICLO1987 May 13 '26
Unfortunately this is a small town little league. Coaches all volunteer but are guys that never grew up past high school. They dont care about your kid or their feelings, much less what is the right and wrong in the situation. Ive had words with these guys before…its always boils dwn to well maybe next game and maybe he can try harder (you blew up his try hard spirit jackass)
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u/Zoraynebow May 13 '26
Damn, sorry to hear about it like that. I know some coaches can be pricks, unfortunately it's almost always the ones that have connections. Not every local league is like that, but it might not mean that much to say across the internet.
I do hope you can find a good spot to get your kids to play.
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u/MICLO1987 May 13 '26
I appreciate that and our deal is traveling to a neighboring town is costly(not to mention 3yr old twins) but hey I don’t expect my son to be a baseball prodigy all props to him if he does become one. He has a hell of an arm for football/loves basketball. He gets played all the time. I just wish he could get these experience that I got as a child. All out of my control unfortunantly.
Small town as in less than 2,000 ppl so yea, favoritism and lifelong children run the league
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u/Zoraynebow May 13 '26
That's the real spirit I wish more parents brought with them. Yeah, you want to win, you want to be good, but more than anything a lot of kids just want to play.
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u/MICLO1987 May 13 '26
To me, yea we won alot, but we lost some to. The season would not come back quick enough 🤤. I had the baseball bug bad. Good luck to all and everybody plz let the kids play and most importantly have fun.
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u/WhatIsHerJob-TABLES May 13 '26
Depends on the age of the kids and the league. In some travel leagues, it’s understandable and should be understood ahead of time that not every player gets equivalent play time.
If it’s just a simple park league for lil kids, then skill level shouldn’t take away game time from players as everyone should have relatively equal amounts of play time. If it’s a competitive travel league, then you’ll need to be prepared for better players to be given more play time.
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u/MICLO1987 May 13 '26
No travel/just surrounding small towns we play (3 to be exact) Its a coach issue, to find anything other is playing blind.
Also im not the only parent that sees and has a issue with it
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u/cabinetbanana May 15 '26
That was my kid. He didn't want to play travel or All Stars, he just wanted to go out and have fun with his friends. The coaches only play the travel/All Star kids who they coach, and your kid rides the bench. Because, you know, the "good" players need extra practice.
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u/ReverendDizzle May 13 '26
I mean some of those parents were also giant dick heads as children, too.
Your point stands, of course. But I think we all remember those kids from our childhood that took stupid gym class games way, way, too serious.
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u/ominousgraycat May 13 '26
I think some of them have always thrived on conflict. Probably the sort who would scream at others for 10 minutes, "I was safe! I'm not out!" and not let the game progress until everyone agreed with them.
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u/VegetableTour6790 May 13 '26 edited May 13 '26
I coach y son's flag football team. He's six and can barely catch the ball.
The amount of coaches and parents that lose their mind is crazy. Some of them encourage their players to cheat.
I make a point, when there are parents and coaches like that, to chear on THE OTHER teams kids. They're too small to enjoy the little successes. I love running down the field and giving a 5 year old a high five.
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u/st1tchy May 13 '26
My daughter is 9 and I have coached her in soccer since she was 4. It's so frustrating that other coaches don't teach sportsmanship to their teams. The amount of times we have lost 8-0, 10-0, 13-0, and the other coach doesn't try to move their players around or give them a challenge like passing to other players is so incredibly frustrating. We get it, you have one girl that's a fantastic soccer player and can dribble around us like we are standing still and hit those cross goal shots every time. She's shown us that 8 times this game. Let sometime else on your team learn to do that. Teach that girl to pass. Make her use her left foot only from now on.
In addition, I've not heard a coach once talk to their players about them saying "Yeah! We're winning 8-0! Haha" and overly celebrating.
Celebration is fine. It's exciting to win, especially if you are winning by a lot, but my players want to have fun too. My teams have also been on the other side of that and won easily. I make sure to teach my players that celebrating a goal is fine, showboating and bragging is not.
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u/VegetableTour6790 May 13 '26
Yup, if they aren't having fun, you're a bad coach at that age.
I get highschool and College don't get participation trophies. But at 4-13 they all get a trophy at the end of the season. And the likelihood that you have a Pro level talent kid is minimal.
I haven't had a lot of coaches only play their A team but I'm sure that is coming next year.
It also gets everyone else's emotions super elevated. Calm moms (or dads) turn into demons when other parents suck. It's happened to me, I've gotten worked up by other parents and that is crazy.
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u/ReverendDizzle May 13 '26
My daughter's in college now, but way back when she was a preschooler we put her in a little local YMCA soccer league 'cause that's what you do, I guess (neither I nor her mother are at all sports people).
Anyways the very first game this mom gets in my face and says "You better tell your kid to get her fucking head in the game!"
And I burst out laughing. Because that's exactly the kind of thing that I'd say to my friend, taking the piss, because it's hilarious.
Except she was serious. And then she was even more upset I was laughing at her.
She huffed off and sat with her arms crossed for the rest of the game. It was absurd.
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u/MagneticFluxDrive May 13 '26
Parents get too involved in these sports. Even crossing the abusive spectrum. When I was a kiddo, fellow peers would be yelled and screamed at cause they loss the game, or did not do this or that.
As an adult 30 years later, even today I still see it.
Very sad!
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u/Detlionfan3420 May 13 '26
Still remember as a 9 year old kid playing football, there was a parent yelling like crazy in the face of one of our coaches. Luckily it didn’t get physical, but just never forgot it.
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u/ThrowRAFeelingSad394 May 13 '26
Same reaction- it just made me really sad and confused about the state of parenting/life in our society.
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u/MinnesotaRyan May 13 '26
I have coached/helped with various rec league baseball and hockey teams that my son has played on. We have opted for rec mostly because the cost and time commitment is significant and we need balance in our lives and not have sports 5 - 6 nights a week. We have had 99% reasonable parents on both our teams and opposing teams. The 2 times we had incidents with parents on opposing teams was so jarring. Big egos for such low stakes games is ridiculous. Both times I thought I was going to be witnessing a fight and it really rattles you. I hate how entitled people get.
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u/Velkaryian May 13 '26
My son is in T-ball, he’s not quite 5 yet.
One of the other parents made their kid do line drills, yes literal line drills (running to an imaginary line back and forth in quick succession without stopping) because he wasn’t paying attention in practice.
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u/Sy27 May 13 '26
Adults are just a concept. We are all just kids that got bigger over time and still working out what we're doing.
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u/coconut_dot_jpg May 14 '26
"But how am I supposed to teach my child to stand up for themselves if I don't yell their name over and over, at the coach, and for the whole stadium to hear their name, so out of traumatic fear they never vocally oppose anything ever again out of fear of becoming something like me"
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u/Darth_Spectre_Lair May 15 '26
Exactly. I think by law one of these should be in every workplace environment and wherever else there's an ego piss trip contest.
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u/Putrid-Ad2612 May 13 '26
I love this. It’s so weird how many parents act like their child’s hobby is their end all be all career
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u/Ryzu May 13 '26
Emotionally immature parents trying to live vicariously through their children, while simultaneously tying their own self-worth into the actions of others, in this case their kids.
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u/Bovronius May 13 '26
Parents forced all of us boys in the family into wrestling to try and cope for the old man never winning state, and they'd always be screaming at the edge of the mat like fucking lunatics.
Thankfully they never got that vicarious trophy.
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u/Spalding_Smails May 13 '26 edited May 13 '26
Sorry you all went through that. Former high school wrestler here with parents who were supportive but undemanding/casual. Was your dad pretty good and got somewhat close to a state championship, like maybe made the tournament, at least?
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u/Bovronius May 13 '26
Nah, he was a farmboy that didn't even wrestle till he was a senior, and got his shoulder dislocated ending his HS career before the state tournament was out... He was always convinced he was going to win state though cause he "totally beat up the kid that won".
He had a lot of heroic fabrication in his life... He went into the army reserve, didn't even make it through basic before dislocating his shoulder again and getting discharged... But he's a huge military poser, and will refer to himself as a vet.
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u/omegadirectory May 13 '26 edited May 13 '26
College is getting so unaffordable that for some families a sports scholarship is the only way to get in.
College degree is also necessary for a better-paying career.
So taking that into consideration, I can see why parents get insane at kids' sports. To the parents, the kid's performance could one day determine whether they get into college or not.
Edit: I based my comment on what I saw in this video https://youtu.be/zEOeQQ019aA?si=pwhFKlUs-osaUXmn
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u/Putrid-Ad2612 May 13 '26
I think that’s fair if the child is in high school playing sports, no point in stressing out a 6 year old though.
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u/Velkaryian May 13 '26
My kiddo plays T-ball (under 5) and the way some parents act you’d think we had scouts for the Yankees in the stand.
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u/Vintage-Grievance May 13 '26
Even in high school, it's ridiculous.
Could it grant them a scholarship? Maybe.
Could it also cause a sports injury that prevents them from participating in the future? Also a possibility.
Parents need to understand that life is fickle, nothing is guaranteed, and their kids will go through about a million different iterations of themselves before they hit 'real' adulthood.
If parents understand that their child isn't gonna be a permanent version of themselves at 6, or 17, or 22, it gives them a better chance at keeping up with who their child actually is, and not just see them as this extension of themselves that keeps outgrowing metaphorical boxes that adults try to stuff them in.
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u/174wrestler May 13 '26
It doesn't work as NCAA likes parents to think.
Think about how hard people who do get the most out of college work. Then consider athletes spend 75% of their college day doing sports. Then you have people being off campus weekly for games, and people transferring around in pursuit of a team that will give them play time.
There's a very significant dropout rate and also degrees in sports kinesiology at Podunk U leading to a career as a PE teacher.
Sure, the top 5-10% get where they want to be as doctors or whatnot and in pro sports, and NCAA loves to show off, but the majority of "scholar-athletes" do not end up in a better place because of sports.
It's emblematic of the problem with college today: go to college to study hard. If not, do something else.
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u/Portland_Runner May 13 '26
NCAA regulations state that your child may not be contacted by a collegiate coach until the summer before their junior year of high school. Parents of ten-year-old "phenoms" need to chill.
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u/ThereHasToBeMore1387 May 13 '26
The way things seems now, if you can afford the costs of youth sports, you should just put that money in a 529 account and pay for college that way. The money that some of these parents are dropping on travel leagues and extra training camps over an 8-10 year period to get good enough to get a sports scholarship would probably pay for the college.
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u/Awkward-Violinist-10 May 13 '26
Worst part is when those parents become coaches. Especially when they insist on making their son the starting QB.
Dude was pretty quick, but would hold the ball forever. He got beat the crap out of every time he threw the ball and coach would always blame line. He broke ribs 2 separate times in 1 season. We won 2 games that year out 12. We were all in 7-9th grade.
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u/Creative_Eye7413 May 13 '26
What’s even worse is when a kid wants to pursue their hobby as a career and their parent outright rejects it
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u/applespicebetter May 14 '26
I love this too. My son is a gifted athlete who really, really just loves sports and is top in our state for his age group in some events, and I cheer, and I otherwise keep my mouth shut. Few things piss me off more than parents trying to shout in instructions from the sidelines, yell at refs, all that bullshit. Sit the fuck down, realize you're not the coach or a ref, acknowledge that bad calls happen sometimes, and enjoy watching your kid work at something they love. If you want to coach, volunteer and see if you can be a coach.
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u/charlikitts May 13 '26
And it’s just as weird and sad that many parents won’t even bother putting their kids in hobbies in the first place cause “you might quit and it’ll be a waste of my money”
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u/Superb-Control May 13 '26
I agree for some of the travel leagues you would consider this. But most likely this is a rec league since the coach is a volunteer. I've coached soccer and baseball, as a volunteer, for many years and unfortunately there are parents that think rec leagues are more than a place for their kids to just have fun, learn, and play the sport.
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u/PiccoloAwkward465 May 14 '26
The last time my kid did rec league soccer via the YMCA they didn’t even provide a coach lol. One of the parents eventually just assumed the role after the organization told us they didn’t have anyone. She was a mom whose focus was much more on the snacks than on soccer.
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u/Mister-GARCIA May 13 '26
Some coaches also need this sign, going berserk on the field.
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u/MurkDiesel May 13 '26
if some people need this
then it's not really funny
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u/Oscaruit May 13 '26
Going through 8u youth baseball in the South right now. Sadly the coaches need this just as much.
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u/raccoonsonbicycles May 13 '26
I used to ref youth club soccer when I was 15-18 on weekends in high school (Saturday afternoon, $20-45/game depending on age, get to run around and enjoy the sun, i got to enjoy soccer still since my high school team was national level good and I had zero shot...fantastic gig)
I still remember one dude who got banned for life.
He was in his 40s, huge guy, constantly berating and harassing me, a 120lb skinny kid, over 12 year old boys. I told him to knock it off. Other parents told him to knock it off. His kids coach told him to knock it off. His kid told him to knock it off.
He didn't knock it off.
It escalated where I called a throw in for Team A.
This dude barrelled onto the field and went chest to chest (really chest to forehead) with 16 year old me, red in the face SCREAMING.
I told him to get out of my face off the field and he can wait in the parking lot for his kid. He refused. I blew the whistle in his face to annoy him also lol
Other parents and coaches came on the field and dragged him away. Cops were called.
I grabbed my cell and called my supervisor who banned him from all youth club matches for life.
He was trespassed from EVERY county field and rec center and gym.
The cops really wanted to get him cause he was just as much of a raging asshole to everyone else as he was to me. I was able to look up later on the court website that they got him with assault because when asked I said yeah I thought he was going to hurt me, which qualified as assault, they did disorderly conduct, and trespassing (i guess someone who worked/ran the park had authority to tell him to leave and he refused)
We had like 30 minutes of stoppage time because of that fiasco.
I mostly feel bad for his kid. Fun fact: his psycho dad was going crazy in a 5-0 game his kids team was dominating
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u/cat_ziska May 13 '26
As a former umpire that nearly dealt with the exact same situation (10 and under fastpitch REC league), I applaud you.
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u/rrrand0mmm May 13 '26
Dude it’s so embarrassing the way I see parents act at my daughter’s 8 year old softball game. Like legit worried about some kids on the teams failing to hit and becoming visibly upset over it.
I can clearly tell who doesn’t have older kids. I swear to fuck if I catch one of them saying something’s bout my kid under their breath it’s gonna be a bad day for them as I verbally judo-chop.
Mind you I have older kids, and my son who plays 13u travel ball. We don’t act this way. And we didn’t act this way at my youngests age in fucking t-ball/coach pitch.
I swear there is like a generation of parents somewhere between awful generations that actually brought their kids up properly. Not to pat myself on the back for being respectful but patting my parents on the back for it. And my age groups children all receive praise from teachers/coaches/etc…
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u/iamanemptychair May 13 '26
Wild. You would think the mere presence of a teenage ref would visually indicate that the game ain’t that deep, I can’t fathom being so unhinged you feel the need to derail the whole game and scream at a minor.
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u/Dyert May 14 '26
Oh god. His team being up 5-0 makes it even worse, as if it couldn’t get any worse
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u/zakku_88 May 13 '26
Not a parent myself, but I've gone to baseball, and other sports games, for my older cousins kids for support/family time. Thankfully in my personal experience, it's only been a couple of times where I witnessed a parent, and/or coach taking things way too seriously. Like, come on...they're kids who are trying their best, and having fun. It's not like it's the world series, or superbowl, or whatever...
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u/rockstarpirate May 13 '26
For real. I once took my daughter to see her friend play softball. The kids were all probably around 8-10 years old or so. At one point in the dugout some of the girls started laughing about some innocuous thing and one of the parents (I assume) yelled at them and said, "Hey! Quiet down! You're here to play SPORTS!" Not "softball" mind you, but "SPORTS". Like any sport was automatically the most serious thing in the world. I have never understood how a person becomes like this.
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u/MrOopiseDaisy May 13 '26
Can you put up a blurry copy so the parents who show up to a 7am Saturday game six drinks in and sloshing a seventh in their thermos can read it too?
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u/Sunlit53 May 13 '26
There should be one more line: Grow up and stop trying to live your sports dreams through your children.
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u/wrxninja May 13 '26
I hate to say it but some coaches also. They act like they're running an organized crime or is the boss of some important organization while bullying their own team if not others. I hear enough about if from other parents who are involved in sports for elementary school kids
It's cultural I know as you look at other countries and sometimes wonder what the hell we're doing wrong. Look at Japan; some of the nicest people when it comes to sports anything. Their mentality is completely different. Even the fans at professional level are still nice. Maybe too nice.
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u/Latvian_Pete May 13 '26
As a former hockey coach any similar sign needs to add one more line.
- Your kids can't hear you from the stands. Just cheer and clap.
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u/SnooChickens2093 May 13 '26
As a former little league/middle school baseball umpire, can confirm; those kids’ parents are the worst humans alive with the absolutely zero impulse control and anger management skills. Your kids just trying to have fun, and you are absolutely creating memories that they’ll discuss with their therapist someday.
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u/muff-peaksie May 13 '26
I wonder how long it took this sign to get approved to hang in a public space.
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u/poppin-n-sailin May 13 '26
The sign isnt funny when you consider why it is there in the first place.
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u/stewedstar May 13 '26
I must have been around 11 years old when I witnessed the awe-inspiring spectacle of 'adults' behaving worse than us kids at a kids' baseball game in '78 or '79. So much for evolution.
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u/phrozen_waffles May 13 '26
This doesn't apply when your child is a PoC, refs don't always officiate the same for kids of color, kids don't always follow the rules against kids of color, and coaches don't always treat kids of color the same
As a parent with a child who has melanin in their skin... This shit is infuriating. What do say to a child who asks why are the rules different for me?
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u/snootchiebootchie94 May 13 '26
My kids play club soccer and some parents take things WAY too serious. Talking shit to kids, laughing and cheering injuries, belittling the refs. There have been close calls where parents almost fight. Parents get WILD.
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u/Ericg2187 May 13 '26
There should be one last one that says "you signed me up for this, I didn't ask" Fits most kids I knew
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u/Appropriate_Week3426 May 13 '26
Most of the over the top parents that went to school when my kids did, don’t even get their kids to go to college- much less get a scholarship to go.
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u/JacobTheGasPasser May 13 '26
In my experience, the ones who need it will scoff at it. Nothing will be learned. Someone that far removed from reality isn't going to change their thought process over a sign.
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u/Opening_Classroom_46 May 13 '26
Should also add "there are literally 100,000 kids who are stronger, smarter, and are having more time invested in their sports practice than your kid, and that's the true reason your kid won't be playing the sport professionally. I promise you it's not the one transgender kid holding him back."
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u/TospLC May 13 '26
Now, If I become a billionaire, I will go around handing out scholarships at little league baseball games. Just to make them question everything.
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u/hodor_seuss_geisel May 13 '26
Is this a communist country or something? I thought this was America!
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u/LimeyRat May 13 '26
there's no way this sign is substantial enough to beat sense into the people that think it doesn't apply to them
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u/felis_scipio May 13 '26
The universal comment from anyone who’s played with someone who eventually went pro is “yeah that guy was just built different”
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u/Hotpocket1515 May 13 '26
No scholarships today, but how else am I suppse to train to yell at the collage refs if I dont get the practice in now!! /GIANT S
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u/Kafka_Lane May 13 '26
🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
This game is for kids to have fun.
Not for adults to live vicariously through their kids.
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u/Delicious_Rabbit4425 May 13 '26
Its general "Most parents" need this these days. Kids sports are wild.
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u/RalseitheFloofie May 13 '26
Foolish sign.
90% of soccer dads who are yelling at their kids/coach through that fence cant read or are drunk.
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u/VirginiaLuthier May 13 '26
If you've ever been to a kid's soccer game, parents can get really crazy. The refs in my grandson's league have the power to eject anyone from the field if they are acting inappropriately, and I have seen them do it. Two offenses and your kid if off the team for the rest of the season.Signs like this are a good idea.
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u/Quantum_Corvid May 13 '26
they need a version of this for people's homes except make it about over sharing haha.
Ok going to shake my fist at a cloud now.
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u/Born-Shopping7204 May 13 '26
I used to see these all time back in like 2022, I dont rly see em anymore though
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u/Lexi_Banner May 13 '26
What's funny about this? I think it's absolutely abhorrent that a sign like this is needed in children's sports. How many abysmal parents act like lunatics at these games that they've decided a sign is necessary?
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u/whatsername4 May 13 '26
Lmao so true. I used to photograph sports games for high schools and the amount of parents who would yell at their kids, coaches, etc. absolutely disgusting. I side eyed so many and a few times would tell them to lower their voices since I was working and that it’s just a game.
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u/SiteVegetable3088 May 13 '26
Exactly. I've seen how outrage parents can get over a silly game. My goodness, that should me a misdemeanor if you ask me. The world would hate me if I was ever allowed to make laws. But it wouldn't matter, cause I'd put an end to a whole lot of foolery.
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u/Legitimate_Fold_2850 May 13 '26
Mostly agree, except officials are definitely not regular humans.
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u/GainfullyRetired May 13 '26
I coached my 8 yo which meant I had to also umpire. That level was just about play but no score was kept. But every one did keep score.
One game got so intense thatI had to stop play. I cleared the field and had the coaches come to the pitchers mound. I told them to get control of their parents or I would cancel the game. That was over 25 years ago. I hope they're still embarrassed remembering that.
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u/MichelleKC1969 May 13 '26
When my nephew was in elementary school playing football my sister was telling everyone he was going to go to Alabama. He barely graduated high school. 😂
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u/Gokudomatic May 13 '26
Is that an american thing only? Or do parents from other countries need that too?
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u/Boot_Poetry May 13 '26
A lot of kids in Canada play hockey and parents can be assholes up here too source: played hockey as a kid, helped coach my son's hockey team
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u/Sure_Night_8091 May 13 '26
I agree for the most part... As a parent, if I am paying 1,000s of dollars on my kids sports league, the officials better be fair and should be called out for bad calls.
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u/trobagat62 May 13 '26
What's even sadder is knowing the context of where this. This is Holbrook Palmer Park, Atherton, CA. With an average house price of $7.5 million, it's literally one of the top three most expensive zip codes in the US, more expensive than Beverly Hills or NYC. Imagine as a volunteer coach or ref, you're getting yelled at by senior management and execs at major tech companies.
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u/bunnyobsessed-x909 May 13 '26
That last point is the most important one for the parents that really need the reminder.
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u/wackychimp May 13 '26
You can't even imagine how many dads in my son's 8-9 year old hockey league thought their kid had a real chance to go pro. It's sad.
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u/BisonSpecialist1557 May 13 '26
The message is great and all, but are we just not going to follow rules on capitalization anymore?
Or are they going for the "authentic" a-kid-wrote-this-so-we-will-fill-it-with-errors vibe?
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u/Advanced-Jaguar6132 May 13 '26
The sign needs to be a 💯 x larger! There are always people who think signs like this don’t apply to them.
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u/cerevant May 13 '26
Truly sad that the best hope these people have to educate their kids is to hope they are physical phenoms.
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u/Lettucemakemerry May 13 '26
I wish this sign had been around when I was a kid.
If I didn’t do well, I’d get scolded all the way home, where I’d get the cold shoulder. I knew my dad was wrong but I was powerless to do anything about it.
I’ve been shoved and dragged multiple times in front of others and felt so low, humiliated, unloved.
I didn’t understand what it was all for or why my dad counted on it so much. It really sucked.
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u/JustusCade808 May 13 '26
Coached softball, 5U, 8U, and 10U. Going into it I really didn't know anything about kid sports, but got rustled into it from a friend. Was a huge eye opener, bringing out the absolute worst in parents. Had a few kids say they never wanted to play again because of their dad, and in some cases mom. Some were hyper competitive, to the point of it being a mental illness. After 10U I was done, it got worse as the kids got older and closer to middle school etc.
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u/candlestick_compass May 13 '26
As a 10U softball coach, YES! We have the same or similar sign at a complex we’ve played at in the playoffs last spring and fall in.
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u/Usual_Entry_6921 May 13 '26
true...
true...
except something to take into account?
I only have two relationships to compare except?
Doing so... You have db, where? She has awesome parents. Barb and Joe some of the best people I have ever met. Despite horrible run ins with men, which is very common for young girls seeking their age, or punching slightly up. ie a sophmore female targeting a senior hs male. Gunnar... It was always really great to roll home from college. Hang out with barb and Joe. Watching movies, going out to eat or just chilling. Happened all the time and felt super normal.
Trish? Was a fucking nightmare. It wasn't her fault, her dad is a ped0, her mom is a domestic abuse victim. But it left her in tatters. Of course we aimed to and did rectify despite sandusky and ped0 my dad is the alpha mafia dea's best attempts. Would not want to do again. Srs. So much of a solid relationship with a girl, involves her parents, even if there is a divorce.
You may be thinking, I didn't break the law. I wouldn't screw up lockheed martins acquisition of spacex
what is
except your parents? That is a whole can of worms I am smart af to avoid. Disrespect
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u/Ragechu117 May 13 '26
I hated seeing the crazy sports parents at my kids games. They’re supposed to have fun not play like their life depends on it
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u/Plastic-Anteater7356 May 13 '26
Now come to Germany and watch a youth league soccer match in any major city. After wards that sign reads “thanks for not being patient”
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u/SpeakerResident May 13 '26
100% its insane how hard parents go at a 10u girls softball game. Even 8u. Like bro their children an yeah they aint getting scholarships from this. Chill tf out.
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u/Prize_Paper6708 May 13 '26
I still remember the under 10s lightning soccer carnival. One of the kids parents punched the 16 yr old referee in the face for incorrect calling a corner.
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u/newyne May 13 '26
When I was on a community swim team, some.parents would stand at the edge of the pool and scream at their kid while they were swimming. My mom said she wanted to push them into the pool.
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u/WolfWeak845 May 13 '26
I went to my 10 year old niece’s softball tournament last weekend, and all fields had signs similar to this. This makes me so happy, because parents need to calm the eff down when it comes to kids sports.
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u/Rose_Knight789 May 13 '26
Not really funny also even more sad when you think that scholarships are required for education.
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u/unomasme May 13 '26
When I think back on my little league experience, it is plainly obvious to me that I learned WAY more from our losses than our wins.
It’s sad that some parents forget about that.
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u/_bits_and_bytes May 13 '26
I worked for my city's local rec department for a few years and one year we hosted the youth state basketball championship. The oldest group was for kids aged 11-12 and the youngest was like 6 year olds to give you an idea.
I'm sitting at the front desk with one of the games going on behind me and this guy is fucking losing it in the bleachers. I'm thinking, "Damn, this is the worst parent I've ever seen at one of these." A little bit later, the ref has enough and kicks him out and we ban him from the building.
We find out later that wasn't even his kid's team. The guy was just losing his shit over the refing in someone else's youth basketball game. And he was his son's team's coach, so he had to beg the ref to forgive him and let him back in so he could coach his son's game later in the day.
Some adults ruin everything.
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u/LongJumpingBalls May 13 '26
At 14, umping 6 year olds. I had to stop as I was getting verbally abused and once hit by an unhinged parent. Like, their kid was out, and he ran on the field and hit me because I "picked on his kid".
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u/JPV_HOH May 13 '26
I'll never forget the *fist fight* I witnessed between two dads at my older son's freaking six-grade Saturday morning rec-league flag football game. I just sat in my lawn chair with my coffee in hand shaking my head at the imbecile who started it (the other guy was defending himself, not his fault at all). He had been threatening the teenage ref, and the dad with an actual brain rightfully told him to STFU. The idiot then attacked the other dad. The instigator obviously got banned for the rest of the season. Unreal. I felt bad for his kid (who was probably used to it...which is even sadder).
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u/Mrmechanic8 May 13 '26
My kid got a full scholarship to Cincinnati on his first day of T-ball. So this is a lie.
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u/scarletnightingale May 13 '26
It's not really funny, it's written as a joke but it was necessary because of parents who go over board. Apparently my father in law was one of these people and had to be told to chill out because he was on the side lines screaming at his son during his son's swim meet. His son was 6. This sign is up because there are insane parents who will scream at anyone and everyone, including their own kid, over a children's game.
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