Youth Sports (i.e. the thing we all loved which parents have now ruined)

Dude is an asshole for sure, but I don't think he was accusing McNuggetsMan of molesting kids.

 

Nope, that was precisely what he was alleging. Enough of the "I was only joking" bullshit.

 

Oh for God's sake ...

 

I mulled this over today and realized this is one of those instances in which someone else's story became mine. The someone else is my closest friend from my sportswriting days. He was on a SEC(-ession) coaches teleconference and Ford, noting that the reasons his team had lost the previous game were obvious, said "it don't take no scientific rocket" to see why that deal had gone down. That was such the quintessence of Ford-speak that it became as real to me as if I'd heard it myself.

Another Ford quote story -- again, one I experienced through my friend -- was when he was still at Clemson and they went up to Maryland and got the shit kicked out of them. The defense, especially, got mauled. One of the writers was working this "How'd your defense get manhandled that badly?" angle, and Ford interrupted ... "Hell, they was blockin' our ass, buddy!"

Ford was always very nice to me when I was a college kid reporter and then later, on those rare occasions when I'd actually cover a Clemson game. My family has always had a soft sport for him, too, because he was so kind to a cousin of mine who'd been a regular at one of Ford's summer camps. My cousin was pretty big and may have turned out to be college prospect material, but he broke his neck in a pool accident right before his junior year and survived as a quadriplegic for 40-ish years. Whenever I'd see Ford, even years after the injury, he'd ask about my cousin.

 

I gotta side with Circus on this one: In my experience, when someone says "fuck over," they're not talking about literal intercourse, more like doing someone wrong.

Yes, from the sound of it, the guy's an obnoxious moron, but you can make an excellent case to ban without bringing molestation into it.

 

Who brought molestation into it?

 

Jim Kaat?

 

Among others, the guy who apparently doesn't know what "precisely" means.

 

Fuckers like Asshole Phone Dad deserve no benefit of any doubt. He's reading from the fucking QAnon playbook: accuse everybody of pedophilia right off the bat, knock them off balance off their heels, make them concede to you to hopefully shut you up, then once he wins this week's battle he'll come back next week and call the coach a kidfucker because he put your kid #6 in the order. Then the week after that he can call the 3B coach a kidfucker because he gave your kid the take sign on 3-1.

Nip it! Nip it in the bud! Don't laugh it off, make him pay for it. Take your kid and get lost. Get him out of your hair.

 

I did. I can see the other meaning being possible, maybe even probable. But as batshit insane as people have gone with tossing out those allegations (the whole “groomers” thing has strong McMartin preschool trial vibes), I see no need for any sane person to put themselves potentially anywhere close to that psychosis.

Maybe the dad is a great guy who had one bad moment. Swell. Let him go be a great guy on someone else’s clock. The risk ain’t worth it.

 

If he's really a great guy who had one bad moment, he'll take his kid and go play in some other league this year. If he straightens out and wants to come back next year ... we'll see.

But if it's not just one bad moment, he'll be back next week calling you and your wife kidfuckers for bringing cheese sticks instead of granola bars for the between game snacks.

 

Be prepared, though. He or mom will go on FB complaining that the league is unfair and threw the kid out all because he called and asked why you didn't put his boy on the A team. Of course he'll leave out all the facts but he'll make you out to be the evil ones.