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

So much this.

We've got 19 kids on the roster. 13 so far have carried the ball or caught a pass, and we're working on getting touches for the other six.

 

Hey Justin how are things in your neck of the woods. I got a good one for you that you may already know about. They built a beautiful school in Westmoreland that opened in August but they it didn't come with a football/track complex! So they are playing their home games at old W&L High School! Supposedly the football stadium will be ready by next season. Did you hear that the county owns the baseball/softball fields there has a stipulation that no admission be charged to games played on those fields? Therefore Westmoreland is playing those games at old W&L too!!!

 

Haven't been down that way in a minute!

The old W&L stadium ... man. ... I can't believe those bleachers haven't just collapsed at some point.

Re: The admission ... man. .... As a Spotsylvania County tax payer, it makes me angry. I was argued hard for the turf fields at the high schools, but they're priced at a point so that basically no one can afford to use them. Incredibly unfair to the community.

 

What a terrible story.

“Give these kids an answer. Give them a fair chance to defend themselves, to be able to finish out their season that they've worked for," Martinez said.

I mean, I think you know the answer. The kids don't have anything to defend, unless it is bad behavior from their adults.

"Denver7 reached out the JYFA several times to learn more about the reasoning behind the suspension, but has not heard back as of publication." Pretty sure you answered this in the story.

I'm kind of surprised the station gave them a forum for this, especially when bad parents and coaches are a big problem in youth sports. Maybe look into it and see if maybe this was overblown, but as soon as he joked and told the parents to not tone it down, I would have axed it. Or gone much more indepth on the issues in youth sports.

I am not a fan of kids suffering from bad adults, but in this case I don't know what you do. Ban the coaches and parents? Who coaches and gets them there. Also, if the adults are acting like this, unfortunately the kids probably aren't far behind.

 

"Thank you, coach. One follow-up question from the panel:
Which part of Fuck Around and Find Out do you not understand?"

 

What a total jerk of a coach. But then again, middle school scholarships were on the line.

 

Good.

Find ways to cut those coaches and parents out. Sorry kids.

 

This is the perfect example of the 3 minute in depth reporting TV stations love to do. They promote the shit out of it for a couple of days and I'm sure their attempt to reach a league official was 1 phone call that went straight to voice-mail. They wouldn't want to risk anything contrary to their narrative

 

Talk about grown ups ruining sport for the kids. Total jackass and then he resorts to "who will think of the kids?" Well you had multiple chances and instead you thought of yourself. You go make it up to the kids.

 

The video on the link wouldn't load, but I found one on YouTube. If it's the same one, framed mostly around sound bites from a few boys on the team, what a lousy way for a TV station to "report" the "news."

The kids don't know shit about what happened, other than what their coach and their pissed-off parents told them.

Shameful local TV production all the way. Came off more like a "They're killing puppies!" report.