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

This says that they will have a certified ump with the parent umps to make sure things run smoothly.

I like the idea. Maybe some of these parents will learn to cool off.

Town introduces ingenious rule to stop yelling at Little League games

 

Everyone not only gets a trophy, they get a lineup spot.

 

Because we're all aware of how Little League works, I'm positive this just means that asshole coaches will have smaller rosters from now on. This rule should be coupled with one mandating a minimum roster size.

 

This was the policy when Huggy Jr played house league from 6-9, was never an issue with asshole coaches fudging roster sizes, more about the clowns now knowing the rules.

 

Our idiot little league teams have 13-15 kids on them. Continuous batting and free substitutions is a god send.

 

My daughter played competitive softball. They would bat 12 for the first part of the season, then drop to 9 as they got ready for Provincials. It gave every kid a fair chance to show what they could do with the bat.

 

My 5-year-old son is in his second season playing NFL-sponsored flag football (they have fall and spring seasons).
Last fall he was 4 and barely paid attention. We weren’t too concerned. But this spring he still just stands there during almost all of the plays and doesn’t do anything. No other kids on the team do that.
Does anyone have any advice on how to get a young kid to get motivated to at least TRY in sports?
We’ve tried bribing him with lunch wherever he wants after the game, etc. And, he claims he wants to play, but he won’t give any effort. Any advice would be much appreciated.

 

I am sure not when rules change, but we have the option to bat all or do a lineup. If you bat all you have free substitution other than pitcher. If you bat a true line up you have to sub. Sometimes teams will bat all on Saturday, but only nine on Sunday. Most bat all. I have seen a few teams who have a good pitcher who can't hit try and sneak them in on defense only. Pretty stupid all around, doesn't help the kid grow, bad sportsmanship.

Our coach hits everyone and I don't ever see that changing the way he plays and his philosophies. There are times I wish he'd hit nine on bracket days, but I don't lose sleep over it.

 

One, he's 5. Two, I don't think you can ever make a kid show effort. They just kind of have to. If he says he wants to go, keep signing up and showing up until he doesn't want to anymore. Just keep it fun and positive.

My youngest played soccer for a full year last year (he is now 8). He isn't much of a sports kid. He likes art and dancing. But he did his absolute best when he was engaged. So the coach and you and whoever just keep things interesting in practice with something for them to do and again, keep it fun. If he was 12 and doing this it's a different story, but let it work itself out. I wouldn't force any of it or he definitely won't want to try it or new things down the road.

 

Another fun (annoying) aspect of the tournament baseball bullcrap is weather cancellations. It is such a roulette of whether or not games get played here if weather happens within 24 hours (and sometimes more). We had a bunch of bad weather move through yesterday, and it wasn't great, but it was gone by 5 p.m. Of course our games, in a five-game guarantee weekend, today were scrapped. And didn't find out until we had to wake up for an 8 a.m. game. The kicker? There are at least three complexes in the same area, all run by different groups, that are still playing today with no delays. Freaking high school state tournament games are happening across the street from the complex we are set to play.

It is so annoying and happens all the time. I am sure it happens everywhere but seems especially common here (Colorado). Happened last week too (although last week we had much longer prolonged straight rain). This is the second time it's happened for an 8 a.m. game. I don't get how they don't have backup plans for when something like this happens, a delay, move to a different field -- the site of the organization that is running this tournament is located in my city and there is nothing here this weekend. Teams travel, make plans, and spend lots of money and it all seems to get scrapped when field directors decide they want a day off. None of the fields around here are even that nice!

Rant over. I think I am over this baseball season, and we still have about half of it to go.

 

Interesting piece.