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

I found this story on another forum. A town's umpire association refused to have its umps call games after a pair were harassed and threatened.

https://www.boston25news.com/news/l...ittle-league-game/7XLH6FEYSJAWJHIMCJ4L6J44JE/

The umps were adults.

The thread I found it in has some awful stories about parents threatening teenagers umping games.

https://sonsofsamhorn.net/index.php...se-to-work-taunton-little-league-games.39661/

 

We had a thing happen in a tournament this past weekend that I haven't seen before.

My kid's team was dominating. There were less than 10 minutes left and his team was hitting and close to run ruling. We had a scoring mishap (I handle most of the team's scoring but it wasn't me), so we incorrectly called run rule and the umps went with it. The other team figured out where we were wrong and after some back and forth and a few minutes the teams went back on the field and we apologized.

Then after one pitch to the next batter they called game because the other team thought if they gave up the actual run rule run -- runner was on second, only one out -- they might not make the championship bracket. It was the state championship for this organization, not that it really matters in the end. Our coaches didn't care so ball game.

That team ended up being the 16th of 16 teams in the main bracket. I wonder if that run really kept them in it? And they upset the No. 1 seed. Maybe we should have forced them to finish the game, either run rule or time limit. This stuff is so silly for youth baseball.

 

Many scholarships were probably cost …

 

https://www.outkick.com/dad-blows-out-his-knees-after-arguing-with-umpire/

 

93devil says she had it coming:

Witnesses: Basketball referee attacked by members of Cincinnati youth girls team

 

Bofum?

 

I was ready to fight after sitting through that video, which consisted of four minutes of talking heads (including teevee commentators who were nowhere near the game) yacking at each other and then 30 seconds of digitally defocused video of the alleged actual incident.

Throughout the whole thing, my main reaction was, "the team that's behind 41-10 is talking shit and starting the fight?"

 

He’s still here scouting.

 

Yesssssssss it's football season again.

 

Faking so hard you get tackled is just like blocking someone.

 

At age 11. GTFOH with this.

 

Holy shit!

Kansas high school honors photographer who died after sideline fall at football game