I love baseball and was pumped to finally have an opportunity to coach and by the time my kid got out of coach pitch I hated coaching and started to despise a lot of people who thought their 8 year old was going pro... My son and I always talked about coaching together when he was out of school and were pretty excited about it! Shitty parents killed that idea quick! Mom’s are the worst!
Told one dad that the clipboard was on the fence and he could have my hat, he told me he didn't want it, I then told him if he wasn't going to coach then go sit his ass down in the stands and be quiet. The other parents all applauded.
@@stevenieder8965 This is one of those "yeah that happened" moments that I actually believed happened since I was a high school kid umping little league in my town.
When I was a kid, I absolutely loved playing baseball - more than anything else. We'd play as many as five games a day in our yards, in the streets and on a field we made ourselves. Good fun. Great fun. And I dreaded when we had to stop to go play a little league game. It was the best of times and it was the worst of times.
I was a little league coach for many years. I knew I was going to have a problem with a dad, when the first words out of his mouth was that "I could have played major league baseball."
When I coached, I always wore a hat. Before the game ....during the game ....or after the game ...when some parent who never even watched practice or barely came to the games came up to me to offer their great advice ....or to tell me how dumb I was ....I just politely said, "you know what this is a great chance for both of us ....I'm actually kind of busy and don't have time to coach anymore ...so why don't you coach this team....or come help me at practice and be asst coach....and then I would offer them my "coach's" hat .....at which point I would hear....ummmm or well i cant because...and the i would cut them off and say, "there can only be one coach. I just offered to let you do it. Since you wont, then I will coach as I see fit....thanks for your help and turn my back and walked away. Worked every time. Parents.....moms running out on the field because johnny fell down and skinned his knee. And the yelling...like lunatics
Mr Coolio. I know exactly what you mean. Parents don't want to help, don't attend the league meetings, never around for practice and some even show up late after practice to pick up their kids while you visit till they do. 17 yrs I donated my time trying to teach what my coaches taught me and tried to make it fun for the kids. The last year I coached the parents made me decide I had enough cause it seemed to get worse every year.
I'm an umpire and I use a similar technique... I try to have a rule book on me and if someone starts yapping about rules from the stands, between at bats, I'll hand them the book. I offer them a cold one after the game if they can find the rule that I didn't get right. Things get quiet and we get back to the game. I have not had it go wrong yet.
My husbands first year coaching and he has none of it. Grew up in a disciplined home and was an athlete himself. Your too kind and too nice 😅. My husband will just tell you the truth and how it is. We lost two in a row our first two games than won 5 in row after those two losses. Parents out of no where wants to coach give advice and at one point a parent tried to run the practice. My husband stopped told the kids to go back to their routine. But I completely understand where your coming from or how about when a parent advices that their son has been working on there pitches and that they only pitch but realize they are better at short stop than pitching
@@1USACitizen192 then you obviously completely miss the point of coaching. There area lot of great coaches out there. Men who do it to teach a sport,for love of the game, to mold young people. Sure, there area lot of guys out there like that. Personally, I think that you have missed out on a great opportunity to actually be the former and make a difference in a lot of people's lives....JS
I worked baseball, football and basketball for a number of years including time with my father who was a ref for nearly 40 years. Parents often did not know the rules and their view of plays were often obstructed yet they claimed to see much more than the officials.
when i was growing up parents were advised to be civil and not do things to ruin the game for the kids and when parents took it upon themselves to step out onto the field, the game got cancelled
man....there was always that one team in little league with that loser coach trying to relive his failed HS baseball career who tells his kids to run like this cause you know most of the time the kids f it up and the runner is safe. Here is that dbag coach.
It isn't easy keeping kids at that age into the game. Without that guy being over the top, half the team would be in the stands with their moms eating hotdogs
Throw the ball to the catcher and just let the runners advance and try against the next batter. Only way to "steal" a base at that age and the more you throw the ball around, the more runs will come across.
Chuck, just wanted to put this out there!! In the small town I grew up in, then years later helped run the baseball league! We had 250 kids sign up to play ! That was A LOT at the time. We were begging dads to coach a team. Some of the dads that did said they didn't know how. But the kids got to play! I understand what your sayin , but sometimes theres reasons for this. Good day!
As a baseball president for a league in Austin awhile back I had to pull out our kids in playing in a league where parents of the other team wanted to fight our 13-14 year olds because they claimed our pitchers were cheating.
We started a youth league with no national affiliation so we could institute common sense rules that put the kids first. One rule - parents are prohibited from coaching from the stands (yelling instructions, etc.) and openly criticizing players, coaches, or umpires. We had to warn several, eject a few from games, and ban a couple. But it worked and produced a much better environment for the players. But of course, a couple parents who didn't like it used their influence with officials at the town where we used fields.
This is why I stopped coaching after five years. So many douchebags in the staff showing the boys how not to act, so many asshole parents that have no idea what is going on in the game, and no one treating umps with respect for taking their time to try and help the kids learn the game.
When my kids were younger, I coached football, baseball, and basketball. No matter what sport, the parents always know more than anyone else... It a wonder why there's a coaching shortage in youth sports.
The worst is when they DO know more than anyone else... coached a girls fastball team and her dad was a former national team player. Such a good guy to coach with, but oh my lord, an angry beast during games. I never understood it, given that he'd seen the worst parents in the world in his career. Talked to him about it and he literally had no idea he was THAT bad. Turns out chirping kids umpires and saying the kind of stuff you say to world championship umpires are different levels of aggression. You can get away with it saying it to an old dude who has heard the same thing a million times, a 15-year-old kid doing his second game? Not so much. But it was so ingrained into his being that he did it without thinking. Crazy stuff.
CT Lookouts vs. The Montebello Mayhem. It looks like the coach was mad because he was trying to call time out but the players were still running, so time was not granted. He does not have to grant the time out if he sees activity on the bases but given the circus that was playing out, he probably should have just been cool and granted the coach the time out.
So the coach can't call time he can only request time and in this case it should be done from the dugout door. You are correct. Time does not have to be granted. A live play is happening, time will not be granted to save the defense from making additional mistakes. The umpire handled that properly. Not only that but with the coach out on the field I may just miss a tag attempt. Can't call an out you can't see because the coach is where he shouldn't be. Oops. ;)
mjb2424 And many coaches who understand the game teach their players to hold onto the ball, and stop the errors. Some skills are supposed to be taught by coaches.
I coached baseball and soccer for 8 years and after listening to a few obnoxious parents I made a new rule: If the parent was just terrible to his/her child or coaches, I would remove their child from the game. It worked, many times to parent would would leave the game and he cold discuss with his child and the child would reenter the game. I know this was probably ot fair to the child, but that is my ruls.
What sucks being an umpire is you have no authority over the parents (at least in my organisation I umpire for), so as a result you have to warn the coach of whoever parents kid is in to tell the parents to knock it off or have the coach be ejected.
I don’t remember if the league I played for when I was young they could but in the league I ran the umps could throw out anybody. They would give the coach a warning for an individual then one for the team then they would throw out the next parent then they would forfeit the game.
My dad knew how to separate being a coach and a dad. After practice we’d get to the car he would take off his hat and go “how was practice son?” And id go “great but coach is a fu*king asshole”
0:20 that’s how you know that first base coach only cares about winning and not about the kids and their safety... sends the kid to second just so the kid can score... terrible coaching! Let the kids have fun
Maybe baseball at this level should be like tennis or golf - silence from the stands during play. This is a big reason why many kids leave organized sports.
Jaqs I used to umpire baseball (many different levels) years ago, and I remember talking to a high school coach (who was also a softball umpire), and he described a summer program he used to run. It was during the day, and involved no set leagues or teams. No parents were allowed near the field, and he hired his high school players to essentially do the coaching, umpiring, etc. Every once in a while, they would take out equipment used for batting practice and other baseball skills. The idea was to create something like The old sandlot, where kids would just play without being part of an organized league or team. There was no pressure to win, just to have fun. I thought then, and still think today, that this is the way kids should play baseball (emphasis on “play”).
John Cronin You know, it's funny. I do baseball at the HS, NAIA and at the minor league level. I also HS girls volleyball. It is so nice to get away from the field where we are continually being berated and then go in the gym where no one can yell at us. It keeps my sanity after 36 years of officiating. The abuse continues to escalate. It's no wonder there hardly any umpires under the age of 40. And the ones that we recruit don't make it past their first year.
What do they expect going crazy is going to do? The umpire is not gonna reverse his call there is no instant replay! It's pointless to act this way it's done.
I don't think he did, although he would have been well within his right. I think he walked back to the backstop, maybe to talk with the book about what just happened.
How is all the base “stealing” helping the kids? Is all they care about scoring more and more runs? Terrible fundamentals and demoralizing to the players.
ATTENTION PARENTS AND COACHES....your little player, son, daughter, whatever has virtually ZERO chance of playing sports for a living. IT IS A RARE THING. Your player is not that good. Let them enjoy playing without all the crappy trash talk. Quit being assholes and just have fun.
Those coaches are some of the laziest I have seen during the games. They are not teaching baseball. They are teaching an alternative way to play the game which the kids end up having zero fun and get burnt out by the time they are in middle school. Why? Because of the poor coaching. In this play all you see is offensive players learning how to take a base and then another base, keeping the play alive and celebrating excessively for no good reason. Don't get me started with the parent screaming over and over. You can bet that if a parent from the opposing team stooped to his low level, that same parent would whine about that behavior. HYPOCRITES!
that was the coach. looked like he was trying to call time because the ball was in the infield. that age group probably has a rule once the ball is in the infield the runners can't try to draw throws and advance bases. you see that weak sheat all the time in youth baseball. coaches teaching terrible base running trying to score runs takign advantage of young arms and kids that can't catch.
Parents were yelling and talking smack at my daughter pitching today. She slowed it way down and no one could hit her. The better she did, the more they ran their mouths. I yelled at my daughter to turn it up all the way. They were even more mad. The final score 18-0. She went from pitching 41mph to 53mph....maybe next time they stay quite or maybe practice with their kids to get better.
Sad. Sad coaches teaching their kids how NOT to play the game of baseball. There is no glory in a meaningless 10u victory. Bad coaches, awful parents... leads to kids being cut in HS.
Judging by the quality of play on the field, I first though it was a Pittsburgh Pirates game at PNC Park. Then the camera pulled back a little and I could see I was wrong....there were way too many people there for it to be the Buccos. lol No, strike the "lol." It's f***ing pathetic. #BobNuttingSucks
The PROBLEM here is IF that field is a PUBLIC FIELD and is paid for by the county or the county parks dept UNLESS YOU HAVE VIOLATED THE LAWS OF THAT STATE AND/OR FEDERAL LAWS YOU CANNOT BE TRESPASSED BECAUSE YOUR TAX DOLLARS PAY FOR THAT FIELD, IT'S UP KEEP AND THE UMPIRES THAT ARE CALLING THE GAMES THERE !!
Kicking parents out of games totally uncalled for I use to coach baseball in Vegas for my son's team the only parents got kicked was for fighting or saying something to other kid players
My brother in law was a coach.he was suspened for life from coaching. He had a temper and HATED to lose. The following year he became an Ump. No one ever questioned his calls.
The youth game has turned into a complete travesty. Take sign, draw walk, invoke errant throw and ‘round the bases! Sorry but that doesn’t work against real competition.
