Babies coaching babies

[th3]

I had a coach last night who i know from working his games. Probably not a bad guy off the field, but a whiny crybaby on the field - almost like a softball coach coaching baseball. He and the opposing coach were bickering at each other over some nonsense at one point and he came over a few innings later and told me that i should have intervened because the guy called him a name in front of the kids ("its a fall 10 yr old game, stop being a hardass"). I asked him if he really thought that i needed to get involved with two grown men acting like children. He said - "He started it!"

[BRUMP]

Most times the kids are more mature than the coaches.

[renegadewolf]

Sometimes the kids are more mature than the coaches.

I offer a friendly amendment to your quote that would change the wording of "Sometimes" to "Most times"

[BRUMP]

Sometimes the kids are more mature than the coaches.

I offer a friendly amendment to your quote that would change the wording of "Sometimes" to "Most times"

Fixed it.

[th3]

The same team has another coach who was a paid (presumably) baseball academy guy (not a parent) who came out to ask me if an overthrown ball (that stayed in play) had touched the 1st base coach as he was skipping out of the way of ut...

[UmpJM]

th3,

ANY time 2 members of opposing teams start exchanging anything but friendly words, I'm shutting it down in a New York minute with extreme prejudice.

JM

[Richvee]

Most times the kids are more mature than the coaches.

I've had kids come to bat, and F2's apologize for their coach's behavior. Usually goes something like this.."Sorry blue, he's like this all the time". That's sad.

My favorite from an F2.

F1's missing the outside corner with 4 or 5 pitches to a few batters. Coach starts whining. F2 gets up and yells into his dugout, "Those pitches are all missing outside!" Squats back down and says "Sorry blue, he gets like that when we're losing" :Spit_20Laugh:

[Dannytheman]

th3,

ANY time 2 members of opposing teams start exchanging anything but friendly words, I'm shutting it down in a New York minute with extreme prejudice.

JM

I always says something, but I smile when I say it. "Knock it off you two," said with a smile is always easier. If the smile is taken as weakness? Then extreme prejudice is rendered. "BOOM"!

[Mudder]

10 Yr olds, you know the "rah rah" rally chants/jingles/songs, whatever you call them,, the kids sing from the dugouts (you know the ones).....there is the rhyming one that has a line that says "the pitcher's name is Sally", I forget how it goes........Anyway, two opposing coaches were actually having words over it saying they were calling his players names. One coach asked me to step in, I gave him a long, long look and said "are you kiddin me!"

[th3]

th3,

ANY time 2 members of opposing teams start exchanging anything but friendly words, I'm shutting it down in a New York minute with extreme prejudice.

JM

It was really mild and I did give it a "c'mon guys let's go" which took care of it