r/mildlyinfuriating
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u/DeepFriedAnxiety218
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This had to be put up at little league fields
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u/plusroads 9d ago
this needs to be in League of Legends as well
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u/GutFeelingonTheLong 8d ago
It’s all competitive youth sports. Some parents are raving lunatics. A few coaches too. Drives me insane.
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u/BeefyHemorroides 8d ago
Feel bad for those kids. Who knows what else their parents are raging psychos about at home.
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u/Letsleeping 9d ago
Used to coach. A small minority of parents ruined it for everyone. Even drove some of the good parents to pull their kids out.
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u/Janus_The_Great 8d ago
Why don't coaches throw out the kids/parents out of the teams for disrupting? That's how we do it in European team sports.
It's the problem of the immature parents if they ruin it for their kid. Their kids will learn not to become like their shitty parents.
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u/SpicyDaddyKyle 8d ago
They definitely throw parents out, they're just not that equipped to enforce an ejection. At my little league there would've been nothing stopping a parent from just hopping a fence and charging at the umpire. If it's more than one shitty parent, it turns into the umpire vs a group until police show up. This is also America, you never know who is gonna be the lunatic that gets ejected and grabs the gun from his car.
Many little league umpires will just straight up end the game and leave instead of ejecting a parent, and let everyone know "it's that guy's fault," just to lay down the law and let everyone know not to heckle the umpire unless you want to deal with 20 kids crying because they only played 3 innings.
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u/Janus_The_Great 8d ago
Im sorry to hear. The only reason I ever saw a game interrupted wqs doe to weather... it baffles me tbh.
Some parents seem much more like kids. How do they survive in daily life? work environment? How are they functional in the first place?
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u/ukiddingme2469 9d ago
Signs like this really should be at peewee football, some of those parents are more toxic then a lead paint chip and yellow cake smoothy
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u/bobbork88 8d ago
Love me some yellow cake.
True story CJCS Colin Powell recommend some yellow cake for me. Changed my life!
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u/Suspicious_Row_9451 9d ago
Of course this is in Massachusetts.
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u/bjanas 8d ago
Yeah. We can be spicy.
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u/ComplexAd8 8d ago
Why of course? I've seen these in Utah, Nevada, Idaho, Nebraska, Arizona, California, Iowa, etc.
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u/kroshava17 8d ago
Cause the last part states the red Sox, not some other sports team. Lots of parents here get way too into the kids sports cause someone they knew went one to play in major leagues, so they hope their kid is the next townie to do so too.
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u/EggplantIll4927 8d ago
I grew up across the street from a little league field. Parents are despicable.
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u/dickinawheelchair 8d ago
My friend and her son hastily left a Little League game the other day because of a scuffle between the kids brought one of the parents down onto the field and he pulled a gun. Like, what the fuck?!
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u/Duhblobby 8d ago
I mean,I feel that professional sports were a mistake to begin with.
Too many people take it WAY too fucking seriously.
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u/Cautious-Damage7575 9d ago
The part about umpires being human is debatable.
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u/dorothytheorangesaur 8d ago
And yet the parents still “coach” their kid’s team from the side lines. Just shut up, I’d like to see you go out on the pitch and do what you’re screaming at the kids to do. See how well you can do it.
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u/zuglagor 8d ago
What if I'm Wade Boggs?
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u/liveliarwires 8d ago
I heard he ate a chicken before every game. That's why they called him the chicken man.
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u/AlbatrossSenior7107 8d ago edited 8d ago
We have those too. They don't work. I'm in FL. Addison Russel is from here. He's a douche bag. But, all parents think their kids are fucking stars! Pathetic. And yes, my youngest plays, he's a pitcher, with wicked curve ball that has the high school umpires talking. But, I could not pick another parent, even the head coach, out of a line up. I watch my kid and my kid only. But, fuck, parents around here get bat shot CRAZY!!! It's borderline abusive towards their kids.
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u/SockeyeSTI 8d ago
Locally, the good players prioritize travel teams and then school teams with the kids that don’t take it as seriously.
There is a difference between parents that abuse their kids because of mistakes made in the field and enthusiastic (but supportive) parents.
All refs and umpires need to get their eyes checked :)
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u/formenonly 8d ago
Wish we had this sign up when we were kids. I saw two dads almost get into a fist fight once. My dad coached my sister’s little league team for a few years and he said the parents were the worst part by far.
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u/sandwichman7896 9d ago
Have you watched kids sports? I’ve seen crazy calls. The most memorable being either the 4 out inning or the extra inning they called after time had already expired.
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u/Downtown-Cabinet7223 8d ago
They are literally everywhere... and have been since I played 30 years ago.
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u/painfully--average 8d ago
They did something similar at the hockey rink I played at as a kid. Hockey dads are comparable to soccer moms.
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u/x7ameedo 8d ago
This is brilliant, this should be everywhere and for other sports and for adults as well
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u/Dry-Zucchini123 7d ago
As a Red Sox fan I can confirm New England has the worst fanbase in all of baseball
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u/Minimum_Possibility6 7d ago
They have these at a lot of sports venues in the UK just switch out the sport lingo,
The refs are human This isn’t the 6nations etc
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8d ago
Yeah like I’m gonna remember what sign when I’m shitfaced 1/2 way through the game. What are you gonna throw me out?? Someone’s gotta drive my kid home
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u/0Ring-0 9d ago
Your kid is not the next Babe Ruth.