OT: Confidence will take you a long way kid

[dnc]

We had junior high sports and I started playing organized football and basketball in 7th grade. Before that time my dad would not let me play little league baseball. He didn't like it and quite honestly I didn't miss it. His thought was that kids should just go out and play and that we did. I never warmed up to organized sports. Hated officials and coaches. Loved pick up basketball.

My son went out for 8th grade basketball at South Shore and there were like 20 kids. I volunteered to coach a team so we could split it up. I got the 10 worst players but we had fun. [/b]I was a roll the ball out kind of coach. During games I was Bobby Knight on the refs. Not my finest hour

Nice of you to coach your son like that

 

[BennyBeaver]

“I never liked organized sports” = “I was never good enough to make the team”

IR, YK

 

[PurpleThrobber]

I'm hoping to avoid going to youth sports ball games till like, at least, age 9 or 10.

On slow strategy brand

Aside from youth soccer, which is chindisputably trash, never got the hate for youth sports. Other than the driving, I love it.

You’ve never coached apparently.

The hate would consume you. Fuck parents.

You have no idea. I've done pretty much all of it. But, wasn't talking about the parents part, which can be twash as fudck but also made a lot of friends there too. I was talking about just the kids playing

The kids are great.

The parents are fucky as all fuck and ruin it for the kids. And for the other fucky parents. And for the coaches. And referees.

Now, let me tell you about opposing coaches who try to steal your players in the post-game handshake line. That's a whole different level of fucky.

 

[creepycoug]

@dnc

Did the CUBS wiin, or nah?

No fucking clue.

They don't keep score here until 7 years old so next year. I always keep score unofficially of course and tell my kid if they won or lost but I'll be damned if I'm showing up to a t ball game my kid isn't playing.

T ball isn't for sermon seekers.

Just what I'm hearing.

I umped it years ago - next town over pays umps even for 3-4 yo t ball. You literally do nothing other than place the ball on the T and collect a paycheck. It's where all the umps start out at, if you can survive the monotony they think you may have a chance to stick. I made it one year.

Then I coached it when my son was 4. That's enough t ball for me. I'll go if my kid is playing but otherwise no mas por favor.

Only a pedophile would go to tee ball games that their child or relative wasn’t playing in.

Pretty much. T-ball is fucking brutal even when you have your kid there. I'd rather watch Fencing.