re: Post your top stories of ill behaving youth sports parents

Team B scheduled as Home. So team A's argument to that was that recreation dept means for the first team on the schedule to be the home team.

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The kids are trying hard and we expect perfection from the players, so we expect perfection from the umpires, too."

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oh my goodness. I had a player on my boys Tball team remain on the field with the other team for three batters the other day.

I umpired in college for the YMCA league in Tuscaloosa. Top two teams in the 9-10 yr old league squared off and it came down to one bases loaded, two outs situation. The batter hit a laser line drive right down the 3rd base line clearing the bases.

Now I've seen my share of angry coaches/parents but this group was two levels above anything i had ever seen playing, coaching or umpiring. I had a flock of angry dads and moms threatening to kick my arse the rest of the game. They would stalk me on the fence line in between innings to call me all kinds of things. I was pretty smug and just turned my back to them until one point where I turned around and said 'it was a fair ball get over it' which sent them into orbit. Fortunately some other parents ran interference to allow me to get out of the park because it was clear these necks meant business afterwards.

A couple YEARS later, i'm eating at a restaurant and some old guy comes up to my table and says 'you made the right call, i'm sorry you caught that much hell, but it was right in front of me and i just wanted you to know you got it right.'

Sadly I knew without a doubt exactly what game and play he was talking about.

So here's one that involved a family member.

Family member had a son that was a good soccer player. Was one of those kids that was always on the best teams, and if he was off one weekend, another team from a close by town would pick him up for a weekend tournament. Basically, they lived at the soccer field year round between spring/summer season, fall season and winter indoor.

They won a 12 and under state championship and the son is close to 30 and that trophy is still on their mantle.

Kid gets to high school and starts to care more about chasing pussy than playing. He plays high school soccer but that was about it. A couple of junior colleges recruited him and a D3 school wanted him (remember men's soccer isn't big on the college level in the South) but he wanted to go be a frat star at State and chase puss.

Anyway, he had a much younger brother that never really played much or cared about it at all. He wanted to take guitar lessons and stuff and parents wanted him to play soccer. Forced him to play soccer one spring/summer and it was a terrible experience. He was the worst player on a bad team. The parents decided the best thing for them to do was to coach him so he could get more playing time, so the dad signed up to coach during fall season with the younger son begging not to play.

Fall season comes around, and they are even more terrible. Dad is playing the son at positions he has no idea how to play and its horrible. Parents of the rest of the team are frustrated. Then the great uniform debacle happened.

They ask all the parents to pay $60 each for custom uniforms like the other teams halfway through the season. This team is 0-and-whatever and getting beat 8-1 every game. The parents of the other players just sort of grumble and don't commit - let the season end. But they had already ordered the uniforms and they came in with two games to play. They demanded payment or kids couldn't play and kids just walked away. One mom got pissed and told my family member that her son needed to be playing on the retard team and a fight broke out at practice.

The rest of the season was canceled, the association ended up paying for the uniforms that weren't used, and my family members were banned from coaching.

When I coached a summer league swim team a recently divorced mom offered to sleep with me if I let her kid swim in the league championship meet.

In this league you were only allowed 3 entrants per age group per event.

This was a no brainer, as our third kid in that age group wasn't going to score points anyway, and she was hot.

Oh, you are spot on. The younger the worse

One of our pitchers in middle school had a pretty dysfunctional relationship with his dad. One game his dad is sitting behind home plate and giving the son a hard time. Son is not pitching well. After walking about the third batter of the inning, the dad says something and the pitcher flips him off on the mound.

The ump thought he was flipping him off (make sense considering he just called four straight balls on him) and tosses the pitcher out the game.

My buddy's dad was our coach and I'll never forget him having to walk up to the umpire to explain that the pitcher was actually flipping his dad off, not the umpire.

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When it came time to pick the All-Star team, she and her son had no doubt he was going to be on the All-Star team, but he didn't make it.

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This is common. Parents are the deciding factor when kids are close in ability. Cant blame the coaches. Also, i feel the guy who gets on his kid if his kid doesn't try. Just make sure you are on his butt the same way if he is lazy at math.

My daughter has been playing competitive soccer for four years around LA with trips to Ms, Al and FL. I've never seen anything worse than some other parents fussing a bit at the ref. Even that was only audible within a few feet of the sideline. I have seen older boys' team players come to blows with the opposing players but the parents weren't involved.