chatter from the Library Monkey

why are parents blind

For the life of me, I can’t figure some things out. The parent’s who push their way into the modified team — making out a schedule (and scorekeeper), are now coaching from the stands.

The team got killed last night. For some reason the idiot coach didn’t put in a mercy rule. So the other team had the ability to run up the score. At that point the dad thought it would be smart to encourage kids to do stupid things…ultimately his family paid the price —- which is still stupid.

The first thing he did is tell the old, (albeit dumbest — you don’t flunk eighth grade for nothing) play that no one was covering second base. So bobo (yes stupid bobo) tried to steal second and got caught.

the next inning a player hits a single and this dad yells: “go to second.” The kid was safe and made it to third on an error.

The next inning his son gets on first — only by error, because the kid has been limping all week. He has some kind of hip injury. I asked him how he felt and he made some comment that indicated he was in pain. I think what happened was a walk, so the kid was on second base and stole third — the only reason I can think is that the kid got a signal from his dad… There was an overthrow and said kid goes home. He didn’t need to, but on plays at the plate kids have to slide. One play later it is an out and I find out that we are asking the umpire if we can put in a benched player to replace this kid, because he is hurting.

The game ends with two stupid things happening — our seventh grade pitchers either having sore arms or severe embarrassment. Bobo pitched for a couple-three innings, he did well if you count strikeouts, if you count the runs he gave up — he was crappy.

The ultimate bad decision was to let the local kid only play two innings. It went closely to saying six kids could only play two innings, yet six kids could play all seven

Purely foolish, from my perspective

The Tigers knocked off the yankers again that is always satisfying.

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