Article on overbearing father

[_MIA_]

Some of you probably have seen this, if not then it is a good read imo even if it is a fictional story and a bit over the top (the whole beer drinking thing was dumb and unnecessary..).

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www.jerradhardin.com

 

[OK04dad]

Ouch...

My DD is a pitcher, and she can play any other position and I'm fine. But once she gets in the circle I'm a mess. I'm Steve Martin in The Father of the Bride, flipping out over hot dog buns.

 

[Gags]

There's an article like that almost every issue of the Little League newsletter - the frequency of which they appear make it seem like they're focused on shaming the parents than thanking them for volunteering or signing their kids up every season. I'm not saying these situations don't exist, but at some point it becomes a "preaching to the choir" effect.

 

[_MIA_]

There's an article like that almost every issue of the Little League newsletter - the frequency of which they appear make it seem like they're focused on shaming the parents than thanking them for volunteering or signing their kids up every season. I'm not saying these situations don't exist, but at some point it becomes a "preaching to the choir" effect.

Well this is the first one I have seen since I don't subscribe to the LL newsletter..

 

[Gags]

I’d say consider yourself lucky if your local league isn’t an affiliate when you sign your son up. The amount of communication can be almost spam-like.


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[OsDad]

Some of you probably have seen this, if not then it is a good read imo even if it is a fictional story and a bit over the top (the whole beer drinking thing was dumb and unnecessary..).

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www.jerradhardin.com

It was a good read but the biggest fiction by far was an umpire warning a verbally abusive parent lol! Maybe I'm a little jaded though

 

[_MIA_]

I’d say consider yourself lucky if your local league isn’t an affiliate when you sign your son up. The amount of communication can be almost spam-like.


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No local rec which he will play eventually isn't LL affiliated.

 

[_MIA_]

It was a good read but the biggest fiction by far was an umpire warning a verbally abusive parent lol! Maybe I'm a little jaded though

Well the umpire was getting on the guy for complaining about a strike call..I've seen that plenty . Now if the umpire was getting on somebody sitting in LF complaining to himself that his DD's 3rd base coach kept sending runners from second to third with 2 outs resulting in them making the third out at third base not once, not twice but three times in one game, that would be a first. Not that I know anybody who does that...

 

[Rick M]

If you haven't been up to your ears in maudlin Jerrad Hardin sob stories, you aren't friends with enough softball moms on Facebook.

 

[Amy in AZ.]

Oh, dear. I had a player and he was a SS. This was his dad, exactly. He had a shirt, that said “I don’t need meetings. A six pack is my support group.”
He drank alcohol out of his water bottle. He abused his wife, until they divorced. He, too, had been an athlete. His son was very good.
I had to call the park police, once because he was so drunk.
He died of liver failure, at age 45.