Just when I thought it couldn't get stupider...

[radness]

Of course they would! That team from the 80s would be in their 40's by now.

Bazinga

 

[PapaBear]

Literally coaches were smoking in The Dugout & edge of field/coaching boxes while playing travel ball games!

The first coach for the BatBuster's named
Joe Grubbs smoked Winston non filters...
And true story actually have a cigarette burn in the sleeve of my batbuster jacket from that.

Did he choose Bike shorts and blue jeans to go with mesh hat and dark panama jack aviators?

 

[JayW]

 

[radness]

Did he choose Bike shorts and blue jeans to go with mesh hat and dark panama jack aviators?

Lol no,

it was the polyester nylon coaching short shorts back in the day.
that coach at the third base box is...
Sportin' the look

 

[Butch18507]

Is that Turbo behind the plate?

 

[Eric F]

Is that Turbo behind the plate?

I believe that is correct.

 

[Eric F]

My 6 year old DGD signed up to play a little softball. So, she is going to a"practice and first look" on Saturday--which I thought was a little crazy. Are they worried that someone will be stacking a team of 6 year olds?

Then, I found out--there was an unofficial "first look" camp two weeks ago for the "serious" players.

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[MikeB]

We have this each year for rec ball but only for 8u and up. Since we draft the teams, its the only way to try to evenly put players on teams. Its very informal and low stress for the girls but they are graded A, B, and C, and blind (kids that signed up but didnt go to the show day) based on skill level and the week after all the coach's get together and draft.

For the most part the teams are pretty even but lately we’ve started having coachs that tell really good players to not show up so they can pick them as a blind

We do the same thing, but bind players are picked out of a hat at the end and are not allowed to pitch to prevent that situation.

 

[yondu1977]

One of the things I liked about coaching softball was that it was generally low key, not a lot of dad's invested in their daughter's career like you see in baseball. The local LL was a hot mess of politics and stacking. But now with so much softball on TV parents are becoming more demanding.

My 11u daughter started at 7 years old 4 years ago playing rec. After a year, she started travel and has been playing travel since. This has not been my experience at all. Parents are not low key. Not even close. Especially pitchers parents. Followed by catchers parents. I thought I entered the twilight zone when my kid started playing travel.

 

[Lance Steckler]

the parents start to tone down after 10u and 12u. partly because if your daughter is on better level teams, the crazies aren't.

Partly because they wise up, and partly because they may get a reputation and DD has fewer and fewer teams available to her, because coaches will not tolerate crazy parents.