Most obnoxious parent

[texasck1]

@pattar I'm so glad you are a good sport about that, at least I hope you. Most of us have probably done it or wanted to but aren't secure enough to admit it.

Confession: I threw a water bottle on the ground a couple weeks ago when DD's team lost a game they had no business losing. Got some pretty funny looks from the crowd. However I did pick an easier target to hit. Like I tell my DD when she is working on her dropball, gravity is your friend!

Edit: there was a dad at a game a couple weeks ago who threw a water bottle obnoxiously into the ground when his DD's team lost a game.

 

[_MIA_]

@pattar I'm so glad you are a good sport about that, at least I hope you. Most of us have probably done it or wanted to but aren't secure enough to admit it.

Confession: I threw a water bottle on the ground a couple weeks ago when DD's team lost a game they had no business losing. Got some pretty funny looks from the crowd. However I did pick an easier target to hit. Like I tell my DD when she is working on her dropball, gravity is your friend!

I have a LOT of faults but not owning up to when I screw up isn’t one of them. The reminders every so often on here are actually beneficial to some extent

 

[guyonabuffalo]

Me reading through the posts hoping I'm not one of the stories.....

 

[CoachJD]

Me reading through the posts hoping I'm not one of the stories.....
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You can totally tell some stories about yourself but just word it like "At this one game, the father of a girl on my DD's team..."

 

[HunterMO]

During DD’s first year of TB I was 100% guilty of being the parent yelling “Go one go one!!” or “Make the adjustment” or a number of other dumb useless things. It’s similar to being the guy at a hockey game yelling “shoot!” all of the time.

Now I just find a spot away from the other parents......sit back and applaud for all the good plays. Whether it’s our team or not. It’s much more enjoyable.

 

[flash277]

During DD’s first year of TB I was 100% guilty of being the parent yelling “Go one go one!!” or “Make the adjustment” or a number of other dumb useless things. It’s similar to being the guy at a hockey game yelling “shoot!” all of the time.

Now I just find a spot away from the other parents......sit back and applaud for all the good plays. Whether it’s our team or not. It’s much more enjoyable.

I think we all start out like this (I did), hopefully sooner or later we all just sit back and enjoy the game, because if your still doing at when DD is playing 18U, you have a problem.

 

[Bernmoll]

During DD’s first year of TB I was 100% guilty of being the parent yelling “Go one go one!!” or “Make the adjustment” or a number of other dumb useless things. It’s similar to being the guy at a hockey game yelling “shoot!” all of the time.

Now I just find a spot away from the other parents......sit back and applaud for all the good plays. Whether it’s our team or not. It’s much more enjoyable.

Hard not to do it at the 10u or early 12u level when DD fields a ball in the outfield and then hesitates.... ‘throw it in!!!’ May or may not have been shouted out a few times this weekend.

 

[HunterMO]

Hard not to do it at the 10u or early 12u level when DD fields a ball in the outfield and then hesitates.... ‘throw it in!!!’ May or may not have been shouted out a few times this weekend.

Indecision in the outfield may be one of my biggest pet peeves. And truly the hardest to not yell for when just watching. At least as a coach I'm allowed to yell at them to just throw it in. So I can get some of it out.

Despite working on it in practice....we still deal with some brain farts during the heat of the moment.

 

[guyonabuffalo]

Indecision in the outfield may be one of my biggest pet peeves. And truly the hardest to not yell for when just watching. At least as a coach I'm allowed to yell at them to just throw it in. So I can get some of it out.

Despite working on it in practice....we still deal with some brain farts during the heat of the moment.

Yeah.....I pulled a girl in the middle of an inning after we literally spent our last two practices going over this very thing. Her parent wasn't happy about it and proceeded to cuss me out in the middle of the game for all to hear......fun times.

 

[schwabach]

Indecision in the outfield may be one of my biggest pet peeves. And truly the hardest to not yell for when just watching. At least as a coach I'm allowed to yell at them to just throw it in. So I can get some of it out.

Despite working on it in practice....we still deal with some brain farts during the heat of the moment.

I saw some brain farts yesterday in the Alabama - Kentucky game.