I hate tee ball

Keeping score, much less having umps, for a t-ball game is ridiculous. Any in our town, if you hear lightning in any outdoor sport, the field is cleared until 30 minutes after it passes.

 

Umpires for a t-ball game are a bit much. I guess I'm ok with keeping score, but I'm not ok with anyone over five actually caring about the score or who wins or the standings.

 

I'd love to keep score for T-ball.

Each kid: Four at bats, four singles, four runs scored. 1.000 batting average... Everybody gets ice cream!

 

Exactly. I ran the local Challenger Division for 14 years and I had one of the high school buddies pitch and I caught so I could show the kids how to hold the bat and stand in the box. Everybody swung until they hit the ball and then the last batter hit a bases-clearing homer even if only traveled 13 feet.

 

When my second son was in tee ball a fear years ago his coach decided to keep score, just to see how the games went. Again, other than the singles only rule, everything else is mostly normal in our league including if a team gets three outs the inning is over. I hated that he did that because all it did was have the kids come up to whoever was keeping track about a million times an inning each asking what the score was. I don't necessarily think the kids shouldn't care. It was just annoying and they weren't really paying attention to anything else as a result.

 

The first year the kids go to 60-foot mounds in parks and rec baseball is vastly underrated for shittiness.

When my oldest hit that league, they were scheduling no-time limit games starting at 7 p.m. on weeknights. Painful, especially if you had two games in a week and teams were running out of actual effective pitchers.

 

All 3 coaches for my oldest goddaughter's softball team quit yesterday. For the best. Massive riff between them and the parents.

Someone asked if I wanted to take over ... meet Coach Songbird.

 

Excellent!

Starman consults for the low low rate of $50 an hour.

 

I'm in a "D" state ... he'll jack his prices to $75/hour.

 

Nah, I'm always willing to help a fellow moocher. $49.95 an hour.

 

Now you truly will be able to cost kids scholarships.

 

Witnessed a rare occurrence. When driving past a little league field, I've never seen the batter hit the ball. Usually the pitch goes to the backstop with the catcher chasing. The other day, I actually saw the batter hit the ball, a grounder to shortstop. Kid fielded it cleanly then fired it 10 feet over the first baseman's head. As I drove away, the first baseman was still chasing it over in the picnic area.