New revenue stream - angry parents

I take it the schools you cover don't have swimming or lacrosse.

 

Bingo. Or, for the love of piss, cheerleading.

Oh, how I don't miss having to deal with this shit.

 

OK, I'll bite. Tell us the story, Gutter!

 

See, you guys need to send all those parents up here where for the most part no one outside the kids cares about high school sports, including most parents. We'd re-educate them.

"Hey, did you win, Johnny?"

"No, mom, we lost 50-0 to Podunk High"

"Oh, well, dear, it's just high school football. As long as you had a good time".

 

Someone with a better memory can tell it ... thread was from early 2003, I think, so I doubt it survived the Great Crash.

The basics: Tennis mom attempted to shag a young prep reporter (can't remember who it was here).

 

The next complaint I get, I'm going to find the parent's work number and consistently tell them what a horrible job they're doing.

 

I thought the tennis mom wanted to meet with the reporter to pitch a story about the daughter and all the thoughts of shagging were a figment of the board's imagination.

 

Ace is correct, the story was about some ill-conceived lunch date to talk about coverage with the tennis mom.



Who happened to be blonde.

 

After years of dealing with pushy tennis and golf parents, I'm finally enjoying the two I'm dealing with now. Their son/daughters have graduated our local private schools and are playing at Division I schools (two tennis, one golf) far away from Scribblyville.

Each time one of their kids does something, like POW or scholar-athlete team, the fathers will send me a pleasant e-mail calling it to my attention. I put it in the sports digest, and they never fail to follow up with a thank-you e-mail.

Two anomalies out of 1,000, I know, but they give me hope.

 

guest of the state, dammit

 

Well only one of the schools even has tennis. That one has swimming, but we covered the only two home meets they had, and I haven't been around for the spring yet so I don't know about lacrosse.

 

I know the feeling.