T-ball team DQ'd for cheating

When parents say it's about the kids' winning trophies, what they really mean is it's about them wanting trophies for their kids...
Parents suck.

 

You only write about us when we get caught cheating!

 

It's tee ball, not T-ball. The ball is placed on a tee, ergo, tee ball. That is all.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tee_Ball

Tee Ball or T-Ball is a sport based on baseball and is intended as an introduction for young players to develop baseball skills and have fun. The name Tee Ball is a registered trademark while T-Ball is the generic name, although many sources use Tee Ball as a generic name.

 

I eagerly await the day when a Tee-Ball or T-Ball or Tea-Ball player is accused of taking steroids. That, my friend, will be the greatest day in the history of competitive sports.

 

You got served.

 

Parents of kids this age, by and large, are immature and underexposed to the real world. They see those first few games as the start of Junior's budding major league career. They are more zealous than any college football crowd in America.

 

So they didn't really cheat. They just had to add players so they could play. In my opinion it was a good decision by the coach to add to players, even though late, so that everyone could compete. I'd do the same thing. Even if it meant a dq down the line. The game is all about fun, and I am sure the kids had fun playing.

However, that is ridiculous that 5-7 year olds are playing in 6-7 game tournaments. Too much at too little of an age.

 

Like that?

 

Gee, can you generalize and stereotype any more? In my experience having coached youth league teams, your statement is the opposite of what I've experienced. You get a few parents who are particularly competitive or have major-league dreams, but even that doesn't start until the kids are older and they've shown themselves to have some modicum of talent. Particularly with baseball and softball, most parents' priority is just getting through the damn game, especially in a Chicago April. The biggest cheer my daughter's softball team (7-8) got was when I told our parents that we weren't going to play the sixth inning because of time and weather.

As for these parents in Iowa, without a LOT more information, all you can say is everybody's wrong, and everybody's right. The coaches should have checked with the league about adding players. The league should have talked to the coaches the first time someone complained or noted that there were new players on the team. We don't know why the coaches didn't check, and why the league didn't act sooner. I have some idea -- a total lack of communication, which is pretty common at this level, given everyone is volunteering and otherwise has lives.

 

The bottom line is that adults continue to make asses of themselves by trying to apply the pro and college model to youth sports. There is absolutely no reason for 5-7 year olds to be competing in a tournament and vying for trophies. None. We're talking kindergarten to second grade. Most of the kids probably don't even understand how the bracket system works, for god's sake. In my experience coaching T-ball, every kid got three turns at bat, there were so many errors that it was impossible to keep track of the score, and at the end of the game both teams were pretty sure they won. Which is as it should be.

 

How I loved Princesscreole's tball league. No outs, no runs. Everyone hits, and after the "grand slam" the inning ends. Three innings. Kids get drink and snack and go home happy, and so do the parents.