Sideline Karens

[Anonymous]

$50 bucks says half the people on their moral high horse in this thread are just as guilty as the offending spouse in the OP's original post.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What clubs are owned by individual people? I never knew this. Thanks.

Almost none in the DC area. They are virtually all not-for-profits around here.

OP’s DH sounds like a toxic idiot, and people who call out that sort of ridiculous behavior are not “Karens”.

Many of the Baltimore clubs are - Celtic, pipeline, etc.

If you want your kid to keep playing soccer, your husband needs to chill. There seems to be a trend of kids quitting around age 12 and parents who are douchebags.

You’re saying that Pipeline and Baltimore Celtic are for-profit and have owners? I would be very surprised but would be interested to know if this were true. Do you have links?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Just started travel this year, so maybe my expectations are off. Wanted to get a gut check:

Spouse gets a little enthusiastic on the sidelines. Never calls out any individual player by name (other than our kid), but may call out if the defense or offense is lacking. Nothing mean-spirited, mostly encouragement. Sure, there were also some private parent-to-parent conversations on the sideline that may have been more critical, but nothing loud enough for a player or even another parent in the stands to hear . . . unless they were eavesdropping.

Yesterday, after the tournament weekend, spouse gets a call from the OWNER of the club dressing him down for his sideline behavior. Another parent on the team got the same call. I would have thought adults could have a conversation with each other, or even with the coach, before involving the owner of the entire organization.

IS THIS NORMAL?

Why are you calling your spouse, a man the name Karen ? Why are we using women's names for poor behavior on men? Stop it please. We no longer use only female names for hurricanes and we shouldnt use Karen instead of the term jerk or Ahole

And this is exactly the kind of behavior we expect from a (fill in the blank but you know what this is). Thank you for your lecture.

You are both idiots. OP was calling the parents who presumably reported her asshole husband the sideline 'Karens,' never mind that the coaches probably did it themselves.

Her DH must have been a massive jerk though because the standard for that sort of response by the club is high.

[Anonymous]

I'm pretty sure pipeline has 2 co-owners who founded the club.

Celtic was an offshoot of Pipeline, so I'm pretty sure that it has an owner too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:$50 bucks says half the people on their moral high horse in this thread are just as guilty as the offending spouse in the OP's original post.

+10000000000000000 This post is ridiculous.

[Anonymous]

Let's all sit around with our Starbucks and either be silent or yell..."We love watching you play."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Let's all sit around with our Starbucks and either be silent or yell..."We love watching you play."

I'm sorry did I use the word "yell", I meant whisper that "we love watching you play." That's better. Sorry!

[Anonymous]

I played travel soccer as a kid and man it was so effing distracting. Even when it was positive! Because I had to figure out if it was a coach or not.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Let's all sit around with our Starbucks and either be silent or yell..."We love watching you play."

I'm sorry did I use the word "yell", I meant whisper that "we love watching you play." That's better. Sorry!

Actually, all the parents should bitch and moan loudly, denigrate the coach, and backstab other players. This will better prepare the kids for their corporate careers later in life. Kidding.

However, I do think that many of the paid coaches, especially at the elite team levels are not held accountable enough by the parents as far as results relative to player development. Not wins, but player development, especially the mental aspects of the game. But that could be done in a more professional manner than bitching on the sidelines for sure.

[Anonymous]

Why can't you just sit and watch the game?

[Anonymous]

And please learn how to use the term "Karen" correctly. It's not every time you don't like something someone did.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just started travel this year, so maybe my expectations are off. Wanted to get a gut check:

Spouse gets a little enthusiastic on the sidelines. Never calls out any individual player by name (other than our kid), but may call out if the defense or offense is lacking. Nothing mean-spirited, mostly encouragement. Sure, there were also some private parent-to-parent conversations on the sideline that may have been more critical, but nothing loud enough for a player or even another parent in the stands to hear . . . unless they were eavesdropping.

Yesterday, after the tournament weekend, spouse gets a call from the OWNER of the club dressing him down for his sideline behavior. Another parent on the team got the same call. I would have thought adults could have a conversation with each other, or even with the coach, before involving the owner of the entire organization.

IS THIS NORMAL?

Why are you calling your spouse, a man the name Karen ? Why are we using women's names for poor behavior on men? Stop it please. We no longer use only female names for hurricanes and we shouldnt use Karen instead of the term jerk or Ahole

And this is exactly the kind of behavior we expect from a (fill in the blank but you know what this is). Thank you for your lecture.

You are both idiots. OP was calling the parents who presumably reported her asshole husband the sideline 'Karens,' never mind that the coaches probably did it themselves.

Her DH must have been a massive jerk though because the standard for that sort of response by the club is high.

I got that. But humorless boobs like you inevitably miss the point. The language and gender lecture is itself Karenal behavior. Twit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm pretty sure pipeline has 2 co-owners who founded the club.

Celtic was an offshoot of Pipeline, so I'm pretty sure that it has an owner too.

I was curious about this and checked online. They are both 501(c)(3)s/not-for profits, so while they may have founders, they do not have owners.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:$50 bucks says half the people on their moral high horse in this thread are just as guilty as the offending spouse in the OP's original post.

+10000000000000000 This post is ridiculous.

I wholeheartedly disagree. The number should be around 90% not half. LOL

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm pretty sure pipeline has 2 co-owners who founded the club.

Celtic was an offshoot of Pipeline, so I'm pretty sure that it has an owner too.

I was curious about this and checked online. They are both 501(c)(3)s/not-for profits, so while they may have founders, they do not have owners.

Celtic absolutely has an owner- Carl Delmont- who also owns the Harrisburg Heat.