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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]this is not specific to LL... soccer, football, lacross... I've seen it everywhere[/quote]

there's a lot of craziness in the other sports, but baseball brings out a special craziness in dads for some reason. [/quote]

Happens in every sport but baseball is the absolute worst for this- so many crazy dads. The Little League years are the height of it- gets better as the kids get closer to high school. [/quote]

Other team sports there are sometimes opportunities to make something happen. If a kid is on a basketball team with a daddy ball coach whose son always gets to be point guard at least on defense another kid can get an opportunity to steal a ball and turn and take it down the court or get a rebound. Same in soccer a kid who wants to make something happen can try and cover a larger area and get the ball.

Baseball is the worst because if you are in the outfield you might never get the ball the entire game when you are 7 or 8 or 9 especially once they changed the bat regulations (kids hit the ball way further with the old 1.15 bats). Then if you bat at the end of the line up you might only get two at bats. Let's say one time at bat you get 4 awful pitches and walk then get hit by the ball the next at bat. Or maybe the kid gets a good pitch and hits the ball into the outfield. If you are batting behind the slowest player on the team who barely runs you aren't getting a double or triple because the kid who is on base in front of you runs so slowly. So you had zero opportunity to show you can play. Meanwhile the coaches kid playing second base has 6 pop ups and 5 grounders hit to them. On one they dive for the ball and get it and make a play. Even if they missed catching 3 fly balls and overthrew first base twice that kid's dad who is a coach will make a big deal about the one good play the kid made. So in the coaches mind his kid should play infield. [/quote]

Exactly. This has been our experience in both baseball and softball. You also know you’re in trouble if the head coach’s kid is playing 2nd. It means the coach knows the kid isn’t good enough (or desires) to be the main pitcher/catcher/ss, but he doesn’t want to put his kid in the outfield. Chances are that kid will have 2nd locked down for all game every game, the best 3 kids will rotate between pitcher, catcher, SS and a [b]tall kid will be at first[/b].

I also think the diamond sports are the worst for crazy Dads because they see it as a sport where their not quite athletic kid can excel. With an early start, lots of extra practice and early private instruction the kid can look really good at a young age. Daddy then starts going a little crazy when his kid isn’t looking quite as good because other kids have started catching up. [/quote]

I'm with you on everything except that.  You definitely need a tall kid at 1st.

I remember we played a team, in 13u, where the 1st baseman had to at most, be a little over 4 feet tall.  They had 5-6 kids there wall 5'6 and up.

It was so weird.  But that was the coach's kid.  And also a lefty, so it was really 1st or OF.  And I'm sure coach couldn't have his dear baby boy in the outfield.

Needless to say, at least 4-5 balls soared over his head.  Balls every other 13u first baseman would have caught.

That coach was honestly making it worse for his own son.[/quote]

Oh that’s definitely worse, but you’re probably correct that the coach didn’t want his lefty in the outfield. I should have put tall kid or lefty.

My daughter’s team last year had a girl who was tall and left handed. She is played first 90% of the time. The problem was that she could not catch. It got to the point the better girls would try to lob it over to her which only made things worse. [/quote]

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