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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just curious. Seems like many weekend games the parents on the sidelines have beers in cozies or thermos with wine. My DS plays hockey and [b]baseball.[/b][/quote]

Baseball is the worst.  We were soooooo happy when our sons dropped baseball.  The parents drinking started with tee ball and got worse as the kids got older.  I hated going to games because of the parent drinking.[/quote]

I've only seen 2 noticable occurences at my kids sporting events and my kids have graduated from hs.  I don't think it's the norm in Northern Va. Also people think the alcohol doesn't affect them but it does and being around drunk adults is gross.

I realized one mom I had gotten close to in the season after t ball was an alcoholic. She convinced other parents to get drunk during the team practices. Her thing was vodka. After the first week we had parents who could not walk. Funny thing about her she was trying to start up a health related business and was trying to bring her company into our school system. She's very loud and vocal about health but was the biggest fake I've ever seen. Nothing about this woman was healthy other than she was thin because she drank instead of eating.

The other occurrence was at an away tennis match.  A rude couple who had a freshman on the team and who rarely came to matches left during the matches to go to a restaurant near the court and came back  trashed. They, like the other mom, were nasty people.

I don't drink a lot so I don't get it but why do people who get drunk stink? They don't realize it and it's one of the things that makes it more disgusting.[/quote]

Funny, because we are in NoVa and our experience with the drinking was that it was completely prevalent in baseball.  It started on the rec team but the travel teams...yowza...they were outta control.  Anyway we're done with it now, thank goodness.

We never really saw drinking in other sports except there was one mom on one of our boy's rec league basketball teams.  Like you say about the people you observed, she was an alcoholic.  She even came to 9am games with a travel mug with hooch in her coffee.  She was functioning but you could smell the alcohol on her breath.  It was really, really sad.[/quote]

I haven’t seen any drinking at Little League, but goodness, travel baseball dads in NVTBL really need to stop bringing coolers full of beer and then driving their kids home. Functional alcoholic or not, you’ll still get a DUI. [/quote]

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