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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, your post is so baseball you didn't even have to reveal the sport and I already knew. [b]It's called "dadball" for a reason.[/b] If your kid's dad isn't one of the staff and your kid isn't friends with one of the dada's boys, good luck.

Long term, dadball is one of the worst sports in terms of time and money invested vs probability of having an adult professional career. The best that college dadball players can hope for is living on food stamps for several years while playing for a farm team. Middle school is a good time to transition to another sport with a different parent culture. Track and field parents do not seem as unhinged in my experience.[/quote]

FYI - it's not "dadball"

It's "Daddybally", which is much more fitting and insulting.  Bc it suggests that the coach's kids are babies[/quote]

Whether you call it dadball or daddybally, the phenomenon is apparently not limited to the US, even my Japanese friend said it was similar over there with dads running teams and leagues. I should ask her what name they give it.

OP, good luck to your son in finding a better team, even if he has to choose a different sport.[/quote]

Let’s also be honest that these dads feel entitled to do this because they are volunteering to do something most other parents can’t or won’t do. I don’t condone this behavior but I also recognize that these people feel entitled for a reason. [/quote]

Very true. I really appreciate the dads who step up and volunteer and don’t really mind if they throw their own kid a bone here and there in terms of positions or playing time.

The major problem I see is that some dads simply cannot volunteer- usually due to their job (for example jobs requiring significant travel, military, or even shift work in the evenings like certain MDs, police officers etc). Or some kids don’t have a dad in the picture at all. Volunteering to coach requires a very specific timetable to make the practices and games - really not much flexibility. Some dads just can’t make it work, and that is fine. The volunteer dads need to be understanding of that and still develop all of the kids…[/quote]

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