They are having another round of tryouts

I was there too. I have never, ever seen worse behavior from parents and coaches than from the Arlington United group in that semifinal game. The coach who was ejected was menacing the parents from the other team post-ejection, hence the re-ejection. The parents were making audible derogatory comments about the other team; the behavior was shameful. The strike zone thing is laughable; every parent thinks the umps are favoring the other team. If you are seriously claiming this is the case then I don’t know what to say. The hugging incident was a kid who is always doing that and the ump pushed him away. I seriously doubt the umpire said he would start them with two strikes; much more likely he told the *coach* that due to his previous behavior (and indeed he was tossed.) The bottom line is that was an entitled, prideful team that could not stand having a run scored on them—and they couldn’t score a single run on the team that beat them, who they clearly thought was inferior.

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Anonymous wrote:Played Arlington United 14u team in a tournament this weekend and parents and coaches were awful. Location of AU wouldn’t make sense for us, but if it did, that’s not a group I’d want my DS to be associated with and I definitely couldn’t handle the parents. We watched their coach get ejected in the game after ours and listening to the parents you’d think it was World Series level stakes. Crazy. I’ve learned a lot about other teams over the years at tournaments. Arlington United was waving a giant red flag.

Do they have to forfeit if the coach gets ejected?

I didn’t stay until the end of the game but one coach got ejected after repeated warnings and nasty language (so this was not an ump being touchy about a coach questioning one call). Second coach had the coaches back and protested the ejection but then reeled it in when the tournament guys came over. Ump let the second coach stay. First coach who was ejected hung around up on the hill chirping loudly enough that the ump stopped the game again and ejected him a second time. Left shortly after that but I was close enough to hear parents from AU complaining about every single call that didn’t go their way. Prior to this game the AU team had not allowed a run and they were behind. You could feel the panic in what the coaches (and then solo coach) was saying, parents comments.

I was there. He was fighting for our kids. I don’t fault him for that at all. The ump was calling strikes on our boys that were in the other batter’s box and told our coach before the game your boys are starting with two strikes. Our coaches are awesome and I’m grateful they had someone fighting for them because the ump certainly didn’t want them to win from the beginning.

Glad you are happy with the coach. Maybe something happened in the previous game that I missed but even then I stand by my view that that level of behavior from the coach was outside the bounds of what is appropriate for youth sports.

The umpire hugging the players on the team isn’t cool either. And it’s fine if your strike zone is big, just call it the same for both teams.

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Anonymous wrote:Played Arlington United 14u team in a tournament this weekend and parents and coaches were awful. Location of AU wouldn’t make sense for us, but if it did, that’s not a group I’d want my DS to be associated with and I definitely couldn’t handle the parents. We watched their coach get ejected in the game after ours and listening to the parents you’d think it was World Series level stakes. Crazy. I’ve learned a lot about other teams over the years at tournaments. Arlington United was waving a giant red flag.

Do they have to forfeit if the coach gets ejected?

I didn’t stay until the end of the game but one coach got ejected after repeated warnings and nasty language (so this was not an ump being touchy about a coach questioning one call). Second coach had the coaches back and protested the ejection but then reeled it in when the tournament guys came over. Ump let the second coach stay. First coach who was ejected hung around up on the hill chirping loudly enough that the ump stopped the game again and ejected him a second time. Left shortly after that but I was close enough to hear parents from AU complaining about every single call that didn’t go their way. Prior to this game the AU team had not allowed a run and they were behind. You could feel the panic in what the coaches (and then solo coach) was saying, parents comments.

I was there. He was fighting for our kids. I don’t fault him for that at all. The ump was calling strikes on our boys that were in the other batter’s box and told our coach before the game your boys are starting with two strikes. Our coaches are awesome and I’m grateful they had someone fighting for them because the ump certainly didn’t want them to win from the beginning.

Glad you are happy with the coach. Maybe something happened in the previous game that I missed but even then I stand by my view that that level of behavior from the coach was outside the bounds of what is appropriate for youth sports.

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Anonymous wrote:Played Arlington United 14u team in a tournament this weekend and parents and coaches were awful. Location of AU wouldn’t make sense for us, but if it did, that’s not a group I’d want my DS to be associated with and I definitely couldn’t handle the parents. We watched their coach get ejected in the game after ours and listening to the parents you’d think it was World Series level stakes. Crazy. I’ve learned a lot about other teams over the years at tournaments. Arlington United was waving a giant red flag.

Do they have to forfeit if the coach gets ejected?

I didn’t stay until the end of the game but one coach got ejected after repeated warnings and nasty language (so this was not an ump being touchy about a coach questioning one call). Second coach had the coaches back and protested the ejection but then reeled it in when the tournament guys came over. Ump let the second coach stay. First coach who was ejected hung around up on the hill chirping loudly enough that the ump stopped the game again and ejected him a second time. Left shortly after that but I was close enough to hear parents from AU complaining about every single call that didn’t go their way. Prior to this game the AU team had not allowed a run and they were behind. You could feel the panic in what the coaches (and then solo coach) was saying, parents comments.

I was there. He was fighting for our kids. I don’t fault him for that at all. The ump was calling strikes on our boys that were in the other batter’s box and told our coach before the game your boys are starting with two strikes. Our coaches are awesome and I’m grateful they had someone fighting for them because the ump certainly didn’t want them to win from the beginning.

Anonymous wrote:But if a current eighth grader is enrolled at a private school, they cannot play for public school JV right?

Correct

Anonymous wrote:Their website makes it sound like 14u should have all 8th graders and no 9th, but I guess in Arlington, middle schoolers can play high school baseball?

After the 13U season, players will be placed on teams based on their school year: 8th graders will play 14U and 9th graders will play 15U.

Some 8th graders can still play 13u if their birthdays are after 5/1. Some current 8th graders might also redshirt and lots of the 14u team goes to private school anyway so it’s not an issue. I do believe they take a break during high school baseball season though.

Anonymous wrote:Their website makes it sound like 14u should have all 8th graders and no 9th, but I guess in Arlington, middle schoolers can play high school baseball?

After the 13U season, players will be placed on teams based on their school year: 8th graders will play 14U and 9th graders will play 15U.

This is corect and how I understand the fall will be. The current 13u team has some very strong 8th grade player and they will certainly be taking spots from current 8th graders on the 14u team. The 14u team is all 8th graders since 9th graders have to play 15u regardless of age.

Anonymous wrote:We are hearing at our tryouts that several programs (not just united) are trying to figure out what to do with the spring season because many of the 14u kids will have players playing for their high school and not available for travel programs.

I don’t know that Yorktown takes “several” 8th graders. Not sure about w&L. Wakefield might poach some for high season.