I was a Middle School and High School coach for 5 years. If only the parents behaved as well as the kids. I once had to warn a parent to shut up — on order of the refs! In a varsity game with playoffs on the line, no less.
I have read (and may be wrong here) that the most assured way to get a spot in professional team sports is to practice as a deep snapper in football. It seems that good ones are a fairly rare and valuable item. The item I read said that anyone with good skills as a deep snapper will get drafted.
That anyone even thinks like this, and they do, is another reason why the DH needs to go. It ruins the strategy, and with this kind of thinking, the integrity of the game.
Have your kid take up cricket, Dad, where he can bat as long as nobody gets him out. The record for a single “at-bat” in cricket is 970 minutes (16 hours, 10 minutes) in one 1958 Test match by Hanif Mohammed of Pakistan.
Then again, in cricket there is no DH: You do have to play defense when the other team bats and only one fielder isn’t barehanded (even though some players are fewer than 50 feet away from the batsman). Never mind.
wallylm about 3 years ago
How does he think volunteer umpires and referees feel?
Lotus about 3 years ago
I was a Middle School and High School coach for 5 years. If only the parents behaved as well as the kids. I once had to warn a parent to shut up — on order of the refs! In a varsity game with playoffs on the line, no less.
Ellis97 about 3 years ago
Designated hitter? Is that even a thing.
timbob2313 Premium Member about 3 years ago
Ah yes, the quickest way to ruin a kids game. Let the parental units decide/get into fights/scream at the volunteers/vandalize the umps car.
jagedlo about 3 years ago
So you want your kid to be Edgar Martinez?
jnacombs about 3 years ago
Coach: Sure, Dad, just write that down and put it in the suggestion box.Dad: I don’t see a suggestion box.Coach: keep looking. :-)
Sabrina17 about 3 years ago
But what does Brandon want?
TexTech about 3 years ago
I have read (and may be wrong here) that the most assured way to get a spot in professional team sports is to practice as a deep snapper in football. It seems that good ones are a fairly rare and valuable item. The item I read said that anyone with good skills as a deep snapper will get drafted.
JohnWhite4 about 3 years ago
That anyone even thinks like this, and they do, is another reason why the DH needs to go. It ruins the strategy, and with this kind of thinking, the integrity of the game.
Guilty Bystander about 3 years ago
Have your kid take up cricket, Dad, where he can bat as long as nobody gets him out. The record for a single “at-bat” in cricket is 970 minutes (16 hours, 10 minutes) in one 1958 Test match by Hanif Mohammed of Pakistan.
Then again, in cricket there is no DH: You do have to play defense when the other team bats and only one fielder isn’t barehanded (even though some players are fewer than 50 feet away from the batsman). Never mind.