Absolutely embarrassing. No other words.
https://sports.yahoo.com/pee-wee-fo...alates-brawl-amongst-angry-men-034754633.html
https://sports.yahoo.com/pee-wee-fo...alates-brawl-amongst-angry-men-034754633.html
Coaches at a pee-wee football game get into fight
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Those coaches are straight from central casting.
And how many coaches does a pee wee team need anyway?
And how many coaches does a pee wee team need anyway?
Two years ago my son played in one of the most non-competitive, church baseball leagues I'd ever seen. It was coach pitch and half of our team at 10 years old, had never even thrown or caught a ball, much less played the game. I was truly terrified that they were going to get hurt even being on the field and it was one of the toughest teams I've helped coach ever.
Needless to say our team was terrible and hadn't won a game all year. Towards the end of the year we're playing some other team and they're killing us. We finally make a play at first which hadn't happened well all year to turn a double play which hasn't happened all year and our kids start celebrating maybe a bit too much, but something we'd been working on for weeks finally worked out and they were happy.
Well that ticked off their coach who then contests the play at first which was close and starts yelling that it was a bad call. The umpire just gives him this ridiculous look and says dude, let's just get on with it. He keeps beefing and the ump tells him he wasn't having it and to throw the next pitch. Next thing you know, he just loses it, drops a whole string of profanity, rips back and throws a fastball right past the umpires head at which point the umpire calls the game, tells him his team just lost and to get off the field.
It took about every other coach including his own and us to keep him from trying to beat down that umpire. It was truly insane and he was banned from ever coming to that ballpark again. It was just ridiculous. I can kind of understand it in a competitive league, if the game is close and it matters... But they were already beating us down and there was no way they were losing the game until that happened. Just a ridiculous display all around.
The sad thing is that everyone in that video is related, either by blood or by marriage.....or by both.
If you had put money on that game, you'd feel differently.
These knuckleheads should be prohibited from ever coaching and from being around their own kids for a year. Few weeks in jail wouldn't hurt either.
Supposed to be role models, can't be out there acting like thugs, putting the kids' health at risk just so they can defend their manhood.
Supposed to be role models, can't be out there acting like thugs, putting the kids' health at risk just so they can defend their manhood.
It's all about winning and you won that game. Congrats!
haha, yes. It did turn out to be our first win of the year. the kids who didn't really understand baseball started celebrating which just made my son madder as he knew we got boatraced and he wasn't having it any more. lol
We did get a win in the last game of the season that I did genuinely feel good about as some of those kids actually started to almost look like baseball players in that game.
Hoss in black had horrible form in his punches, someone should coach him up.
Ever watch Friday Night Tykes? They too have 5+ coaches on staff for each team plus league staff. These guys belong on that show.
Ever watch Friday Night Tykes? They too have 5+ coaches on staff for each team plus league staff. These guys belong on that show.
Nervously clicks link. Breaths sigh of relief it wasn't in own state.
Similarly, my process was:
Look to see where it happened
Saw it was in Virginia, scrolled down hoping it wasn't Northern Virginia
Saw it was "Wise, VA"
Google mapped "Wise, VA" to see where in the state it is
Scrolled out, out, out, out until I could figure where it's located in relation to cities I would recognize
Finally saw that it was in the very far Southwest, almost to Kentucky
Thought to myself "Oh, that makes sense!"
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When I was a Grad Assistant we played the D2 college in Wise, Virginia. Only hotel in the town was a Best Western and had to have kids sleep on rollaway beds because there wasn't enough rooms for 65 guys players and 10 coached.
There was a bar next door to the hotel, interesting locals to say the least. Town made Wheeling, WV seem almost normal.
I bet those guys love the chocolate fountain at Golden Corral.
What a great way to display maturity in front of so many kids.
Sounds like they have issues and need counseling, anger management, and a very public kick in the ass (anger under control at all times....) Mow-rons!
Sounds like they have issues and need counseling, anger management, and a very public kick in the ass (anger under control at all times....) Mow-rons!
I'll never forget playing Little League baseball when I was 10 years old and two opposing coaches from other teams got in a fight.
One of the coaches was being held down by 6 adults and he tried to dive for a baseball bat and I think he would have killed the other coach if he wasn't being held down.
This was before cell phones or else I would have called 911 in 2 seconds.
One of the coaches was being held down by 6 adults and he tried to dive for a baseball bat and I think he would have killed the other coach if he wasn't being held down.
This was before cell phones or else I would have called 911 in 2 seconds.
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I thought that would just make them better career criminals.
Wasn't advocating for months or years. Few weeks would scare these wannabe thugs straight.
What is it about our culture that makes people think, while in front of kids, "ok, I have a fundamental disagreement with this chap in front of me. I believe I shall knock his teeth out!" At which point everyone around them grabs a camera and starts screaming, "world star" or "There's children here guys"
I don't think we teach patience, empathy, the ability to mentally resolve conflict, or how to deal with personal insecurities. (Not that many other cultures are great at it either but we're right in the mud pit with everyone else.) We also, increasingly, have glamorized and normalized conflict, machismo, and idiotic behavior to the extent that some folks have probably started thinking those one-off videos they see online are actually a reflection of generally acceptable behavior.
I've been saying a lot over the last 5-10 years that school curriculum ought to include some sort of self-reflection / introspection / meditation starting early and continuing through high school. Would work wonders for getting folks to assess, analyze, and correct their own thoughts and behaviors, reducing these incidents (and worse) and some mental health issues. We learn a lot in school about the 3 Rs, but very little in the way of our own bodies and brains.
I can't say much about the knuckleheads in the video and the generation they grew up in, they're likely my age and our gen certainly grew up fast but kids these days are exposed to much more, much earlier. We've gotta help them handle and process all that - education ought to involve learning about ones' self.
Take a look at something called Conscience Discipline. My wife is a teacher and uses it in her classroom. She has been for years. Her principal is implementing it schoolwide and the county is looking into it as well.
It's called toxic masculinity. It's worse in certain segments of society, but we're taught from the youngest ages that we have to be tough, that if we're disrespected we have to fight back or we're not a man, sports are a battle field and require top level competition, etc...
The biggest issue however is our issue with "respect". For so many of us, someone disrespecting us requires a fight, when it really should either just be ignored or simply talked through... But then you're judged as not a "man".
Did a quick scan through a few pages of their website. I like it, a lot. Very much what I think should be implemented nationally. I'm going to read about it some more tonight. Thanks for sharing.
Props to your wife, her principal, and the district. Putting in work on this up front and then on an ongoing basis will likely make teaching these kids easier and more fruitful through the rest of their academic careers and beyond. When you think about the ROI to society from the dollars spent on things like this, huge. A healthier, more engaged generation will create more earners and fewer 'takers' (medically, legally, systematically), reducing those massive tax burdens.
Is it really a fight if there is a bunch of swinging and not one punch even comes remotely close to landing on anyone?
Will def agree that the ability to reach peaceful resolution and/or ignore disrespect are seen as less virtuous in our society than physical confrontation.
Someone talks crap to a kid from 20 yards away, he decides to ignore / shrug it off, and immediately his friends refer to him as a female body part. That common reality is just absurd. Other people shouldn't be able to drive you to physical (or even verbal) confrontation unless your safety or that of others is in clear jeopardy. IMO being compelled to engage in such nonsense is a huge sign of emotional weakness and insecurity -- and even more reason the Conscience Discipline curriculum @mcgrawfsu mentioned was needed yesterday.
This. Homey would have been off walking away instead of displaying that fighting style.
What exactly are you scoffing at in his post?
Other than the last sentence about that technique (which I confess to knowing nothing about) everything he said is pretty spot on.
You got to just blow things off in life and let stuff go. Life is too short to be chasing down somebody because they cut you off in traffic, or arguing over a peewee football game, or getting into a confrontation because someone didn’t pay you the proper “respect.” A “whatever” attitude can work wonders at times.
