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SOT: More Craziness From KY HS Basketball

Not saying it is good, because it is sad. However, at least is wasn’t a brawl in the stands as I have seen all to many times on X & Facebook, just disgusting. The current state of social skills in this country due to the no one actually conversing with others in public anymore is frightening. Kids can be sitting right next to each other but texting instead of talking.
 
Not saying it is good, because it is sad. However, at least is wasn’t a brawl in the stands as I have seen all to many times on X & Facebook, just disgusting. The current state of social skills in this country due to the no one actually conversing with others in public anymore is frightening. Kids can be sitting right next to each other but texting instead of talking.
That’s a separate thing in ways though. There used to be shame in getting arrested or called out in public like this. Not anymore.
 
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My concern is for the kids. Years ago I coached girls middle school bb at a Christian School. One of my girls father showed up at our game drunk and went off on an official and had to be escorted out. My player was devasted with embarrassment and was crying so bad that the rest of the bench was lost to the game. People get too worked up about the game.
 
Not saying it is good, because it is sad. However, at least is wasn’t a brawl in the stands as I have seen all to many times on X & Facebook, just disgusting. The current state of social skills in this country due to the no one actually conversing with others in public anymore is frightening. Kids can be sitting right next to each other but texting instead of talking.

While the lady in Pulaski Co is obviously a bit touched (the behavior coupled with the FB posts...goodness), she pales in comparison to the mental midgets in Pennsylvania.

I've coached HS bball in MO for over 20 yrs. I can honestly only remember a handful of times a fan or parent getting tossed from a game. I'm sure it has happened more than that, it just never got to the point where we'd notice it on the bench. I feel like, especially after seeing stuff like this, that I was pretty fortunate. Or maybe just lucky.
 
My concern is for the kids. Years ago I coached girls middle school bb at a Christian School. One of my girls father showed up at our game drunk and went off on an official and had to be escorted out. My player was devasted with embarrassment and was crying so bad that the rest of the bench was lost to the game. People get too worked up about the game.
Truth. Anytime something like this occurs, my heart breaks for the kids of these people. Not only their immediate feelings during the situation, but just the overall harm in being raised and mentored by an idiot like that. There's something to be said for that cycle being really, really hard to break.
 
About 15 years ago at a little league game for 9 year olds I saw two coaches for the same team get into a physical fight during a game.

It was just sad to watch grown men do that.

When I was in high school in the 90s, I used to umpire T-ball and little league games on weekends for $10 a game to earn a little gas money.

I once had a grown adult man leave the stands, come onto the field, get in my face, call me a MFer and challenge me to a fight for … blowing a call at second base in a T-ball game in a league that didn’t keep score officially. I tossed him. He said he’d whip my ass after the game. His wife tore him a new one and made him apologize to me after the game.

Who acts this way over youth sports?
 
When I was in high school in the 90s, I used to umpire T-ball and little league games on weekends for $10 a game to earn a little gas money.

I once had a grown adult man leave the stands, come onto the field, get in my face, call me a MFer and challenge me to a fight for … blowing a call at second base in a T-ball game in a league that didn’t keep score officially. I tossed him. He said he’d whip my ass after the game. His wife tore him a new one and made him apologize to me after the game.

Who acts this way over youth sports?
Bolded is my favorite part of that story! I'd never do anything remotely close to that, BUT if I did that's exactly what my wife would do. She'd probably take my phone and truck away for a week too.
 
Social media has accelerated a lot of this behavior. Obsessed parents want to live through their kids' achievements so they can post those results on FB. Kids want a good story about how they were in a "brawl" or acted a fool so they and their friends can laugh about in a decade. In the meantime, why not go viral for a day? If what was said about this lady on KSR this morning was true (posting on FB that the president and Elon needs to come to KY to investigate the refs because of DEI) then she put herself in an online bubble of believing what she wants to believe and now it's likely damaged her permanently. You don't "come back" from believing everything in your life is wrapped up into some sort of conspiracy.
 
About 15 years ago at a little league game for 9 year olds I saw two coaches for the same team get into a physical fight during a game.

It was just sad to watch grown men do that.
Well each of them probably had a kid on the team and were living vicariously through them. One father was probably jealous. At least that’s my experience with little league coaches.
 
When I was in high school in the 90s, I used to umpire T-ball and little league games on weekends for $10 a game to earn a little gas money.

I once had a grown adult man leave the stands, come onto the field, get in my face, call me a MFer and challenge me to a fight for … blowing a call at second base in a T-ball game in a league that didn’t keep score officially. I tossed him. He said he’d whip my ass after the game. His wife tore him a new one and made him apologize to me after the game.

Who acts this way over youth sports?
I witnessed CM Newton do something similar in a little league game . He didn’t challenge the college age umpire to a fight but he did give him a public ass jacking because he didn’t like the strikezone and his grandson was pitching. This was when he was AD at Kentucky. When he went back and sat in the bleachers all the rich Gardenside (their team) people were congratulating him and patting him on the back . Made me sick .
 
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I witnessed CM Newton do something similar in a little league game . He didn’t challenge the college age umpire to a fight but he did give him a public ass jacking because he didn’t like the strikezone and his grandson was pitching. This was when he was AD at Kentucky. When he went back and sat in the bleachers all the rich Gardenside (their team) people were congratulating him and patting him on the back . Made me sick .
That doesn’t sound like CM. Case of mistaken identity.
 
I witnessed CM Newton do something similar in a little league game . He didn’t challenge the college age umpire to a fight but he did give him a public ass jacking because he didn’t like the strikezone and his grandson was pitching. This was when he was AD at Kentucky. When he went back and sat in the bleachers all the rich Gardenside (their team) people were congratulating him and patting him on the back . Made me sick .
"...all the rich Gardenside (their team) people..."

Did you read this before you wrote it? Who are all of these "Rich" people? What made them all rich and how did their wealth affect the little league game?

Why didn't someone tell me while I was growing up that my friends in Gardenside were all rich? I didn't see it. My house in Meadowthorpe was larger, and it wasn't much. My mother lived in a small apartment in Gardenside, and she was not rich.

The fact you think everyone in Gardenside was above you says a lot.
 
"...all the rich Gardenside (their team) people..."

Did you read this before you wrote it? Who are all of these "Rich" people? What made them all rich and how did their wealth affect the little league game?

Why didn't someone tell me while I was growing up that my friends in Gardenside were all rich? I didn't see it. My house in Meadowthorpe was larger, and it wasn't much. My mother lived in a small apartment in Gardenside, and she was not rich.

The fact you think everyone in Gardenside was above you says a lot.
Didn’t realize that was such an insult mr snowflake. The name of their team was Gardenside . Everyone at that tournament referred to them as the “rich people “ . I have no idea where Gardenside is nor do I care .Our team didn’t even play them . I just know that CM and Martin Newton had a grandson/son on the team . There may not have been anyone on their team that even lived in Gardenside .

And I’m sorry your mother lived in a small apartment. It’s obvious that you have some sort of complex about it.
 
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