Wow. You can't head the ball in U11 games?
I'm guessing this is a relatively new thing, what with concussion fears and all?
I'm guessing this is a relatively new thing, what with concussion fears and all?
Red card for heading? In the center circle no less?We have a winner: heading. Which per parent rule should result in a penalty kick and a red card. Infraction happened in the center circle.
You should have beaned the next kid. If they claimed it was intentional, you could argue back that why would intentionally bean a kid with a curve ball?Don't think I ever posted the reason I quit little league, but here goes.
I want to say I was 12 or 13, whatever the last year (or two?) before Babe Ruth league. I was pitching; never that great, really had no idea what I was doing; basically, at least way back when, the rules were you could throw anything that wasn't a curve ball or a knuckle ball. I think that was the rule anyway. So your option when you have no idea what you're doing is just to throw a 40-50mph fastball and hope your arm/shoulder/elbow doesn't give out. Anyway, we're a few games into the season, and I'm on the mound, and there's this parent on the other team that also happens to be that team's coach. Our families didn't get along or something. I don't know the specifics or I choose now to forget them. So I throw a few pitches. The coach calls time. Goes to the umpire (these are other kids in the town, kids in high school earning a hot dog and a coke for their efforts). Tells the umpire that I'm throwing a curve ball. I wish I could throw a curve ball. Ump tells me to stop throwing a curve. I tell the ump I have no idea how to throw a curve. He asks me how I'm holding the ball. I'm just gripping it like a ball I'm going to hurl, as was the case of basically ever kid it seemed. So I go back to pitch. A batter later, coach calls time, goes to the ump and says "there he goes again, those are curveballs!" Ump warns me one more time. My next four pitches go the backstop. Whomever was up walks. I get moved to center field. That would be my last game. I never go back to little league.
Also, the town was Stoughton for those curious. Also, parents that get that involved just suck.
Or he could have just stopped throwing the fucking curveball.You should have beaned the next kid. If they claimed it was intentional, you could argue back that why would intentionally bean a kid with a curve ball?
this.Or he could have just stopped throwing the fucking curveball.
In youth baseball, is any ball ever truly cathchable with ordinary effort?Infield fly rule
I should have qualified it with "that leads to loud lawn-chair refereeing many many times per game".Infield fly rule
But Hand Ball is dependent on one word: deliberate. And is called, or not called, dozens of times each game. And is not situational, like IF Fly. (And my sons both quit baseball at a somewhat early age for lax and track and spring soccer, so I wont attempt to comment on how baseball parents react to IF Fly.) I get why some folks don't fully understand off side violations.I had to explain the play not only to the kids but to multiple parents. Lots of confused looks.
You're right based on the rule book, but the confusion comes because it's not called that way in practice. Most refs at all levels of soccer will call a hand ball if the player's arm is out away from his/her side, especially if it results in an advantage for their team.But Hand Ball is dependent on one word: deliberate. And is called, or not called, dozens of times each game. And is not situational, like IF Fly.
The coaches aren't great either. It's amazing the correlation between how much a coach talks to the officials and how bad they are at their job. Pop Warner football was the absolute worst an official will get as far as coach behavior. It's no wonder most new officials quit, since those are the levels they start at. A Pop Warner coach will yell at you all game about how he thought the tackle lined up offside in the 1st quarter. D1 NCAA you talk to the head coach 90 minutes before the game and most you won't hear from again that day.Really good article in the Globe today about the lack of referees on the youth sport level and how it is mostly due to the fans aka parents.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/high-schools/2019/11/01/official-referee-shortage-massachuetts-high-schools-miaa/Qdv0UMlQ8fYkhhhgDbzDvI/story.html
I do travel Soccer coaching for g4/u10 & G6/u12 boys and it consistently shocks me how much confrontation there is in the game. There are some towns that it is more prevalent than others, but it happens a lot more that I thought it would.
My usual come back to parents is something along the lines of volunteer to do something (coach/ref) but they’d rather just complain instead.
I’ve told this before: we had a teen in our town who was in 3 or 4 Bway shows including a full blown musical, but who quit reffing because of the crap dished out by the 20 or so parents who’d show up at any given rec games.Really good article in the Globe today about the lack of referees on the youth sport level and how it is mostly due to the fans aka parents.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/high-schools/2019/11/01/official-referee-shortage-massachuetts-high-schools-miaa/Qdv0UMlQ8fYkhhhgDbzDvI/story.html
I do travel Soccer coaching for g4/u10 & G6/u12 boys and it consistently shocks me how much confrontation there is in the game. There are some towns that it is more prevalent than others, but it happens a lot more that I thought it would.
My usual come back to parents is something along the lines of volunteer to do something (coach/ref) but they’d rather just complain instead.