List of Types of Annoying Parents at Baseball Games

• The "tip on the famine" parents. They pack 3 days of food into a cooler for a doubleheader.
• The "I don't know why my son isn't playing" parent. We all know why.
• The "greatest accomplishments" parent. See above.
• The "my son isn't finished growing" parent. His son is 5'3" in junior year and thinks he isn't finished growing because he doesn't have hair on his face. Yet Dad's 45 and still can't grow a moustache. Guess he hasn't reached puberty yet either.
• The parent that badmouths all the kids on the team. Wonder what he says about my kid to all the other parents.
• The parent who insists on talking to you when your son is up at bat.
• The parent of the kid who got cut from the team. He comes down and talks all the time about why his kid should be on the team.
• The "oh so positive" parent. He tells your son "good at bat" when he strikes out or "good try" when he makes an error in the field.
• Your spouse. Need I say more...
• The dying of emabarrasment parent, that the kid wished would stay home.
• The "bad breath" parents. They're close talkers. They get right up into your face, right into your nose. You wish they would brush their teeth. Wait, they don't have any teeth.
• The "invisible" parents. They never go to any games. Their kid always needs a ride both ways, and lunch too.
• The "umpire" parent. He can make the call from behind the third base dugout.
• The "second guesser" parent. He always second guesses the coach.
• The parent that never has the time to work with his kid (takes the time) and expects the coach to make him into a player in three months (the high school season) Then blames the coach because he cant hit or throw.
• The parent that never asks what they can do or helps out with concessions or booster club etc- But gripes about facilities or equipment etc.
• The parent that can't understand why their son has a negative attitude and spends the whole ride home from the game griping about the coaches and other players and well as parents.
• The parent that is jealous of the kids that excell and spends all their time trying to tear them down in the stands. Never looking at the fact that these kids have put in years of hard work and dedication to be at the level they are at. At the same time when these kids are at the cages on the weekends and staying after practice for extra work they have their kid at the lake or at home riding four wheelers.
• The parent that constantly gives their son excuses and never requires them to seek solutions.
• The parent that is always comparing their son to other players.
• The parent that gripes about how long the team practices and then complains that the coaches have not worked with their son enough.
• The parent that complains about team rules then makes a call to the administration about the kid that plays in front of theirs because they heard a rumor about the competition.
• The parent that complains about a coach using profanity and then buys their son an M@M cd.
• The parent that complains that there son is not getting a ride somewhere and the kid has never had the work ethic to excell in HS.
• The parent that is jealous of the kids playing on the elite teams in the summer and fall and their kid never even attempted to play or showed any interest.
• The parent who is your team biggest and loudest supporter at the game when their son is in the line up and sits quietly and gripes with the other non starter parents on the days he does not play.
• The parent that gripes about other parents and then as soon as something doesnt go their way does the same thing the other parents were doing.
• The parent that is willing to do anything for the program anytime you ask. Until their son is dropped in the batting order.
• The parent that makes a contribution to the booster club and then can not understand why their son is not starting after "everything we have done".
• The parent who needs to drink a beer at a youth league game. Hides it in a red plastic cup... thinking no one will notice the only beer style cup in the park.
• The parent that incessantly yells to their son to "just go out and have fun honey"
• The parent that wears headphones to every game listening to some other game at the same time. Can you say overload?
• The parent that holds their sons's cell phone and brings it over to him on the bench during the game if it rings