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