Worried Moms Ruin Organized Sports

I often wonder why people play soccer. It truly is one of the lamest sports I have ever seen. The field is too big, the goal is bigger than a garage door and quite frankly, I don’t see how anyone could possibly miss making a goal.

However, after taking my daughter to a local park yesterday for some R & R, I saw first hand why soccer has become so popular for kids to play. Its because soccer is a game that girls can play as well as boys.

So while enjoying a late lunch at the park yesterday, there were several games being played. Two baseball games and a soccer game. Now when I was a kid, there were rarely any moms there to ruin the fun. On the rare occasion that a mom was there, the child of said mom was ridiculed off the field with taunts like ” Oh you brought your mommy to show you how to play.”

Today that has all been erased by the psycho moms that permeate the field screaming at each other about how their kid was in some way wronged by the other kids.

These moms walk about the field yelling and screaming at each other to the point that the coaches and officials have to get involved. Its ridiculous. Yesterday during a baseball game, one mom almost punched another mom. The umpire had to threaten to call the cops if the woman didn’t leave.

It wasn’t this way when I was a kid. Sure some of the dads would go at it over their kids not being played enough or if there was an errant pitch, but that was it.

Now moms are involved and organized sports seems to have gone to hell. It wasn’t until a foul ball came my way that I learned that moms decided that regulation hard baseballs might her the little Skippy so now the hard balls are soft balls that look like hard balls.

Here is another dynamic that didn’t exist when I was a kid. Team moms. WTF? Team moms? These annoying yentas sit there with snacks and drinks for the kids and basically wreck the game for all involved.

Snacks and drinks? This is baseball, not Frisbee golf! The moms are out there yelling at each about how one kid is being mean and looking angry at this kid or that kid, all the while the team mom is sitting there on her ice chest full of goodies trying to keep the peace. What the hell has the great American past time come to?

While watching these annoying yentas yell at their own kids, their husbands and the umpires because their little Skippy was unfairly glared at by the pitcher, the game came to an end . . . and get this? Nobody won!

These psycho moms have managed to convince league officials that its “not nice” to have winners and losers at such a young age because it might hurt the kids feelings. No score? WTF??? Is that really the kind of world we want our kids to grow up in where there is no winners and losers?

What kind of lesson does that teach our kids mom? Perhaps to not try hard because it doesn’t matter anyway? Don’t apply yourself because you might fail?

Have any of you women ever heard the saying “adversity builds character?” You women are trying to create a world for your Skippy where there is no adversity which will lead to your kid having no character.

Do America a favor and stop meddling in man sports. Take your Gatorade and orange slices and go home. Let your boys be boys. Let them break arms and take a fast ball to the noggin once in a while. You won’t regret it later when your Skippy doesn’t turn gay. Joe