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Feb 3, 2011
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Recently received email:

"Good Afternoon,

Just played against your 8U All Stars. Good game but at game end instead of making a regular tunnel into dugout your players held arms at waist level and asked our girls to crawl back to dugout because we lost. Very demeaning and unsportsmanlike.

Thank you,

Unhappy Mom"
 
Oct 11, 2010
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I am sorry you felt that way, that was not thier intention.

Our smaller players that just beat the crap out of your bigger girls were holding thier hands high.

I understand your confusion and am will to help at your practices part time so in the future your team can make the tunnel.

Of course your players are going to need to work really hard to catch up to our smaller players but I am willing to help.

(I hate tunnels)
 
Jun 12, 2015
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Our All Stars team had the tunnel done for them once and they thought it was cool so then next time we won one, they did for the other team. Only they'd never done it before so their hands were too low and the girls had to duck. Duck, not crawl (really? I doubt they literally had to crawl into the dugout). They were 8U also. Heaven forbid kids not be perfect? It seems silly to assign malicious intent to something like that. They weren't trying to be demeaning, they just didn't put their hands high enough. Our coach made our girls stop doing though since a lot of the parents didn't like it.
 
Jun 11, 2013
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I certainly wouldn't respond, but I would make sure your girls didn't tell them to crawl under. I actually think it's pretty cool for the young ones do
do it if the other team wants.
 
Oct 11, 2010
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If the losing team made the tunnel it would make more sense to me, I do not like tunnels. Either does DD.

I do not like tunnels.
 
May 24, 2013
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If the losing team made the tunnel it would make more sense to me...

Dear Quincy -

Your team just beat our team and you want our players to service your players by giving them a special trip into the dugout?? That's demeaning and unsportsmanlike.

- Parent who will find anything to b**** about


;)
 
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