Dumbest Thing a Parent Ever Said!!!

OK, a new thread. I've heard many dumb things said by parents so I'll just picked one to start out. We are starting our rec game and I am missing my #1 pitcher. I see her father coaching her brother so I asked him where she was. He told me her mother wouldn't let her play because she didn't want her to get wet. It had rained earlier in the day, but the field was in good shape.

We had about a dozen practices before rec season started. I coach tb team and half the rec girls are on different tb teams. Once rec season starts we play games 3days a week, plus practice tb 2 days a week, and tourneys on the weekend. So rec practice pretty much stops. One rec only girl made it to just the first practice, then had vball practice, homework, and etc. Her mom emails me about 3 weeks into season asking "ARE WE EVER GOING TO HAVE PRACTICE?"

I had a parent once tell me they took their 10 yr old kid to be athleticly evaluated and the specalist said the player should be playing SS.
Years later and I still get a chuckle from that one. We joked about starting our own company and charging parent $500.00 to test their kids.

MagicDad said:

I had a parent once tell me they took their 10 yr old kid to be athleticly evaluated and the specalist said the player should be playing SS.

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, for a $100.00 I would have told them that.

I do not want to quote myself so I am not going to participate in this thread.

MagicDad said:

I had a parent once tell me they took their 10 yr old kid to be athleticly evaluated and the specalist said the player should be playing SS.
Years later and I still get a chuckle from that one. We joked about starting our own company and charging parent $500.00 to test their kids.

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In NJ you would make a fortune!!! Crazy parents would be lined up out the door!

I was at a 12U tournament watching a game from the outfield 2 years ago (our team was not playing at the time). The pitcher throws one way over the head of the catcher, and hits the backstop about midway up. A mom nearby asks the pitcher's mother if that was her riseball!!

PA SB Dad said:

In NJ you would make a fortune!!! Crazy parents would be lined up out the door!

I was at a 12U tournament watching a game from the outfield 2 years ago (our team was not playing at the time). The pitcher throws one way over the head of the catcher, and hits the backstop about midway up. A mom nearby asks the pitcher's mother if that was her riseball!!

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I bet most of the parents on the batter's team said "GOOD EYE!"

In a heated Middle School Varsity game (bottom of eighth inning and using International Tie-Breaker rule) and Momma asks me a question from outside the fence. (I had just gotten to the Third-Base Coaches Box) "Can I take 'Susie' and go to her sister's (Rec League) game since she isn't doing much?"
'Susie' was the DP batting in the third spot in the lineup.

DD is playing RF in pick up game with older boys. Base hit to right, runner on 1st going to 3rd, DD throws eye-level rope to 3rd base. Crowd gasps. Well-fed kid playing third drops the throw and runner is safe. Parent yells to kid "Not your fault son, the throw was too high"

Had a girl on a rec team who hit about .100 but ran the bases like a gazelle. We actually led her off every game, she would bunt the first strike she saw and was usually crossing home plate by the 3rd or 4th pitch of the game. She swung away at her other at bats and actually had a high OBP due to walks and hit by pitch.

Her dad came up to me at a tb game and told me that he thought "she isn't hitting well because of all that bunting".

Yes Sir, of course you are right. Here is your sign.

Guess this could go under either coach or parent comment. Daughter originally played LL baseball and she was about only girl playing in league. Her team was playing a game against a team from a neighboring association when she came up to bat. Parents in stands and coach kind of chuckle and tell the infield to move in on her. Base umpire (who knows my daughter) looks at the coach and says "you sure you want to do that?" 1st pitch she rips a screaming line drive down the 3rd base line that the 3rd baseman never even saw and almost hit the 3rd base coach. Suddenly "move up on her" became "back up, back up".