Portable speakers blaring at tournaments

I was curious to get opinions on teams using portable speakers at tournaments. It seems like at every tournament (Fastpitch & baseball) more and more teams have music blaring during warm ups, between innings and some now have walk up music. It seems teams are respectful with it during their games, but what is annoying/distracting is that teams on other fields having it blaring next to an ongoing game. The speakers are getting ridiculous around here. I wasn't sure what I was seeing since it was across the field, but it looked like there was a guy who pulled up on a riding speaker (looked like a 4 wheeler with speakers down the side), wish I would have gotten a picture. There was another team with a speaker stack that looked like something from a KISS concert that took 2 car batteries to power it and a large metal cart it move it around. The TD at the last tournament came around to all teams and asked that they not be played loudly if a game was going on on an adjacent field.

I was curious if people are seeing tournaments starting regulate music/speakers around the country.

Our team just starting dragging one of these around. I absolutely loathe the things.
Such a proud parent experience to have the delicate stylings of "If you dance on a pole it don't make you a 'ho" wafting out of the thing while young ladies warm up.
At least they have kept the volume under control.

I built a cooler into a boom box as a weekend project a couple of years ago. We used it when we were a 12U B-level team, but when we moved up to 14U and started playing A-level TB the number of teams using them diminished significantly, so I started leaving it at home.

OMG I hate them so much.

Hate them because of
1) the bleed over at multi field complexes. Sure, you turn the music off when YOUR game is being played, but in between innings or walkup songs blare while the game behind you or next to you is going on. If there were no other games going on at the complex, then fine. But that is almost never the case. And teams warming up for the next game cranking the music seem to think that the other games currently being played aren't important.
2) clueless parents who "think" they have the edited version of a song but they don't. But they are so clueless they don't realize it until everyone is screaming at them. Or songs that may not have curse words but are very very very suggestive and the parent sees nothing wrong with this. My wife got into with a mom on our team earlier this year over this issue, as guys rapping about hos and making it rain and all sorts of stuff doesn't belong at the ball field.
3) when two teams playing each other go into dueling banjos mode trying to out do each other.

They should be banned.

I am not a fan of these at all. We used them with my older team for a short time and the girls had fun but it died out soon. We use it at practice sometimes and i get how music can help you focus I use to jam pre-game music too but it becomes a distraction during games to me. And I have seen people get way out of hand trying to top each other and have the loudest biggest sound system.

I have seen it cause fights at tournaments there was a 10u game going on and it was late into the night both teams had some drunk parents on the sides who were controlling the music blaring it like they were at the club and then we turn and see like 6 dads pushing a shoving each other followed by cop sirens shortly after they broke them all up. Needless to say I have never been a fan of alcohol or these loud speakers at a softball complex.

I do not like them and in fact have told my athletes to not bring them after about 2 weeks into the season. If I have to yell instructions over the music(if thats what they call it) then its gone. Simple. Other teams can keep that distraction around them if they like.

They are banned in all tournaments in my area. The short list of rules now includes this.

They're not too common where we're from. When they do get brought to tourneys, it must be an understood courtesy because they're never tuned very loudly.


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This weekend ..... Opposing team had one and had it on during a "mound conference". Rude. The tourney director put a stop to it - telling them they could play it only in between innings.

My girls have asked repeatedly to get one but I flat out refused. I think they are tasteless and a distraction. As a coach at warm ups I don't want to have to yell over them.