Little league meltdown.

http://www.startribune.com/467/story/1269301.html

Until the second inning of his son's Friday night Little League baseball game, Wade Campbell didn't seem different from most players' parents, the boy's coach said Tuesday.
Before the game, Campbell, 46, complained about a lack of playing time for his kid, but he also helped the team warm up.

"That was great," Noe Ambriz, the coach, said Tuesday. "Anytime a parent wants to throw the ball around with the kids, it helps."

Then, with two strikes against him, Campbell's 12-year-old son watched the third strike zing past.

respective little league teams, if i were running the league i would have asked to never, ever come back, they were "those" parents. they never threatened anyone but they were the most obnoixous people ever, little wonder both kids stopped playing as soon as they could.

Funny, the t-ball coach told us one of the moms had called him, screaming about the jersey my kid got, how it was her kid's number, blah blah blah...

We gave it back. I was relating the story to the lady next to me in the bleechers, saying what a bee-otch the mom must be, etc.

come to find out, it was HER! :rofl:

:wtf:

Doesn't that sound a bit Dickensian? The guy sounds like a real Dad o' the Year. :eyes:

Anyway, we took our kid out of t-ball becuase of an abusive asshole who caled himself a coach. Kids' sports brings out the worst in some people.

Little leaguers and various equivalents most of the summer, etc. There usually aren't many problems, but now and then we'll hear some psycho parent throwing a fit because her kid missed a swing or was caught out or whatever.

Every now and then one of them will take offense at their kid being on the losing team in a game, place the blame entirely on said kid, and keep them in the ballpark until, oh, nine o'clock practicing ad infinitum so they don't screw up any more.

We're talking seven, eight, nine-year-olds and a game that was over at five, mind you.

Rrrrrrrgh.

A face only a mother could love.

and even then, only at a distance.

and then only on payday.

He looks like the "poster child" for sick, right-wing America 2007. Stupid, ignorant, angry, violent, dumb as a stump. I am so sad for our country that we are constantly plagued by morans like this guy. They are everywhere!

Pathetic.

like a cinder block. It can't be healthy.

:rofl:

At least we did when my kids played. Overly involved parents could be banned from games. If they took their kids out of little league, oh well.

I complained about one guy. I thought he was actually going to punch the coach.

I have always thought the best way to pick the kids for the teams would be to line the parents up and choose based on the parents' behavior. It would save a lot of grief. It is much like teaching. The biggest occupational hazard in teaching is parents.

Are they anything like the poor houses of the 1800? Are they like the workhouses in Charles Dickens?

"He was sentenced to serve 20 days in the workhouse." This in the United States in 2007. What has America turned into?



"Many thousands are in want of common necessaries; hundreds of thousands are in want of common comforts, sir.'

'Are there no prisons?"

'Plenty of prisons,' said the gentleman, laying down the pen again.
'And the Union workhouses.' demanded Scrooge. 'Are they still in operation?'

'Both very busy, sir.'

Inmates can actually reduce their sentence by working on the roads, at the county incinerator, the dump...lots of really dirty jobs that it's hard to hire people to do.

I don't know what it is in Florida now, but it used to be that you got 2 days off your sentence for every day you worked.

This clown has been parking outside of his house? Stalking him and his family? Threatened to shoot him like a dog? Flame away all you want rabid gun control pacifists, but this is a shining example of why we are, and should remain able to protect ourselves when a lummox like this asshole decides he's gonna do you some harm.

This man was verbally abusing his son, but it was "ok" because it was his child? However, he was asked to leave because other children . .. what? Might be upset by the tone of his voice? Someone should have reported this man to family and children services.

"On Friday, at the field on St. Paul's East Side, Ambriz said that his wife asked Campbell to leave the dugout when he started swearing.

He told her not to worry about it because he was yelling at his own kid," Ambriz said Tuesday.

Yvonne Ambriz told him to leave because other children were there. Campbell went to the stands, where Ambriz's sister was watching the game with her kids."

I've been on both sides of the fence when it has come to coaching both my own kids/stepkids as well as just doing it as a volunteer because nobody else wanted to be involved, they had more important things to do.

Unfortunately from what I've seen, some of the coaches that volunteer, while admirable, are only there to assure that their own kids are the stars. Reality is that they're just as apt to be more nervous about playing with their dad (especially if their a loudmouth) there than they would be if they weren't. I've usually been able to drown out the loudmouths in the stands when I coached. If you're focusing on the game and making sure all the kids get equal playing time, you don't have much time for much else. It's when that obnoxious parent is sitting next to you either on the bench or in the dugout that it really bothered me. And fortunately I've really only had one instance where a parent had gotten under my skin during a game. I was coaching my son's ex-basketball team (CYO to boot) when one of the kid's dad decided I wasn't playing his son enough (needless to say he started getting on me in the first quarter) and that the rest of the kids weren't anywhere near as good as his son. That's the typical response you get, someone's son is always better than everyone else. Finally about half way through the third quarter I had had enough of this guy. I called time out, walked up to bleachers where this guy was, handed him the clipboard and told him that since his kid was better than everyone else, he must be a better coach than me, and went over to the snack stand and got myself a drink. The guy didn't even last til the end of the game before he got frustrated and handed me back the clipboard. The rest of the year he just sat there and cheered for all the kids. We ended up winning more than we lost that year.

and something that will actually be usable to them in the future, get them into music or drama, and stay the living hell away from sports. Unless, like my nephew, you can find a league for kids who aren't living ignorant dreams of professional sports, but just want to have fun together.

Campbell, carrying his anger for two days, waited outside the coach's home and later threatened in a phone call to shoot the coach "like a dog," according to a terroristic threats charge filed Tuesday in Ramsey County.

Couldn't he just tie the coach to the top of his car for a 12-hour drive?

"In 1991, a former girlfriend was granted an order for protection after saying that he had waited at her St. Paul home, hid under her car and grabbed her leg"

:rofl: