It was bad when I was a kid. I can't imagine what it's turned into now. I remember as a kid thinking that some parents were just intense and really into it. Now I'm older and I think of those people as psychotic. You're really yelling at a 9 year old for striking out? Like seriously? Of course, other parents can't say anything to them because they'll say, "don't tell me how to talk to my kid."
I played basketball one year when I was a kid for an in-house league and I never played. My coach said he wanted to win so I never even got a chance to play the whole season. I quit the next year.
For profit travel sports have made everything worse in the world of youth sports.
Bernie Madoff wishes he could have come up with that scam.
It was bad when I was a kid. I can't imagine what it's turned into now. I remember as a kid thinking that some parents were just intense and really into it. Now I'm older and I think of those people as psychotic. You're really yelling at a 9 year old for striking out? Like seriously? Of course, other parents can't say anything to them because they'll say, "don't tell me how to talk to my kid."
I played basketball one year when I was a kid for an in-house league and I never played. My coach said he wanted to win so I never even got a chance to play the whole season. I quit the next year.