Umpires Are DONE With Little League Parents

These umpires are fed up with the parents at their games. Rick Strom breaks it down. Give us your thoughts in the comments below!

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[fatkhetburnell]

Youth sports are supposed to teach kids about winning and losing. What is it teaching them when their parents act like entitled assholes?

[mitter]

They set rules, they talk to the parents before the start of the season, and still get this behavior SMH. The entitled parent is next level these days.

[redbarchetta]

Some things never change. This unfortunately has always been a problem in kid sports, parents who are not grown up.

[bigdawgggbachi]

These parents need a good old fashioned run in with Randy Marsh…I thought this was America

[scottgoodrich]

Parents living their pathetic lives through their kids.

[AI_Image_Master]

The umpires need to put it on the coaches and not engage the parents directly. The coaches have to stop the parents.

[CAC]

Lol she thinks she’s making the calls 🤣

[debcarpenter]

This has been happening for a long time. I was asked to ump a girls, 10 yr old fast pitch softball game in the early '80's. They couldn't get umps then, because of the same reason. The parents treatment of the ump. I was warning a parent by the third inning. The fourth, I told the parent if I heard one more word, their child's team would forfeit. I never had problems again. I also talked with the crowd. These girls were 10yrs, could hardly throw and were just learning the game. I told them these girls are there to have fun, learn and not be embarrassed. I had many parents thank me. I was 16yrs old, caught fast pitch and had been playing since I was 7yrs old. I knew how these kids were feeling.

[g.o.a.tjames]

Annoying Parents at little league games are INSUFFERABLE. No one wants to be verbally abused at work or insulted.

[christopherbradley]

Here's an idea; if a parent gets stupid at a game, their kid gets ejected and suspended from the next game. Sounds draconian but if those parents have to deal with this at home and kids start asking their parents to stop coming to games, you'll see a big change.

[robertrock]

Coached for years. Stopped because of parents. The worst were the dads that never played. Thought an expensive bat, glove, shoes, and extra lessons entitled them to challenge the coaches and the umpires. The moms, well they never played either. Parents, extra lessons, expensive equipment, and aggressive behavior will not help your child improve if they are not willing to make the effort. Stop trying to live vicariously through your child. Just stop.

[drewferd]

Teachers are quitting at an alarming rate as well. Do a better job parents it’s your fault

[cosmo]

These big mouth, misinformed parents are the same ones who whine about volunteering their time towards the same league they yell about.

[heynowls]

Can we blame these low paid volunteers for being done with this insanity?
Who are the real children at these games?

[jonbiedermann]

As an umpire, any conversation with parents never, ever, looks good. That's why during the plate meeting, I ask the coaches that they are responsible for their parent's behavior, and that I will never address a parent, and do the coaches agree to handle their fans. They always say yes. Hundreds and hundreds of games later, never had a problem- and there were a couple of parent complaints and the coach took care of it. Yeah, parents should stop criticizing umpires, but umpires and coaches should work together to set the tone of the game from the beginning, IMO.

[briansaunders]

As the old saying is proved true; 18 kids can play all day long without trouble. Out one parent in the crowd and you need umpires.

[roberttaylor]

Problem is the parents try to live the game through they kids

[williamdawkins]

In the city of Rome, Georgia where I grew up they do not tolerate saying anything bad to umpires, coaches or players, one peep and you get escorted out by the police and it has been this way since the 1960’s ! They have large signs up warning people, and they strictly enforce it!

[jillmac]

The problem is the parents think the umpire is standing between their kid and a college scholarship or a multi million dollar professional career. When in reality the kid is in middle school, sucks at the sport, and secretly hates playing to fulfill their parent's missed dreams

[Maxbps]

I coached a team in Northern Kentucky for six years. We went to a tournament in Tennessee where I started a tradition where I would step out in front of everyone BEFORE the game to announce to both teams/teams-parents just how important umpires are and how thankful we were for them doing what they do, because if they didn't umpire, we couldn't play.

Then we would give them a round of applause. After one of the games, the home plate umpire came up to me, almost with tears in his eyes, and said, "I've been umpiring for twelve years and I've never experienced anything like that. Thank You!"