Coffee Co Baseball

[binns37388]

I posted this in another thread: Looks like Coffee County has their share of Larry Largemouth's.........See Below:

 

Larry Largemouth - - - Super Dad and Super Fan

 

There are four things we can be sure of in life here in East TN: Death, Taxes, Fall Colors and the emergence Larry Largemouth......Super Dad, Super Fan, and Grandstand Coach of every sports team his son plays on.

 

To have a chance at enjoying a high school baseball game you must identify Super Dad so you can sit as far away from him as possible. Super Dads come in all shapes and sizes, but there is an easy way to find him. Follow the loudest voice you hear until you find a largemouth surrounded by abrasive obnoxiousness. You have just found Larry Largemouth “Super Dad and Super Fanâ€.

 

He lives in about every community in our country and his one purpose in life is to criticize high school and youth athletic teams in general and their coaches in particular. These dads usually go into hibernation during the summer, as soon as Basketball is over, so as to rest their tired lungs and voices from all the critical evaluation. You see the long season takes its toll on the poor guy because this Dad involves himself in every play, and in every situation, in every game...... BUT SHAZAAM..... his recuperating powers are amazing and there he is rested and ready to go with visions of walks, errors and strikeouts through his head. As the first game approaches, rest assured Super Dad will be ready.

 

To be a Super Dad you do not need a license or any special training....just a five dollar ticket you can purchase at the front gate. With that five dollar ticket Super Dad now has instant authority, with full rights and privileges, to begin chastising teenage boys, your sons, and their coaches. What an absolute bargain, for just five dollars, he gets to do all that...... by the way.....this cost,,,,, is a heckuva lot less than the price your son, his teammates and his coaches have paid putting this team together.

 

Make no mistake about it though.....no player or coach is immune from Super Dad and there is no way Super Dad could ever be happy with the game, the players, or the coaching. No young player is as good as Super Dad was in his day.... no teams are as good as the teams in Super Dad’s years....and let there be no doubt that Super Dad has forgot more about baseball than all those idiot coaches combined on the sidelines.

 

AND the coaches.....this is where Super Dad really goes to work and enjoys himself. All his frustrations, pet peeves, pettiness, verbal abuse and pure viciousness comes out when talking about that incompetent bunch of Boobs called coaches. It does not matter that the coaches wives and children are in hearing distance. They try to ignore Super Dad.....but it still hurts. BUT wait a minute.....Super Dad paid his five dollars and he believes that entitles him to make any coach and player “fair gameâ€.

 

The stream of criticism continues the entire game and regardless of the outcome......it should have been better.....and it would have been better if not for the incompetency of the coaches. AND.....should our team have been on the short end of the scoreboard...... that just simply proves that Super Dad was right all along and the coaches are incompetent bums and have to go.

 

The saddest part of Super Dad’s performance is the part he saves for the kids after the game..... when a young man makes a mistake in a game..... and they all do.....this becomes an unforgivable sin to Super Dad that takes on catastrophic proportions. He loudly challenges the boy’s skill, courage, intelligence, desire..... and the coach’s stupidity such an inept individual to stay on the team, let alone play in the game.

 

It makes no difference to Super Dad that these are young boys and their coaches simply playing a game they love to the best of their ability......nonsense....to Super Dad this high school game and season has far more meaning.....in his mind it will alter the course of the world, and therefore he demands perfection. After all.....Super Dad never made any mistakes.....why should high school players and their coaches be allowed to.

 

Larry Largemouth “Super Dad, Super Fanâ€.....who needs him?????

New Guy, don't forget us umpires and game officials have to deal with Super Dad, but we if we get fed up with him, we can tell him to hit the road.

[daylily]

People might want to leave this one alone. I have known Coach Jones for many years and what he brings to the field as well as the community is something that promotes a positive attitude throughout. I have found that a few individuals can cause a stink when the stink needs to be eliminated. I am a firm believer that the school board should run the system, but should allow the administration the opportunity to run their schools and not become involved with the hiring and firing of coaches unless warrented.

[PEARLBALL]

People might want to leave this one alone. I have known Coach Jones for many years and what he brings to the field as well as the community is something that promotes a positive attitude throughout. I have found that a few individuals can cause a stink when the stink needs to be eliminated. I am a firm believer that the school board should run the system, but should allow the administration the opportunity to run their schools and not become involved with the hiring and firing of coaches unless warrented.

From what I hear, the principal has reviewed the matter and reaffirmed his commitment to Coach Jones.

[chs4life]

Hope Chase stays for a long, long time

[hillrider]

If he promotes a positve attitude and is so great in tthe community, why does he allow his kids to refuse to shake the hands of African American kids after games?

[prich01]

If he promotes a positve attitude and is so great in tthe community, why does he allow his kids to refuse to shake the hands of African American kids after games?

 

Highly doubt that was allowed, and if discovered that it took place will be dealt with by Coach Jones. Lots of things going through the mind of a coach during the latter innings and end of a close game. Pretty sure no coach inspects the shake hands line. Maybe that's a situation that needs taken up with the parents of the alleged kid who wouldn't shake. That's probably a better place to direct your frustration.

[hillrider]

None of them did!

[baseball2132]

If he promotes a positve attitude and is so great in tthe community, why does he allow his kids to refuse to shake the hands of African American kids after games?

 

 

There was some frustrated players who did not shake some coaches and players hands but it had nothing to do with them being white or African American. Should they have shook everyones hands, yes, but let not bring race into this when it had nothing to do with it.

[djones]

If he promotes a positve attitude and is so great in tthe community, why does he allow his kids to refuse to shake the hands of African American kids after games?

Are you kidding me??? Whoever you are, you don't know him if you are writing something as ridiculous as that. Chase is not and has never been prejudiced in any way. It disgusts me to read something like that when you have no basis whatsoever. In fact, if a player even implied that they didn't want to shake hands for the reason you mentioned, they probably wouldn't be playing for him in the future.

[binns37388]

Are you kidding me??? Whoever you are, you don't know him if you are writing something as ridiculous as that. Chase is not and has never been prejudiced in any way. It disgusts me to read something like that when you have no basis whatsoever. In fact, if a player even implied that they didn't want to shake hands for the reason you mentioned, they probably wouldn't be playing for him in the future.

I don't know who "Hillrider" is either, but that was a ridiculous post, I agree. I checked some earlier posts that he made and they all concerned soccer.

[hillrider]

I am sorry if I implied there was an issue with the coach. Maybe there are other sides to the story and I apologize. I know the coach doesn't keep an eye on everything that goes on after games.

[sh9912]

New Guy, don't forget us umpires and game officials have to deal with Super Dad, but we if we get fed up with him, we can tell him to hit the road.

You are an umpire. I am an umpire. We leave the fans alone. Focus on the field, not outside the fence.