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This guy sounds like a miserable... by shawno3

...fuck. Clearly the fight is absurd and deplorable. But in his first two paragraphs he whines about every conceivable aspect of anybody’s kid playing any sport. He strikes me as the kind of guy who goes into just about everything with a negative attitude and then, surprise, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. He’s just using the fight as an excuse to whine about kids sports generally.

My two kids are right in the thick of youth sports mania. Two seasons of the year we could have 10 basketball games in a weekend with my two kids playing 80 miles apart from each other. We knew what we were getting into going in and we all love the competition and the great life lessons that come from it. The kids make great friends and it’s a far more productive use of their time then Fortnight. There are inconveniences and negative events here-and-there which we typically let roll off our backs. I’ve seen a coach purposefully step onto the court to impede an opposing player’s fast break. I’ve seen a coach yell at a ref not to disrespect him because the ref wouldn’t like the consequences. I’ve heard parents yell negative things about opposing players (including my kids). It’s no different from any other part of life as somebody pointed out below. There are people doing shitty things in every aspect of life. You can either let it roll off your back and keep a positive attitude or whine about it and let “them” ruin it for you. But the full blame almost never lies on “them.”