Comments on: Mike Matheny has a blog dedicated to changing the culture of youth sports

By: indaburg

indaburg — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 02:05:26 +0000

I’m late to this, but Matheny is my write-in choice for President.

By: Kevin of SportsDadHub

Kevin of SportsDadHub — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 11:54:55 +0000

If you’re a fan of Matheny’s way of thinking, I invite you to join the community at http://www.SportsDadHub.com. I share tips, insights and stories about how to use your child’s love of sports as a vehicle to teach life lessons and form a lifelong bond with your kids.
There are too many overbearing parents who don’t understand the true meaning and purpose of youth sports. SportsDadHub is a place for like minded sports parents who have their priorities straight.
I hope to hear from you there.
-Kevin

By: klingonj

klingonj — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 10:09:13 +0000

I am 58 y/o that remembers playing ball in the street / sandlot all through child hood (you come home when the street lights turn on). it was kids making selections, making the rules and figuring how to make things resolve themselves. I had no idea at the time what kind of life skills it would help all of us to achieve. I pity alot of todays kids, everything scheduled, no pickup games that lasted for weeks etc……………

By: klingonj

klingonj — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 10:06:09 +0000

I umpired for 20 years doing college as well as little leagues. some parents would get bad in the beginning but the good associations had game admins which umpires could direct the admin to quiet them down or remove them. I always felt bad for the loud mouth’s kids playing. They always semed so embarrassed by the parents. The kids played seemed to let it go after the game while certain parents woould lose sleep for weeks over stuff.

By: cur68

cur68 — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 18:07:53 +0000

Good luck to little Barry in the draft. I hope he has a great season.

By: assuredsvcsllc

assuredsvcsllc — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 17:24:39 +0000

Reblogged this on Welcome to Assured Services, LLC! and commented: This may be the most insightful blog I have ever seen for coaching youth sports. I've read a million strategic books and blogs, but this touches on the human side of kids and sports unlike anything else I have seen. Nice job Mr. Matheny! (Go Brewers!)

By: abudanroman

abudanroman — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 17:22:18 +0000

” There are many times I have hoped that my son in particular doesn’t get too into sports because of that noise. ”

I completely agree. I feel guilty about it, but I have steered my oldest son out of little league for that very reason. We try and set up some sandlot games just for the fun of it, but even then, some parents expect that every game their child plays should go towards the goal of someday earning them a scholarship.

Really sad.

By: alang3131982

alang3131982 — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 16:40:29 +0000

*parent, “ragging”,

By: alang3131982

alang3131982 — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 16:39:20 +0000

As a little leaguer who was once more or less attacked by an opposing team’s parents, i’ve seen this first hand — although i thought this was a totally isolated instance and hope it still is.

In case you care what happened: This one father was raging on our team kind of bad, sort of making fun of us with bad plays. This was probably 6th/7th grade (it was player pitch, i think). Anyway, he said something about one of my good friends (who struck out the previous inning) as i was putting on my catcher’s mask behind the plate. I told him to shut-up (or some other foul language). Certainly, I was being disrespectful. However before i knew it he was holding me up by my chest protector. Thankfully, a few father’s on our team came rushing to my defense and pulled the father away.

I dont remember much coming of it. I had to talk to the league about it and was given a free baseball. It didnt seem like a huge deal – it was over in a few seconds and the law was never involved (to my knowledge), but, people just crazy.

By: zzalapski

zzalapski — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 16:00:57 +0000

Better question is, how gritty is she? Can she make it through a pas de deux if she has an owie on her knee?

By: barrywhererufrom

barrywhererufrom — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 15:55:40 +0000

right on! have my baseball draft tonight for my son’s eight year old team. So many parents and coaches should check out the site/blog. It’s not about us its about the kids. I applaud Mattheny for comments!

By: dluxxx

dluxxx — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 15:52:56 +0000

bat… Edit function would be nice.

By: dluxxx

dluxxx — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 15:50:27 +0000

Man, I loved little league. Granted it’s been a few years, but I remember that everyone got a chance to play, and we all had fun. I ran into a guy I played with years later and he seemed to remember me being pretty good, but that never really factored into anyting. I just had fun playing and hanging out wiht the other kids.

One thing I do remember is that some of the parents used to ask my mom to go drive around the block when I was up to bad in critical situations. Apparently she was bad luck…

By: Francisco (FC)

Francisco (FC) — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 15:25:26 +0000

You should see the ballet studio Mookie goes to

What’s her WAR value?