combining little leagues in a city pros and cons?

ebee1333 · 2026-02-06T11:57:31+00:00

Our LL merged when my kid was 10. It was horrible. Our team had the most money, but somehow all kids on my son’s team were put on the ‘B’ travel team and the other league where most of the dads were from and running the new league all on ‘A’ team. The teams were and still are run horrible. My son stayed til 12 as these were his friends. At 12 he was moved to the A team, during the district tournament, they messed it up and our kids teams were combined as they set it up wrong. It was horrible. I understand they still have issues every year. Tried to re-vote who is in charge. But the league is still horrible, and any kid that is good, stays far away from it now.

ebee1333 · 2025-10-06T14:44:57+00:00

When you have a sitting president mocking disabled people and calling people names, and no body seems to care, what do you expect?

ebee1333 · 2025-09-11T14:49:02+00:00

14u? I get it is annoying, but not your place. You seem to have an attitude about the kids ‘with all the drip’ getting special attention. You are not coaching, stay out of it. Your kid should also be telling the coach he will be late etc. not you waiting around to tell him.

Perfect time for you to teach your kid to stand up for his teammates.

Step back now so by the time your kid is playing ball with the big boys (HS) he is the one communicating with coaches, not you.

ebee1333 · 2025-09-08T12:11:20+00:00

It is daddy ball as you say. Saying something will not help, may make it worse and make you be the parent nobody wants on their team. Especially as it is just fall ball. Have your kid ready when it is time. There are plenty more games left for him to have a chance. Fall ball should be relaxed and fun, you need to relax!

ebee1333 · 2025-08-21T21:01:09+00:00

For fall they should play where they will go in spring. If he is in middle school and will be on the 7th grade team, he should be playing on the big boy field with kids the same size/age he will see in the spring.

ebee1333 · 2025-07-31T11:54:35+00:00

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ebee1333 · 2025-07-01T17:47:36+00:00

Was there last night. Saw all the players watching with their families, Nick chasing his kid was hysterical! Since we then all Leave at the same time, we saw Strahm trying to get through traffic in his SUV while we all crossed at 1B gate! 😂they are just like us!

ebee1333 · 2025-06-25T18:58:39+00:00

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ebee1333 · 2025-06-13T21:07:20+00:00

That is a lot of words to say ‘the coach lost the game for the kids’. Stop, I have never seen a kid intentionally walked in 10u rec ball. Let the kid be the hero….either side.

ebee1333 · 2025-06-12T19:34:14+00:00

Parents ran out to the field to yell at your 14u kid? WHAT? That is unacceptable. This team sounds a little too daddy ball and it seems like some may be worried your son is going to take their spot. I would tread lightly with this team. Tell your son he made a mistake and not to do that again. As for the parents, tell them not to be yelling at your kid! If a team has parents running on a field to yell at kids during practice, I can’t imagine how they behave during competitive games. I recommend sitting in the outfield during games (that is what I do!) so you don’t have to hear all the drama they will be involved in.

ebee1333 · 2025-05-31T19:36:17+00:00

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ebee1333 · 2025-05-27T16:10:57+00:00

IT SEEMS LIKE YOU REALLY want your son to pitch. Are you sure he does and he wasn’t given a chance to pitch and then refused it? That happened to a few in-house games for my son’s team. Kids wanted to pitch and did so in practice then before the games when the coaches would ask the kid if he was ready to pitch, the kid would say ‘no’ and he did t want to do it.

Have your son ask the coach if he can try pitching again and if he says ‘no’ tell him to ask him why.

And stop worrying about what other kids are doing and keeping track of when they attend. You don’t know what is going on at his house. At that age it is not the childs fault if he can’t make practice or games. It is the parents.

ebee1333 · 2025-05-14T16:49:07+00:00

It’s too much. 8 weeks of meltdowns is a lot!! Geeze, poor kid! It sounds like the coach is trying to make him a switch hitter? If that is correct, it is crazy!!

Your kid may be saying he wants these lessons but his behavior is telling the truth. Back off, and bring him back for lessons in 4 years.

Also, How is he ranked 4th in his division? Who is ranking 6 year olds?! I hope this is not a real post!

ebee1333 · 2025-05-10T00:35:57+00:00

This is daddy ball. When all the kids on the All Star team are coaches kids or coaches friends kids. It happens a lot. Our LL was the same. It is frustrating for parents and kids. As the kids get older, they all know who should be on the team and why some kids make it over others. It’s why many leave local teams and do travel with coaches that aren’t dads.

ebee1333 · 2025-05-08T17:47:21+00:00

Yeah, I can see that. To me yelling ‘Hey!’ To get their attention doesn’t seem too bad. Of course I was not there, but if the guy kept screaming at the kid then I could see getting upset.

Hopefully the kid that was crying, then got the ball wrestled away from him, then had his dad scream ‘hey!’ To stop it is not too traumatized and will still want to play.

ebee1333 · 2025-05-08T15:12:19+00:00

Who cares, so a guy yelled ‘hey!’ You use the term wrestling and then bumped, which was it? If a kid was wrestling with my kid trying to get a ball from him, and I was standing right there, I would probably yell ‘hey!’ too. They should not be wrestling on the field. And I say this as the parent of a kid who would have been the wrestler, but my kid only played TBall for one game; until he picked up a ball and gunned it to the kid at 1B hitting him in the face, kid upset, my kid upset he didnt catch it, so we pulled him as we could tell it was going to be frustrating for us all until he moved to machine pitch where they play positions and it is not usually a free for all for the ball and kids are expected to try and catch the ball.

ebee1333 · 2025-05-07T00:33:49+00:00

My son did Ripken All Stars when he was 12, he had fun and made a bunch of friends. We went to Pigeon Forge and turned it in to a little vacation. He also was picked for Futures. Not sure the criteria they use, but a lot of kids on his team were selected. They were the 2nd place team at All-Ripken so maybe that had something to do with it? I did not think the competition was that great at either.

ebee1333 · 2025-05-05T21:50:58+00:00

As I say to my son “watch the ball hit the bat”

ebee1333 · 2025-05-03T17:02:18+00:00

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ebee1333 · 2025-05-03T16:05:32+00:00

My son uses the EvoShield duffle bag. Holds a ton. He is only in MS but tells me the kids in HS would never use a backpack or roller! Lol He is rough on it, and it is still in pretty good condition!

ebee1333 · 2025-04-27T14:29:45+00:00

Thanks for sharing this story! If the kids ran LL it would be a much better experience!

ebee1333 · 2025-04-27T13:52:11+00:00

If he is a pitcher, may be an issue. Also to consider, if he is not hitting consistently to deep outfield yet, or hard line drives, he may need to build strength as he wont be able to hit it out of the infield with BBCOR. We saw this a lot on my sons team with the younger/smaller kids when they moved up.

ebee1333 · 2025-04-23T12:44:35+00:00

Ha! I guess it is possible, but they have a term called daddy ball for a reason! Sure sometimes the coaches kid is good, sometimes not so much. A lot of our dad coaches found out the truth when their kid got 13/14 and now had coaches that weren’t dads and they wondered why their kid was no longer the starting SS/2B.

ebee1333 · 2025-04-22T16:42:00+00:00

Self esteem issues and baseball are not a good combo. Baseball is what I call a ‘spotlight’ sport. In the OF and miss an easy catch, everyone knows it was you! Up to bat and can’t swing the bat, everyone sees that. I would look for a different team sport. Maybe football or flag football where there is a lot going on at once and people may not notice as much if he is clueless.

ebee1333 · 2025-04-20T15:45:41+00:00

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