My bad, Boo, my bad!

I stole that line off of a funny meme. Do you remember the cartoon from the 80's "He Man"? Any time he was fighting Skeletor he'd hold his sword above his head and yell, "By the power of Greyskull, I have the power!!!!" They were in a place called Eternia. In the meme Skeletor and He Man were riding in a car smoking weed like cool dudes, and the caption read "We were on the edge of Eternia when the power of Greyskull began to take hold" (you can Google that meme)

Now I know. Thanks.

A nail has never been hit more square

I saw 2 little kids standing by the road in Haleyville this morning about 6:30 with their little outfits and backpacks on waiting for the bus....School doesn't start in Haleyville until tomorrow?

I think Mom got caught up in the Facebook whirlwind, seeing pics of kids in other areas and jumped the gum.

Amen and amen! Freaking spot on and hilarious!

Dr. B

I was hoping for pictures.

This thread delivers. Baseball dad description is spot on.

X 1000.

The clarity that Leroy provides us with regarding baseball dad's is astonishing. My only question is....

Leroy: what particular Under Armor workout gear do you prefer, do you shave or wax your arms and legs, and WHY do you refuse to bend your hat bill???

I just thought we know the same people but then thought about it and realized that is a whole culture in and of itself.

Definitely a culture in and of itself.Baseball dad as described in this thread has been around for a long time. Now we are a few generations in and often times these baseball dads were raised by baseball dads themselves, thus making them proto-baseball dads and ratcheting up the intensity with all of the "look at me!" outlets they have at their disposal.

The biggest baseball dad that I knew when growing up ended up offing himself while his all star boy was in late highschool and the reality that he wasn't going pro in anything became apparent. I think he was in some serious financial trouble as well, but you gotta think that all of time, effort, and intensity he put into supervising every waking second of his sons sports career that amounted to basically nothing contributed some.

X2 pics or it didn't happen

My boy hates sports. Suits me. More time for us to go turn wrenches or be on tractors or whatever. He wants to take things apart and put it back together. He'll get further in life doing that than playing a stupid travel ball sport.

I think I saw Gomer's Face Book friend today in a car with "happy first day of school" on the back window. Had stuff written on the passenger side windows too, but I couldn't make it out. Prolly said something like " Go little Johnny, you're special".

I encountered a group of these people I described last year at a hotel I was staying in. They were in from Louisiana and playing in a spring baseball tournament. Every morning at breakfast the moms were on Facebook posting pictures and telling their friends the status of the previous day events at the ballpark. Then they would have a pep rally in the lobby before heading out. I kid you not! Then at night the baseball dads would gather in parking lot around a cooler of beer and get lit. The more lit they got the louder they were. Then they would start bitching at each other that if their son would have broke up that double play then they would have won by eleven instead of ten. Then baseball junior would come outside to see what baseball dad was up to then baseball dads would go full coaching moments on him under the parking lot lights. SMH

Sad. I bet the dads were real winners too.

Mine doesn't hate sports but he'd rather fish, hunt, or just raise hell with other kids. He's got his own roll around tool box so he can leave my tools alone.

LOL

I handed my phone to the wife and said "haha, read this schit"

First words outta her mouth: "OMG I read that today, she's a nut"

Staying in context with the thread, I know I often seem over the top 'anti baseball', but I'm not. It's just the crazed insanity of parents' involvement with it. It's the most obsessive, widespread shux I've ever seen. I have approaching 2,000 Facebook friends, and the dominant majority of what I see is baseball related, and it's the PARENTS, not the kids!

None of this would seem weird if it was the kids, but it just baffles the snot outta me how many adults are just jizzin' in their shorts over it 24/7/365??!!!!! Every woman I know posts 500 pictures each weekend about the latest tournament they were in, how many games, how it's 10:00PM and they're still in it!! Woohoo!!! Or dad-of-the-year has a daily thread about how excited he is for tonight's game, or how excited he is about going to Panama City this week for the tournament, and on and on and on....

Literally, I never see children post anything about it. I'm not under the impression the children don't like it and the parents are making them do it, I'm just bewildered about how much these adult parents are jizzin' their pants excited about it. They post in the winter about "OMG, I can't wait for Spring so I can see my Susie play softball" (and Susie is like in 4th grade)