WTF Did You Bastards Do To The Bad News Bears Ideology?!

Growing up there were many movies that I enjoyed watching during the Family Film Festival moments on the weekends, and in the summer movie marathon weeks. One of the most memorable for me has to be The Bad News Bears starring Walter Matthau and Tatum O'Neal circa 1977. When it comes to sports movies for kids (though it does have some profanity in it), this is the one to watch!

It stars a group of kids, the dregs in playing skills, that are in a Little League team called "The Bears". The coach was Buttermaker (Matthau) as a drunken ex-baseball player-turned-poolman that gets recruited by them to teach them how to play. Buttermaker turns around after a few practices and recruits his ex-girlfriend's daughter (O'Neal) who is quite the skilled pitcher, and the local smokin'-hoodrat who also has a powerful arm, Kelly Leak. They start winning games. In the end, after many trials and tribulations, they end up in the championship game against the "Yankees". Buttermaker decides to let the Benchwarmers play. They lose the game....BUT they don't care. Why? Because they had the satisfaction of trying, knowing that winning is not so important.



Now..where am I going with this you ask? Here goes...

For the last 2 months I've been a "Team Mom" in the local Little League, and let me tell ya'...the things I've seen? It's outright BULLSHIT!

I've seen nepotism at it's highest level. I've seen way too many moments of I in Team. I've seen cheating. I've seen money being embezzled straight out in front of our faces (I'll be one of those people who'll be asking for the season-end financial statement, let me tell ya'!), and many many other things...but...

The one that worries me the most is the I in Team...

Coaches and assistant coaches should not be allowed to have their kids/family in the same team they are working in. They should all trade them off to other teams. How are these kids to learn the basics of the sport with these assholes making their kin believe that they are the Almighty-1-Man-Team during a game? I've got a catcher and a pitcher, 2 outfielders, a short-stop and 2 basemen who can't do what they're supposedly getting TAUGHT TO DO because these damn coaches have their kin running rampant throughout the field doing their positions for them. All. To. Win. The. Game.

WTF did you bastards do to the Bad News Bears ideology?!!!1


Get over your fuckin'selves! These kids are NOT you. Just because you weren't good enough in the sport, or maybe you're regressing to have your moment in time once again, you needn't be taking it out on the rest of the players to make your own kid the Season Star! This game is about Teamwork. Self-reliance. Self-esteem. Having fun! Not "Oh. I can't do that! That's Manuel-Harrietta-Dick's job", said by a kid who is barely learning the sport for the very first time. If you want your kid to be #1, you go and practice the skills on your own time, not on MY time that I PAID for. Kgraciasthxmuchos!

And don't get me started about the side-bleacher-coaches...

Can you PLEASE shut the fuck up?!!! Can I for once be able to sit away from you squattin'-bleacher-tards in my lawnchair and enjoy a game? Must I have to hear about how awesome your kid(s) is and how he/she/it (Yeah. I said IT. And?) is better than everyone else?! How about cheering for the rest of the team? How about being a bit more considerate at their lack of skills and making them feel as if they put their best effort even if they did get struck-out or just got hit by a ball in the back and is crying because it hurt?! Why must you yell at them with shit like "You shoulda stayed home to play your XBox, Kid!" or "Get off the field! You suck!" or "Jesus. I feel for that kid's parents. He's just bad." How can you say that loud enough for the other side of the field to be able to hear?! Have you ever heard of...POSITIVE REINFORCEMENT? Probably not. You can't even figure out what taking a shower means...I forgive you nonetheless. No I don't.

YOU SUCK! YOU'RE CRAP! YOU NEED TO LEARN ABOUT HOW TO TREAT A CHILD!

Anyways...

I've got loads more to say. I think I'll save it for later on. This is just the 1st 3 weeks of games. We've got 2 more months to go. May the Lord keep you coaches safe...from me...and many others...that are about to jump over that damn fence and kick your ASS!

Here's another movie that I think is good to watch. The millenium version of "The Bad News Bears"...

The Benchwarmers



It makes me smile...