Little League Parent Strikes Again

Some more of the lighter stuff today.

Little league parent has struck again. Not quite as last year's utter debacle (here) but still frustrating.

In case you don't know, I am the assistant coach on a team that Damon runs. It is actually a fairly big commitment that the coaches make to do this - usually three or four days a week. We take pride in the fact that we try to run a low-stress team and we have a definite focus on teaching. No matter how hard we try to keep things light and to try to make sure that everyone plays the same amount of time and all of that stuff, someone isn't happy.

The other day we got an email from a parent. She was upset that her kid was told to get his head in the game. That's it - he was told to get his head in the game.

I hate to say it but there are a few things that these types of complaints have in common. They are always written by women and they are always sent in an email. I'm not (necessarily) saying that women complain more, I'm saying that women have a tougher time being confrontational than men do. The parents sit only a few feet from the dugout - it isn't uncommon for a parent to pull one of us aside for a question. We're ok with that and I'd rather have someone do that any day of the week. And they always start off the same: "my kid really likes baseball, but....".

If this woman had a point it would be one thing. Her kid doesn't like baseball nearly as much as she thinks and he's a pain in the arse on top of it. Even so, we've put in a ton of work to make this kid better and there wasn't a single mention of that. Very frustrating. We had assumed that by changing the draft strategy from drafting "kids with hot mothers" to drafting "kids that don't complain" that we would have avoided this kind of crap, but noooooooooo.

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- One of the great things about hostin your own web server is that you get to look at the raw web files (I just read that line back to myself and realized that I look like a huge dork. Oh well). My site is submitted to several search engines and I do get some traffic from Internet searches.

I did get a rather interesting visitor last month:



In case you can't decipher that mess, someone got to my 2010 Idol wrapup blog page by searching on "christina aguilera looked like charlie brown's sister sally. In case you're wondering, I'm pretty sure I get the most traffic from people searching for "Flo" from the Progressive commercials in conjunction with "oddly hot" (this blog). Men are weird.

One more interesting tidbit. I get a TON of traffic from .gov URL's (government buildings). That's right - not only are our tax dollars funding internet searches, they get to my site by searching on beer making and oddly hot chicks.

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One small website improvement to announce. When you click on the comments link in the righthand column it now takes you directly to the comment rather than to the related blog. And there was much rejoicing.

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Guess who is now a fan of the Blues Brothers? You guessed it - the Vatican.

This one baffles me (and I'm not ragging on religion by saying that). The movie depicts a couple of ex cons that have seen the light and realize that they need to steal a bunch of money to keep open some kind of building (I forget the details). Worse, the nuns were depicted as absolute tyrants. This is on the Catholic must-see list? (Their words, not mine. And for the record, the scene with Belushi and Carrie Fisher in the tunnel after the gig was by far the best scene in the movie. It pains me to watch Dan Akroyd in just about anything).

I see no mention of Dogma or The Invention of Lying on the list - surprise, surprise.

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If you have a blog idea, don't be shy - leave a comment. I can't throw myself under the bus every day for a laugh (even if it does seem like I could).

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We saw Kevin Meaney on the tonight show recently. Or is it Leno's show? Hell, I forgot. Why did we ever find this guy funny? He's doing the same act today that he did twenty-five years ago. Worse, his act now includes jokes about him coming out of the closet (no joke).