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I cover sports, mostly preps. Baseball parents are the worst. There isn't ice in the area, so I've never seen hockey parents, but there is baseball and they are far and away the worst. During a state tournament two years ago, one mom took exception to the very aggressive (yet clean) way the opposition was playing. Her team's pitcher plunked a hitter. She yelled that he should have hit him in the head. Then repeated it a few times over the next few innings. At another playoff game, a team's catcher got so aggravated by his own father riding him, he held his hand up to tell him to stop between pitches. Daddy yelled at him, but kept quiet after that. I was interviewing this 90-year-old coach about some of his experiences. He had to be led out of town with a police escort once in the 1950s. Seems the opposing fans didn't care for him stall balling his way to victory during a high school basketball game. It's become a particular pet peeve to see parents wearing these shirts lately: "Some people wait all their lives to meet their favorite [sport] player. I'm raising mine."
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