re: Pet Peeve: Youth Sports Edition

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that's how it was done back when i played as a kid.

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Sure. But that doesn't make it right.

For whatever reason, my family schedules weekends far in advance. I can tell you what we are doing just about every weekend through May. It's never a sitation where we have an "open" weekend with no conflicts two weeks out. That just doesn't happen. I have two other kids with other things scheduled (plays, dance, cheerleading, etc).

I think it is really self absorbed for these guys to drop this on us and expect everyone to jump.

I will add to this another Pet Peeve about kids sports: We play in a youth soccer league that starts in February. The fields are in a creek bottom and they are often too wet to be playable. Maybe 1/3 of the games get cancelled or rescheduled. But if it rains on Thursday and Friday, the coaches will not cancel a game until Saturday morning. I don't care if the fields are under water on Friday, they will not make the call until 9 am on Saturday. Then they send out a group text just as you are loading the kids in the car to head to the game.

I really think these youth sports leagues are run by people who have absolutely nothing better to do. It's like 8-year old sports is their life or something.