Lies.

Its been about a year.. cookie prob stale. Hell I'll risk it.

Need my shipping address? Got any "grown up" cookies?

Tf is my cookie

Leave it to a kid from Hickory to make the boss comment. Don't get caught watching the paint dry.

hes a hoss

Jimmy Chitwood I know right!!! Mad ninja skills he has! Keep an eye out for that one in the MLB!!!

He took that hit like a champ!!

I know right

Sorta like Uncle Rico

I bet none of them played sports.

​@@mariocanales4735or if they did play, they were probably really bad at it!

Truth

@@josephconner3742naw, they were probably decent for their time

Bingo.

Rephrase...Parents are the worst thing in youth sports all the way thru high school.

@The California Citizens Watch There are good umpires that have some degree of passion for what they do, but they usually don't ump youth sports. The people that DO ump youth sports typically do so to pick up a few extra bucks on the weekend, and by few I mean several $100. Many of these umps don't pay that close attention and often turn to the crowd to get the count. These people know who they are, but they are not going to quit because they like the easy money. I once asked a rec league umpire before the game, are you going to have an expanded strike zone today? It was a legit question and she knew it. She responded, "Yep, otherwise we will be here all day!" I asked her how far off the plate will she give the pitcher, she said 6 inches. I said how high? She said, "chin". I thanked her and told her to have a good game. Then I told my daughter so she would know what to expect.

I agree completely. I umpire little league and the worst thing about it is the parents who think they know everything and the coaches who question every call and come into the game trying to start problems. However this video shows what I have been thinking for years. These issues with adults are the worst at the lower age groups. 8u and 10u where I umpire, over the last 2 years I’ve thrown 2 coaches 1 on 8u and 1 on 10u. Never even had a problem with ages above that including travel ball.

Yep

Lot of travel ball teams look like that, lots of practice, higher standards

Respect to that catcher for making the play even when he got hurt

Yeah terrible call by the ump tho. I would've called obstruction on the catcher for blocking the running lane without the ball. Runner had no choice but to run the catcher over. Good hold on the ball once he did get it but should've been a safe call and then someone should've checked on catcher.

Parents are just as bad. Don’t know the rules and love these kinds of coaches because they think they know the rules too. So go with it. Had so many parents screaming and hollering over stupid shit. No one getting a scholarship at this game.

The problem is the delusions of grandeur by coaches and parents. Newsflash - Arsenal isn't sending scouts to your kid's travel league game and the MLB isn't eyeing you for a minor league manager slot.

coach brad never does this he coaches me he don’t do this he yelled this cuz the coach said “run him over”

​@Low_iq_gamer and that's exactly what you're supposed to do when the catcher is standing on the baseline. Play the sport or don't

@@brandonwright7950 Lowering your shoulder? Nah....that's been out every level of baseball for years.

Good Points. The umpires didn't take much control. Was the kid ejected or not? At what time would you have sent the coach in white to the shower? As soon as he accused the opposing coaches of something (1:39) I would have told him to go to the bench. If he did not, he'd be gone. I can't believe they have 2 umpires for a coach-pitch 8u Game

I would have given him a warning the moment he started to dig into the other coach. If he didn't stop immediately (and I do mean right then and there), I would eject him. As for carrying on like he did, the moment I start hearing the same stuff, I would give him a warning ("That's enough, Coach.") and then bounce him if he doesn't immediately stop. Once they hit the rewind button, I hit the warning button - it's that simple.

Mike Coleman I have never seen umpires used at this level. It’s usually the coaches who act as instructors (such as telling a runner that he can’t run into the catcher), and there is usually very little in the way of arguing. If a coach can’t understand this, then he shouldn’t be coaching.

Around our area, what I will call the non-rec leagues (USSSA, etc) do have umpires from 8U on up.

Mike Coleman Yes, it’s different everywhere. It’s also been a while since I umpired, and as my health deteriorated, I haven’t worked. Once I joined an association, (and I was a baseball, not softball umpire), I was usually working older levels of baseball (high school, American Legion), college age (not actual college games - I never had a chance to get certified NCAA, though I would have, if I had had the time), and men’s leagues. But the lowest level I worked (often volunteering) was 10-12 years. Back then, younger than ten kids hit off a tee, and the coaches did the umpiring. At that age, you would often see all nine fielders running after the ball, and things like that. (The under ten league often played on an adjacent field). I live in New England, so our seasons were generally shorter, because of the climate. People like to post videos of confrontations and ejections, but in my experience, the vast majority of the of the games I did were uneventful, with very few ejections, and with grateful coaches (in the youth leagues) and parents (they did not want to be asked to umpire). And when a quirky play occurred, I never had a problem with a coach asking about the play, and applicable rule(s), and was very willing to explain the situation. They were usually civil (with a few, rare, exceptions), and as this was an instructional level, I didn’t mind taking a bit of time to explain a rule, or why I called what I called. At that level, most coaches were parents, so they were learning also. And most had their priorities correct. It was just a game, and was supposed to be fun. So sometimes these videos can create a false impression of what youth sports is like. Most of the time, there is no controversy.

I was rolling at that. 🤣

He’s a pole smoker

The guy was just upset at the coaches teaching kids in u-8 to take the catcher out like that

It was his player that took out the catcher.

@@eddiehammond8165 This is coach pitch. You pitch to your own team. The coach that was freaking out was the coach of the catcher.

@@scottdaniels3947 I got all of the coach pitch stuff. My confusion comes from the same coach arguing the 2nd call. That one would be in his team's favor if he's with the catcher.

He sure did. He stayed with it all the way knowing the runner was coming. The runner was out and in a much more competitive level, I would have ejected him. He intentionally ran right into the catcher as if it was a football game. he could have done something else. Either way, the kid was caught dead on arrival. Jesus, my first check would have been to ensure the catcher was ok. He took a big hit there. Great job on the catcher.

@@Jp-ml8dm uh, if the catcher is blocking the plate, charge him. Runner will get called out for dodging base lines. So, runner did the right thing. Adults included, need to not be so soft. When my 9 year old is running to home, dont get caught blocking the plate. Js. Cause he ain't stopping either. And it's not unsportsmanlike, its baseball Jack.

@@flowpuppie84 The runner intentionally ran into the catcher. It is an out and ejection, every time. You would be giving your son bad advice. The idea that they are "soft" isn't the issue. Its the rule.

Matt Moehring state the rule please.

@@chriswinchester5253 No Malicious Contact. Malicious contact being defined as lowering of shoulder, throwing an elbow or contact with the intent to injure or dislodge the ball

You spelled it wrong. In this context it should be "baa-aby". 😀

Seems way more northern parenting to me. I mean, isn’t having a child to use as a piece of furniture one of the prerequisites to northern citizenship?

@@chrisledbetter9278 they mean the accent

@@chrisledbetter9278 what

“NOT A SOOOUL is checkin on that chile”

Seriously, coaches and parents need to chill the fuck out until at least 12U

Except they have a reason to be pissed here. The rules say that the runner should have been out and ejected. As it malicious contact. The worst parent issues I had was when an injury happened from a collision. Luckily no one was actually hurt. One of the kids was just a little shaken up. But I thought there was going to be a fist fight because the coaches were high giving a kid of doing an illegal and dirty slide.

Coaches and parents need to chill out period. *Maybe* scream when the kid gets to college (of course, all the parents think these kids will be getting D1 scholarships :-D). Before that, acting link this is simply embarrassing and uncalled for.

@@jackjon7763 it depends on the league. “Malicious contact” is a high school rule. There’s nothing specifically about malicious contact in Little League rules.

@@450thParatroopermost little league rules state that they have specific rules for just their league and everything else is covered by NFHS. For example my kids league has a “must slide at home if a play is imminent”, but there isn’t a must slide rule in NFHS.

this is pure gold right here!!!😂😂👍🏻👍🏻

@@Mystic_214 part of the game no?

its funny how the thing that ruins little league, is usually the adult

MyStiCxHacKzZ i would’ve pushed em down becuase he is blocking the baseline. Thats like saying 1st base can hold the runner so they cant advance

AMEN TO THAT! BAD NEWS BEARS STYLE!

@@YE-om1gl false. you can stand in the baseline, as long as you have the ball with the intent of tagging them out.

As umpire, safety 1st.Always check on player no matter what age.Also umpire should have thrown runner out running into catcher..The rule is slide an avoid, not running someone over...Also,u give the coach his say and then say enough coach and move on...

That's what I always taught my baseball, and softball teams; get the out first, then say ouch.

Jay 1 he’s mad because the kid ran over the catcher which is illegal

@@parkerrobertson25 No it's not are u kidding me? If a catcher is blocking the basepath you can bulldoze him all the time.

FlamingDagger77 not in little league you idiot

He purposely ran him over

At no time, in any amatuer sport are you allowed to "bulldoze" any player on a ballfield, it's called malicious contact and the offender is ejected .

agree 100%, I wouldnt argue with coaches. I would go straight to the umpire for a calling. our rule set for travel ball and rec ball have rules against all of this.. such a disgrace this was even allowed to happen.

The fact of the matter is that sometimes collisons happen when playing sports like this. The only option the umpire would have here would be to eject that kid. Do you honestly believe he did if on purpose? It was at most a half second decision where the 8 year old kid is sprinting, full speed, back turned away from the play. He was called out at the plate. Had the tag not occurred, then he could/should have been called out for the collision, but that's it.

@@johndimarzio8966 back turned away from the play? He dropped his shoulder, he knew what he was doing. No, the 8U runner should not be ejected. Every single one of his coaches should be though. That play can no longer happen at the highest level of the game. It was not just "collisions" happen in sports. A runner accidentally runs into a firstbasemen who gets pulled by an errant throw, a runner and infielder collide when misjudging each other or lacking an understanding of the baseline. But in this instance it is not a half second decision, it is not instinct, it is a taught play. Can't happen. On the flipside, catcher can't be in the position he was in. Overall, it was bad coaching all around that put two 8-9 year olds in a terrible spot.

@@patrickboegel I don't even know how to respond to this. You think the coaches instructed the kid to drop his shoulder? That is highly unlikely (especially based on the opposing coach's demeanor during the arguments). I would be willing to bet that its an instictive reaction to finding a person in front of you, while running full speed and an 8 year old making a split second decision.

John DiMarzio even if you were right on the technicalities of the play, which you aren’t, it’s still an automatic ejection. Has been in youth ball for at least 3 decades & could be grounds for forfeit.

I've both coached, and refereed from T-ball to high school age in multiple sports, and have had my good and bad days at both. I've seen umpires ruin it for everyone too, by either being incompetent, or when they betray the trust, and cheat for a team. Don't say it doesn't happen, and it's probably worse when they kids are younger. There are times when they need to be called out for it, and it's the manager's job to stand up for his team. If he doesn't, who will?

You mean umpires

🤣😂😂🤣

Church leagues are horrible. I started a training class... "Ejections and why we need more of them"

Just means they’re sinning faster and harder lol.

Actually, the fact that he was forced to move into the base path to catch the ball prevented this from being safe for obstruction. Baserunner should have made every possible effort to avoid collision. Should have been ejected for lowering his head and plowing in to catcher.

Exactly. Still a badass 8 y/o catch and hold.

@@gpfire146 Not if rules are in place to allow him to play in future by preventing needless injuries.

Who are you defending?

@@gpfire146 I'm saying the runner plowed into catcher, especially at this age there should have been ejection. This is Coach pitch good God Almighty! The coach from that catcher Plowing baserunner should be ejected as well. Too young for this play, especially since it is no longer legal in the big leagues.

Finally someone with a clue!

U don’t HAVE to slide FEET first

You are correct! But you also cannot pummel the catcher.

He had nearly no other option. The runner is safe because the catcher is blocking the whole entire plate the runner has to have at least a corner by rule

@@h0m1ess Wrong. Even if the catcher illegally blocks the plate, the runner cannot crash him. Malicious contact always supersedes obstruction.

jasonbryant121 or you should teach kids to play the right way. Base runner did his job. Catcher did his and got the out

jasonbryant121 if anything the run is safe because the catcher blocked the plate before the ball was there, therefore he’s automatically safe

Tyler Wressel actually the catcher is allowed to field the ball wherever the ball goes the runner should be ejected due to the fact that he ran over the catcher this is a rule in the mlb now to help there safety it’s even more important for 8u kids

@@bldwn5708 Even pro baseball doesn't allow this anymore. Youth baseball hasn't allowed it in 25 years.

@@bldwn5708 You have absolutely no clue what you are talking about. This has been against the rules in youth baseball for at least the last 30 years, probably even longer.

no it's not a baseball play. It's actually illegal to run over the catcher with the ball.

@@tawtam1 it was a baseball play. If the catcher has the ball blocking the plate the only way to the plate is through him. It's baseball. Not soccer.

@@thomascarpenter8546I don't care about your opinion. The catcher has the ball in his hand and the runner only has one option. To slide. The rule clearly states you can not run into a catcher with the ball in his hands. PERIOD. Your opinion means squat. The ONLY thing that matter is what the rules say. The runner must slide into home. That's a rule from little kids on up to high school. You can not go through another player to get to the plate. It's an easy google. I have been umpiring for years and this is far too easy to call. Player is ejected. PERIOD. No exceptions.

@@tawtam1 and that's why we have a bunch of crybabies running around screaming about how offended they are any time someone says something they don't like. If the catcher is blocking the plate he or she is getting their butt ran over.

@@thomascarpenter8546 Did you take the time out to look up the rules???

No obstruction

This is 100% correct. And i completely understand why umpire didnt eject an 8 year old on a bang-bang play. The only thing umpire did wrong here was not control the situation after the call.

Even if you were taught this, how often do you listen to anything if you're eight years old....Could have learned it watching football, I don't know just a thought..These parents payed to have their children play the sport anyway, KNOWING the consequences that could happen..But go ahead and make it more dramatic than it should be, because one little kid getting tackled is far more important than children starving to death, being shot, or murdered in other countries.

I mean at 8 years old I maybe had 1 practice and 1-2 games a week for 6 weeks of the summer. And we ran into each other all the time on accident. And I played with plenty of kids who were terrible and oblivious to rules lol. And the coaches were just 2 of the kids dads. You don’t really cover a lot of base running techniques when you have to first make sure a kid can throw or isn’t afraid of the ball or can just make it practice.

I hate leagues that have coaches on the field. Let the kids play. I taught a T-ball team how to relay the ball on the first practice, and saw them field a ball hit to the fence, and make a straight line, and get the ball home before the batter-runner, except of course in T-ball, you put the kid who can't catch at catcher so he was safe. I should have directed the pitcher, usually the best fielder to cover home, but I was so excited that they made that play, I felt like they'd just won the World Series. Get the adults off the field; immediately; . . if not sooner.

No league allows contact, but the catcher was in the way before he had the ball, making it an obstruction on the catcher

Linder !!!! No the catcher had the ball first. Either way the runner needs to avoid contact. If that causes an out due to obstruction than you can call it.

#15 was pulled out of the game because of that.

When interference & obstruction meet. It's a judgement call.

@@runsridesreps3979 At 1:11 i see him already blocking the plate and catching the ball

Often for the umpires as well.

@@justinbuford4416 true.

agree on most of what you wrote. couldn't figure out if this was travel team or not. coach pitching does seem weird when looking at talent on both sides. game moves faster with coach pitching, but you don't develop pitchers... SLIDE AT HOME: most leagues have a rule that you can't run a catcher or other position player over. in my LL, kid would have been out automatically. didn't seem like malice was involved, but kid would be out

@@bobzeitlinger5797 Yeah. You can't allow kids to plow each other at home plate. Grown men have had their careers ended on that play.

@@alaskaguyd963 Oh baloney. They're kids, the same size as one another. We used to bulldog at the plate all the time in youth baseball until wimpy parents made up the mandatory slide rule. I recall being backflipped tagging out a kid at the plate; landed on my backside on home plate, and just like this kid, I got up proud, showed the ball, dusted myself off, and got ready for the next pitch. The worst injury I ever saw was when a kid slid into home plate, and into the catcher's cleats that buried in his knee; three perfect puncture marks right below his kneecap. Yeah, that was before the squeamish made us stop wearing steel cleats. Took all of the fun out of it.

@@jhandle4196 Hey everybody look at me I'm the toughest edgiest guy on the internet. When I was a kid we had razor blade cleats and ran uphill from first base all the way home. I bet I could throw football over that mountain... If only coach had put me in 4th quarter we woulda won state...

That is spot on. You must slide. At minimum, when throw goes up the line as it did, its a no call since he is away from the plate.

#15, the batter was ejected. Also, they are 8yrs old, give him a little slack.

An 8yo doesn’t really run fast enough to produce a slide. Lol. Umpire let this get out of control

@@tcouhig No code of baseball requires the runner to slide.

@@ericjohannsen True. The rule is slide or attempt to avoid contact.

HA HA HA

wait you can't do that?? but my coach used to always do that to me when I play coach pitch

@@AngeloDenwillPetate Did you used to play for the Braves?? 🤣🤣🤣

@@petervann8863 nah in my country my coach literally brush me of the plate but then now I'm good at hitting high inside pitches but vulnerable with low inside pitches and outside pitches

This guy threw at his own kid during a father/son game. - Harry Doyle

Lol… you saw an 8 year old make one routine catch then manage to hang onto the ball during a collision at home and that’s why you think he’s a natural that’s going to go far?? Never mind if he can even hit or throw? You have to be his mother or just crazy…

Thinking the same thing. No game management skills. I hate moms yelling their "wisdom" from the bleachers, but the one lady was right when she yelled "come on let's play ball".

Robert Wardle jr I coached my little brothers 8u team and they could slide headfirst in AAU

Not In my State CT

Not in NJ and not in Babe Ruth, USABL and Cal Ripken. You can only slide head first going back to a base. Not unitl the age of 11u can you slide head first and not into home. 13u head first into home.

When I read through the rule book, it said they could (in Ga) as long as their helmet does not have a face mask... I questioned whether that was a typo or not. But that's what our rule book says.

no such thing as mandtory sliding rule

Our league UIC, who has worked Little League World Series games, umpired the single-A (8u I think?) championship. Parents from the sidelines complained, "You'd think they would get someone more experienced for such an important game." :-)

I agree. We start kid pitch at 7u and we steal home at 8u travel. No way this is 8u.

No they start kid pitch at 10u and can steal home when they get to 10u

Just wondering do you have a child in this league? What league is it and what state? In NJ under Cal Ripken and Babe Ruth Rules we start kids modified pitching at 7u and Full pitching at 8u travel. 9u rec is full kid pitch vs 10s and 8 and 9u travel under USABL the kids can steal home after the ball crosses the plate.

In California little league. We do coach at 6u, Machine Pitch at 7u and kids pitch above that. But it breaks down not so much with age but division. Tee Ball 4-5 yrs Coach Pitch 5-6 yrs Single A Machine Pitch 6-7 yrs Double AA to Majors Division Kids Pitch 8-12 yrs Pony the kids pitch from Pinto division which is the same as LL AA. So I would say 7-8 is when kids start pitching. Depending on whether the kid plays up or not.

gschopp most quit after age 12. If not then by age 15

the age clearly has plenty to do here john 7-8 year old are not knowing better escpailly when adults are acting like that in the above video

@@critter2 I completely disagree. Kids this age most definitely can and should know better than do what that runner did. That was not accidental or something that happened at the last second as instinctual. That runner finished that play like a football player getting through a defender for an extra yard. If you want to say you can't blame the kids because of their age, then I blame the coaches for not taking the time to teach them differently. Those kids should know better.

@@tyreefoster5291 The idea that you can watch this video and say with a clear conscience that the 8 year old kid purposefully plowed over a kid to get to the plate is absurd. This was the essence of a bang-bang play. Runner has his back turned to the play and only has a fraction of a second to react. Its an out if theres no tag, but an ejection? Unless the rules require ejection (rules rarely require automatic ejection if there is no deemed intent but require automatic out calls) this is NOT ejectable.

@@tyreefoster5291 the only mistake made by this umpire was not controlling the situation with coaches and parents.

@@johndimarzio8966 Are we watching two different videos here??? The runner lowers his shoulder and gets low to go through the catcher. That's not a runner that is clueless as to what's going on with where the ball is or is about to be. OR if that is what you want to assume, then the runner was going to run through the catcher regardless of whether there was going to be a play at the plate or not. That is clear and that is where my judgment is coming from. In both circumstances that player is way wrong. Now you could shift the blame to that coaching staff for not properly teaching players that they must slide and that they can not run through a catcher. But what you can't do is try to say, it was just a bang bang play and nothing you could do, kids will be kids. As I stated, and what would appear to be obvious and inarguable in my opinion, that kid intentionally ran through that catcher, period.

You can block the plate if you have the ball in your glove.

Kenny Diaz got tricked and broke my nose so now I don’t take it off

Enrique Castillo From a fundamental standpoint

How dare you disgrace god like that

Jeff Stewart It is, I’ve been a “victim” of it for years when I was 8-9, but now as we get older it’s not as much of an issue, but it’s still there

I didn't see what I would classify as "losing it" either. What I saw was a grown man stomping his feet and acting younger than the kids he is coaching.

Frank Tank you don’t have to slide no such thing

@@nsswaha15123 Nick yes actually you do have to make an attempt to slide. Technically the base runner should have been ejected for not attempting to evade the tag or slide. With this being 8U, it should have been a teachable moment, not she sh*t show it turned in to. No one should have left dugout except head coach, and he should have had a calm discussion with the umpires and other coach.

schneid5252 I’m not saying what happened was good or right all I’m saying is what he said was wrong. There is no rule anywhere saying that you have to slide. The rule actually says the complete opposite

@@nsswaha15123 So the rule in baseball through at least high school says that instead of making at attempt at sliding at home plate, you are to initiate collision with the catcher? That's the opposite of what I said. Good luck with that one Nick.

@@nsswaha15123 Also Nick...here is the rule in the Little League rule book on running over the catcher. Rule 7.08(a)(3) in the Little League rule book states that "a runner is out when the runner does not slide or attempt to get around a fielder who has the ball and is waiting to make the tag."