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Old Wed May 11, 2011, 07:23am
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Originally Posted by marvin View Post
Example: I had to speak to the site administrator at a high school game because some of the fans (a group of high school boys) were calling players on the other team names loud enough for everyone in the ball park to hear. The site admin was the Vice principal of the school and took care of it.
If the site admin was on site, why was there a need for you to talk to him/her? Apparently, the VP wasn't administrating the site very well.

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People can be idiots - as an league officer I had to threaten to clear the stands at a t-ball game because the parents were ready to get into a fist fight.
Well, there is your answer. Get rid of the parents and I guarantee, it will be a better game and that includes from the coaches because there is no one there to impress other than the players and they know a pretender long before the parents figure it out.
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