• TAG@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    The article makes it (slightly) less bad. 3 year old was kicked out of a 5 year old league for being too good and ruining competitive balance. The kid’s parents took it badly and would not leave until police intervened.

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      1 day ago

      Most team sports don’t ban star players

      Although i have seen a show called Ted Lasso where the coach put him on the bench for hogging the ball.

      The article says multiple substitutions. Wonder what the coach’s role was in the whole thing.

      • Rekorse@sh.itjust.works
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        1 day ago

        Most youth leagues dont do substitutions like pros do, they swap out every quarter or so. The goal is to have the kids play about equally, or else parents lose their shit that their kid sat on the bench the whole game.

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        21 hours ago

        It’s a toddler fun league. The league has specific rules about it not being competitive and sharing play time.

        The kids parents are wannabe influencers filming everything for TikTok.

        Nobody called the cops on a kid for being too good. They called the cops on the parents because they were asked to leave over their stupid social media stunts, and then they refused.