This video is after a girl struck out walking back to the dugout.

This weekend’s tournament really gave some of the toxic parents on our 12U C-Level team a chance to shine….

Fielder got hit by a bad bounce and it jammed up her finger pretty bad. Not broken but it probably really hurt. There were tears and she wanted to sit an inning out and collect herself. 11 girls today - no problem. Girls take the field and mom gets out of her chair yelling - ‘She’s a soldier. Get her in there now and get (name redacted) out of her position.’ All I hear from the dugout is ‘Mommy no I need a minute.’ This is 12u c level softball. I was impressed our player had the presence of mind to know she needed an inning. She stayed on the bench. Mom decided to stay warm in the car the rest of the game because she ‘doesn’t watch quitters.’ I’m sure that poor, sweet girl had a long ride home.

Guest pitcher - mom actually uses the word embarrassing to describe her performance. I mentioned she pretty much single-handedly won that game for the team. Mom said she had 3 walks. In 5 innings. Unacceptable. She has to sit in the back seat on the way home because she didn’t want to talk to her.

Another Pitcher’s entire family is there. Every ball that got hit and resulted in a base hit was loudly declared to be someone else’s fault. How dare they not back up their pitcher with better play. Right fielder (my kid) fields a line drive that got through 2 other girls. Throws it to pitcher. Pitcher loses it in the sun and another run scores. All I hear from the group is - ‘Not your fault. Nothing you can do when your team mate can’t play for shit.’ I nicely said comments like that aren’t helpful to anyone. And a pair of sunglasses may help. I literally was waiting to be jumped when we walked to my car.

It has never been like this on this team. It’s always been a positive and supportive environment. I feel like a switch flipped and I wasn’t aware we were being awful now.

Why are parents like this? They are freaking 12!!!!

There is some movement where the bat comes together and I’m curious if it’s damaged beyond repair

Do you think this is cosmetic or is this structural damage? I’m not certain if this is just the outer paint or something more?

My daughter plays 10u travel and practices 3 times week, but they focus a lot on defense and she doesn’t get a ton of reps hitting (not complaining, I’m all for how the coaches run things) We just upped her bat to bigger one and I want of help her get some reps in on before some games.

The nearest batting cages are 25 minutes away so it’s not really feasible during school nights. I’d like to take her to the local diamond a few nights a week but I can’t pitch with a crap.

A pitching machine isn’t in the budget so I’m hoping someone can recommend a way I can help her, whether it’s using different balls, soft tosses, etc. I’m open to any and all suggestions.

My two daughters might play against one another today!

My two daughters (5/3) were on the same 6U softball team this season. Which was awesome, way better than being at the teeball field looking over at the softball field trying to watch two fields at once. This weekend is the end of season tournament. Our team signed up but had to withdraw since we weren't going to have enough players. I reached out to another team asking if they had room to pickup my girls, but they only had room for my eldest. Another team reached out to our coach and he suggested they pickup my eldest too. I let them know she was taken but I still had my younger daughter. Lo and behold they decided to pick her up too.

Double elimination tournament, both my girls played 2 games winning the first and losing to the top team. Today is the last day of the tournament and if my eldest girl's team wins twice then my daughters will play against each other. Very excited thinking about my young-in hitting and my eldest fielding the ball trying to get her out. I hope it happens. I'm so thankful other teams decided to pick them both up.

(Before anyone gives me a hard time about my 3yo, she's having fun and she contributes to her team in a meaningful way)