Negative Cheering?

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It absolutely rubs me the wrong way when at 10U coaches let their kids use very negative and taunting cheers at the pitcher. Am I being too sensitive or would you agree that this is low class? My thought is root for your team but not against the other team. And at 10U a real negative experience could sway a girl to not choose softball as their favorite sport and might lose one. I want as many to stick with it. If you want to do that stuff at 12u I would care alot less because they are older and should be better at dealing with it.

 

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I agree with the, no negative cheers, stance. I really hate the ABC one when a coach is out talking to his pitcher. It makes me sick to my stomach.

 

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I have never let me teams do negative cheers. And if they said the other team was doing it, I would use it as a teaching point ... that that's not what classy teams do.

 

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I thought so. I was beginning to wonder if I was just taking things too seriously but I am kind of old school and I dont understand that kind of thing. I was a baseball pitcher and any of that stuff go on someone was getting drilled so is hard for me to listen to it.

 

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I agree! I also hate hearing the 16u age group yelling in the field "hey now" to try to distract a batter. Do you really think they are listening to you? It's more of an annoyance to the coaches and parents than to the batter. I would love to know what a college coach thinks when scouting and an defense is yelling "hey now". . .

 

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I am so glad there are people like me out there. I was beginning to wonder if I was in the minority.

 

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I must really have a hearing problem. I have never heard a negative cheer. If I did, the other coach would hear about it in a hearbeat.

 

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to me it's Bush league. Let the cheers be about your batter or team mate. You can taunt them on the scoreboard.

 

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The 10U rec team that my daughter is on, and that I coach, was playing tonight in our end of the season tourney, and my nerves are getting a little thin after a long walk filled season.

One of the girls had brought in a list of cheers that she had gotten off the internet and they were doing some of them in the dugout. Most of them were relatively positive and suportive of there own team, some were borderline and even one of them was about shooting a duck in the head. It wasn't really bashing the other team but after two or three rounds of hearing it I said enough was enough and they had to pick another cheer.

One little girl comes up to me in about the third inning after our pitchers had walked about 20 of the 26 girls they had faced and asked if they could do this one cheer. I started reading it and had to have given this little girl the stare of death....With the score being like 20-3, and we didn't have the 20, she wants to scream a cheer about how the other team is no good and should go home and practice!!! I told her do you realize that we are getting beat by nearly 20 runs and maybe we are the team that should go home and practice!!!

Here I sit at 1:30 in the morning, can't sleep, and have to be back at the field at 7:30 in the morning for losers bracket play. Can't wait to see what cheers they have in store for me at that hour!!!

 

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The 10U rec team that my daughter is on, and that I coach, was playing tonight in our end of the season tourney, and my nerves are getting a little thin after a long walk filled season.

One of the girls had brought in a list of cheers that she had gotten off the internet and they were doing some of them in the dugout. Most of them were relatively positive and suportive of there own team, some were borderline and even one of them was about shooting a duck in the head. It wasn't really bashing the other team but after two or three rounds of hearing it I said enough was enough and they had to pick another cheer.

One little girl comes up to me in about the third inning after our pitchers had walked about 20 of the 26 girls they had faced and asked if they could do this one cheer. I started reading it and had to have given this little girl the stare of death....With the score being like 20-3, and we didn't have the 20, she wants to scream a cheer about how the other team is no good and should go home and practice!!! I told her do you realize that we are getting beat by nearly 20 runs and maybe we are the team that should go home and practice!!!

Here I sit at 1:30 in the morning, can't sleep, and have to be back at the field at 7:30 in the morning for losers bracket play. Can't wait to see what cheers they have in store for me at that hour!!!

:lmao::lmao::lmao:

 

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Cheers, it took a few years for me to get use to hearing the girls doing them in fast pitch. At first I never paid attention to them from the years I was playing baseball, I never let my mind wonder off the game. At the early ages cheers can help build team unity...... hey batter batter and pitcher has a rubber arm was all I ever heard in my day and that was never silenced. A very positive atmosphere is what all should promote in games...... then on the other hand Stopping cheering is like putting a stop to prayers and saying the Pledge at the start of a school day. Part of the charactor of the team is in cheering......Championship teams are almost always respectful and true sports.... I never heard negative cheers in the allstars and championship games, wonder why?
Older players should be able to tune out the sideline critics at some point.

 

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Agree with all those against negative cheers. The one I can't stand is the one " three and two pitcher what you gonna do? WALK HER, WALK HER!" The chant (I'm not using cheer because cheer means something positive) is not so much the problem, but we have faced many teams that scream it at the top of thier lungs as the pitcher goes into her motion. It is total bush league. I am surprised that I have never seen an umpire try to put a stop to it either. After a few years of this, it just serves to tick off our pitcher's and they end up throwing harder.

 

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I do not allow it at all. You can cheer for your team all you want but never against the other team. I just think that is not good sportsmanship. It kills me to see a team beating another team badly and there over there with all these negative cheers.

 

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Most of them were relatively positive and suportive of there own team, some were borderline and even one of them was about shooting a duck in the head. :

My DD's first year in 12U(she's now ending 14U)her team was doing a cheer about a the pitcher being a birdie killer. Well...they didn't like it too much when the other team was saying that same cheer about my DD. They couldn't understand why my daughter was crying. It was the last time they did that cheer!

I hate obnoxious cheering. We've run into a few teams this year that do it. Thankfully, none of our girls like to cheer like that.

 

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It is not just cheers. This season I have been suprised at the overall conduct of some teams and their parents. We have been in tournaments this year that the parents constantly sit behind the backstop and intimidate the umpires. And to my suprise most are intimidated and will change their strike zone usually against us. I had one coach of a team that is well known scream to his batter after my catcher missed a foul fly ball. "Make her pay for that. Make her go to church and pray she doesn`t do it again." Bigger name teams parents have also been suprisingly obnoxious. I have rules for my parents and players. In the beginning of a new team year I hand out a parent and team code of conduct. I always tell the parents do not set up behind the backstop unless there are bleachers and even then try to avoid it. Most importantly do not engage in conduct that would embarrasse the team or organization.
I even had an umpire last weekend in a Columbus tournament yell @ one of my players for calling time after she slid into third. He yelled in a very mean spirited voice "Get up!you do not need to call time everytime you slide" Never mind the other team would always keep the glove on the girls after every slide until time was called.
I asked him if he thought that was a little over the top for which he kept berating about calling time. Needless to say calls did not go our way after that.
What do you think? Do things like this appear to be getting out of hand lately? Has anyone else experienced this?

 

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Funny stuff Lady Knights, well its funny when it happens to somebody else :lmao:

 

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I agree. DD has never been on a team that would allow negative cheering. I have never seen it on the better teams. I guess if you don't have the talent on the field you get attention with the mouth.

 

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My rec league rules address taunting and they forbid the use of the word "pitcher" and "batter" which take care of most of the negative ones. Most of the coaches enforce it so it works pretty well. We played in a travel tournament though and most of those teams did these cheers. I had much bigger problems then worrying about the cheering that weekend as you can imagine.

 

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It is not just cheers. This season I have been suprised at the overall conduct of some teams and their parents.
What do you think? Do things like this appear to be getting out of hand lately? Has anyone else experienced this?

A player on a team we played was hit by a pitch and started going after our pitcher with bat in hand, after a few steps toward the mound, she threw her bat about 30ft through the air into her team's dugout fence and trotted to first. Her coaches were ecstatic at this display of 'aggressiveness'. The ump had a talk with her but I was surprised she and the head coach weren't ejected for the display. I don't think our pitcher was too shook up, but we were all shocked that this behavior was not only permitted, but rewarded. Eventually one of the coaches was ejected from the game for other behavior...

 

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True dat, Coach. True dat. I personally don't care for those pre-meditated cheers during games. Just my preference. I guess it all depends on what age group you're dealing with.

I have never let me teams do negative cheers. And if they said the other team was doing it, I would use it as a teaching point ... that that's not what classy teams do.