Funny things your kid has said while playing

[TG Coach]

It cracks me up to see my 7 YO hit. He screams "Awesome!" after every hit and "ohh maann" after every miss.

My thread is motivated by the above post from another thread. As Art Linkletter once said, "Kids say the darnedest things!" What are some of the funny things your son has said around the game.

The two the previous poster prompted me to remember were:

1) When he hit his first LL homer he rounded third, heading for home and broke into his best Harry Kalas (Phils announcer), "That babeeey's outtaaaah herrrrrre! Hommmme Runnnn!" The parents who heard it cracked up.

2) Playing in his first open bases game at age ten as a catcher, he popped up to throw out a runner attempting to steal, then holding the ball he said, "If the runner is sliding as I'm about to throw I should hold the ball, right?" There was something about the quizzical way he said it that made me laugh.

[BoardMember]

Ok, I gotta chime in here. True story, hard to believe. I love telling it........

I was coaching a 10U rec team. Small field. Very short fence. Had a kid who'd never played the game. She was a farm girl. Strong as an ox from helping dad load hay bails or something. And a big attitude to go with her brute strength.

Only had a couple of practices before the first league game. The field we practiced on had no fence. When this kid took BP, it was scary. She hit bombs. Remember, NEVER PLAYED THE GAME. When she began hitting bombs FOUL, I simply told her to try to keep the ball inside the lines, and quit hitting them over the fence foul.

Well, as the story goes, in her first at bat, she swang so hard she stuck out. Boy was she pissed. A few innings later, she came to bat again. First pitch she swings out of her shoes, and misses the ball. I can see the frustration and disapointment boiling over in her face and body language.

I call time, and call her over to the coaches box. I tell her, "just remember what I said, keep it in the park and you'll be fine".

She cracks a smile, heads back to the plate, and proceeds to rip the next pitch over the center field fence!

The croud screams, cheering for the kid. But she just stands at the plate crying, and throws her bat to the ground. I run to the plate and ask what's the matter?

I'll never forget what she said to me. "I hate this stupid game"..........

Well of course, she had remembered what I said about NOT hitting it over the fence in practice, and me telling her just before to keep the ball in the park, and thought she failed once again........

Of course, it all worked out, hit every bag, and was my 4 hitter for the rest of the season. We went undefeated right through the playoffs, thanks to the kid who thought she hated the game.............;)

[Ursa Major]

The one that sticks with me is from several years ago, when I was just coming up to speed on rotational hitting stuff and contributing nonsense to Paul Nyman's old site and having him simultaneously excoriate me with seven paragraph diatribes and ban me from his site.

So, during the course of the season Ursa Minor was a bit confused with my instructions that tended to differ in emphasis from week to week and that were wholly inconsistent with what I'd taught him as an eight year old. And, as was his wont anyway, UM would change his game swing from week to week, in a manner that bore no relation to anything that he had been taught or did in the batting cage.

In the second to the last game of the season -- in the middle of an at-bat -- his entire body language changed and you could just tell that something clicked with him. And, sure enough, he drilled the next pitch into centerfield for a hit. He came back to the bench to get his glove at the end of the inning and looked up at me and said, "You know, maybe there's something to this rotational hitting after all" It was as though -- after five weeks of practice and three months of games -- he'd finally decided to believe me. That was definitely one of those 'you don't know whether to hug 'em or strangle 'em' moments.

[shake-n-bake]

When my son was in t-ball he told his coach, "It's a great day for baseball. We ought to play two today coach." Coach thought that was funny coming from a six year old.

This year my son got caught texting in the dugout (I know that's bad). His coach said, "You calling your stock broker? Put the phone away." My son told him he was texting a kid on the other team. So the coach thought he'd at least ask what the other kid had to say. My son told the coach his friend was coming in to pitch next inning. "And his mom said you're a lot more handsome when you're smiling."

Not something he's said, but when I throw him batting practice, after he hits the ball he'll cock his head and put his hand up to his ear. Telling me that there's another one that's going to the fence.

[Coach C]

I got this feeling this will be a long and entertaining thread.

I got two recent ones. I coached a team, (first season 9 yr kid pitch). First game my lead off is getting ready to hit.He looks nervous, I asked if he was ok. He’s says he’s scared he’s going to get hit. He gets up there and drills one up the middle. He looks at me from first and wipes his brow and I give him a thumbs up. My sons up 2nd and first pitch drills him in the forearm ball rolls back half way to the pitcher. After the inning I ask my lead off if he’s glad he didn’t hit second. He’s says “o yeah, I could see the seam marks on xxx arm all the way from second”.

Same season, my son is catching, his buddy is hitting. 2 pitches come in and my son let’s them go by him, didn’t even try to catch them. I ask why he’s not catching the ball and his reply is “if I don’t catch them they won’t be strikes”. I can’t make much sense of the reasoning at this point. A few more pitches come in and he’s deliberately framing them outside, the player walks.I ask him after the inning what his reasoning was to help walk the his buddy “Well so and so got hit by a pitch last time, I thought we should walk him this time”.

[Bucketdad]

A couple of years ago I coached a rookie league Little League team (mostly 6,7 & 8yr. old).
During a game I was coaching in left field and as our team was taking the field, our shortstop says:
“hey coach, ya want to hear me play Jingle Bells on my nut cup?”
“Come on man, we’re playin ball here” I said. “Turn around and get ready.”
The kid then starts tapping his cup while singing Jingle Bells. It took about 10 seconds before half of the infielders and half of the outfielders were all tapping their cups while singing Jingle Bells.
Luckily my son was catching.

BD

[ralanprod]

My son was the SS for his T-Ball team. They used those "safety" rubber balls in the games.

Well, one game a grounder is hit to my son and it takes a huge hop and hits him square in the nose. He picked up the ball and threw it back to the coach at the plate, wiped off the blood from his nose on his sleeve and got set for the next batter.

By this point the head coach had jogged out to check on him, and as his nose was still pouring blood - tried to bring him to the dugout. The only problem was that this was the first time he had played SS, and he had NO intention of giving up the position.

I'm standing at the fence waiting for the coach to bring him over, and all I can hear is my kid yelling "I'm fine - I'm fine". The coach says to him, "You're hurt, you need to come out of the game."

Then my kid yells at him loud enough for all the parents to hear..."Why do I have to come out - I'm not a pansy like YOUR kid!" I ended up going out there and dragging him to the bench - which was really hard to do considering how hard I was laughing at the time.

Then there was the time he was catching this past season...

His team was up big around the fourth inning or so. Batter popps the ball straight up. My son throws his helmet to the side and settles under the ball. Just then the wind gets the ball and carries it about 10 feet to the side - right where my son had thrown his helmet. He steps in the helmet and falls, and the ball lands right next to him.

This happened right in front of the opposing stands, and a few of the parents were laughing. (In their defense, I was laughing too - it WAS funny) My son was ticked off (probably more embarrassed that he missed the ball), so he yells at the parents, "Want to see something really funny? Look at the scoreboard".

[wogdoggy]

had a 10 year old kid who was having a big day..first time up he hits a homerun,next time up a double ,then a triple..

im coaching first base now he gets up to the plate and pounds another ball over the center fielders head..he comes down the first base line and im waving him on to second,,he makes the turn and slows down to a stop,,i say "go go go ,,why are you stopping?..he turns around walks back to first base and says "gee coach i wanted to to hit for the "CYCLONE"..:laugh

[benz99]

when we were in kid/coach pitch pinto league, my boy get's to ball 4 count bringing in me to finish off the a.b. & the first pitch i groove him he hits a lazer back up the middle hitting me where it hurts most-south of the border. The kid pitcher standing next to me picks up the ball throws my boy out as i am laying on the ground in pain. My boy comes running up to me as all the other kids are yelling AFV(america funniest videos) & basically complains i ended his hit streak, NICE. I also got it on video & man i got airborne and still got lit up. my first reaction was to catch it but i thought i was really not a fielder so i thought i should avoid it too late:crazy better me than the kid pitcher tho

[ctandc]

Great stuff

My kid was around 9...I think the Fall season right before his 9th B-Day. Anyway we're playing a game and he hit a rocket to RF. As he was rounding first I saw him stumble over the bag, almost trip and ended up turning a stand up double into a single...as the ball bounced off the RF fence. I was coaching 3B at the time. So a few innings later I asked him what happened...he looked at me funny...and told me one of the kids in our dugout had yelled "It's GONE!!!" when he was almost at first...so he turned to look and see the ball...and tripped over the bag.

This past season, 12U USSSA ball. The opposing team has an annoying chant they do when in the field (plus all the singing in the dugout). My kids were literally laughing at 'em. So it's the 3rd inning or so, and we're up pretty good. And these kids are still doing this chant. So the opposing team is hitting. And they had a runner on 3rd base. The runner is chanting, yelling and clapping. My 3rd baseman finally had enough...in between batters he looks at the kid and says "If you guys played as good as you talk, you wouldn't be losing by 10 runs right now..." The ump overheard this and literally turned away laughing.