Opinion: The real lesson of idiot parents brawling over 13-year-old ump's call

3:27pm PDT - June 20th, 2019    all-star game - CNN

We try to fool ourselves about youth baseball teams -- to talk of teamwork and camaraderie and character building and persistence. Then parents get involved. The truth is, youth baseball is a miserable endeavor, writes Jeff Pearlman. Keep your kids out of it.