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BC old buddy:
As a guy who has officiated hundreds of kid baseball games I can only offer you this advice:
Pick up a striped shirt and make a difference. It's a tough proposition, since you have kids and they are at the age where you are father/Ass't coach. Your children will learn infinitely more from watching you handle the parents in a difficult situation that they will learn from you as an assistant coach. I know this from experience.
I was an umpire in the youth league at Lake Shawnee for many years when my kid played. I took a great deal of grief over all manner of issues. Mostly balls and strikes.
I took my kid with me on days I umpired so he could see how stupid some people could be. One particular biotchMom I'll never forget. Constantly griping about balls/strikes. I turned to her after she complained about a 3rd strike.
HER:"That was way high! How could you call that"?!!
ME: "The job's open lady. You seem to want to help. Grab a blue shirt and do your talking from this side".
[Crowd chuckles]
It was glorious silence from that point forward.
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