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Little League - Residency Rules - WTF?

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I signed my girls(7,8) up for Little League (Coach Pitch) this year and they want some pretty extensive residency requirements:

Residence shall be established and supported by documents, dated on or
before February 1 of the current year, from THREE OR MORE of the following
categories to determine residency of such parent(s) or guardian:
1. Driver’s License
2. Voter’s Registration
3. School records
4. Welfare/child care records
5. Federal records
6. State records
7. Local (municipal) records
8. Support payment records
9. Homeowner or tenant records
10. Utility bills (i.e., gas, electric, water/sewer, phone, mobile phone, heating,
waste disposal)
11. Financial (loan, credit, investments, etc.) records
12. Insurance documents
13. Medical records
14. Military records
15. Internet, cable or satellite records
16. Vehicle records
17. Employment records
NOTE: Example – Three utility bills (three items from No. 10 above) constitute
only ONE document.
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So along with the birth certificate and medical release form I have to dig up all this crap, scrub the important ID Theft numbers from them, and send it all in.

Just for fucking Tee-Ball or Coach Pitch? Do people really scam the system at this level and even if they did - does it really matter?

:hammer:
 
PBinWA said:
I signed my girls(7,8) up for Little League (Coach Pitch) this year and they want some pretty extensive residency requirements:



So along with the birth certificate and medical release form I have to dig up all this crap, scrub the important ID Theft numbers from them, and send it all in.

Just for fucking Tee-Ball or Coach Pitch? Do people really scam the system at this level and even if they did - does it really matter?

:hammer:
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these are rhetorical questions....right?:whistling:
 
I should add that the kids soccer is almost as bad. I coach my youngest daughters team and I was supposed to have all these forms (medical release, sportsmanship agreement) and a players roster with me for every game.

I mean with a bunch of 6 year old girls do I really care if the other team is sneaking sleepers onto their team - not really. I'm sure if anything really shifty was going on it would be found out eventually - again - if it really mattered.

Even with all these forms and craps we still had parents and coaches that didn't follow the good sportsmanship rules so this extra hassle obviously doesn't work.

Our society seems hell bent on making life difficult for the honest while avoiding confrontation with the dishonest.

We are screwed.
 
Hey,maybe we can get these people to sit down and write some rules for determining eligibility for the presidency. That way we might not elect someone who, by his own admission, is not qualified to serve in the office.
 
PBinWA said:
I think it's worse - The only other place where I've been asked for three forms of documentation was the USCIS when I got my Green Card. I didn't even need that much documentation for my work visas. :rolleyes:
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You feriners are always bitching about something. Go back where ya came from if it aint to yer likin'.:yum::yum: So much for streets lined with gold, huh?:brows:
 
JEV said:
You feriners are always bitching about something. Go back where ya came from if it aint to yer likin'.:yum::yum: So much for streets lined with gold, huh?:brows:
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Hey, someone's got to come here and service your women folk and do all the other hard work you lazy SOB's aren't doing. :poke:
 
I got the early registration discount and it cost me $130 for two kids. Then they have a mandatory fund raising thing were you have to sell a minimum of $20 of beef jerky and/or cookie dough.

They also have concessions and other fund raisers.

It ain't cheap but nothing is anymore.

Anyone want to pre-order some beef jerky? :whistle:
 
PBinWA said:
I got the early registration discount and it cost me $130 for two kids. Then they have a mandatory fund raising thing were you have to sell a minimum of $20 of beef jerky and/or cookie dough.

They also have concessions and other fund raisers.

It ain't cheap but nothing is anymore.

Anyone want to pre-order some beef jerky? :whistle:
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My kids are on travel teams also. Talk about expensive!

My son also plays with the local rec team (he's 11) and my daughter plays Varsity softball for the high school.
 
I can understand the residency issue at the more competitive levels. The more I coach and interact with parents and other coaches the more I see how obsessive some people are. Which I don't think is a good thing for a lot of kids.

But for the little kids that just want to play on a team like Tee-ball or coach pitch then it's getting a little over the top.
 
PBinWA said:
I can understand the residency issue at the more competitive levels. The more I coach and interact with parents and other coaches the more I see how obsessive some people are. Which I don't think is a good thing for a lot of kids.

But for the little kids that just want to play on a team like Tee-ball or coach pitch then it's getting a little over the top.
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I agree, so what if someone outside the district is on the team. No one is going to run in a ringer in T ball. Do they even keep score at that level?
 
You would think the more the merrier (obviously to a point) but a few extra kids isn't going to hurt as long as they can rustle up the coaches.
 
PBinWA said:
I got the early registration discount and it cost me $130 for two kids. Then they have a mandatory fund raising thing were you have to sell a minimum of $20 of beef jerky and/or cookie dough.

They also have concessions and other fund raisers.

It ain't cheap but nothing is anymore.

Anyone want to pre-order some beef jerky? :whistle:
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sure I'll help, post the details
 
You have to remember that all organized sports are very competitive. Especially the older they get. So at any age, ringer or not, there will be complaints from parents if someone is on the team that doesn't belong there. To be fair, they have to have the same rules across the board including T-ball. What I really can't stand is the cut throat parents and the unfair coaches. I think in rec sports, every child, whether they are spectacular athletes or not, should get the same playing time as every other kid. This is supposed to be about the kids and them having fun. Then, once it gets beyond rec playing, then bring the competitive-ness into it.
 
PB, I read on WND that your daughters were born in Kenya. I understand the league's documentation requirements.:whistling:
 
jpr62902 said:
PB, I read on WND that your daughters were born in Kenya. I understand the league's documentation requirements.:whistling:
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Hey! :hammer:

My daughters have real birth certificates (I think I have 3 or 4 "official" copies too) and I know where I can get more. They even have SSN's that correlate to when and where they were born. They may have to jump through a few more hoops to play Tee-ball but they are qualified to be President in around 34 years. :smile:
 
Dang! Back in 1960 you just had to have a glove and show up to play. We played at 3 ball fields that Caterpillar had built on their plant grounds down in York,Pa. Everybody got a chance to play without a hole lot of fuss and carrying on. We seldom had many parents other than moms because the dads were working. But we had fun which was the whole point of it. Today it is such a hassle the fun is kicked out the door.
 
muleman said:
Dang! Back in 1960 you just had to have a glove and show up to play. We played at 3 ball fields that Caterpillar had built on their plant grounds down in York,Pa. Everybody got a chance to play without a hole lot of fuss and carrying on. We seldom had many parents other than moms because the dads were working. But we had fun which was the whole point of it. Today it is such a hassle the fun is kicked out the door.
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Yup! Sad it's not like that anymore.
 
I do think a lot of the "fun" is taken out of it. Between chasing down all the uniform pieces and setting up the field (lines, bags, etc.) I think a lot of what is getting done is for the parents. We never had bags for our bases until maybe high school. I think we were lucky if we had a catchers mask (usually a Hockey goalies mask).

I had fun playing as a kid and certainly didn't miss all the fancy stuff.
 
muleman said:
Dang! Back in 1960 you just had to have a glove and show up to play. We played at 3 ball fields that Caterpillar had built on their plant grounds down in York,Pa. Everybody got a chance to play without a hole lot of fuss and carrying on. We seldom had many parents other than moms because the dads were working. But we had fun which was the whole point of it. Today it is such a hassle the fun is kicked out the door.
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Our Twp sponsors t ball and little league with 2 other townships at pretty much no cost to the the players and families if you are out of the twp's tough.
They have a great program especially tball it was like Jackie said every one had to play no score no strike outs every one went to 1st base ect it was for learning the basics of the game not scoring.
A couple of Tiger moms and dad's were bitching about "johnny's" not going to learn how to play unless we have scores we said its been this way for 20 years and we aren't changing it.

My son just wasen't in to sports but Cubs then Scouts was his choice.
 
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