Comments on: It’s a fucking game

By: Forest Hills Dad

Forest Hills Dad — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 14:58:03 +0000

In addition, I do not personally know the people in this article and have found many nice coaches in Forest Hills. But I would think that most of this can be seen in all areas of sports and all leagues.

By: Forest Hills Dad

Forest Hills Dad — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 14:56:07 +0000

I have to agree that there are many overzealous parents in this league berating their children. Shame on these people, they are not raising men, they are raising psychiatric patients. I personally encourage and congratulate the children on good and bad plays, and work with them on correcting mistakes. You notice that a lot of the better players have parents that are supportive but not overbearing. Probably because the parents were never any good themselves.

You wonder why kids grow up and hate their parents. Just for a second step back and stop taking your child’s feelings for granted.

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By: Becka

Becka — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:27:42 +0000

My son played for Joey Owens last season…it was the best experience he has had in the 4 years of playing baseball at Forest Hills!
He loves Joey & Jeff.
My husband and I both know Eric and Mrs. Lazzara …they are great people!!
If you are not happy maybe you should just go back to Lutz in the Spring? =)
Why did you post the pics?

By: John Hermes

John Hermes — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:45:31 +0000

BTW – The only reason I did not comment on Jeff Watkins or Mrs Lazzara is not because I agree with the writer’s statements regarding them, I do not. It is simply because I do not remember them from last spring, and felt it better to not comment on what I know nothing about.

By: kate

kate — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:17:20 +0000

John – Joey was just one part of this sad story and I didn’t mention Eric at all. And you overestimate the audience for pony league drama – the topics don’t further my writing career, I do.

Rick – Put down the bottle before you post comments, my friend. I take that back. Going after your spelling and grammatical errors is as bad as you going after me for what I look like. Ad hominem arguments have no place here. Happy drinking!

By: rick

rick — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:20:19 +0000

wow i’ve read all the posts about how bad Joey and and all his coaches are and I would just like to say it couldn’t be farther from the truth Joey is one of the most caring coaches you will ever come across. He is very passionate about baseball but he is not living through his son or anyother kid that is on that field. I can say this because Iv’e personally know him for over 4 years coached with him and against him and if anyone can say that he does’nt care about those kids they are a total idiot! Joey with all his little quirks is one of the best coaches that foresthills has to offer he cares about the kids not just winning and if you had such a problem with him and his coaches maybe you should have pulled your son from the team! Ican say from personal experience that joey is an excelllent coach and any of his players will tell you that they love playing for him, my own nephew will tell you joey is his favorite coach and he’s played for me for the past four years,and as his uncle I respect his opinion even though he’s only 9 .Now I don’t know what the motivation for your artical was weather it was for personall glorie or just plain ignorance you have attacked a man and basically his familly with no regaurd for anyone other than yourself and my personal opinion is that seeing the picture next to the blog is that maybe the problem is that the coaches just didn’t pay enough attention to you because obviously you need some attention since you published this blog in creative loafing.

By: John Hermes

John Hermes — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:03:01 +0000

As a regular at Forest Hills for the last 18 months, I can say I have never seen behavior described above from Joey Owens, nor Eric Mullins. My son is a Pinto player, and we played Joey’s and Eric’s teams in the spring (twice, each team), and they seemed perfectly fine to me.

Do you truly have an axe to grind, or was this simply a new topic to further your writing career?