st. louis lacrosse parents are the worst

Went to StL Saturday to watch Sam play two games of lacrosse. The first game was exciting, Hickman lost 6-5 but the lead went back and forth the whole game. First one side then the other seemed to be dominating. And dominate is the right word here. Lacrosse is an extremely physical sport, it makes hockey look like a nancy game. I am not sure but it seems you get penalized in lacrosse for hitting the guy with the ball. You can smack the ball out of the opposing team anyway you can, body checking, stabbing with the sticks, smacking the carrier across the back, etc. The game was exciting but unfortunately, did not include my son. Didn't get to see him play. Coach didn't put him. Rather disappointing considering we went to considerable expense and drove two hours starting at 7:30am. With an 18 degree wind chill. It was really too cold to watch him watch the game.

So ok didn't get to see him play the first game but usually he gets some time during the second. Drove in the insane StL traffic to find some food. Found some for Sam at (shhh) Sonic. drove him to the next game, dropped him off and drove to find food for the rest of us (the rest of us didn't want Sonic). Found a Subway, ate a sandwich and had barely swallowed the last bite of something called a, "sweet onion teriyaki sub" when Sam called and said that the second game had been canceled. Seems that for some reason the coach of the other team asked the coach of the Hickman JV team (Sam plays for the freshman team not JV) if the freshmen were coming. Evidently the answer was negative and the Parkway Central High School freshman team went home. Before game time. Sucks. I don't know why the Parkway coach didn't ask our coach but cest la vie, eh. Stupid man. And to top it off, the Parkway Varsity team offered to play our freshmen. Right. Those guys are big, they would have broken our boys' legs. Like a cat 5 going up against cat ones, that's no race. Oh and when our boys declined, the parents of the Parkway team called them "babies."

I think we have one more weekend to drive up to StL and deal with the StL parents and stupid coaches.