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Another day, another youth-sports violent incident caught on camera. It’s difficult to say whether these types of incidents are more prevalent today than 10 years ago because we live in a different world, where seemingly every incident is now caught on some type of video device and immediately uploaded for the whole world to view and repost.
I don’t know how long it would take for me to hear about an incident in Colorado involving 10-plus youth-sports parents on a youth baseball field looking like they are engaged in a massive brawl outside a local bar at midnight. But I do know that, if this had happened 10 years ago, our organization would have received a call from a park and recreation employee and definitely a reporter from the local newspaper asking why these things happen and what can be done about them. Because these fights occur with such alarming regularity these days, they barely register as news coverage.
It’s scary to think we have reached that point.