Interview · moment 6 of 23
Long Island Sports Parents Gone Insane
from White Marble with Paul Virzi | The Tim Dillon Show #314 · #314
3 min
Guest
Tim and Paul discuss out-of-control youth sports parents, including a story about two brothers who beat up a Little League coach on Long Island in 2007 after their kid got benched, and parents physically confronting umpires and coaches.
- Tim pays his kid cash for scoring 20 points and offers $300 for honor roll, plus sneakers.
- Parents canceled a game in Queens against an unbeatable team so they could go drink instead.
- Two types of sports parents when Tim was growing up: ones who didn't care, and ones who physically attacked coaches and refs.
- Two connected Long Island guys attacked a baseball coach on the field in 2007 over their son being benched for cursing.
- The brothers Frank Basile and Roger Bastille, who owned a restaurant called Hudson and McCoy, were arrested for beating the coach.
- Tim jokes about the brothers in the holding cell explaining they beat up a little league coach to keep their kids' coach in line.
- Another incident where a parent confronted an umpire, took his mask off, and left the field entirely.
- Tim notes this level of insanity happens constantly on Long Island.
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