Overzealous sports parents

You'll see them at just about any Monroe County athletic event involving kids. Actually, you'll probably hear them first. They're overzealous sports parents who yell at their kids to do better, try harder, look alive, pay attention. These cretins live and die by the minor sports exploits of their children. Sports, a lot of people say, is good for kids. It imbues them with the competitive spirit and teaches them that winning is an admirable goal. But if you watch and listen to those overzealous parents at sports events, you can't help but think that the poor kids being harangued are having their characters spindled, folded and mutilated by their parents. They ought to have Department of Human Services staffers prowl the crowds at sporting events and make citizen arrests. They should lock them up for child abuse and throw away the key because even though they might want their kids to be winners, these parents are all losers