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Youth sports parents are nuts, it's a weird mix of jocks and nerd parents
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Date: January 12th, 2026 11:50 AM Author: Paralegal Mohammad (Death, death to the IDF!) Jocks are annoyed their kids have to play against shit tier uncoordinated children of nerdy parents.
Nerds and Losers are palpably anxious and trying to recreate an image of themselves in their kids.
As a result there are just too many fucking kids and all of these leagues have been watered down, if you want serious competition you have to quit your job and train with them for 6 hours a day and travel all over within a 300 mile vicinity every single weekend for the whole year.
https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/1qazd1m/everyone_was_wrong_here_right/ |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 12:54 PM Author: Gay Factory it's always been like this, and select club teams and camps offer better competition. you're obviously an unathletic foreigner who didnt grow up here. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821075&forum_id=2#49583303) |
Date: January 12th, 2026 11:53 AM Author: barnabyjones the worst are the parents who pressure schools to play their kids up. Everyone thinks little Brayden should be playing 8th grade ball as a 6th grader. Of course, they ignore the reality that 99% of these kids never play sports past 12th grade anyway so whats the fucking point? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821075&forum_id=2#49583086) |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 11:58 AM Author: Paralegal Mohammad (Death, death to the IDF!) It's crazy dude. I feel bad for these kids. My son is pretty good at basketball but the only time he touches the ball is if he grabs his own rebounds/steals because as soon as some uncoordinated child gets the ball all you hear is their parent(s) and sometimes their peanut gallery shouting "SHOOT!!!" over and over. It's hardly a team sport, we're all basically conduits for everyone else's individual AAU mixtapes. No wonder Europe is eating our lunch. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821075&forum_id=2#49583101) |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 1:19 PM Author: Roblox The point is that one day your son will poast on a racist discussion bort and will use "played a little ball in high school" as a flex. Jews and indians won't have a comeback to that.
This is important because this is as close to orgasm as he will ever get. |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 1:21 PM Author: Senior Ethics Official Resume padding for college (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821075&forum_id=2#49583395) |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 11:55 AM Author: gibberish (?) Hi!
Stop thinking it's actually about the sport. You can't tell who might even possibly have a hint of real talent until they're ~15. Before that your time investment is for the barrier between your kids and the rest of the poor masses. |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 11:59 AM Author: Paralegal Mohammad (Death, death to the IDF!) By then it's too late. All the kids who will play in high school are on the travel team regimen by the time they are 7. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821075&forum_id=2#49583106) |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 12:06 PM Author: .....;;,,.........;.;.;.;.,;,;,;.;.;,; Lol this is laughably wrong in every sport other than maybe soccer and I guess tennis. Travel ball is a clear detriment to at least half of AAU basketball players and the vast majority of baseball players, as both groups will improve much more if they take the time spent on traveling and just get shots up/go to the batting cage. My kid is 14 and at a decent but not super competitive MS and training with the high school team. It’s hilarious how many of the AAU kids are getting passed up right now by kids who just save the time and spend it at the park playing pick up and getting shots up. Like 70% of the kids on the high school teams didn’t play AAU in middle school or high school. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821075&forum_id=2#49583130) |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 12:54 PM Author: dupa Even with soccer, kids are much better off focusing on technical and skills training where they get real instruction and lots of touches than finding the highest ranked name brand club to play league games where they get few touches and the coach is focused exclusively on winning meaningless games rather than each player's development. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821075&forum_id=2#49583302) |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 2:06 PM Author: .....;;,,.........;.;.;.;.,;,;,;.;.;,; CR. The wealthy striver sports parent move in 2026 (and probably since at least 2018) is to be like JD McCoy’s dad on Friday Night Lights. You get a big name and connected trainer and buy up as much of his time as you can so that he’s only helping your kid not his local competition and you get more of a monopoly on his network. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821075&forum_id=2#49583640) |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 2:28 PM Author: dupa Not flame, this is what I've been doing. I developed a relationship with the best trainer in the state, found an indoor facility to use, rent it out and organize small group sessions. I make no money from it and let the trainer keep all the profits. He's extremely grateful. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821075&forum_id=2#49583714) |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 2:32 PM Author: .....;;,,.........;.;.;.;.,;,;,;.;.;,; Groups are only ok if there isn’t a kid who is close in age to your kid who is clearly better, otherwise you need to freeze that kid out and keep the best trainer for yourself. Ideally the better kid does travel ball and wastes his time driving all weekend and running plays drawn up by a 20-something who’s career ambition is to coach varsity at a mediocre high school. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821075&forum_id=2#49583734) |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 2:38 PM Author: dupa lmao (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821075&forum_id=2#49583758) |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 2:43 PM Author: .....;;,,.........;.;.;.;.,;,;,;.;.;,; I’m kind of joking around but it would drive me crazy to do everything you are doing and not have the result be that my kid benefits from a sports psych and overall self-image perspective, like half the fun would be him seeing himself as the guy who’s working harder and smarter. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821075&forum_id=2#49583779) |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 2:40 PM Author: t.rick o'treat panama (1) tcr right here
my kid never did travel aau, and at times had seasons he averaged like 1pt a game because he was focused on lock down d and making passes. anyone who paid attention to +/- at the time could visibly see the difference when he was in versus on the bench, so the signs were there if you knew what to look for
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Date: January 12th, 2026 12:13 PM Author: gibberish (?) That's the scam. The years of learning to play the game the 'right' way and knowing what to do in complex situations etc will eventually lose out to some 15 year old nigger with a freak arm that's never played baseball in his life.
I say this as a dad with a massive financial and time investment in my kids. I've taken my oldest (12) to baseball camps, private lessons and tournaments all over the country. Last month he said he thinks baseball is boring and he wants to try a travel basketball team (lol). So we put him in wrestling. At least it's a life skill and they sweat. We're still finishing out the baseball season, we signed a contract and we're not letting the team down. However, I hinted at this conversation to another dad and it was like I was speaking Satan to him. |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 12:16 PM Author: Gary's Economics baseball, football, and basketball you can come into later. hockey, soccer, tennis, you need to build skills earlier. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821075&forum_id=2#49583164) |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 12:21 PM Author: gibberish (?) I won't quibble. I have girls in ballet and you better start them before 5. I assume hockey is similar. That said, are those sports really getting the best athletes? I know there is a mental component, but it's hard to take eg tennis seriously when you know an Allen Iverson probably would have been the best tennis player ever. I want sports that get the best of the possible best. It won't be my kids but that's what Americans want. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821075&forum_id=2#49583189) |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 4:59 PM Author: Gary's Economics There's a massive tactical and psychological element to tennis that lots of physical specimens and natural athletes lack (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821075&forum_id=2#49584093) |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 1:37 PM Author: Labia Menorah No way you can just show up freshman year and play baseball like you can with football. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821075&forum_id=2#49583501) |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 2:18 PM Author: .....;;,,.........;.;.;.;.,;,;,;.;.;,; Pitching, probably not, though you can go from novice as a freshman to best pitcher on the varsity team by the end of your sophomore season, just because so much of velocity is down to genetics and a few specific muscles and tendons in your throwing shoulder. Batting there are definitely kids that never played real baseball but are naturally super hand-eye coordinated and can be very good at hitting quickly. Fielding is the most trainable skill in baseball, but any reasonably coordinated 14 year old is going to pick it up fast and coaches will prioritize getting them up to speed if it means putting a plus hitter in the line up. Can always hide a kid in LF even in lower levels of high school baseball. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821075&forum_id=2#49583684) |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 4:55 PM Author: Gary's Economics There's obviously a learning curve for everything but the main thing with these is hand-eye coordination which any decently athletic kid would have pretty well developed independently (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821075&forum_id=2#49584087) |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 2:14 PM Author: .....;;,,.........;.;.;.;.,;,;,;.;.;,; Soccer this clearly wrong apart from the academy rat race and the value of those networks and connections. But if your goal is just to be a varsity athlete you’re probably best served maxxing plyos and sprint training and doing skills work 90% of the rest of the time. Learning tactics is pointless until you are good enough to compete athletically and have the ability to control, pass and shoot with enough skill to make the tactics work. Tennis and hockey I don’t know well, but I could see that. Swimming practically speaking you also need to start getting serious by ~12 at the latest given how teams and training tend to work, but theoretically you could hire a private coach and level up your technique rapidly and then train like a maniac as a 14 year old and be good by 16, but you’re still spotting the other kids a massive head start just in terms of their fitness base. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821075&forum_id=2#49583668) |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 2:25 PM Author: fully online and responsive I didn't start baseball until 4th grade and I was way behind despite being more athletic & stronger and smarter than all the kids. Took me 3 years to catch up. I have my 2 year old shagging balls daily (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821075&forum_id=2#49583704) |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 3:10 PM Author: gibberish (?) Was this for travel ball or had you never played even little league? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821075&forum_id=2#49583848) |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 3:12 PM Author: fully online and responsive Any baseball (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821075&forum_id=2#49583851) |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 3:20 PM Author: gibberish (?) Hmm yeah that would be tricky. We had a kid join that had only done a couple of years in little league and he did mostly fine with check downs and such. Those types of, I want to say rote but a bit more complicated, things take time. I could see how just joining that would put pressure on a new kid. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821075&forum_id=2#49583861) |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 11:56 AM Author: brown tranny rapping about climate change Stfu you whiny turd loser (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821075&forum_id=2#49583092) |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 11:59 AM Author: ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, i was reffing a youth game where an undefeated team was getting soundly beat. the parents' anxiety rocketed and fed off itself. a parent stepped up to argue i call and i calmly said, "i'm the referee and there's no arguing from parents." the parent yelled out, "oh so this is a dictatorship??!!" wtf can you do with people like that? |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 12:00 PM Author: Paralegal Mohammad (Death, death to the IDF!) ljl (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821075&forum_id=2#49583109) |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 12:02 PM Author: ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, i was at a Little League game where a batter successfully bunted with two strikes. the parents of the fielding team started screaming "it's illegal to bunt with two strikes!"
"illegal." lol. |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 12:15 PM Author: gibberish (?) Lol (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821075&forum_id=2#49583162) |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 12:10 PM Author: Gary's Economics it's like everything else in this shit world, it's hypercompetitive, margins are low, and every possible edge is being exploited (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821075&forum_id=2#49583143) |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 1:09 PM Author: #BrianJacquesMindset (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821075&forum_id=2#49583352) |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 12:41 PM Author: The Kenosha Kid (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821075&forum_id=2#49583251) |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 12:50 PM Author: dupa Kids are sorted very early. You no longer have athletic children playing alongside non-athletic children.
On one hand it's good because there's an appropriate level for every kid. The lesser athletes can still be an integral part of a team rather than standing on the field while the athletic kids dominate the ball and play.
On the other hand, it's created an entire generation of psychotic parents who feel pressure to force their 8 year-olds to specialize in a single sport, train every day, and be on the most competitive team they can find for fear of being left out and ignored by college scouts.
People need to fucking relax. Let your kids enjoy learning a sport and the life lessons that come along with being on a team. If they aren't self-motivated to train every day to get to the absolute top level, then they are never going to get there and no amount of private training can replace internal drive. |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 12:59 PM Author: As far as they will go but even farther (🧐) starting to wonder if nyuug was right about white people. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821075&forum_id=2#49583322) |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 1:07 PM Author: dupa I feel like there's going to be tons of kids who wake up one day in their 20s having never suited up for a college sports team and having not pursued academic or artistic interests and ask themselves "Why was it decided that I would train like a professional athlete starting at age 7? Who decided i should devote 25 hours/week to [soccer, baseball, hockey, dance, cheer etc.]?"
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Date: January 12th, 2026 1:10 PM Author: As far as they will go but even farther (🧐) I worry more about the non-strivers
It used to be that basically every kid got forced into sports at some point just to not be a weirdo. Now that sports has been striverized the masses are left drooling in front of roblox or league of legends (depending on age) all day. |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 1:23 PM Author: dupa Yeah i mean you have to sign your kid up for shit. There are levels for everything. You have rec and then varying levels of travel teams ranging from playing neighboring towns on the weekends to weekly out of state tournaments. Most kids do sports at some level at least until around 13 or so when many call it quits.
There are delusional parents that equate having the same commitments as elite teams with actually being elite. It's like how guys started wearing colorful socks because some article was released that this was a sign of high IQ. None of these parents stop to think "are there really 7 teams worth of elite athletes in this sport at every age in this limited geographic area?" The answer is no. Allow your kid's interests to steer the ship. Provide them opportunities to pursue interests and what they naturally gravitate to is where they should be spending their time.
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Date: January 12th, 2026 2:40 PM Author: .....;;,,.........;.;.;.;.,;,;,;.;.;,; CR. If your kid isn’t into it or it’s doing damage to your bond with your kid it’s not worth it. 95% of the reason I try at all with sports is so that my kid thinks back on his childhood 10-30 years from now and remembers me giving a shit about him. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821075&forum_id=2#49583769) |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 1:23 PM Author: Gary's Economics (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821075&forum_id=2#49583413) |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 5:37 PM Author: Roblox tf (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821075&forum_id=2#49584196) |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 1:22 PM Author: (*)> (i'm in your city) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821075&forum_id=2#49583405) |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 2:25 PM Author: .....;;,,.........;.;.;.;.,;,;,;.;.;,; Per above I don’t go in for all this that you describe, but to the extent I push my kid to do 10 hours a week instead of 3 it’s for four reasons in decreasing levels of importance: 1) he builds an athletic base of fitness and learns how to change his body to make it more strong, lean, capable, which is a critical life skill, 2) he makes friends with kids who have an easy context to deepen their friendships and have a healthy outlet to compete and workout the social heirarchy dynamics that come with being a teenager with some amount of natural pro-social orientation (ie I would feel differently about this part if he was autistic), 3) he plays a sport that he can play casually as an adult as a shortcut to socializing and making friends as I did, and being good at it rigs those interactions so that he has the alpha group status, 4) if he busts his ass and becomes a varsity starter by 12th grade, combined with his academic aptitude, it will likely be a plus for college applications if he wants to go, and so far he insists that he does. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821075&forum_id=2#49583705) |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 2:30 PM Author: dupa 1) how old is your son? 2) what sport? 3) how much resistance do you face from him to do an extra hour of training per day on top of team practice? |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 2:36 PM Author: .....;;,,.........;.;.;.;.,;,;,;.;.;,; 1) 14 2) basketball (he’s tall) 3) none, he’s pretty obsessed. It’s more of an issue of getting him to do that, stretch, lift/plyos, eat right and be OK not playing video games for 5 hours straight during a weekend when many of his friends are allowed to do that 5x a week. He’s also super careful about his sleep. He didn’t start until he was 10 but he’s the best player in 8th grade in a class of 350 boys and the varsity coach at the high school now does private training with him 2x a week. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821075&forum_id=2#49583750) |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 2:38 PM Author: dupa 180 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821075&forum_id=2#49583759) |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 2:12 PM Author: t.rick o'treat panama (1) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821075&forum_id=2#49583658) |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 2:23 PM Author: fully online and responsive Had a friend tell us he used to travel a lot for work and there were always travel team parents at the hotel bar in the summer, he started wearing a university polo shirt and would tell moms he was there to scout kids at whatever the tournament was (there was usually a sign in the lobby) and you wouldn't believe how many moms sucked & fucked him. And they're all swinging with each other too; probably 89% of travel team moms have an STD (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821075&forum_id=2#49583696) |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 2:29 PM Author: .....;;,,.........;.;.;.;.,;,;,;.;.;,; lol makes sense. If you have a high t MILF fetish travel ball is like walking into an all you can eat buffet. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821075&forum_id=2#49583720) |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 2:30 PM Author: dupa (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821075&forum_id=2#49583726) |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 3:20 PM Author: gibberish (?) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821075&forum_id=2#49583864) |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 4:43 PM Author: Roblox how many moms sucked & fucked him tp (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821075&forum_id=2#49584057) |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 5:53 PM Author: Yummy Phase Pol Pot "And they're all swinging with each other too" fucking lol. tyft (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821075&forum_id=2#49584247) |