Just wanted to bring this outrageous story to everyone's attention today with the hope of posting more after I get a bit of work done.
Cautionary note to all New Haven youth baseball players, don't play too well, or they'll kick you out of the league. Not only is this disgusting that a league would do this, but it should be written into the constitution so that moves like this are illegal.
You never used to be able to ban kids who are so bad they can't get out of their own way on a baseball field (I know because I played with a bunch of them). So how can you ban kids for being too talented? I don't know what sort of hippie communists are running this league, but this is a terrible answer to something that isn't even a problem.
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1 comment:
Humie,
I couldn't disagree more. The league offered him an opportunity to go up and play with kids that are at his ability level. How is it fair for the kids in the junior league to see a pitcher that is well beyond their ability? How can those kids becoem better players if they're getting killed by 40mph fastballs? He won't get better as a pitcher, and they won't get better as batters. Isn't that the point of the league... for kids to become better players?
Here's an article on espn.com that I read that provides a good counterpoint to most people's quick judgement of this situation.
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=080827/kreidler&lpos=spotlight&lid=tab9pos1
Greg
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