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This Country Is Going Soft

August 26, 2008 · Filed Under RANDOM WEIRDNESS 

9 year old benched

by the goat… Today’s post is about the decline of Western Civilization. In a New Haven 8-10 year old little league, they have told a nine year old pitcher that he is too good to play. No joke. He throws too hard and they will not allow him to pitch anymore. Don’t believe me, here is the story.

Wow. What kind of message is this? If you’re good at something we will punish you? The worst part is this kids team stood up for him and told him to pitch anyway and you know what happened? The other team packed up and left. Now the kid feels like shit because he thinks nobody got to play because of him. Oh that’s not it, after that incident, the president of the league disbanded his team and scattered all the players to other teams in the league. The hits just keep on coming!

The league claims that he throws too hard and is a danger, yet he has never once hit an opposing batter.

I am convinced that our society is so full of wuss adults that they feel a need to raise wuss kids. The kid is a year under the cut off. We are basically saying to these kids that they better not get really good at anything or they will be ostracized.

Sorry to tell all of you “everyone plays, everyone gets a trophy, let’s not keep score” parents out there, but if you don’t let your kids realize that other people are going to be better than them sometimes and that they are going to strike out every once in a while, they are going to end up crying their way through adult hood. This isn’t T-Ball, it’s little league.

What’s next in the “keep an even playing field” world we live in, are we going to give smart kids a C every once in a while even though they earned an A? Let some dumb ass win the spelling bee after he spells bug with a silent k in front of the b? Maybe we should give little Billy no hands ten points for getting hit in the face with a football at a Pop Warner game?

Ridiculous! We can not all be the same at everything. It is wrong to teach nine year olds that it is okay to shun the exceptional. Get over it New Haven, your kids suck at baseball, and if you don’t smarten up soon they are going to end up sucking at life too.

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3 Responses to “This Country Is Going Soft”

  1. Geadmens Gang on August 29th, 2008 9:10 am

    Amazing.

  2. Geadmens Gang on August 29th, 2008 9:13 am

    “Sorry Sir you are too good at drinking we are going to have to ask you to leave the bar”This story is one of the most ridiculous things i have ever heard.Maybe with Beckett out the Sox can get him.

  3. the goat on September 2nd, 2008 8:53 am

    Yeah if I was this kids dad I would have a t-shirt made for him that says: “My dad isn’t afraid to kick the shit out of a nine year old”

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