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Parents sue after boy, 9, is called "too good" for baseball league
Jericho Scott's pitches are too fast and too accurate for some youth league officials. Their attorney says other children feel getting a hit is hopeless and are discouraged from the start. (New Haven Register | Photo of the boy)
August 26, 2008 | Permalink
Comments
Piss test him!
Posted by: trustno1 | Aug 26, 2008 6:03:03 AM
Yeah I read about this yesterday. What a crock of sh*t!
Good lesson for the kids too. If someone is better than you don't try harder, just throw them out.
Posted by: G-Man | Aug 26, 2008 6:07:35 AM
I guess that rules out the majors for him, since he can't play anymore...
Posted by: Mikey | Aug 26, 2008 6:11:30 AM
this kid is getting screwed.. for a couple reasons though and none of which are his fault.
Posted by: chris (no longer in cali) | Aug 26, 2008 6:15:00 AM
[cough] harrison bergeron [cough]
Posted by: elchampino | Aug 26, 2008 6:20:31 AM
yeah right, I would totally rock that kid! Bring it, Jericho!
Posted by: sometimesilie | Aug 26, 2008 6:20:37 AM
Didn't this family learn anything from The Incredibles? Dumb it down to fit in as mediocre! Hide those talents! A moral for our times.
Posted by: Mike | Aug 26, 2008 6:24:22 AM
Don't like it? Start your own league.
Posted by: Sean, Torrington | Aug 26, 2008 6:26:00 AM
He might be just what the Cubs need.
Posted by: thomas | Aug 26, 2008 6:27:10 AM
elchampino, are you wearing your handicap bag? I would think that since you're still able to make smart-alecky remarks, perhaps we should add a bit to your mental handicap...
Posted by: Diana Moon Glampers | Aug 26, 2008 6:28:52 AM
This sucks. Sure, not everyone can be a star, but for chrissakes, set up more practices if your snowflakes are freaking out about one single player.
The Boy played on a soccer team that went undefeated, but I felt it was a bit unfairly stacked. For youth leagues, the coach's kid is usually on his/her team. That season, the coach had twin boys at the top end of the age range, each about the size of a side of beef. The luck of the draw put a couple of ringers on the team as well, along with my son, the super goalie.
I overheard the kids from one team declare that they should just forfeit and save the trouble of losing. I felt bad about that, because we had an entire team of great players.
This is one kid in an entire league. The parents of the snowflakes who are getting their feelings hurt need to grow some balls and raise their kids right. In this world, there are winners and losers. If you are raising your kids to believe that everyone can be a winner always, please go away or I shall taunt you for a second time.
Posted by: Soo | Aug 26, 2008 6:28:54 AM
Sean, you're obviously fine as you are.
Posted by: Diana Moon Glampers | Aug 26, 2008 6:29:30 AM
I'm smitten Diana, shall we dance?
Posted by: elchampino | Aug 26, 2008 6:33:54 AM
And if a kid turns out to be smarter than all the other kids, don't let him take math or science either.
Posted by: Bill | Aug 26, 2008 6:36:53 AM
Oops ----- him or her.
Sorry
Posted by: Bill | Aug 26, 2008 6:37:18 AM
Being a classical music fan, I am reminded of people like Nicolo Paganini and Franz Liszt, who had extraordinary abilities, and wrote music with which they could show them off. At the time, it was thought to be impossible for anyone else to play their music, but now any reasonably accomplished player does. They raised the bar, and the world has risen to the challenge. This boy is doing the league a favor by being so good.
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"Just get out there and give it your best"
Is the motto we use for the rest.
This kid did, and he's hot!
What's the message HE got?
"Just get out" seems to be the request.
Posted by: KC | Aug 26, 2008 6:38:29 AM
i hope his parents win the lawsuit and the kid "accidently" walks some of the snowflakes. *evil laugh*
Posted by: | Aug 26, 2008 6:41:22 AM
"Oops ----- him or her.
Sorry"
Don't be sorry Bill. We all know you meant to say girls aren't good at math or science.
Posted by: G-Man | Aug 26, 2008 6:48:15 AM
The great celebration of mediocrity.
Posted by: Sheila | Aug 26, 2008 6:50:41 AM
girls are good for one thing and one thing only and that's nothing. Rotten lousy stinking girls. :)
Posted by: sometimesilie | Aug 26, 2008 6:55:00 AM
elchampino, you know what happens to people who dance without their handcap bags. Don't make me get my shotgun!
Posted by: Diana Moon Glampers | Aug 26, 2008 7:01:26 AM
Do heavens 17 have names as well as numbers?
Nell?
Posted by: thomas | Aug 26, 2008 7:17:09 AM
"girls are good for one thing..."
chopping wood?
Posted by: Soo | Aug 26, 2008 7:56:33 AM
Soo is exactly right. We are doing our children a great disservice by telling them they can do ANYTHING they want and are always winners. Not every kid is good at sports. Steer them toward the sciences if they're smart enough. Or tell them they need to try harder. Losing is a LARGE part of life and most people CAN'T do anything they want... these are parts of life and if learned as the norm, not depressing. Just facts of life.
Posted by: zombie00x | Aug 26, 2008 8:03:04 AM
If he's that good why not move him up with the kids that are a bit older than him? If you're a freshman in HS and you ROCK at a sport, they put you on the Varsity team.
Poor kid. Watch this one, he'll end up in the major leagues one day. Tell a kid like this he "Can't" and it will make him work even harder!
Posted by: cherie | Aug 26, 2008 8:46:57 AM
