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9-year-old boy told he's too good to pitch

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I could understand, maybe, if the kid were wild and hitting the other players all the time. But let's get real here... sports are, by their nature, competitive. If we take the most important quality away from the game, then we might as well not play at all.
 
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OH10 said:
I could understand, maybe, if the kid were wild and hitting the other players all the time. But let's get real here... sports are, by their nature, competitive. If we take the most important quality away from the game, then we might as well not play at all.
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sports not only teach us to win and play as a team. i think more importantly they teach us to lose. how to get up how to understand failure and move ahead. and as emerson said "all our gains are from the fruit of our venture"
 
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I can't believe they're citing safety as a reason for this. 40 MPH is not unsafe.

It reminds me of what I went through playing ball at that age. I couldn't catch fly balls to save my life for a while - I closed my glove too early and the ball would skim the edge of the glove and nail me right in the face. I ended up with several bloody noses and black eyes. You know how you fix that problem? BY CATCHING THE [censored]ING BALL! Eventually I learned, instead of going home and playing Nintendo instead.

These parents and coaches need to stop complaining, and teach these kids how to swing the bat - or at least how to duck.
 
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Jagdaddy;1239022; said:
Even if they insist on being pu$ about it, why not just move the kid up to the next older league?
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This was brought up this morning on the radio and they made the argument that the kid may be able to pitch at a higher level than other 9 year olds, but may not be able to hit, or field, or even be mature enough to play against 11-year olds.

We used to play against some pretty fast pitchers when I was in little league. What did we do? The coaches pitched to us faster in practice. By the time we played the 10 year old kid, his fast ball didn't look all that fast anymore. Maybe the coaches that foreit are just jealous that their rag arms can't simulate what this 9 year old kid can do.
 
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Jericho's coach and parents say the boy is being unfairly targeted because he turned down an invitation to join the defending league champion, which is sponsored by an employer of one of the league's administrators.

Jericho instead joined a team sponsored by Will Power Fitness. The team was 8-0 and on its way to the playoffs when Jericho was banned from pitching.
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Just popping this quote out of the article because it seemed interesting... who knows if that was actually a factor.

Scott denies threatening any one, but said she did call the police.
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She called the police? That seems a little odd.

Lots of valid points about the value of competition and whether or not this is actually a safety concern... Sounds as though there's a variety of messes involved beyond those considerations, though.
 
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jimotis4heisman;1238771; said:
seriously how often do you see kids out in the street playing sports anymore?
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Quite a bit, actually. I mean, a lot of it isn't necessarily team sports, but, I see lots of bike riding, skateboarding, that kind of stuff... But I tend to think I see them because they are more mobile...

jimotis4heisman;1238845; said:
sports not only teach us to win and play as a team. i think more importantly they teach us to lose. how to get up how to understand failure and move ahead. and as emerson said "all our gains are from the fruit of our venture"
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Agree completely. Also, I don't know about the rest of you, but, a few instances aside, I remember much more vividly losses... and... the best memories are the games won that were supposed to be losses. I think that's what bothered me the most, is that the parents packed up and didn't give their kids a chance to win a game they weren't supposed to.
 
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