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Thursday, June 23, 2005

A team of 11- and 12-year-old baseball players has been kicked out of its league — for being too good.

Earlier this month, the Stars of Columbus, Ohio, were taken off the Canal Winchester Joint Recreation District's (search) schedule, and their $150 entry fee was refunded, reports The Columbus Dispatch.

The 14 boys only joined the suburban league in early May, but since then had creamed every other team that faced them — 18-0, 13-0, 24-0, 10-2 and 17-6.

"I called up the league office and said, 'No way are we going to play them,'" Terry Morris, who coaches another team in the division, told The Dispatch. "I wasn't going to subject my players to that."

Pretty soon, all scheduled games were canceled, and the Stars found themselves orphaned.

"I don't think it's fair," said Stars catcher and pitcher Michael Allston, who at 12 stands 5-foot-8. "We always played our best, and we were just winning games."

"[Another] team told us they didn't want their boys' self-esteem battered," said Trina Cochran, mother of 11-year-old Stars player Mario Cochran.

"Our boys went into this with a good attitude," said Darla Perry, whose son R.J., 11, weighs 155 pounds. "It's turned into a disaster."

Opponents' parents charged that the Stars' players were older than they claimed to be and that they were actually an "all-star" team culled from across Columbus.

In return, the Stars' parents began bringing birth certificates to games, as well as documents showing that all but one of the boys lived in the same ZIP code.

League officials and other teams' coaches are unrepentant.

"They were just beating the rec kids up," said Michael Mirones, the league's board chairman. "It's no fun for the kids that are losing."

"We didn't want one of our kids to get hit in the face with a ball," said rival coach Kris Hutchins, who said all his players' parents agreed that their boys not face the Stars.

Stars second baseman Matthew "Boomer" Hufferd, 12, thinks other teams are getting the wrong message.

"If they learn at their age that they can forfeit on things they don't want to do," Hufferd said, "it's quitting."
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I can't believe these parents and coaches, bunch of slack jawed faggots.
Remember when it used to be a good thing to work hard and kick the crap out of the competition? Now you get punished for it.
 
I seen this the other night on ESPiN. I still can't believe that they kicked them out of the league just because they practiced and the other teams didn't. And they only practiced 4 days a week. It just sucks for that team and the coach. I remember playing little league and we practiced 5 night a week. I think one of the qoute from the coach was that " I explained to them that were not a traveling team we just practice more than the other teams.
 
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"[Another] team told us they didn't want their boys' self-esteem battered,"

Great; so just teach them to quit if they come up against something tough in life. Good job mom & dad! The kid at the end of the article understands it - and he's only 12!
 
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That whole situation makes me sick. I cannot believe the way parenting has evolved just in the past 25 years. Its fucking life people someone has to win and someone has to lose, ALWAYS! It would be one thing if these were like 6-7 year olds, but they are fucking 12 years old. I hope none of them grow up and get a scholarship to Notre Dame, then what are they gonna do. :wink2:
 
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What would be interesting would be to talk to the kids on the other teams. I wonder if they wanted to play, or if they were happy that their parents cancelled the games......

I know when we were kids, we just loved to play ball. It didn't matter nearly so much who won or lost; we just loved to play.......
 
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Maybe these parents should get back to making orange wedges for the team and driving them to soccer practice in their mini vans to play for the their team the "Columbus Magical Dreams."

I'll tell you what this is a direct result of, "The soccer-fagging of America."
 
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Thump said:
Maybe these parents should get back to making orange wedges for the team and driving them to soccer practice in their mini vans to play for the their team the "Columbus Magical Dreams."

I'll tell you what this is a direct result of, "The soccer-fagging of America."
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I agree, I guess there are too many moms and dads out there who only got to play right field for two innings a game, and don't want their kids to have to go through that experience ever. So they put them on a soccer field where everyone gets to play and they just run around like a giant Amoeba with no clue what the fuck is going on.

I don't know how many of you have small kids, and have any experience with organized sports for 5-7 year olds. But if you really want to make your blood boil, go down to your local ballpark/soccer field one day when the really small kids are playing and just listen to the parents. I guarantee after about 15 minutes you will have picked out about 5 who you just want to kill. Its horrible. I have reached the point where I just stand by my car and stay away from all other adults.
 
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Buck Nasty said:
That whole situation makes me sick. I cannot believe the way parenting has evolved just in the past 25 years. Its fucking life people someone has to win and someone has to lose, ALWAYS! It would be one thing if these were like 6-7 year olds, but they are fucking 12 years old. I hope none of them grow up and get a scholarship to Notre Dame, then what are they gonna do. :wink2:
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no it wouldnt, 6 and 7 year olds need to learn about winning and losing too. There will always be someone bigger, stronger, and faster nut up and work harder.
 
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It's sad- in about 25 years the USA will be a country of pampered pansy-asses who were brought up believing that they'll never get their feelings hurt, and that "everybody wins" all the time.

It's happening already, actually- people are acting more and more like they deserve to have or do anything they want, without working for it or taking responsibility for anything they do (or don't do).

When I was a kid playing Little League, we'd occasionally go up against a better team, and you know what happened? WE GOT HAMMERED. That's life. Some people are better than others. In any game, someone will lose. Deal with it.
 
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