CommanderMcBragg
09-20-2004, 02:01 PM
I am ashamed that my team is advocating this nonsense (http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/News/St.+Louis+City+%2F+County/story/087E92D4796E09DF86256EED00136438?OpenDocument&Headline=Youth+baseball+program+makes+everyone+a+w inner)
Rotating team captains, five pitches per batter, no stealing until the ball gets to the catcher and a pitching machine "adjusted to allow the batter the best possible chance of putting the ball in play"
Yes, this is what they think baseball should be, because kids are apparently too 'precious' to ever not be the winner.
What a bunch of crap!
How are kids supposed to learn to improve their game and learn how to be a good sport without some sort of healthy competition?
You might as well lobotomise the whole lot. This is why kids are such little shits - they're never disciplined and never allowed to fail!
I remember when I was a young lad we would "chatter" up a strom when the opposing team was as at bat.
I loved it. "He can't hit, he can't hit", which soon turned into, "kennedy, kennedy, kennedy...swing batter swing!"
Life is tough and while I can understand that it should be "healthy competition", baseball as are all sports, are played to win.
Granted there are some parents who need to learn about "proper sportsmanship" and if they would teach their children at home how to be good losers then we wouldn't have this crap going on across America's baseball fields.
Rotating team captains, five pitches per batter, no stealing until the ball gets to the catcher and a pitching machine "adjusted to allow the batter the best possible chance of putting the ball in play"
Yes, this is what they think baseball should be, because kids are apparently too 'precious' to ever not be the winner.
What a bunch of crap!
How are kids supposed to learn to improve their game and learn how to be a good sport without some sort of healthy competition?
You might as well lobotomise the whole lot. This is why kids are such little shits - they're never disciplined and never allowed to fail!
I remember when I was a young lad we would "chatter" up a strom when the opposing team was as at bat.
I loved it. "He can't hit, he can't hit", which soon turned into, "kennedy, kennedy, kennedy...swing batter swing!"
Life is tough and while I can understand that it should be "healthy competition", baseball as are all sports, are played to win.
Granted there are some parents who need to learn about "proper sportsmanship" and if they would teach their children at home how to be good losers then we wouldn't have this crap going on across America's baseball fields.