August 15th, 2006 by Lee Gibbons

Please Quit Whining about Little League Baseball

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It was bound to happen.

Little League baseball is the latest battleground for the politically correct and bleeding hearts. Apparrently the most important lesson we have to teach today’s kids is “be nice and whatever you do, don’t try to win.”

You’ve all heard the stories by now. Team A intentionally walks a good player to pitch to ‘cancer survivor’ kid to win a game or the other sob stories of the day. The coach of team A gets bashed in the media and this becomes a big story. “What lessons are we teaching our kids is?” the stories all say.

I don’t know about you, but I remember my youth championship teams more than the teams that lost 90% of the time. Those are the memories that stick with you, not the time that everyone pretended to drop the ball so a terrible kid could get his 1st hit. Does the kid feel any better about himself knowing the other team gimped around to let him get a hit? What valuable lesson are we teaching kids here? Feel sorry for people and make sure to treat everyone differently?

Kids aren’t dopes. By the time they hit little league age, they know the difference between right and wrong. They also want to win games. They don’t want to lose so some kid’s feelings don’t get hurt. If the kid isn’t good enough to play little league, let him play softball or something. Does it matter it really matter if the kid isn’t the last out? If he still strikes out every time up, I doubt he feels that good about it.

Just let the damn kids play and quit writing about hard luck stories.

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    • Donald Barrett
      January 6th, 2007 at 8:16 am

      I agree with the above article. I’ve coached here in southwest Ohio for a few years and the politically correct direction youth baseball has taken is a disgrace. Baseball teaches so much about life and to give young men a false sense of security is not a lesson this game needs to teach. I’m 38 years old and I hope the game gets back to where it was when I was young, one of fun and one of doing your best to win.

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