2008.08.26
From the "people are stupid" file:
Stupid grown folks ban 9-year-old Jericho Scott from pitching because he's too good. Seems the kid's fastball tops out at 40 mph. He throws so hard that the youth league in his New Haven, Conn., hometown told him to pack it in and go home.
How stupid is that? In an era when kids need all the positive re-enforcement they can get, adults penalize a child for doing something right? This is beyond stupid. It's absurd.
If the boy were in Roanoke and had a 1.3 grade point average, he'd be welcomed onto the team.
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I agree a boy shouldnt be banned for being "to good"..but your obvious camparison to the grade point flap as it pertains to whether a student should play sports is irrelevant.. and to use your term"stupid"
ah, you know me.--s
Comment by Anthony — August 26, 2008 @ 1:29 pm
It is sad this young boy is "out" because he is so good, but as a parent, I see the ramifications for all the other team members, and how it could be unfair to the members of the opposing team.
I tried hard not to say the word shut up, rather be quite sounded less dummied up. I deplore the word stupid also, as it sounds like a pre schooler word
Comment by Dona Wheeler — August 26, 2008 @ 4:16 pm
This dosen't make common sense. The fools are punishing the boy for excelling!!! Seems to me the others should be motivated to improve to where they can get a hit off of him. Another case of "dumbing down" if you ask me.
Comment by Percy Kution — August 26, 2008 @ 8:03 pm
Once again, Anthony exhibits his ignorance with name-calling. I don't know the story of this kid and it sounds like a 40 m.p.h. fastball isn't likely to create a danger to the other players. But I do recall an incident in my teenage years when our team had two of the fastest pitchers in this city. One was a bit wild and threw so fast that when I went out to catch his warmup tosses while the catcher put on his gear, the first toss whizzed by my ear so fast I never saw it. On another occasion he threw high and inside to a young batter and hit him in the face, necessitating 13 stitches. That was a situation where action such as was taken in the present case might have been justified. But in the absence of a threat of physical harm to the other players, I agree that he should never have been banned from play.
Comment by Mike — August 27, 2008 @ 3:14 am
Maybe this kid's arm can help the Yankees get back in the Pennant Race. This is a new America where you are penalized for exceling when all others fail.
Way to go New Haven, Conn. By the way isn't that Ted Kennedy area?
Comment by Terry B — August 27, 2008 @ 1:35 pm
Terry:
The way the Yanks have been playing this year, they should draft the little man so they won't have to bat against him.
Comment by Mike — August 30, 2008 @ 6:50 pm
Religious gimmickry is relative to this community stupidity and ranks right up there when it comes to churches not being able to truly help the indigent in this valley, with no more than church-going and repetitive entertainment on Sunday mornings, fast-talking TV preachers, gasoline give-away fads, etc., etc. It appears that churches have truly missed the message and carrying out the mission of the "Man" upon which there faith is based. Stupid as well as inept seems more appropriate this Sunday morning.
Comment by Bobby Buck — August 31, 2008 @ 7:46 am
Bobby Buck:
Somehow that 40 m.p.h. fastball you just tossed "whizzed" right by me. What possibly does your post have to do with a 9 year old kid being banned from the Little League? Was there maybe a church league involved there?
Comment by Mike — August 31, 2008 @ 4:32 pm
Hi Mike,
In my statement, "religious gimmickry is relative to this community stupidity," the optimal word is of course "stupidity". The segue is the mis-prioritizing of certain social situations such as bouncing this kid in the scheme of being fair...kind of what churches do in dealing with the social dilemma of poverty and poor healthcare in the valley, by using gimmickry to supposedly get people to a better afterlife. Hopefully, this better correlates in showing how mis-prioritization abounds today in our culture. I welcome your response.
Comment by Bobby Buck — August 31, 2008 @ 6:03 pm
Maybe Conneticut should learn to swing their bat faster.
Comment by Amy Hanek — September 5, 2008 @ 5:29 pm