Chicago: HS baseball game forfeited due to "worried parents".

exmediahack · Apr 29, 2013

Armchair_QB said:

LongTimeListener said:

Aside from the race and class issues, let it not be forgotten that baseball parents are motherfuckers on par with wrestling and cheerleading these days.
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I will agree with this.

Most of us think our kid is Mike Trout, regardless of what the stats say.

At least in basketball, it's obviously who the best player on the floor is within the first 60 seconds after the opening tip.

dog eat dog world · Apr 29, 2013

YankeeFan said:

The school with the nervous parent is named for Walter Payton:

A baseball game between two Chicago public high schools was canceled Saturday when some parents from a North Side school refused to let their children travel to the South Side for the game, saying they were worried about the safety of their kids.

The game between Payton College Prep and Brooks College Prep was supposed to start at 7 p.m. The Payton team had played a makeup game earlier Saturday against Von Steuben and was to head to Roseland on the city’s South Side to play Brooks.

Instead, according to Payton head coach William Wittleder, “About three, four parents [came] up to me saying they’re not letting their kids go down there.”

That prompted other parents to also refuse to let their sons play at Brooks, according to Wittleder, who said he was left with too few players to field a team. The game was declared a forfeit victory for Brooks.

Wittleder said one of the Payton parents told the others he grew up on the South Side and that the neighborhood around Brooks “isn’t what it used to be.”

http://www.suntimes.com/19764048-761/worried-parents-force-cancellation-of-payton-brooks-baseball-game.html
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Principle says it wasn't about race, and blames the media for suggesting such a thing:

A North Side Chicago Public Schools principal says internal leadership problems, not “racist tendencies,” led to his baseball team forfeiting a game Saturday on the city’s South Side. The explanation came after a series of media reports, which the principal says are largely inaccurate, said that parents feared for their athletes’ safety on the South Side.

“There were other, less salacious, causes for the game’s cancellation,” Principal Tim Devine wrote in an email to the Walter Payton College Preparatory High School community. “The reasons for the cancellation stem from leadership issues within the baseball program.”

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-north-side-school-forfeits-baseball-game-20130428,0,6507223.story
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This in Obama's America before the rest of America knew who Obama was.

Colton · Apr 29, 2013

Bad, Bad Leroy Brown doesn't get what the big deal is.

dog eat dog world · Apr 29, 2013

I loved that song Colton. Jim Croce, RIP even more.

da man · Apr 29, 2013

cyclingwriter said:

Flip Wilson said:

Stoney said:

Batman said:

I ask this as a practical question: Is the neighborhood safe?
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It's South Side Chicago, so what would be your guess?

I don't know precisely where this HS is, but I do know that suburban and whitebread parents throughout that region have long been conditioned to be scared shitless by the words "South Side." It was that way three decades ago and I'm sure it's still that way today.

And I've still zero sympathy for these complaints. They could see the schedule before the season began. If you had concerns, you should've raised it back then. If you didn't, too bad, go play the frickin game. Little Skippy won't be traumatized by having to play one baseball game in a scary neighborhood.
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Well, the South Side of Chicago is the baddest part of town. If you go down, you better just be aware.
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of a man named Leroy Brown.
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Yeah, I've been looking for him. By the way, have you seen my wife, Doris?

sportbook · Apr 29, 2013

I coached at a suburban Chicago school. We played Clemente high school in a non-league game in the burbs several years ago. We offered to feed its players before they returned home but the food got delayed. The coach, who was more than gracious, said he had to take his team home because he wanted all of the kids home before it got dark.

Gold · Apr 29, 2013

cyclingwriter said:

Flip Wilson said:

Stoney said:

Batman said:

I ask this as a practical question: Is the neighborhood safe?
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It's South Side Chicago, so what would be your guess?

I don't know precisely where this HS is, but I do know that suburban and whitebread parents throughout that region have long been conditioned to be scared shitless by the words "South Side." It was that way three decades ago and I'm sure it's still that way today.

And I've still zero sympathy for these complaints. They could see the schedule before the season began. If you had concerns, you should've raised it back then. If you didn't, too bad, go play the frickin game. Little Skippy won't be traumatized by having to play one baseball game in a scary neighborhood.
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Well, the South Side of Chicago is the baddest part of town. If you go down, you better just be aware.
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of a man named Leroy Brown.
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He'd best watch out for a boy named Willie McCoy, although back home he's known as Slim.

Starman · Apr 29, 2013

Got a custom Continental, and an Eldorado too.

da man · Apr 29, 2013

Gold said:

cyclingwriter said:

Flip Wilson said:

Stoney said:

Batman said:

I ask this as a practical question: Is the neighborhood safe?
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It's South Side Chicago, so what would be your guess?

I don't know precisely where this HS is, but I do know that suburban and whitebread parents throughout that region have long been conditioned to be scared shitless by the words "South Side." It was that way three decades ago and I'm sure it's still that way today.

And I've still zero sympathy for these complaints. They could see the schedule before the season began. If you had concerns, you should've raised it back then. If you didn't, too bad, go play the frickin game. Little Skippy won't be traumatized by having to play one baseball game in a scary neighborhood.
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Well, the South Side of Chicago is the baddest part of town. If you go down, you better just be aware.
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of a man named Leroy Brown.
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He'd best watch out for a boy named Willie McCoy, although back home he's known as Slim.
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Wrong song.

Nice try, though.

jr/shotglass · Apr 29, 2013

Uncle.Ruckus said:

exmediahack said:

waterytart said:

We've been assured African-American kids don't play baseball, so it can't be about race.
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There is always so much talk about how inner city kids don't have access to the equipment needed to play baseball.

In the police reports I read, there are plenty of baseball bats, random children and vacant lots in most of America's inner cities. Just drop off some balls and gloves and you're good to go.
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Cool post, racist.
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Ooooo, cool.

Who can we shout "racist" at next? That never gets old.

And this issue doesn't have to be about race at all. It can be about a bad neighborhood that people don't want to get into. If that neighborhood has a concentration of a certain race, well ...

da man · Apr 29, 2013

Starman said:

Got a custom Continental, and an Eldorado too.
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I've always wondered how the razor in his shoe didn't cut his foot.

Drip · Apr 29, 2013

Sad on so many levels. There's nothing comical about this. When kids can't play a freaking kid's game because of the issues that have been raised? Man, it just leaves you shaking your head.

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