Dear dimwit on the phone

You're going to cost some kids a scholarship with that attitude.

 

Youth sports coverage brings out a whole different class of dimwit. Is it Fall yet?

 

Not yet, but thank the good lord above, fall sports are starting to hold practices around these parts.

 

Dear Bigtown Little League coach:

I'm sorry that you find my reporter taking pictures of your team's at-bats distracting. But he's not going anywhere. My guess is that you're just venting because you actually had to leave the county for the district tournament this year for this first time in memory, which I'm sure is a case of The Man in Williamsport violating your human rights.

Go pound sand and enjoy the 2-hour drive home after your walk-off loss, thus necessitating another two-hour drive back here tomorrow for an elimination game.

Thanks for reminding everyone why the rest of the (geographical region) hates Bigtown people. I hope you hit a deer.

UPChip

 

On July 10?!?!?

We barely finished spring sports a month ago!

 

Classic! I've never gotten the nerve to actually say or write that to a source/reader, though God knows I wanted to.

 

Just hard enough to take out a headlight or cause a few hundred bucks in damage. In this part of the world, it's happened to almost everyone. I have a coworker who has hit well over five.

 

yeah, but if he hits a deer he gets venison sausage and venison chili and venison burgers. . .

 

Long diatribe sent from a Little League mom today, complaining that her little Johnny got left off the all-star team for the summer. It goes on to point out how supportive her wonderful son was all through their season, cheering for his teammates and so on. She also points out how all the kids should be treated the same and given the same opportunities. Basically, everyone should be an all-star.

She doesn't come out and directly ask, but the tone is "Hey reporter, you should do an investigative report on this." She does use the words "slimy underbelly" when describing the league.

Or maybe, you should just have little Johnny explore an all-comers track meet or piano lessons or Boys Scouts, etc this summer instead of obsessing about Little League conspiracies.

 

In our area, a kid with Asperger's played on a 9-10 baseball team all season. League rule is that every kid who shows up gets to play two innings. All goes well during the regular season. Then, with tournament play approaching, the coach decides not to tell the kid and his family when and where the team is playing, figuring they won't show and the kid won't play, and the team will have a better chance of winning.

This is 9- and 10-year-olds.

The coach (and I'm using that term loosely and in place of some other fitting terms) also told the other players and parents on his team that the kid and his family "went on vacation" and that's why he wouldn't be there.

Of course, the Asperger's kid's family got wind of it and all hell broke loose. Parents were understandably upset. They were realistic about his skill level, but didn't appreciate the coach's underhanded tactics.

League suspended the coach for the rest of the season and the assistant coaches invited the kid to play. But he chose not to because he didn't want to be blamed if the team happened to lose.

The family and some other players and parents from the league came to the first tournament game and conducted a silent protest. Word was the suspended coach (who, of course, had no comment for our story) was supposed to show up after the game and officially apologize to the kid.

Too little, too late. The jerk already ruined the kid's baseball experience.

 

What a complete douchebag.

 

Having all-star teams for 9-10 year old Little League has to be one of the dumbest things ever.