I intensely hate this decision. These people running this league are actually afraid of greatness – they are trying to shield their children and themselves from greatness.

People, have the balls to acknowledge, confront and experience greatness. Fuggin’ cowardly sniveling sheets, all of them…

If I ever have kids, it’d be kinda cool if they participated in baseball/softball, but i’m already dreading having to interact with those crazed parents/coaches/directors.

“jimmy, we’re not gonna be able to let you play with these kids anymore.”

“why?”

“well son, no one can hit your fastball and it’s really unfair.”

“Oh we can’t let our kids feel bad, so let’s just take all the good players away!”

they claim it’s because it’s a “developmental league”. Hey idiots… how are you ever going to develop if you never face anybody better than you????

this is such a shame

it encourages mediocrity

The problem is not that the kid is too good, it is that he turned down a chance to play for the defending league champs and now his current team is undefeated.

Basically they created a bullshit smoke screen to hide the fact that something needed to be done to stop this kid from leading his team to the Championship.

I’m a pretty competetive person, but these parents are Pierzinski’ing their way to a whole new level!

Just sign him now, long term contract.

Ice creams and video games for 15-20 years.

…the people who made this decision should be truly ashamed

This has “cluster frack” written all over it.

The attorney for the league states that “Liga Juvenil De Baseball De New Haven” is a development league. If that were true, then accomplished players do need to play elsewhere. BUT, if that were ACTUALLY true, then the emphasis would be on development and there would be no such thing as a league “champion”. Certainly nto any “championship” worth tearing the league apart.

But there IS a champion and, apparently, that champion has a lot to gain by eliminating the entire team that this boy plays for. That’s right, the main promotors of this idea to ban the kid are actually trying to break up the entire team and move the kids to the remaining teams, except for our one 9 year-old. And just in time to restore the past “champion”. Sweet. The defending champs, therefore, want to crater an entire team of kids who comprise their primary competition (in a “development” league, remember) and then hide behind one particular 9 year-old as their excuse. That is an interesting “development”, for sure.

So this IS a competitive league and there ARE real winners and losers and, as is pretty much always the case in such youth leagues, the parents step in and establish themselves in their rightful place as reigning champion losers, still undefeated. Nothing like living vicariously through little Johnny to prove your manhood and fill up your shelves with youth trophies. And there is nothing as predictable as the parent who’s child is confronted and defeated by a better kid, reminding mom or dad of their own frustrated shortcomings in their own childhood sports experience.

Honestly, as much fun as I had growing up and playing organized sports, after all these years I still recall the best times I had were playing pick-up games of whiffle ball or over-the-line where the only people present were other kids. I think that it is awesome that these adults are getting shamed on a national level.

but this is rediculous! when i was i kid, playing for the doyahs (not my first choice) in brea, i got struck out by some kid throwing HEAT! what did i or my parents do?…. they took me to the batting cages and i worked on my swing until i could catch up to the heat. the practice of bettering myself when defeated has made me a better person today, i can only imagine the whiney little sap of a person i’d be if this fundamental wasn’t instilled upon me from day one.

in this day and age we are sheltering our kids, in the name of protecting their development. well that is not what this country was founded on. if we got beat we picked ourselves up by the bootstraps and made ourselves better!
stirrups your right, my fondest memories were all the pick up games i played as a youth, playing street baseball with my moms car as third base and the manhole cover as 2nd and the neighbors pick up as 1st and home was another manhole cover…. oh man im getting amped all over again

sorry for the diatribe but banning a kid due to their advanced ability is effing ludicrous! what next, kicking a kid out of 3rd grade because they read at a 5th grade level?

every child in the world is a precious, fucking little snowflake. They are unique, special little shits who need to be shielded from anything and everything in the world that can be considered bad, and if any one small thing doesn’t go their way ever, it is the parent’s responsibility to pass the responsibility for their child’s failures onto something else, be it video games, a television show, a prescription drug, ronald mcdonald’s seduction away from home cooked meals, or the kid with the 40MPH fastball.

summer memories

AKA Jackie Earle Haley

Started playing organized baseball last year. My first team was the “Whittier Dodgers” and I was #17 (Not by choice but ended up likeing it cuz of the 7) and hit .316 with only 1 extra base hit (RBI Double in first AB).

This year I started my own team “Los Diablos Rojos” centered in La Habra. I am #21 (Roberto Clemente) hit .296 (kept fukin with my stance and how i hold the bat hit .189 and it screwed up my swing, but I went back to my old stance/grip and hit almost .500 the last 4 games) with 1 Triple, 3 Doubles and my BEST BASEBALL MEMORY my FIRST CAREER HOME RUN!!!!

9 year can’t play in little league because he’s too good so he dress up like a girl because there is a quota or maybe people can’t bring themselves to say that our boys can’t play because they’re getting their asses whipped by a girl!

when I was 16, and in a pony-colt league, I was ejected from a county championship game in the last inning when I was thrown out at the plate. Good times, good times.

or has kids in little league know that its extremely political.

The part about the mom being somewhat crazy leads me to believe they just don’t want that family around.

But I when I was on the diamond as a kid, I was having fun, and thats what I thought it was about. Course, that was 15 years ago, but still…..

Sit down, shut up and let the kids play their game.

I’d say this story must be an excerpt from an Ayn Rand novel.

I played Little League. I didn’t enjoy it. Okay, maybe that one game where I had the inside-the-park home run to tie it up in the seventh and keep us from elimination. But other than that…

I know that some of those kids must have enjoyed it immensely. I was not one of them. I’m definitely with Stirrups: toss the equipment in the field and walk away if you actually want the kids to have fun. In general, while out in right field watching the dandelions grow, I saw too much sick adult behavior, too much vicarious clamoring for vague glory, too many strange fantasies puppeted through one’s offspring.

My coach even pulled an Earl Weaver once – got himself intentionally tossed out in order to spur us on. Or something.

Again, not looking to debate the general merits of LL – I’m sure some of these kids have a fine, pure experience.

But a buddy of mine just returned from a trip to San Francisco, and described an activity the fogbreathers engage in that breaks my heart: he says that up north there is a group of punk rock kids who like to go to the park, down a few beers and play baseball. I wish I was with them now instead of in this cubicle. This is truly what has always been missing from my life.

Good story.