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!

…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.