Comments on: CT Little League Bans Pitcher For Being Too Good

By: joey

joey — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 10:17:01 +0000

This is so amazing that the idioits that run this league think they are right and should get away with this… 1st off if you dont want to compete with the best there is at ur age then dont even worry about learning the game quit now pick up a book or something cuz scott is a baseball player seems like everyone else in that league signed up for something different… when i played little league i couldn’t wait to go agaisnt the best pitcher in the league it made the game 10 times better…. i think the coach and all the players on the team that walked off should be banned from little league.. i think that its not fair that C.C sabathia is doing that good in the NL we should ban him… like get a life teach your kids some morals..

By: jesse

jesse — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 03:44:34 +0000

it was funny what adult swim had said about this story

By: Vic from Miami, Fl.

Vic from Miami, Fl. — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 01:03:06 +0000

I coach Little League baseball, I always tell my kids that baseball has lessons in life itself and that is the ultimate lesson in baseball, life. It is also a game of failures and successes. The top Major League players fail 70% of the time, but they never give up. Never giving up is the in the face of adverse conditions. If I’m not mistaken this Wonder Kid should only be allowed to pitch three innings not the whole game, based on league rules, and each team play each other twice during the regular season, usually. So , put into perspective, each kid in the league will face this pitcher twice a season, at best four times if they happen to be bombing this kid, NOT! Solely based on the reactions of these parents of this kids ability. Part of instructional baseball is to instruct the players to face an exceptional player and to do your best even if they fail. Don’t penalize this Wonder-Kid just because he posses more ability than the rest. He obviously doesn’t have a control problem. It would be the same if a kid hit a home-run almost every time he got up-what, you won’t pitch to him? Everyone has lessons to learn in this gentlemens’ game. Let the kids - PLAY BALL!!!

By: Football is king

Football is king — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 01:26:18 +0000

Baseball sucks anyway!

By: James from Kuwait

James from Kuwait — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:30:33 +0000

I wish all the facts here were presented. IF in fact as John says this is NOT Little League, but a independent development league, I can see the clamor over having ONE pitcher that is overly dominant. In some leagues this problem, especially in development leagues, is handled by using pitching machines so everyone hits the same “pitcher”. I agree with the consensus that it’s a shame all these adults are ruining it for the kids. I don’t for one second believe the kids coach wasn’t ending his message putting him back on the mound. Penalize him !!! Not the 12 kids he coaches. The opposing manager that pulled his team off the field, shame on you. I coach REAL Little League, and have had kids get hit, guess what, it is baseball, it happens, LIVE with it. At 40 mph I seriously doubt anyone is going to get hurt. One team loses every game, assuming they even count the runs, but if your kids learn something from it, it sometimes is more valuable than a “mark” in your teams win column. Is walking away from diversity what that coach really wanted to teach? Was winning at all cost what Jericho’s coach wanted to teach his players? IF so shame on All of you.

By: thom michaelides

thom michaelides — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:27:16 +0000

At first blush I was angry at the league for their actions. But, what if parents who want their kids to learn how to play ball and have never played before wanted to start a league to achieve these things, what’s wrong with that. Then another kids parents or coach say’s hey, lets put our star player on this team in that league and watch him mow everyone down. I don’t want to keep hearing “just because Jericho is to good”, he’s that good because he is in the wrong league. He should play for team that he was originally “recruited” for to really test himself. Oh, that won’t work because then his parents and coach can’t brag about how many eight year olds picking up a bat for the first time in their lives he struck out that day. It’s actually ironic, Jericho’s parents don’t want him playing in a league commensurte with his talent because he won’t dominate, but yet they are upset when the other kid’s parents don’t want their kids feeling the same way when facing Jericho. His parents should repeat to themselves all the reasons they didnt want their son in the higher league and say to themselves “hey, maybe that’s the point the other teams are trying to make.”

By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:04:45 +0000

Sad that we have now hit the point in society that challenges are seen as insurmountable obstacles. This is a terrible lesson to tell your child - that someone is better than you and you’ll never succeed when the truth is you always have to try - reality is that the only opportunities you miss are those you don’t even attempt. I guess these parent’s were those kids that took their ball and went home when things got tough…

By: Cliff Lyons

Cliff Lyons — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 22:05:03 +0000

Let the kids play. Take all of the adults out of the league and just let them play. Little League teaches a kid how to lose ans well as win. There is nothing wrong with losing as long as you tried your best. I played and coached baseball. The kids played because they loved the game. There is always going to be someone who is better then the rest.

By: brratt

brratt — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 03:25:57 +0000

People are bringing up their kids to be wusses nowadays.

By: John

John — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:05:08 +0000

It’s actually not Little League, it’s some independant league. Little League would not allow this to happen.