Kid Pitches Too Good, Forced to Quit and Team Forced to Disband

This is so stupid. Too good? what a crock.

I guess Conn. has no idea what "select ball" is. Here in Texas, that kid would have ten coaches lined up at his door, offering spots on their teams.

 

I think that's commonly revered to as vaginitis. A serious and often fatal condition.

 

I think the right thing to do is to let him play out the season but strongly recommend that he play in a more competitive league the following season that is more along the lines of his skill level.

it's similar to junior tennis where you have 9 year olds playing up in age divisions because their skill level is too good for children their own age.

It was wrong of them to try and disband the entire team or walk off the field because he took the mound though. Sounds like sour grapes. The league could have handled it better than they did.

 

What a great Coach!

"alright kids...you see that kid, he's too dam good, and way better than ya'll are, just quit"

 

40 mph? That would get lit up by the little leagues here in the Spring Klein area.

 

DUDE I know exactly how this kid feels it sucks I can't pitch in the Majors because like him I am too good those douchebags over at the MLB won't let me play.

I have a 150 MPH fastball with pinpoint command. My arm is simply too strong it would break the catcher's hand if he tried to catch it.

 

Hey, the Olympics cut softball because the Americans were too good (except that they finished 2nd) so it's OK. They're just following the precedent set by the IOC.

 

Is CT not the state that instituted the mercy rule in high school football? I think they were suspending coaches that ran up the score.

 

The kid is throwing 40 miles per hour in a co-ed league with beginners. This isn't a little league team full of kids that started playing when they were 5 years old. The kid should be playing with other kids his skill level.

 

I forgot to add that it sound like the team was full of ringers trying to dominate a bunch of beginners. That is probably why the team was disbanded.

 

I saw this on another mb and an insightful poster there suggested we are headed towards

http://instruct.westvalley.edu/lafave/hb.html

 

While I disagree with not letting the kid play - I have no problem with the coach pulling his team off the field.

It seems the kid was banned by the league before the game started. So if they put him in the game, they were cheating.

Nonetheless, it is goofy that they didn't find a way to resolve this issue in a better way. They should have found him a spot in a better league instead of banning him.

 

The league basically is a giant hypocrisy if he was asked to join the former champions and then they threw him out when he didn't.

 

A couple of questions:

1) Why not just play up? Do you really want to go out and ring up an bunch of fall ballers (most fall ball players are not very good)?

2) Why did the mom call the police? What crime was committed?

 

I think by not letting this kid pitch, they are doing a disservice to ALL the kids in that league.

It isn't T-Ball, the point is to win the game, if the kid moved up... he wouldn't be that great of a pitcher, you hamper his progress as a pitcher, and also hamper kids in their offensive progress.

The point is to get better, so what if the kid is to good... as a coach you should be getting your team prepared to play against someone that is good at the sport. I feel sorry for these kids when they get older and can't handle losing in Jr. High and High School because the parents and coaches sheltered them.

Poor little guy, he thinks it is all his fault nobody can play against him, talk about breaking a kids heart.

 

Why is he competing against 8 year girls?

 

So much blame to go around. The mother sounds crazy, like most parents of children who play sports. Jericho wasn't banned from playing, just pitching. I don't think it's all that great to not let him pitch, but why couldn't he continue to play second base and let someone else pitch?

 

I could understand if it was a safety issue. And 9 year olds were getting plunked at 40mph with regularity.

But it seems like the complaints were all about morale, and I think one of the valuable lessons of competative sports is that you always have to improve, because there is always somebody out there better than you.

 

I have no idea what speed I threw when I was 8-9. What is the "normal" speed thrown at that age?

EDIT:

Also, 40 MPH on a Little League field is equivalent to around 53 MPH on a major league field.