It's Baseball for crying out loud!!!!!!!!!
Ok, so Corey just started his first season of baseball. He is in coach pitch and has never played before. He did not play last year because I did not agree with the T-ball rules.
1. No score
2. No outs
3. Everyone gets to run the bases, even if they do not hit the ball.
"They" say it is to teach the kids the basics and give them a sense of accomplishment.
A.) They are missing some major basics to baseball like, I don't know, the whole point to the game, i.e. the score, outs, and batting averages!
B.) And how does it teach them the sense of accomplishment? Excuse me, but if you can not hit a ball while it is held stationary on a pedestal, then you do not deserve to run around the bases! I don't care how old you are! You did not earn it.
Sorry, but in my opinion, this left wing political correctness has gone to freaking far.
I accepted the fact that children are no longer allowed to play dodge ball as "they" (who ever the %&#$ "they" are) decided it was exploiting smaller, weaker, more timid children and encouraging a bully mentality among more aggressive children.
I even sat quietly as they told me that Columbus day was not being observed any longer because he was cruel to Native Americans and enslaved many people.
But when the game known as the American Pastime is tweaked to meet the emotional needs of those who carry baggage from their childhood because they sucked at the least aggressive, and most simplistic of sporting events ever created, I get a little pissed!
But I digress ....
While attending the team's first practice, I sat quietly. Even though I was a strong player myself at one time, I know that it would do my son no good to yell things like:
"Take your glove off your head and watch what is going on!"
"Don't stand on top of the base to catch the ball, stand next to it."
"Turn your mitt out, not up."
"Running with your arms rotating on large circles on either side of you does not help you run faster!"
Nope, I kept my mouth shut because I do not want embarrass him or step on the coach's toes. After all, it is just the first practice of coach pitch, little league baseball.
Yeah, tell that to the mom who had her son dressed in full game attire, and yelled at him to do it over again when he did something wrong. Who actually got up off the "parent bench", walked on the field, and told the assistant coach how her son likes the ball pitched.
I went from one extreme to the other. Wussy World to Nazi Training Camp.
Maybe I will just let my son chase butterflies in the out field. And once he gets hit on the head with a fly ball, he'll learn to pay attention. There, problem solves itself.
It's just baseball, nothing more, nothing less.
1. No score
2. No outs
3. Everyone gets to run the bases, even if they do not hit the ball.
"They" say it is to teach the kids the basics and give them a sense of accomplishment.
A.) They are missing some major basics to baseball like, I don't know, the whole point to the game, i.e. the score, outs, and batting averages!
B.) And how does it teach them the sense of accomplishment? Excuse me, but if you can not hit a ball while it is held stationary on a pedestal, then you do not deserve to run around the bases! I don't care how old you are! You did not earn it.
Sorry, but in my opinion, this left wing political correctness has gone to freaking far.
I accepted the fact that children are no longer allowed to play dodge ball as "they" (who ever the %&#$ "they" are) decided it was exploiting smaller, weaker, more timid children and encouraging a bully mentality among more aggressive children.
I even sat quietly as they told me that Columbus day was not being observed any longer because he was cruel to Native Americans and enslaved many people.
But when the game known as the American Pastime is tweaked to meet the emotional needs of those who carry baggage from their childhood because they sucked at the least aggressive, and most simplistic of sporting events ever created, I get a little pissed!
But I digress ....
While attending the team's first practice, I sat quietly. Even though I was a strong player myself at one time, I know that it would do my son no good to yell things like:
"Take your glove off your head and watch what is going on!"
"Don't stand on top of the base to catch the ball, stand next to it."
"Turn your mitt out, not up."
"Running with your arms rotating on large circles on either side of you does not help you run faster!"
Nope, I kept my mouth shut because I do not want embarrass him or step on the coach's toes. After all, it is just the first practice of coach pitch, little league baseball.
Yeah, tell that to the mom who had her son dressed in full game attire, and yelled at him to do it over again when he did something wrong. Who actually got up off the "parent bench", walked on the field, and told the assistant coach how her son likes the ball pitched.
I went from one extreme to the other. Wussy World to Nazi Training Camp.
Maybe I will just let my son chase butterflies in the out field. And once he gets hit on the head with a fly ball, he'll learn to pay attention. There, problem solves itself.
It's just baseball, nothing more, nothing less.
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