Monday, August 25, 2008

Excellence Is NOT Incompatible With "Community, Family, Well-Being"

Now here's political correctness run amuck: a 9 year old boy has been banned from playing baseball because he's too good of a pitcher. Apparently excellence is incompatible with "community, family, well-being, nurturing," according to Peter Noble, the Liga Juvenil De Baseball De New Haven league's attorney. The boy made their team win "too much," so the league asked the coach to replace the boy. Apparently excellence is not an appropriate to have in the league because "It's an extended family and it’s been disrupted.” Excellence disrupts? Of course it does. Is that a reason to get rid of it, to discourage it? This boy should be encouraged, praised, help up for his abilities. Instead, we have people whining about how good he is. Instead of trying to get rid of this boy, the other coaches and parents should be working to make the boys on the other teams better ball players. Here is an opportunity to use excellence to create more excellence, and instead everyone wants to take the easy, wimpy, pathetic way out. The parents, the league, and the coaches should all be ashamed of themselves.

5 comments:

TonyN said...

That is pretty screwed up. Of course, there always seems to be another angle to things like this. Political correctness run amok or…

(From ESPN.com)
Jericho's coach and parents say the boy is being unfairly targeted because he turned down an invitation to join the defending league champion, which is sponsored by an employer of one of the league's administrators.

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/news/story?id=3553475

Troy Camplin said...

I think the coach and parents are being both optimistic and naive. Why did it take so long for them to decided to come after him? And even if it is true, the bottom line here is that parents are the ones objecting, or else the league couldn't pull this nonsense off. The stories indicate that the kids on the other teams have no objections. The bratty parents can't stand to see their babies lose, and so they will make this poor boy feel bad because they want to win. The parents are a bunch of selfish monsters, and it is they who should be banned from baseball.

TonyN said...

Yeah, that was kinda how I read the statement from ESPN: another example of adult greed getting in the way of the kids' game.

I don't doubt PC-ness is a driving force behind the parents behavior. That, plus the craziness that infects parents when it comes to their kids and winning. (I'll leave that topic for someone more learned on the subject.)

I'm told that at age five I sat in right-field and drew pictures in the dirt. I'm okay with that…

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