Nine-Year-Old, “Too Good” to Play Little League?
A solid contribution to the WTF Files is this story about nine-year-old Jericho Scott. His fastballs have been clocked in at 40 miles per hour and his little league has told his coach and parents that he’s not allowed to play baseball in their league because he’s too good.
Buh?
You can read it for yourself, folks.
I wish I could say I’m surprised, but honestly, isn’t that the shape of the world, nowadays? I mean, I can understand parents being concerned about their kids going up to bat against a kid throwing that fast, sure. But aren’t we supposed to encourage talented kids to, oh, I don’t know, exercise those talents?
Good talents, I mean. Tell that kid on your block who pulls the wings off of flies to cut the shit.
There’s a whole ruckus over this issue, but you can read that for yourself in that link up there. For my part, I’m just going to sit here and be amazed, maybe a litle embarassed, too.
I will say this, though; as I finished off that article, I couldn’t help but think, “maybe about ten years from now, that kid’ll be a superstar and someone will dig up that old story and it’ll get emailed around as a, ‘look how funny’ kind of link.”
I hope so.
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