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1 posted on 08/26/2008 6:36:14 AM PDT by Jay777
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To liberals, excellence is dangerous. Every one must be brought down to the same level of incompetence.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

2 posted on 08/26/2008 6:38:39 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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Who would have thunk that this is happening in the northeast? What a bunch of kooks.


3 posted on 08/26/2008 6:39:25 AM PDT by Always Right (Obama: more arrogant than Bill Clinton, more naive than Jimmy Carter, and more liberal than LBJ.)
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When a team had a really good pitcher, we stymied him by bunting. We could slaughter the other team by doing this. The better the pitcher, the less likely he would run after a bunt. That was a job for other people.


4 posted on 08/26/2008 6:42:28 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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In my mind I’m picturing some liberal adult, stamping their foot, tears in their eyes shouting “It’s not fair”.

Crybabies.


6 posted on 08/26/2008 6:43:52 AM PDT by taxcontrol
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It’s high time we forced the NBA to reflect the ethnic mix of the nation as a whole. I will not rest until the NBA is 88% white.


8 posted on 08/26/2008 6:46:13 AM PDT by CholeraJoe (Just another event in the long series of bitter disappointments that has become my life.)
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...the opposing team forfeited the game, packed its gear and left...

Sounds just like OBAMA and the dhimmikratz IRAQ strategy...............

9 posted on 08/26/2008 6:48:09 AM PDT by Red Badger (All that carbon in all that oil and coal was once in the atmosphere. We're just putting it back.....)
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Here's the S.I. version.
10 posted on 08/26/2008 6:48:14 AM PDT by Jaded (does it really need a sarcasm tag?)
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we had plenty of 12 year olds in Dixie Youth little league their last year that could pitch like that..in my day.

get the moms out of the dugout and take their wussy husbands with them


12 posted on 08/26/2008 6:56:16 AM PDT by wardaddy (if McCain agrees to one term only, he can go fishing and win..save the campaign money)
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Having coached Little League baseball in an earlier life, I'm on the side of the opposing players in this one.

In fact, this is a perfect case in point for why organized youth sports are a bad idea all around. If I had kids I wouldn't let them play in organized leagues like this until they got to high school.

13 posted on 08/26/2008 6:57:17 AM PDT by Alberta's Child (I'm out on the outskirts of nowhere . . . with ghosts on my trail, chasing me there.)
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Little League games suck when one kid develops much faster than the others. But then again, sometimes college/Olympian softball looks exactly the same (i mean, the US no-hit the entire olympic field for 3 or 4 games until the medal round).

But the solution isn’t to punish the kid who is good. You could just make him pitch in the next age level. He gets some competition and the older kids get to hit against somebody closer to their physical limits. That way nobody gets punished and and everybody gets to play baseball.


14 posted on 08/26/2008 7:02:29 AM PDT by bpjam (Drill For Oil or Lose Your Job!! Vote Nov 2008)
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Oh how the left hates it when someone does well, achieves success, and is ready to leave the democrat plantation! The left would rather keep people down and dependent.
Liberalism is really a degenerative disease of the mind.


17 posted on 08/26/2008 7:15:16 AM PDT by BooksForTheRight.com (Fight liberal lies with knowledge. Read conservative books and articles.)
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“A fine is a tax for doing Wrong...A tax is a fine for doing well!”


18 posted on 08/26/2008 7:16:22 AM PDT by Redleg Duke ("All gave some, and some gave all!")
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Back in the day, the kids in my neighborhood played baseball all day during the summer. The result was that they became the best players when they signed up for Little League. When my brother was 9, he was the pitcher the kids hated to bat against. Instead of being punished for being good, they moved him up to the next age group. He was happy and the kids were happy. No one cried how unfair it was.


19 posted on 08/26/2008 7:21:53 AM PDT by donnab (don't blame me ...I supported Fred.)
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What next? I guess Major League Baseball should punish the Tampa Bay Rays for being the best team in baseball!! I wonder when LIBERALISM hit PRO SPORTS - I guess soon when the Red Sox and the KC Royals meet for a game the 10 run rule should come into play! I guess when the REDSKINS beat the Giants 77-0 back in the 1940, I guess the REFS should've called the game after the REDSKINS scored 21 points and when Wilt was on his way to 100 points, the coach should have taken him out of the game afterhe scored 30 points.

Someone should ENCOURAGE him to keep on pitching - not discourage him! I bet in 9 years he woulod be ready for the Major League Draft!

Jericho Scott, I believe you'll be a damn good pitcher - and I hope you'll be pitching - when you are 11 and 12 - in the Little League World Series!

20 posted on 08/26/2008 7:24:02 AM PDT by RightWingTeen (Caution: homeschooled teen with a Brain that works - LIBERALS you can't control me!!)
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As a coach of 8-12 year olds for several years now, I run into this sort of mentality constantly.


21 posted on 08/26/2008 7:25:48 AM PDT by traderrob6
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Sounds like a sports version of “Harrison Bergeron.”


36 posted on 08/26/2008 12:31:46 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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