I’m not for cheating, but this sounds like payback from a bitter sore loser to me.
You say you are not for cheating but then state it is just a sore loser.
So cheating is okay as long as you don’t get caught? Or is it if a sore loser calls it in then that nullifies the cheating?
I’m not for cheating, but I think a team is OK as long as none of its players has a beard more than 1/2 inch long.</sarcasm>
It’s not about any player, in this instance, it’s about the adults who created the team. All due respect to Chicago, and to the players on that team - but are you sure they could have beat a Pennsylvania All-Star team, or a Texas All Star team?
Jesse Jackson makes a perfect mascot for this team. He thinks everything is Jake if there are no white players on a winning team.
I wasn’t even happy about Mona Davis on the Philadelphia team, for the same reason I ridiculed the conceit that rules shouldn’t matter with the illustration that the age limit obviously has to matter. Davis presumably was young enough by the calendar - but the rule is really about not being into puberty; it’s a league for kids,. Not quasi-adults, but kids. Girls typically are full-grown at 15, some distinctly younger.
And that is aside from the main point, which is that if you don’t segregate by sex when the issue is girls “being discriminated against,” you have no defense when I complain that my grandson (if I had one) is “discriminated against” by not being accepted on the softball team. Allow boys on the softball team, of course, and only a few girls would even be able to compete against boys unable to make the cut on the baseball team.
I guarantee you that Mona Davis’s baseball career has peaked. She won’t be competitive for a spot on the roster of her high school’s baseball team. Let alone be a pro prospect, as a boy Little Leaguer of her caliber might very well be considered.