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Carl Pham wrote:
I don't think it's that simple, Rand. Read this comment over at the VC discussion of this story. The author has read some of the back story, and says:
According to the kid's Wikipedia page, his team is 8-0, with the kid having pitched 8 no-hitters!. In other words...in 8 complete games no kid in the league has been able to get a single hit against him. I also read a couple articles that said that the New Haven league asked his parents to move him to a baseball league with slightly older players, but they refused.
Under those circumstances, and as a parent of two boys, it sounds to me like the league may well have made the right choice. I don't think abstract egalitarian principles should trump the cost to actual human beings, or make a mockery of the concept of sportsmanlike competition.
Josh Reiter wrote:
"A nine-year-old boy has been banned from Little League for being too good a pitcher."
You know, that's what I always told myself when a woman stopped sleeping with me. I was banned from the bedroom for being too sexy.
Charles Lurio wrote:
And I'm banning you from blogging anymore
Yours,
The Handicapper General
;-)
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This page contains a single entry by Rand Simberg published on August 26, 2008 11:01 AM.
I don't think it's that simple, Rand. Read this comment over at the VC discussion of this story. The author has read some of the back story, and says:
According to the kid's Wikipedia page, his team is 8-0, with the kid having pitched 8 no-hitters!. In other words...in 8 complete games no kid in the league has been able to get a single hit against him. I also read a couple articles that said that the New Haven league asked his parents to move him to a baseball league with slightly older players, but they refused.
Under those circumstances, and as a parent of two boys, it sounds to me like the league may well have made the right choice. I don't think abstract egalitarian principles should trump the cost to actual human beings, or make a mockery of the concept of sportsmanlike competition.
"A nine-year-old boy has been banned from Little League for being too good a pitcher."
You know, that's what I always told myself when a woman stopped sleeping with me. I was banned from the bedroom for being too sexy.
And I'm banning you from blogging anymore
Yours,
The Handicapper General
;-)