Posted on 06/21/2018 8:48:23 AM PDT by simpson96
I’ve never written a College World Series column like this, but it’s already a CWS like never before.(snip)
Today, in the first game of the CWS, the real world throws out the first pitch.
It will be thrown by Luke Heimlich, ace pitcher of Oregon State, one of the favorites to win the series. (snip) Heimlich, a senior left-hander who is 16-1 with a team-best 2.32 ERA and is a two-time Pac-12 pitcher of the year.
But there’s one thing about Heimlich that you won’t find in the stat sheet.
Heimlich pleaded guilty in 2012 to sexually abusing his 6-year-old niece. Heimlich, now 22, was 15 at the time.
In recent interviews with Sports Illustrated and the New York Times, Heimlich maintained his innocence and said he pleaded guilty to avoid putting his family through the ordeal of a trial and avoid jail time.
The victim and her family maintain that it did happen.
(snip) The whole story is heart-wrenching and sordid, and now it’s on the mound, in the spotlight, of the first game of the College World Series.(snip)
On Friday, Heimlich was asked how fans here might react and he said, “The fans can cheer me on. They can boo. They can do what they want. I’m here to play baseball.”
(snip)Some may say he deserves a second chance. Some may wonder what he’s doing here.
Ask Major League Baseball, which conducted its draft last week. There were 1,204 players selected. Heimlich, who has high first-round talent, was not chosen. For the second straight year.
If 30 MLB teams—which consist of good guys and bad guys, deadbeat dads and alcoholics and cheaters — decided they could not sell their fans on giving Heimlich a second chance, it raises a question.
Why is Oregon State?
(Excerpt) Read more at omaha.com ...
He can always become a Democrat politician.
Who cares? I watch the cry baby zillionaires play at the World Cup.
Athlete privilege.
Because everything you do at 15 should follow you for the rest of your life.
It does, whether you like it or not.
And some things should.
Like molesting your six year old niece.
Everything does, if you have a conscience. How you deal with it is the important thing. Do you repent and not do it again, or do you say to yourself "Hey, I got away with it"?
Yeah I sort tilted my head thinking that juvenile records are supposed to be sealed and/or destroyed if there’s nothing else. Sure a disgusting act, but at 15 I dunno whether you shouldn’t be able to move past it if you never do anything else.
He is still in denial mode.
He failed to update hid sex offender registry
Don’t know much about college baseball, but I heard Heimlich is kind of a choker in the big games.
Obviously he used the heimlich manuver on the little girl
Yeah, I saw that, but even that requirement raised my eyebrows. I dunno, it’s truly awful what he did . . .
Perhaps if he identifies as a muslin male imitating the profit.
Hey! At least they’ve rejected his draft because he abused (raped) a teenage girl. If he had raped a teenage boy, he would be praised, paid, and promoted.
For Massachusetts.
I’m pulling for Mississippi State Friday. Get out a banana and eat one for the Bulldogs.
Same here!
In too many states, it is far too easy to convict an innocent man of sex abuse even when there is zero evidence. If the prosecutor had real evidence, the prosecutor would have never agreed to a plea deal which required zero time in jail.
There is not a single person I know, realizing that going to trial would most likely result in a very long prison sentence, would make a different decision.
Little kids can be talked into saying things happened that are impossible to have occurred.
I believe the player.
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