Posted on 02/12/2015 9:41:54 AM PST by B4Ranch
If you care at all about the players on the Jackie Robinson West Little League team, don’t call them champions.
They aren’t. Wednesday’s announcement by Little League International that the team has been stripped of its U.S. title and all its wins from the 2014 Little League World Series tournament is all the proof you need.
These are not champions. To say otherwise is a disservice to these kids, and they’ve already been handed a disservice big enough to last a lifetime.
So don’t say, “It’s OK, kids, you’re still champions in our eyes.” Don’t say, “We don’t care, you guys still won it all.”
Tell them the truth, and don’t sugarcoat a bit of it.
Tell them they’re not champions because, according to a lengthy Little League International investigation, the adults that the young players trusted to lead them to a title “knowingly violated Little League International rules and regulations by placing players on their team who did not qualify to play because they lived outside the team’s boundaries.”
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
Their championship tour continues, now they get to meet all the bloodsuckers who want to drive all that attention onto themselves. Make sure you’re ready by 4pm, as Jesse Jackson won’t want to wait on you little leaguers to line up behind him as he makes yet another pronouncement on the subject..
Exactly. The hard bitter truth...more over it is the mentality that says as long as you don’t get caught (another version is it is better to ask forgiveness than permission)then it is all good. WRONG!WRONG!WRONG! Doing the right thing is a sign of character and is not always easy
It was a good team. It wasn’t legible to compete for the series. A good team, nonetheless but ineligible.
Sorry! Too late. Jesse already dun tod’em
“The children in Las Vegas and their coach should not want to accept the championship they did not earn,” Jackson says. #JRW
— Lauren FitzPatrick (@bylaurenfitz) February 11, 2015
sigh,
“legible” s/b “eligible”
Cheating is the Chicago way. They never suspected that anyone would call them on it.
Would they have won the title without the players from outside their area?
Would they have won without the players who were put on the team through illegal boundaries? I doubt they would have made it very far, that’s why the adults did it. The kids have been let down by the adults, but they should not consider themselves champs, any more than the Bronx team that won with a kid who was too old.
Geographically disadvantaged due to race. What is this white man's obsession over where someone lives, were born, age, residency, and such? Just white man rules meant to keep blacks in their place./s
I wish they could be embarrassed. What they did was remarkable. The crime is that the coach didn’t have enough confidence in local residents and instead used ringers.
Who knows? Who cares?
They chose to form a team whose very existence violated the rules of the league in which they chose to play. Nothing more need be said. They cheated and disqualified themselves before the first pitch of the season was thrown. Away with them!
They might have. But they would have had White kids on the tea and that was not part of the plan.
Some of those kids knew they were cheating as did the parents who lived out of their area.
These kids cheated and what about the other teams they beat on the way to the final too. Those teams who lost to the cheaters were also cheated out of going more forward.
Those kids and parents who lived out of the area knew they were cheating, these kids were old enough to know the rules and these kids talk to each other. The Chicago way yet again
One can only imagine the hue and outcry had a white team disobeyed the rules and beat a second place black team. So far this story is not being carried by the predominate main stream media.
They should be ridiculed and the coach and their sponsors should be banned from little league forever......
Thank you as I have been saying the same thing since this happened.
Those kids and parents who lived out of the area knew full well they were cheating and yet lapped it all up when they won their games thus knocking out other teams unfairly.
Now the media is saying those poor kids, no they are not they are cheaters. I have kids on a travel team in soccer and those kids talk to each other, know the rules and ask each other where they live and lets get together.
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