Little League World Series 2023 Won't Have Bunk Beds After Player's Injury Last Year

B&R ^ | */15/23 | Adam Wells

[DallasBiff]

Sheesh, when I was a kid, I always called top bunk.

[GOP_Party_Animal]

Jace told GMA that doctors at one point told him to "give your son a kiss goodbye" because he was in serious condition and "told me about 20 minutes later, Easton had a 0 percent chance to live."

Oliverson went through a "pretty traumatic surgery," but doctors were "really positive" about his progress.

WTF?!

[JonPreston]

Couldn’t they wear their batting helmets to bed?

[ProtectOurFreedom]

ONE injury in how many decades? Suck it up, kid. Don’t ruin the fun for all the others.

And, can we FINALLY retire this horrible liberal COVID-era stinking phrase? “Out of an abundance of caution...”

All I think of when I hear that horrid namby-pamby phrase is hand sanitizer stations, one-way grocery store aisles, and masks.

[Tom Tetroxide]

I am more concerned about how many players and those in the stands will have heart attacks and strokes during the series.

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

Could use Nerf flooring.

[glennaro]

And, can we FINALLY retire this horrible liberal COVID-era stinking phrase? “Out of an abundance of caution...”

I agree with your sentiment but as long as there are real threats of million/billion-dollar lawsuits the pathetic phrase will remain entrenched.

[Bounced2X]

Sheesh, when I was a kid, I always called top bunk.

Me too. My brother and I slept in bunks. Neither one of us ever fell out. Matter of fact I knew other kids that slept in bunks and none of them ever fell out. When we were kids it would have been a big deal and we never heard of it happening.

[JBW1949]

They could put on side rails like on a crib...

[libstripper]

I spent 1961-1965 in fraternity and always took the top bunk. Didn’t fall out once.

[dfwgator]

"We’re in Italy. The guy on the top bunk has got to make the guy on the bottom bunk, he’s gotta make his bed all the time. It’s in the regulations. If we were in Germany, I would have to make yours. But we’re in Italy, so you’ve gotta make mine. It’s regulations."

[HamiltonJay]

The kid ain’t the one behind this.

[HamiltonJay]

Have seen a few kids fall out of bunk beds over the years... Not common, but does happen now and again.

[citizen]

“Out of an [over]abundance of caution...”

Make ‘em into bubble boys. That baseball is awfully hard, too.

[Bounced2X]

Have seen a few kids fall out of bunk beds over the years... Not common, but does happen now and again.

No doubt it happens. I've just never witnessed it or heard about it first hand.

[aimhigh]

I blame all of my life’s problems on falling out of a bunk.

[HamiltonJay]

I have, and yes kids can get pretty messed up depending on how they land and what they can hit on the way down.

It’s certainly not an everyday thing, but it definitely happens.

Happened to my youngest brother growing up, resulted in an ER visit. Fortunately no broken bones or head trauma but did get some stitches out of it.

[HIDEK6]

“Abundance of caution,” (snort.)

[tomkat]

one-way grocery store aisles

That was always worth a head-shaking chuckle as I walked whichever the hell way I wanted to.

[Falconspeed]

Bravo LLWS. It’s not a joke. Falling out of the top bunk bed can be dangerous. Just ask my sister who fell out of the top bunk in a college door at age 19 and took several months to recover from broken thumb, concussion, sore shoulder and sore elbow. Seems funny until is actually happens.