Posted on 08/15/2006 4:45:01 PM PDT by EveningStar
...His team was down by one and there were two outs. There was a man on third, and his team's power hitter was up, so Romney thought the game would be over.
Then the other team intentionally walked the power hitter on Romney's team.
Romney said he was shocked. Romney got up to bat and struck out. His team ended up losing by one run.
Romney's father couldn't believe the opposing coaches intentionally walked a better hitter to face his son, a cancer survivor who needs a shunt in his brain just to live...
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"Romney's father couldn't believe the opposing coaches intentionally walked a better hitter to face his son,"
What part of winning the game don't you get. Should every parent that spent money to see there sons win a game lose just to make you happy?
hmmm...2 things:
1) that's how the game is played, especially in a championship. I bet nobody would be complaining so vocally if the kid that struck out hadn't been through cancer and was just an otherwise normal kid who happened to have a terrible batting average.
2)Kudos to that kid for surviving brain cancer and playing baseball! That should be the real story.
First of all what kind of name is "Marlo" for a man.
Second, get over it. It's a game. What Marlo is teaching his son is far worse than what Marlo's perception is.
The coach whose team walked the batter made the correct decision. The other team's coach made a decision to let the injured child play. Either letting the kid play was more important, or winning was more important. If the former, then the result is as it should have been. If the latter, he shouldn't have put the kid in the lineup in the first place. This is the losing coach projecting the blame for his own decision onto the winning coach.
I bet they're being truthful that they didn't know about the weak kid being up next, they were just walking the power hitter. They do that all the time in the big leagues, and it makes baseball about the most boring non-event spectator sport there is.
"Shaun Farr is the coach who made the decision. He said it had nothing to do with facing Romney.
"There's no way I would've done that. It wasn't that point at all. It was about walking their best hitter,” Farr said."
It didn't have anything to do with the cancer kid...
Uh... Whiny father needs to shut up.. Is he going to next claim that the pitcher intentionally threw hard to hit balls, forcing his son to miss?
Yeah, dude with the shunt, you need to practice your hitting more. Glad you survived cancer, now become the team power hitter instead of the team excuse (in your own father's eyes.)
Being a mother, I can say that a person in a position to coach, direct or lead children should not have a child in that group unless he/she can look at his/her own child as just another player.
We have the same going on in a dance group. One of the teacher's has a daughter who is always picked to be the first dancer. When I was director, my girls were told that they would get no special privleges. I was so appalled by that teacher, I quit.
Dad was wrong, IMO.
Prayers out to the kid for a quick remission/recovery.
Good on the Red Sox coach for trying to win.
Good on the Yankee coach for playing the kid.
To hell with the media exploiting these ten and under kids.
Oooops I think I'm confused about the coaches.
I thought the coach told the better hitter to walk so his son would have a chance to bat.
Boy am I confused.
Nope, this is the breaks of the game. The power hitter would have been walked whether the next kid was great or not.
Seems dad is teaching his son to be a whiney liberal. I agree, the story is the survival from cancer and he is now able to play baseball.
I see nothing wrong here with walking the power hitter, cancer survivor on deck or not . The game was not over with a guy on third and the power hitter at the plate. I think the opposing coach made the right decision. This one manager who is upset needs to grow up.
The only wrinkle in this story is that the kid who was next in the order wasn't just a weaker hitter, but also a cancer survivor. I'm sure the kid felt terrible he struck out, but he shouldn't. The situation would be no different if he'd never been sick, just not as good a hitter as the kid before him in the order.
I was one of those kids coaches would issue a walk to get to pitch to me. Only problem was in those days I was so short hardly any Little League pitcher could hit my strike zone, so I usually walked.
UM.. if the kid is too sick to play... then why was he playing?
A little more detail on this. Note the wording of the question soliciting e-mail responses.
OOOPS!
Here's the link,
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/news/story?id=2549340
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