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T-Ball Coach Allegedly Has Boy Hurt Disabled Player
ClickonDetroit ^ | September 13, 2006 | AP

Posted on 09/13/2006 6:25:14 AM PDT by ShadowDancer

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1 posted on 09/13/2006 6:25:15 AM PDT by ShadowDancer
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It's too bad that this sociopath probably won't do jail time.
2 posted on 09/13/2006 6:27:20 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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Wonder what his next volunteer job & contribution to the community will be?


3 posted on 09/13/2006 6:28:28 AM PDT by PreviouslyA-Lurker (...where the spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. 2 Corinthians 3:16-18)
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This is beyond disgusting.


4 posted on 09/13/2006 6:28:29 AM PDT by ShadowDancer (No autopsy, no foul.)
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For a game that isn't even competitive. Cripes but I detest "coaches" like this one. (Alas, I've seen too many like him.)


5 posted on 09/13/2006 6:30:37 AM PDT by r9etb
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To: ShadowDancer
Agreed. I wonder if he's a fan of Peter Singer?
6 posted on 09/13/2006 6:30:46 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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"I'm only joking. You guys are no fun. You can't take a joke." (whine)

Blame shifting to the extreme. Trying to weasel his way out responsibility for his actions, just like any other playground bully, by trying to make himself look like the poor misunderstood martyr and everybody else like they have no sense of humor. And guess who's the first to whine when someone either catches them or THEY'RE the brunt of someone else's bullying.

7 posted on 09/13/2006 6:31:00 AM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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So have I. As an aside, other than the disabled boy, aren't 8 and 9 year olds a little old for T-Ball?


8 posted on 09/13/2006 6:31:35 AM PDT by ShadowDancer (No autopsy, no foul.)
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In T-ball the ball is set upon a stand it isn't thrown or the manager throws to his own team. At least that is the way it is done in Chicago.

T-ball was always a riot. When a kid would hit the ball a pack would descend upon it practically fighting for it. Then the throw to first could go anywhere. If a kid was actually thrown out it was pretty standard for him to bust into tears.


9 posted on 09/13/2006 6:31:44 AM PDT by justshutupandtakeit (If you believe ANYTHING in the Treason Media you are a fool.)
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Yep, but the players do still throw the ball to bases.


10 posted on 09/13/2006 6:33:23 AM PDT by ShadowDancer (No autopsy, no foul.)
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What is trully sad about all of this is the local news coverage. Twice I have seen the parents of the boys in question shuttling their sons (wearing sweatshirt, hoods up and over their faces) to their cars. As bad as this is (Downs should have been dismissed by the league and damages, criminality worked out by the parties involved) it has turned into a media feeding frenzy.


11 posted on 09/13/2006 6:33:43 AM PDT by PennsylvaniaMom (Take the high road...the view is always better.)
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You are right...Tee Ball is usually 5 and 6 year olds. Maybe this is just another example of breathless, 'good reporting.' If the other was throwing (pitching?) then it was definitely an older aged league (facing live pitching).

FWIW, one of my sons has travelled to DW Clark to play tournament ball. It is a nice smaller complex of three or four fields. Typical small town locale (its outside of Uniontown).

12 posted on 09/13/2006 6:37:54 AM PDT by PennsylvaniaMom (Take the high road...the view is always better.)
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Another player, Keith Reese, testified at a preliminary hearing that he hit Bowers with baseballs first in the groin and later in the ear. He said he did it because Downs offered him $25 to make sure Bowers wouldn't be able to play.

"He told me if I would hit Harry in the face he would pay me $25 ... so he wouldn't be able to play the game," said Reese.

League rules require each player to play at least three innings. Reese said after he hit Bowers in the groin, Downs told him to hit the boy again, harder.

"He said, 'His mom's letting Harry back in the game. Try hitting him harder in the face,'" Reese testified, according to the Pittsburgh Tribune Review.

"I went back out there and threw the ball and hit him in the ear," Reese said.

This is one seriously screwed up kid.

13 posted on 09/13/2006 6:38:39 AM PDT by ShadowDancer (No autopsy, no foul.)
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Boy, that's the truth. If one of my kids deliberately hurt another child, whether it was for money or not, he'd regret it for a long, long time.


14 posted on 09/13/2006 6:43:51 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("If you're going through Hell, keep on going! Don't look back ... if you're scared, don't show it!")
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Mark Downs Jr. (Future fastball target)

15 posted on 09/13/2006 6:45:39 AM PDT by evets (beer)
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Amazing! It's T-ball. This guy needs to stand in front of some very good major league baseball pitcher and take a few 100 mph fastballs to the head.


16 posted on 09/13/2006 6:45:44 AM PDT by MineralMan (Non-evangelical Atheist)
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This is one seriously screwed up kid.

There are alot of them out there...believe me. My kids play multiple sports. One common occurence not wanting to wear a prescribed knee wrap, protective sleeve, etc. Why? It is kind of a bullseye for the cheapshotters who play dirty. They gotta start somewhere...I guess 8 is as good as anytime.

17 posted on 09/13/2006 6:46:33 AM PDT by PennsylvaniaMom (Take the high road...the view is always better.)
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Yes, I ordered the Code Red.

18 posted on 09/13/2006 6:48:13 AM PDT by SlowBoat407 (I've had it with these &%#@* jihadis on these &%#@* planes!)
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"If one of my kids deliberately hurt another child, whether it was for money or not, he'd regret it for a long, long time.
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But, see, you're a good parent. That's the difference here. Any kid who would do what that creep of a coach wanted should be barred from sports permanently.


19 posted on 09/13/2006 6:48:39 AM PDT by MineralMan (Non-evangelical Atheist)
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They gotta start somewhere...I guess 8 is as good as anytime.

Hey, if you can't stand the heat, stay outta Fayette County. ;-)

SD

20 posted on 09/13/2006 6:51:41 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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