[Rebelbase]

Thank-you for the feminine perspective.

[Hildy]

Oh my...is that the best you can come up with? Are you also saying that Jim Noble (See post #12) is a girl? This isn't the big leagues, it's little league baseball where you don't want to have to worry if your kid is going to get beaned by a fastball. I would assume it could be a big liability issue...if they know the kid is pitching way above his age range, and if he does hit a kid with a ball...nobody will be able to play little league again.

If my kid were that good, I would insist he play with kids his own range...FOR HIS SAKE. So HE could get better. It's not rocket science...it's better for EVERYBODY. I think this parent derives her own pleasure from watching her kid outpitch everyone. Well, wait until he gets older and he's not the big fish in the little pond. I'm sorry you don't see this.

[Caramelgal]

Thank-you for the feminine perspective.

This feminine perspective says that excellence and achievement is not something to be punished, rather it is something to be aspired to.

So what, the kid is good, really good. So what’s so wrong with that? Oh but he and his team won too many games…oh boo hoo hoo, that might make the “underachievers” “feel bad”. Too freaking bad. In real life as in Baseball, somebody wins and somebody loses and not everyone gets a trophy. “There’s no crying in Baseball!”

At Meadowbrook swim club in Baltimore, a young Michael Phelps wasn’t thrown out of the pool because he excelled above all his competitors.