Moonbat Morality Hits Little League

Posted on August 25, 2008

Imagine if liberal principals were applied to sports, so that the best team is shamed and punished for oppressing the others, and the team that manages to lose the most games is awarded the championship to encourage self-esteem. In Little League, it’s already happening:

Nine-year-old Jericho Scott is a good baseball player — too good, it turns out.

The right-hander has a fastball that tops out at about 40 mph. He throws so hard that the Youth Baseball League of New Haven told his coach that the boy could not pitch any more. When Jericho took the mound anyway last week, the opposing team forfeited the game, packed its gear and left, his coach said.

Officials for the three-year-old league, which has eight teams and about 100 players, said they will disband Jericho’s team, redistributing its players among other squads, and offered to refund $50 sign-up fees to anyone who asks for it. They say Jericho’s coach, Wilfred Vidro, has resigned.

But Vidro says he didn’t quit and the team refuses to disband. Players and parents held a protest at the league’s field on Saturday urging the league to let Jericho pitch.

“He’s never hurt any one,” Vidro said. “He’s on target all the time. How can you punish a kid for being too good?”

The answer: the same way you can rob people of their wealth for creating too much of it.

By the same logic, they might send kids home from school for being too smart, or fire people for working too hard. We wouldn’t want others to feel stupid or lazy by comparison.

To the moonbat mindset, excellence is the only real sin.

Jericho Scott: The nail that sticks up gets hammered down.

On tips from Matt L and Thomas G. Cross-posted at Moonbattery.

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5 Responses to “Moonbat Morality Hits Little League”

Carl on August 26th, 2008 3:53 am

And the insanity continues…
TJ Douglas on August 26th, 2008 10:30 am

They should ENCOURAGE Jerico, not DISCOURAGE him!! If liberals controlled PRO SPORTS, I wonder if they’d be a 10 run rule.
It is INSANE!!
Spurwing Plover on August 26th, 2008 4:16 pm

I think that the kids parents should sue those stupid moonbats for everything they got this PC is getting out of hand
DAve on August 26th, 2008 5:14 pm

AND as you can see a young person of color who utterly DOMINATES all his competition is not hailed but rather crippled for being “uppity”
otis blotis on August 27th, 2008 8:23 pm

so, you are a big fan of Jericho, but hate the ACLU. The ACLU is probably going to represent Jericho.

will your head then explode, please?

Best wishes.