Adults, get out, it’s for the kids
A fastball down the middle of the plate has surged more adult tampering into youth sports. Apparently, 9-year-old Jericho Scott is too good and the Liga Juvenil de Baseball of New Haven, Conn., has banned him from pitching. It was so bad that when Scott took the mound, for what appears to be the last time, the other team, led by its coach, forfeited. Walked off the field. An adult made a team of kids quit. Nice message there. It’s as bad a message of the adults leading the little league organization making a 9-year-old quit pitching. Nice message there, too. The league, apparently, has disbanded the team — nothing more than “I’m taking my ball and going home.” I’m sorry, this is not T-ball or slow pitch softball. It’s Little League baseball which means kids throw overhand and some throw the ball faster than others. Grow up adults. Carlos Lugo, a coach for another team, summed it up best in a press conference held Tuesday. “We don’t have someone like Jericho to pitch,” Lugo
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