Frank Coztansa wrote:
You catch a foul ball, give it to a kid. You catch an opposing team's HR ball, give it to a kid (unless its a milestone 500th HR or something). ".
This is another one that's really stupid. Yet another example of the pussyfication of kids these days. Foul balls and HR balls should be EARNED, not given. A souvenaire ball should come with a story of how you made a great catch or dug it out of a pile of fans, not some gay ass story about how you were some pathetic 8 year old and some guy simply handed it to you. My dad's being going to Sox games since the late 50's, season tix since the late 90s, and he didn't get a ball till about 10 years ago and he paid the price with a broken finger to catch it. Was in a cast up to his elbow with a coat hanger sticking out of the end and a rubber band attached from the coat hanger to his finger for traction for 6 fucking months. That's called earning a souvenaire. Granted, there wasn't a day that went by that he didn't regret making that catch, but at least he didn't have that ball on his desk because someone gave it to him 50 years ago just for being a kid.
What it all comes down to is kids are coddled to the point that they're all a bunch of pussies these days. You can't swear at ballgames anymore cause god forbid a kid will hear a bad word. Back in the 70s no one gave a shit if some drunk was swearing up a storm at the game. No one gave a shit if a couple drunks decided to beat the crap out of each other in the aisle. Now everyone is screaming OMG THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!
For the peewee team I coach the first thing I did was ban water bottles at practice. Every 10 minutes they were running over to the sideboards to get a drink. Next thing you know we've wasted half the practice hanging out at the watering hole. Enough is enough, got rid of teh water bottles and told them no drinking till after practice was done. They moaned a little, but OMG a month has gone by and they've all lived. Last practice a player fell down and came up to me and asked if he could sit on the bench cause his leg hurt. I told him no, go skate it off. And sure enough, 2 minutes later he was fine.
Kids need to be tougher, but its not their fault, its society and this ridiculous coddling of children that has taken over in the last 10 years.
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LTG wrote:
Trae Young will be a bust. Book It!