[jkumpire]

I have not thrown my .02 because I wanted to hear other thoughts. Frankly, I don't care that much about a girl playing Baseball, except she will be totally physically outmatched if not this year, next year. The problem as I see it for an umpire is this, when she gets thrown at, or she gets run over at 2B, or gets treated like any other player, her and her family's first response is going to be to sue the school, or player, or umpire. Further, what if the coaches decide not to play her?

This kind of garbage is just garbage. She and her parents run to court to get a long-term and fair rule changed by some governing body. And right behind them are the other trial layers and supposed do-gooders who are so tightly wound up in their anti-male feminism that they will inflict themselves on every part of society. And the way Title IX has destroyed men's college athletics is coming to HS athletics, and the same results will happen.

I've spent 30 years officiating sports on the HS level, and for the most part, it has been a great run. We are now at the point that it sems obvious in the near future some trial judge and special interest group will find a way to destroy it. That should bother any official. The only way men's sports is going to survive in the next 20 years is to go to the European club sport model, which is hideous.

DG, I agree to a point about your post, but let's say he came from a family where men's FP was a big part of the life of the family, and until 20 or 30 years ago there were still a lot of men's FP players. There are still some places in the country where men's FP is a serious game, and it is a fun game to umpire, as opposed to girls FP, IMO. Does that mean this kid who want to play FP instead of the local keg league when he gets older has to play against men until he is physically developed enough to play with them? Will he have to go to court too?

See the problem? A female can win a suit and be loved and showered with kudos because she went to court and won her place on a boys team in a boys sport. But if a guy who loves FP SB tried to play on a team, he is an object of shame. It is another example IMO in how our society is being feminized.