Too good for LL . . .

[ozzy6900]

Originally Posted by greymule

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,410162,00.html

I accidentally appended this to the crossword puzzle thread, but here it is to start a new one.

First off, this is not a LL league. They are not affiliated with LL in any way. They are a local league made up of 4 teams that play each other and sometimes play neighborhood teams. I am not an advocate of LL but it is unfair to the LL Organization to associate this story with them.

Now, I have seen this young boy throw and in my opinion, he is no threat to anyone at all. He is nowhere near as fast or accurate as my son was at 9 years of age but he is darn good for his age. If he continues, I'll probable see him in HS Varsity down the road. Personally, I think that the parents of the opposing teams are a bunch of wimps that need to get their noses out of the kid's games but then as I stated above, this is a private league that uses a ton of "home rules". Their "rule book" is almost a thick as the OBR book is!

I am interested in this story because my son was throwing close to 60 MPH at age 9 and he was the 2nd rated pitcher in the LL association at the time! He had kids afraid of him too, but neither the league nor the parents ever pulled the crap as in this story. Even when he drilled a poor kid in the hand (the batter's fault) and broke the kid's fingers, my son was never asked to stop pitching. In fact, he was encouraged by all the coaches to continue pitching!