Well, Well, it finally happened

[waltjp]

I recall several stories of boys playing field hockey with girls.

[Umpmazza]

Originally Posted by rcjhyman

Yes, they can. A quick search shows Mass has specific rules for boys playing on girls volleyball teams. I believe my state (NJ) has had boys playing on girls lacrosse teams in the recent past.

Cool its nice to see that in some states boys can play with the girls.... I am all for this if I was a kid I would try my hardest...LOL to play on a girls team.

[SAump]

Eri Yoshida, a 16-year-old schoolgirl with a mean knuckleball has been selected as the first woman ever to play alongside the men in Japanese professional baseball.

She probably never played fastpitch softball.

[DG]

Originally Posted by jkumpire

As a junior, he decides that he has a better shot at making the softball team, and wants to tryout. Here's a sixteen year old, six foot, five inch, 225 pound, testosterone filled, muscular, male, who would have an obvious physical advantage over these young women.

I have coached some very good girls on baseball teams, but I have never seen one playing on a "boys" team above the age of 12. Above 12 is generally the age at which physical attributes swing toward the males for baseball at least.

I can think of only one word to describe a six foot, five inch, 225 pound muscular male trying out for the girls softball team, and I disagree that he is testerone filled. He has none.

[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.

[PeteBooth]

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Originally Posted by 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?

Jk I hear you but there are frivilous lawsuits throughout this country.

In LL there were parents who sued EVERYBODY over the following incident.

Their child was playing the field and couldn't catch. One day a fly ball was hit his way and it hit him in the head. I can't remember the status of all injuies the kid sustained but it wasn't life threatening etc.

The parents sued the coach saying that the coach did not properly teach their child how to play the game. They sued the umpires, and the entire BOD.

That's the last I heard about it because most lawsuits in this country are settled out of court hence no official record. I am not saying this case was settled but as mentioned there was no official record hence no more info available other than what was said on the news.

There was a recent case about the parents suing LL Incorporated over the use of the metal bat.

If people are going to sue they are going to sue whether it's a boy or girl playing. That's the world we live in and why insurance costs are high and we have to belong to an association to keep the costs down.

We treat a female on the playing field no differently. It's akin to someone's race. We would not treat an Hispanic player any differently then an Afro American Player or a Jewish Player, etc.

if someone is going to sue they are going to sue and it doesn't matter if they are male or female.

I see this type of issue more of a problem for the team members than umpires.

Pete Booth