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If the kid was a corporation, he would be berated for making a profit and being successful. Now he’ll have to leave and go somewhere else and try to be successful. 
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They would make him throw every 3rd pitch underhanded just to make it "fair"...  
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It really seems that our society encourages mediocrity by doing stupid stuff like this.
Our society, more and more, caters to the lowest common denominator. Rather than hold up the gifted kids, encouraging them to make the most of their gift, and using them as examples to other kids, we try to hide them in the interest of everybody elses self esteem... it's really ass-backwards.
What if the gifted pitcher is actually a mediocre trumpet player? If one of the kids he strikes out all the time is a gifted trumpet player, should they not let him take band for fear of making the pitcher feel bad?
For some reason these people get all weirded out about "competition"... now I don't know about any of y'all but in our neighborhood, especially among the boys, EVERYTHING is a competition...
i could not agree more. we are way too nuts with kids and sports these days...
i've seen leagues where they hand out trophies to everyone that participates...
i remember hearing about a little league coach who got chastised for pitching around a kid in a big game
then you wonder why these kids grow up and have no clue whatsoever.
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j/c You know, as a new parent, I can see how people don't want to see hurt in their child's eyes. However, as a child that was NOT coddled, I can appreciate the lessens that I learned when I lost a swim race, or someone scored on me in floor hockey or got past me to score in soccer. I learned to lose graciously and congratulate the winner. I learned that I can't/won't win everything and I learned that I wasn't the BEST there ever was in that sport, at that time. It made me strive harder to be better. I trained harder. I pushed further. And the next time, I did better. This created a swimmer who, at the ages of 9-10 was swimming in races against 15-18 year olds and not coming in last. (too bad my coach moved away and the next coach sucked! Michael Phelps would have been striving to be ME  ). This created a floor hockey players who played goalie on both the 1st string and 4th string for the same team and was asked to play ice hockey. This created a soccer defender that, when the high school added girls soccer as a varsity sport, was asked to join the team. I used to be a helluv an athlete because I learned lessons from both winning and losing.
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