What do you think of this real life Little League world series incident?

Question

Does anyone remember, I guess its been a couple lil' league WS ago now, but in the finals or semi's in the last inning the offensive coach put a kid on deck that I believe was retarded, his team down by 1 run with I believe 2 runners on and 2outs. The defensive coach, realizing this kid was on deck that had not got a hit all year, elects to walk the batter, bringing up the retarded kid who struck out, game over. what would you have done in that situation if you were the defensive coach? do you say to youself "I am obligated to strategize a way to win this game for my kids and my community, whatever it takes" or do you say "I'm not walking the first guy just to put a r****d in a posisition to fail, I'm winning this fair and square, retiring a legitimate player" ?

does anyone even remember the details and do I have this right? why did the offensive coach put this retarded kid on deck?

Answer 1

I think he was a cancer survivor

But if they are in the Little league world series, sure try and win

I don't have anything against that.

It's a prestigious tournament and you gotta do what you gotta do

nothing wrong with that

It's discrimination for people to separate that one kid because he has a disease of some sort so it is not that big of a deal

think of it this way...If it were a perfectly healthy kid, would there be as much hype?

probably not

Answer 2

I think he was trying to give everyone a chance, sure this was the little league WS, but it's only fair. I think I heard the story. I hope the kid hit a homerun. That would have been the greatest thing for the little boy. This is like my coach (basketball), he doesnt put in all these players, he puts them at the very end and we do great and score and stuff. It was great the coach let him bat. That was really nice of him! =]

Answer 3

can u get a lil more sensitive about using the word "retarted"?