NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) _ Nine-year-old Jericho Scott is a good baseball player — too good, it turns out.The right-hander has a fastball that tops out at about 40 mph. He throws so hard that the Youth Baseball League of New Haven told his coach that the boy could not pitch any more.
"He is a very skilled player, a very hard thrower," Noble said. "There are a lot of beginners. This is not a high-powered league. This is a developmental league whose main purpose is to promote the sport.
"Noble acknowledged that Jericho had not beaned any batters in the co-ed league of 8- to 10-year-olds, but say parents expressed safety concerns.
"Facing that kind of speed" is frightening for beginning players, Noble said.
Now, Fung remembers back in the day when he first started playing cricket. Or Rugby. Or any other damned sport. Everybody was bigger than me. Sometimes you played someone and that ball came whizzing thru way faster than the guys we played last week. Or they were so much bigger that they just crushed you. Now, did we quit? No! We strove to make ourselves better. We didn't go and ask them to take that guy out coz he bowled too fast or crushed the phokk out of the ball.
This is why everybody's just gonna blow by us. This is why we are in decline. This is why we need to move to New Zealand.
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So the kid hasn't beaned anybody yet? Maybe that's the problem. A couple of four-seamers right between the eyes might be just what these little babies need to toughen them up.
Co-ed league? Do our enemies in the Talaban teach their kids to play baseball in co-ed leagues? I think not. I bet they don't have "everybody plays" or "no sliding" rules either.
40 mph? Does Hendry know about him?
If dominating was the standard, Smiff would have been thrown out of Wellness Center years ago...
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