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Coach paid kid to hurt disabled teammate

Don Vito Corleone

Don Vito Corleone

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From CNN-SI:

PITTSBURGH (AP) -- A T-ball coach allegedly paid one of his players $25 to hurt an 8-year-old mentally disabled teammate so he wouldn't have to put the boy in the game, police said Friday.

Mark R. Downs Jr., 27, of Dunbar, is accused of offering one of his players the money to hit the boy in the head with a baseball, police said. Witnesses told police Downs didn't want the boy to play in the game because of his disability.

Police said the boy was hit in the head and in the groin with a baseball just before a game, and didn't play, police said.
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Okay. a game is a game, but this coach has to be Asshole of the Year . . .
 
That was pretty retarded, but you're going to get people who want to do that when the league rules force everyone to play. Some people want to win more than anything else.
 
Originally posted by: akubi
he's gonna be down a lot more than $25 when the lawsuit's over
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yeah. he's gonna learn an expensive lesson. knowing that, the news doesn't make me upset anymore.
 
Originally posted by: Nitemare
ROFL, I'm going to hell on the short bus for sure...
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The story wasn't funny, but that made me laugh 🙂

As for the OP: this just goes to prove a point - in little-league games it's not the kids you have to worry about, it's the parents. 🙁 My mom and dad volunteered at the local little league fields for a decade or more (my brother played from gradeschool through highschool) and I was down there helping quite a bit as well. I doubt that I ever saw anything this bad, but I can't count the number of times I saw coaches or parents nearly come to blows while the kids just sat and watched. And some of the coached readily encouraged some really nasty playing, too. it was sad.

Nate
 
Originally posted by: NTB
Originally posted by: Nitemare
ROFL, I'm going to hell on the short bus for sure...
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The story wasn't funny, but that made me laugh 🙂

As for the OP: this just goes to prove a point - in little-league games it's not the kids you have to worry about, it's the parents. 🙁 My mom and dad volunteered at the local little league fields for a decade or more (my brother played from gradeschool through highschool) and I was down there helping quite a bit as well. I doubt that I ever saw anything this bad, but I can't count the number of times I saw coaches or parents nearly come to blows while the kids just sat and watched. And some of the coached readily encouraged some really nasty playing, too. it was sad.

Nate
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I know it wasn't funny, but I visualized the coach...

"Hey Tommy, I'll give you $25 to bean the slow kid"

Hope the kid is alright.
 
This is also why I will *never* coach my kids teams (if I ever get around to having kids, that is...). I'm not going to tell my pitcher to go out and bean the slow kid, but I can be a very competitive person - competitive to the point of not being very nice, to say the least. That's not what little-league is about though; especially at the younger ages, they're just there to have fun.

Nate
 
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