Taking crazy Little League parents one step further, a woman in Staten Island, NY is taking legal action against her now 15-year old son's Little League coach for not teaching him how to slide into second during a game 3 years ago. The suit claims the fateful slide caused, "serious bodily injury" that required multiple surgeries and caused "permanent scarring and disability."
The Little League contends that they are a safe playing environment, even taking time to point out that they installed foam bases to lessen the risk of injury. Which brings up the following questions...
1.) How big of a sissy is this kid if he caused himself "serious bodily injury, permament scarring and disability" by sliding into a base made of foam in a Little League game?
2.) This kid is now 15, and as such is in high school. How much does he get beaten up at school now?
3.) The average 12-year old is more or less in 6th or 7th grade. He hadn't learned to slide by then? I may have royally sucked at baseball when I was in Little League, a deficiency that continues to this day. All the baseball talent in my family admittedly was pooled into
one kid. But even when I managed to luck myself into a walk or get hit by a pitch and actually BECAME a baserunner I knew how to slide without ending up in a hospital.
4.) What kind of legal precedent will this set? Can we now sue our favorite teams' coaches and management for gross negligence, and
emotional trauma?
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1 comments:
1. You probably did not have proper sliding technique and were just lucky not to get hurt.
2. That doesn't make him a pussy, just unlucky. Wasn't it Roberto Alomar that once made the DL for tripping on the dugout steps? And I think Kevin Mitchell once got hurt eating a chicken wing or something.
3. It's actually quite important for a coach to teach his players proper sliding technique if he's going to allow/encourage his players to slide.
A lawsuit for something like this may be a tad extreme, but if, say, a coach was encouraging his little league pitcher to throw curveballs, and it screwed up his arm bad, I think that coach should face some penalty.
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