I wanted to drop you an email inviting you to bust the Daily Times Nuts again. Last night a 9-10yr old little league lost a game to the West Salisbury little league.
The game was competitive for 3 innings and then in the 4th a couple of errors gave them a 10 run lead. They batted in the 4th and were retired 1,2,3. Game over due to the LL slaughter rule of 10 runs after 4 innings. No big deal it happens. They select the team they field from about 100 kids, we have 30. Again no big deal, and not complaining but obviously your best 13 out of 100 should beat the best 13 picked from 30. Again no big deal.
But to run a headline in the paper that says "West Salisbury Whips Willards" is a big deal. These are 9-10yr old kids!!!!! not professionals getting paid to take the press abuse! I think this is a sign that the Daily Times is by far the most classless group of people ever assembled to produce a paper.
"West Salisbury eases past/ beats/ defeats/ ect... Willards" would have been appropriate in this situation. I did place a phone call to the Slime Times to speak with the staff reporter that reported the story only to be told he was not available. His name is Shawn Nisson and yes I think he should be BLOGGED!
To top it off the picture on the website and the brief description under it are not accurate at all and anyone who knows baseball that a slide into home and a catch of a pop fly are not the same. Another example of them being completely incapable of producing anything that even closely resembles news.
GO HERE to see the Daily Times sloppy work.
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Agreed, inappropriate. Anyone who has coached kids, boys or girls that age knows how a headline like this hurts them. Bad choice of words. Try a more positive approach for both teams.
ReplyDeleteBoo-hoo. I say we don't keep score and let every game end in a tie, that way no one's feelings are hurt. At the end of the year, everyone receives a participation trophy and goes home feeling like a champ. Because of course as we all know, these kids won't experience any ups and down in their real lives. The biggest lessons taught in sports are life lessons. Some win, some lose. When you lose, there's a reason. However, when you lose you don't quit, you figure out why you lost, improve on those things that caused the setback so you can improve, and you try harder to win the next time.
ReplyDeleteParents that whine about stuff like this are the same parents that scream at the manager because their baby isn't playing enough, or yelling at the umpire for calling their little angel out.
Quit your damn belly aching, thats whats wrong with this country dont hurt anyones feelings. How the hell else are you supposed to grow up and be strong if your babied through your life.
ReplyDelete9:22 Must be a West Side Parent
ReplyDeleteAnon 9:22 You are very wrong about this. I know the manager and coach of this team that lost and they are by no means pamper fluffers! They demand that the kids on the team play their butts off and when they play well they praise them and when they lose they tell them why and what they did to earn the loss. But for a newspaper to state that any age kid got "Whipped" in a game is classless and shows how ignorant people can be. I strongly beleive there are winners and there are losers but never in my yrs of coaching youth teams have i ever felt that a kid needed to be told they were whipped or that they had given a whipping. Just pure lack of Class by a Classless news source.
ReplyDeleteI was appalled by this yesterday too! Who does that to kids? Maybe they should post this article..."Joe Albero WHIPS the Daily Times ass, for failing to properly report the news and possessing an overall ability to suck at life." How does that feel?!?! Times, you need to get a clue, restaff, lose the bias, and report EVERYTHING!
ReplyDeleteYOU'VE BEEN BLOGGED!
Anon 9:22,
Its not about winning or losing-you simply don't publically rag on kids like that! I actually prefer my kid to lose now and then because you can learn more from a loss than a win, but this kind of banter is not warranted!
9:22, 9:35, the kids obviously lost, no reason to rub their nose in it that way. Kids play sports to develop self esteem, confidence and sportsmanship. Seems to me you both could use some of that.
ReplyDeleteOh come on!
ReplyDeleteTHIS is another area where parents have failed our youth!
Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose! Get over it! Deal with it and practice harder to be better next time! THAT is how I grew up!
As far as trying to shelter these kids, I'll bet if the losing team had won in the same way, there would be those who would be saying "We whipped their butts", or even worse.
STOP pampering your children like a WORD is going to kill them!
Toughen them up!
Remember sticks and stones???
I am NO fan of the Daily Times, but I am NO fan of this person who sent in the post either!
Kids today for the most part are lazy, inconsiderate, rude, weak and just downright losers. It scares me to look around and think "this is the future of our country"!
Instances like this are part of why the youth is like they are!
Anon 9:22 you don't know what you're talking about.
ReplyDeleteMAny of those kids will play in high school and when they do they will have to deal with ups and downs and the press! And they will be old enough to handle it.
But at 9 or 10 years old a child is going to have his feelings hurt by a headline like that. He won't be able to recognize it for what it is (really bad journalism). He may find it daunting and discouraging.
I think in the long run it is not that big of a deal but you MUST admit it is irresponsible journalism! The person who wrote it is clearly some kind of idiot or defunct, and a 3rd rate writer.
God where does the Daily Times get these people?
9:22 Here. 9:36, My kids are grown and never lived in this area when young. I have coached and managed on the little league and high school level in the Baltimore area. 9:39, I said nothing about what the managers do or don't do, just the whiney parents. The whiney parents are the major reason I won't coach any longer. 9:40, with the slaughter rule (gee, you think they might want to change the name of that rule to something more kindler and gentler? That word slaughter might damage one of those kid's psyches.) called, I think the word whipped is a pretty good descriptor. Or maybe the name of the rule used to end the game should have been invoked in the headline: "Willards slaughtered by West Salisbury"
ReplyDeletePeople, get a life. If any of the boys even read the paper, and if they do they fold under some perceived pressure of that headline, I suggest they take up dancing instead of baseball.
Every year this comes up about All-Stars and in my opinion there should be no All-Stars until you reach 12 years old. The same can be said about the kids from Willards that didn't make the All-Stars. How do you think they feel,
ReplyDeleteout of 30 kids only 11 or 12 make the All-Stars. There are LESSONS to be learned from both winning and losing.
From a person who managed Basball
from the Tom Brown league thru American Legion.
I can tell you the kids from Willards will take this to heart and if you want them to learn a lesson from the newspaper article they will. That the daily times should be called the Salisbury times because they are biased. No my kid is not on that team.
ReplyDeleteI don't see where the original poster was talking about pampering kids or even trying to shelter them, just bringing to light another example of tasteless and biased reporting by the soon to be out of business Tilghman(oops) Daily Times
ReplyDelete9:22 Boy you are stupid. It's called the Mercy Rule and used for the appropriate purpose.
ReplyDeleteI guess since you are from Baltimore the slaughter rule would be more appropriate.
I also guess that at 9-10 years old, you pushed those tough kids around huh?
I think somebody needs a hug. Do you really think kids read that worthless paper? Heck, adults don't read it. A whipping is a whipping, and those kids know it. I am sure that they all slept soundly afterwards.
ReplyDeleteIn many cases All*Stars are about the parents and not the kids, exactly why there are All*Stars at every age group. How many 9 or 10 year olds would even read the paper if it were not from the parents.
ReplyDelete11:27 Exactly. The kids aren't upset by the article, in fact most wouldn't even know it's there. It's simply a few overprotective parents that are afraid their little Johnny's feelings will be hurt because the mean old newspaper said another team whipped their team. Like the one poster said, maybe they should have used "slaughtered" or "beat." Wait, aren't beat and whipped about the same?
ReplyDeleteGet over it! I had three boys in ball and they are now in their 20s and 30s and show no ill effects from sport headlines. They had their winning years and their losing years. The headlines remain the same now as they did then. Nobody really paid much attention to them EXCEPT the parents. Kids are going to have to learn to deal with things like this. It's call life.
ReplyDeletefor the number of times your wrote "no big deal" in your post, you sure are making a big deal out of something that is not. saying they were whipped is not bad at all. i know if my 9 year old was on that team and heard that word, she would have been fine with it. kids that age know when they have won or lost something. i dont think that one particular word will make it any worse. guess youre one of those parents that want to give every kid on every team a trophy for just being there. that just encourages them to not try harder or improve ever because theres no need to. let me guess....you drive a car that still has the obama/biden sticker on it too?
ReplyDeleteDelmar played West Salisbury and Willards in the 7-8 year old tournament. West beat us 1-0. Willards beat us 6-4. We beat willards in the second game. Willards was harder than West Salisbury that day. They are a good bunch of ball players in Willards. As good as any other team in the area. All teams at these age levels win as much as they lose. There young kids. At this point it is a learning process and should not be written about this manner. Not to mention all the parents get along with each other. No one wants to hear there team cloberd another team at this age.
ReplyDeletesince when does a 9 year old sit down to read the paper
ReplyDeletewhat a bunch of baby's, They did get Whipped, so that's life and move on...to bash the daily times for your son's team losing is just wrong.West Salisbury did whip willards a$$ and even the slaughter rule went into effect..go you guys are just cry babies...lets live in a fluffy world were nobody gets shot, murdered, mugged etc Stop blaming the DT for everything you don't like..get a LIFE
ReplyDeleteBut they did get whipped. I really don't understand why they stop games. They should continue until the end. If you get beat 100 to 1, Life sucks but it happens to the best of us. Just another lesson learned in life.
ReplyDelete11:22 Actually dingleberry, the person that submitted the story used the word "slaughter" in the story, I simply echoed it. Since I'm guessing the person that wrote the story is a parent of one of the boys on the Willard team, maybe you should address your concern and indignation over the use of the term "slaughter" to him/her. Oh, and I wouldn't be pointing fingers to the west, seems da shore has its own little problem with serious crime to be worried about.
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