T-ball coach placed bounty on mentally disabled player

[Glaz]

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2005/baseball/more/07/28/coach.player.ap/index.html?cnn=yes

Standing so he could be seen from the witness stand, a youth baseball player calmly told a courtroom how he beaned a mentally disabled teammate with a ball during warm-ups to knock the boy out of the game.
Eight-year-old Keith Reese said that he hit teammate Harry Bowers because his coach offered him $25 to do so.

I know it sounds un-Christian, but I'd like to kick that coaches butt. And of course, the coach welched on paying the $25 too.

 

[Norseman]

Isn't abetting a crime punishable equivalently to the crime comitted (in this case assault and battery, I think)?

 

[HumbleMan]

When I first read about this, I was sick. The whole purpose of children's sports are for building teamwork and fellowship.

 

[MichaelFJF]

When I first read about this, I was sick. The whole purpose of children's sports are for building teamwork and fellowship.

Oh I think you're very mistaken. The whole point of children's sports is to provide a vehicle through which failed athletes can get a "do over" and succeed in something. At least half the coaches I've been involved with would rather duct tape a marginal player and stick him in the trunk than lose a game. Most of them were cut in HS or JVs at best. Children's sports are only there to let these guys reclaim their egos.

 

[Hope*In*Christ]

Somebody could offfer me a $1,000,000 and I still wouldn't do something like that. That is just mean.

 

[utdbear]

I wonder how many of us would laugh and/or be the first in line to bean the retarded kid for 25 bucks when we were 8 years old. I know I would have.

 

[Quantos]

Somebody could offfer me a $1,000,000 and I still wouldn't do something like that. That is just mean.

Well now it depends,

Are we offering 1Million to hit the Kid (No way I'd do that) or 1 Million to take out the "coach"......

 

[trunks2k]

Isn't abetting a crime punishable equivalently to the crime comitted (in this case assault and battery, I think)?

Yes, but it was a child that beaned the kid. Children don't get held to the same standards.

 

[rahma]

*shudders* I'm not looking forward to the day my (future) children want to play organized sports. I don't ever remember it being this cut throat. But then again, I was satisfied to play outfield, where I could stare at the sky for most of the game.

 

[JPPT1974]

That is indeed very sick! How heartless!

 

[Norseman]

Yes, but it was a child that beaned the kid. Children don't get held to the same standards.

But the coach was an adult.

 

[trunks2k]

But the coach was an adult.

Yeah, and the coach is the one being charged.

 

[Norseman]

Yeah, and the coach is the one being charged.

As he should be.

 

[the_cheat]

I wonder how many of us would laugh and/or be the first in line to bean the retarded kid for 25 bucks when we were 8 years old. I know I would have.

I wouldn't have. Ugh.

Regardless, the coach ISN'T eight years old.

 

[utdbear]

My post was made in the context that its easy to manipulate kids and to also beg the question why wasn't this seen before. The article states that this wasn't the first time.

 

[I'ddie4him]

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2005/baseball/more/07/28/coach.player.ap/index.html?cnn=yes




I know it sounds un-Christian, but I'd like to kick that coaches butt. And of course, the coach welched on paying the $25 too.

Maybe the kid pitching could have adjusted his aim and got the coach with a beanball or 2 and knocked some sense into him. Sounds like his head wasn't screwed on to tight.

 

[Rochir]

Sick!

 

[CarrieAg93]

My son is getting to the age where he can start playing sports. I just pray he gets good coaches. DH was not athletic and when he was on little league his coach told him to say he was sick so that he didn't have to play. The worst part of it to me was that DH's parents knew about it and did nothing. I'd be all over that coach.