Not much of note today, but the latest Rick Reilly column at Sports Illustrated (as mentioned here by MJD) has me all kinds of backwards.

Brief rundown… Little League baseball team is up a run with a guy on third in the championship game of a league that limits scoring and encourages total participation. Man on third, and the losing team’s best hitter is at the plate, with a kid with all kinds of health issues, including a life-long battle with cancer, and can hardly swing the bat is on deck. The big hitter gets intentionally walked, the next kid strikes out, game over.

Now, about 10% of me realizes this is the smart baseball play, and if the kid on deck was perfectly healthy and was a bad hitter, it probably wouldn’t get any notice. But, if you read the Reilly piece, you know that’s not the case. The coaches knew what was up, did it anyway and then lied that they didn’t know he was sick, even dropping the line, “He’s not even retarded.”

That right there pushes this from “over-competitive baseball strategy” to “super dick move by a couple of douchebags” in my book.

I’ll make sure they get what’s coming to them in each level of Hell when I see them there some day.