{"id":771,"date":"2006-08-10T23:59:45","date_gmt":"2006-08-11T03:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/?p=771"},"modified":"2006-08-10T23:59:45","modified_gmt":"2006-08-11T03:59:45","slug":"walk-him-and-pitch-to-the-rhinoceros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/?p=771","title":{"rendered":"Walk him and pitch to the rhinoceros!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not much of note today, but the latest Rick Reilly column at Sports Illustrated (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.themightymjd.com\/2006\/08\/10\/moral-turpitude-in-the-little-leagues\/\">as mentioned here by MJD<\/a>) has me all kinds of backwards.<\/p>\n<p>Brief rundown&#8230; 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&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;t get any notice. But, if you read the Reilly piece, you know that&#8217;s not the case. The coaches knew what was up, did it anyway and then lied that they didn&#8217;t know he was sick, even dropping the line, &#8220;He&#8217;s not even retarded.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That right there pushes this from &#8220;over-competitive baseball strategy&#8221; to &#8220;super dick move by a couple of douchebags&#8221; in my book. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll make sure they get what&#8217;s coming to them in each level of Hell when I see them there some day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8230; 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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/?p=771\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Walk him and pitch to the rhinoceros!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}