FoxNews- The father of the only girl player in a New Hampshire youth baseball league said he learned that two coaches talked about beaning his 11-year-old daughter in hopes to intimidate her so that she would stop playing, Fosters.com reported.
Dan Klein, the father, told the paper that he was alerted about the alleged conversation that took place during a draft meeting where players get assigned to a team. The coaches talked about drilling her in the head during practice, Klein said. He said he found out about the threat from two coaches who were at the draft meeting where his daughter was selected last. Durham police said they are determining if an investigation is warranted. Oyster River Youth Association officials said the organization is also investigating. Klein told the paper that his daughter played in the league since T-ball in 2012. Klein said he did not reach out to police and is not necessarily looking for any penalties for the coaches in question. “I hope that this sort of thing doesn’t happen again, and that kids will be protected from this sort of language and be safe,” he said. -------- And the answer to the question in the title is.....apparently not enough to be alone in that line of thinking. What's almost as crazy as grown men colluding to force one child to inflict pain on another child out of blind hope that the latter is merely one headache away from instead spending her free time inside the co-ed confines of a baking class is the fact that I merely found myself half-surprised while reading this story. Like, the psychotic lengths they maliciously planned on going to in an effort to rid their youth baseball league of a girl is pretty shocking, but the fact that they desperately wanted to do so seems pretty fitting of the type of lunatics that live and die coaching recreational sports. Of course, these particular lunatics took the insecurity that they've masked as a sex-based superiority complex to a whole new level by going through the initial stages of putting out a hit an 11 year old girl by taking the temperature of the room after suggesting it. Still, we pretty much let youth sports get to the point of no return in terms of "supervisors" making it about themselves so whatever happens from here on out is just a logically illogical regression. That much is made evident by the fact that there were TWO people that thought "you know, manipulating children and compromising their safety is probably the best way to maintain the integrity of our all-boys club". I just find it hilarious that two guys, who were so convinced that a girl couldn't hang, decided the best way to send that message to her was to test the Oyster River Youth Association's concussion protocol. It's not even just the end goal that's sickening, but rather the caveman-esque way they thought they could "achieve" it that I find insulting. As someone who was once one of the last men off the bench for a travel baseball team, I can promise you that a meritless jog to first is not how you show a kid that he or she doesn't belong. Hell, if this line of thinking existed when I was growing up I would have worn a wig under my hat, lightly stuffed a training bra, and kept a bottle of Advil in my back pocket while gladly leading the league in on-base percentage. You want to successfully be the Archie Bunker of Little League then have your prepubescent ace sling some 42.5 MPH gas straight down the middle that has Little Dottie Hinson's swing closer to making contact with the next pitch than the last pitch. I speak from experience when I say that being embarrassed at the plate is a hell of a lot more likely to emasculate someone into an early retirement than being beaned upside the head. Plus, seeing as it's no longer 1952, it would be nice if these two could keep up the illusion that they are respectable members of modern society by being a little less violent in forcing an underaged female to do what they want while making her think that it's her idea. That is, unless they are too scared she'll prove them wrong. Now, let's lighten the mood with a mildly relevant GIF...
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