A Staten Island mom is blaming her son's injury during a Little League game on a bum

Oh.. bum education. You had me worried there for a moment.

The poor kid was a victim of circumstance, but not a victim of the league. When I was that age playing Pony baseball my coach was always on my back because I wasn't sliding properly. Thankfully I was never injured while sliding, but was it my coaches fault that I didn't do it right? No.

I'm kind of interested in what his injuries were and how it all happened. It sounds like some sort of freak injury.

I broke my ego once when I slid in to 3rd - text book slide....but about two feet short of the bag. Friends gave me a hard time on that one for a couple of years and I still live with the pain...do I have a legal case here

I hope 500 HSBBW members line up to protest at the front door of that slimey lawyers' office, slip and fall on a patch of ice, and sue his a** in a class-action suit.

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Originally posted by catcher09:
I broke my ego once when I slid in to 3rd - text book slide....but about two feet short of the bag. Friends gave me a hard time on that one for a couple of years and I still live with the pain...do I have a legal case here?

Do you have a legal case catcher09? Nope! Totally baseless...you missed it by a couple of feet!

Perhaps it is time to bring back sliding pits for sliding instruction

Maybe if the kids mom had of bought him some sliding
pants he wouldnt of slid in so direct trying to
avoid the ol cherry. COUNTERSUIT! hehe

Another stupid lawsuit - soon kids will be banned from sliding into base!

Wondering if anyone else saw the recent interview with Jim Bouton, just ripping Little League and other youth sports groups for raising a "generation of hot house plants" with respect to how kids and the game are treated these days.

Lawsuits like this are now everywhere, they are becoming countless..one suit against an ump for not calling the game fast enough as darkness approached, one by a coach hit by a bullpen wild pitch, etc. etc. etc.

And the youth sport rules. In many leagues, until the higher divisions no one is called out so they won't be "traumatized". No "negative" chatter is allowed (say my screen name at a game now and you're tossed). Little League now has countless "allstar" divisions so no one has their little feelings hurt and everyone is now an allstar and if you don't get selected, bound to be a lawsuit over that

What a dope.If the sensible people don't stand up the "loonys"will eventually kill off baseball.All parents wake up and smell the jelly beans!

I remember hearing a few years ago a parent sued a coach when a kid got hit in the head trying to catch a fly ball. The reason? He was not properly instructed on how to catch the ball. Then they wonder why coaches leave.

Here is another example of the madness. I was talking to a parent who was a volunteer umpire in his sons league. He told me that when a kid struck out they were instructed to say strike three your time at bat is over. when asked why he said they did not want to say out as it might upset the kids. I looked at him and asked if he was joking. he said no

Offensive Baseball Terms
Stricken Terminology in 2008

Walk-----------Offensive to Handicapped-Americans
Hit------------Offensive to Sicilian-Americans.
Score----------Offensive to Virgin-Americans
Run------------Offensive to Bladder Control Problem-
--Americans
Home Run-------Offensive to Homeless Americans
Double Switch--Offensive to Wife-Swapping Americans
Foul-----------Offensive to Smelly Americans
Mound----------Offensive to Dead Americans
Ten-Run Rule---Offensive to Really Bad Ballplaying
--Americans

Recomendation for 2009 Rules: Each coach posts a
$2,000,000 bond to defend against spurious lawsuits, and take a 3-hour s****r-sensitivity training class.

Speaking for the BCPA Society I would like to go on record as letting you know that we find the term run to be not offensive at all.

In fact run, as in run to the nearest latrine, is the primary defense that we have to protect ourselves against this urgent scourge.

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Now if you happen to have 'urgency' concerns in another region...well have I got the footware for you!...

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Originally posted by gotwood4sale:
Speaking for the BCPA Society I would like to go on record as letting you know that we find the term run to be not offensive at all.

...Now if you happen to have 'urgency' concerns in another region...well have I got the footware for you!...

Hmmmm. Maybe I can retire these..

Oh I definitely would retire those!

The Napoleon look leaves something to be desired!

Gotwood, when dealing with you this may be a necessary footware as it tends to get deep at times.

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Gotwood, when dealing with you this may be a necessary footware as it tends to get deep at times.

...or maybe this...

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