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Originally posted by berryberrygood:
I would like to see a policy that individual players not be mentioned by name. It's easy to write enough of a description so that anyone familiar with a program knows who you're talking about (eg, "the #1 lefty pitcher on Springdale High" or "the senior #4 hitter/1B on Springdale High") ...and if someone really wants/needs to know a name, they can always contact the poster directly.
A policy like this would really serve the kids a lot better in the end, and save some people from hurt feelings and possibly damaged reputations.
How very boring and uninformative that would be. I look to this board to provide game highlights, scores, etc. from local games at a greater depth than the local newspaper's coverage, and I look to this board to find out how the seasons are going for many, many players from across the state, in whom I have developed an interest after watching them play many, many games for many years but I may have no idea about their high school program. While I remember the high school homes of some of the players, if I was quizzed on their high school names, I would probably get less than 50% correct. I probably would not know their batting position on a high school team and I most certainly would not know their high school jersey number. Yet I still am very interested in their high school baseball careers. Can you imagine trying to figure out: "the senior LHP for ABC school" pitched a no hitter. What I am supposed to do? Go to that school's web site to see if there is a LHP on that roster (if the school even has a roster posted) that I might know and then if the school had 2 LHPs, I might not know whether the one I knew was the successful pitcher.
And I can't wait for the start of the college season to hear how some of the many players I have watched perform at that next level. Are you proposing to censor that reporting?
I think the intention of most posters is not to be malicious but to report facts and information. As far as players getting their feelings hurt, welcome to the real world. Maybe your next move can be to advocate the elimination of strikeouts so the players' feelings and psyches are not harmed.