This one comes straight from the “Politically correct whiner” file. Yeah, for mediocrity at least that seems to be the rallying cry of the Canadian youth soccer league who announced that a new rule would go int0 effect. That rule is: If one team beats another team by more than 5 points the winning team will automatically lose by default.
This more stringent rule to coddle the easily butt hurt replaced the Gloucester Dragons Recreational Soccer league’s former five-point mercy rule which said any points scored beyond a five-point differential would not be counted.
But what do the players and their parents think about this? One player Kevin Cappon, 17, said “They should be saying anything is possible. If we can get five goals really fast, well, so can the other team.” But what about the parents? Well young Mr. Cappon’s father had this to say. “People grow in adversity… I think you’ll see more leadership skills being used if a losing team tries to recuperate than if they never got into that situation at all. Heaven forbid when these kids get into the real world. They won’t be prepared to deal with the competition out there.”
But isn’t thoroughly kicking the other team’s ass poor sportsmanship? Apparently so according to Club director Sean Cale who said that “the league is simply trying to make the game fair and that the new rule will eventually be replaced by a pre-season skill assessment to make fair teams.” Make teams fair? Oh good so if a kid is to good by your assessment he can’t play on the team he wants to? What kind of message is this sending. Sounds like, Hey kid try just hard enough so that you don’t hurt someone’s feelings and everyone can be mediocre at best.
Now it would be bad enough if it were just in Canada that this is happening, but no it is happening here too. The touchy feelly liberal simps have gotten their hands on New Haven Connecticut’s little league where they decided that a 9 year old was too good to play. That’s right “Too good to play”. The young man who has a fast ball that is around 40 mph (which is amazing for a 9 year old) was banned by the Youth Baseball League of New Haven who told his coach that the boy could not pitch any more. When, however, when the coach and let this young boy take the mound anyway the opposing team was so emotionally scared that it might have to play a better team that it forfeited the game, packed its gear and left.
Kind of brings new meaning to I am going to take my ball and go home because I am not even going to try. Because trying and failing are bad words to Liberal-types who prefer to force everyone to be the same and scorn those who work hard and practice. Oh, but wait! it gets better. Because of the coach’s obvious lack of compassion by letting this boy play the sport he loves. These idiots have decreed that they are disbanding the team and redistributing (liberals favorite word) the players to other teams.
Needless to say this hasn’t set well with the parents who have been protesting the decision. Oh yeah, they also fired the coach who I might add was a volunteer.
All I can say is really? Yeah, lets teach our children that no body can be better at anything than anybody else because that might just make them strive a little harder to be better at what ever the exercise is the next time. Guess what, life is not always a fair playing field and these kids need to learn these lessons now or they will be failures as adults. Because they are being taught that there is no reason to do your best because some nanny will make it all better so your poor little feelings don’t get hurt.
Until Next Time: STOP ALLOWING THEM TO DO THIS CRAP IT ONLY HURTS THE KIDS!
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