Doomsday;2891028 said:
That is ridicilous, hopefully it gets over turned on appeal. When you play sports you have to assume the risk of injuries in the natural flow of the game, which sliding into second obviously is.
There is no appeal, because the Little League settled out of court. That's tantamount to pleading "no contest", so it's over.
I coach Little Leage in our area, and even sponser the team. I've seen a couple/few injuries that easily are on par with this one. Just this last June, our pitcher (11 year old) got a shot directly back at him, cracked him in the left shin area and it got fractured. Last year, one of our better kids whose got braces took a line drive right in the kisser. His braces went through his lower lip. They had to do emergency stuff on his braces and he wore about eight stiches on his lip the rest of the season. Another kid mis-played a routine pop-up, and he wore a swollen shiner on his right eye socket for weeks.
And not ONE PARENT made a peep about "liability" or suing anyone. Because they're sane like 99.9 of other parents who let their kids play sports. It's part of the game. You let your kid play sports, and you never know when a kid's gonna' come home with some injure that needs attention.
Stuff happens in all sports, pee-wee all the way up the pros. This is the kind of stuff that scares the bejesus out of good, interested and volunteer-type's who decide to just not get involved.
I'm rambling on about this because it's of great interest to me, being a coach and on the LL Board in our area. We ALWAYS NEED more grown-ups to step up and help out. Be it an asst. coach, dug-out parent, umpires, etc..........it takes a little bit of effort to pull off a Little League season the right way. In our League, there's around 8-10 teams. That's a lot of kids who need grown-ups to run things. And every year, we see less and less adults interested in getting involved.
I think, and I've even heard a few rumors, that a reason for this is the litigeous nature of our society. Everyone is "sue happy". Especially when it comes to kids. A lot of folks are scared to death to be put in a position where some kid can accuse an adult of something, anything that would practically end that adults life in the community.
I myself......................I'll admit it...............I have two daughters, one 13 and the other is 9. My boy is 11. All three play soccer, which is just starting this past week. I refuse to get involved in any responsible way with coaching the girls teams or helping out at practice or during games. The reason why is because I had this buddy who coached the girls teams two years ago, and was falsly accused in a sexual way by a couple girls on the team he was the coach of.
It went round and round and round the soccer community and the area in general. Never made the papers, but everyone knew about it and everyone had an opinion about it. And alot of the opinions................I wouldn't wish what I heard from some folks on my worst enemy. Turned out that it was all, of course, totally false. Turned out that the one girls parents were rival's in business with this guy, and THEY were the straw that was stirring this nasty drink. It was probably at or near the LOWEST thing that any human being could do to another human being. And to use little girls to push your agenda, that was just gutter stuff.
Of course, he'll wear that Scarlet Letter on his chest for the rest of his life in some people's eyes. Once an accusation like THAT is made, your branded for life even if your total exhonorated.
Anyway, scared the hell out of me, and I'll NEVER coach ANYTHING with girls involved............NEVER!!!
