OK I'll just be esoteric. I find ways other than being tough to get out of jams. Like the time I hid and cowered while some ruffians in the Far East were wanting to stomp me, or the time I broke away from some muggers and ran like heck in NYC at 3:00 AM. Tough guys get hurt. Esoteric lives to confound another day.
Poor sportsmanship
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If'n it were baseball, there would have been a brawl at home plate after the first incident. Next runner would be coming in hard with cleats up.
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Yep! Punching the other guy in the fist with your mouth isn't too smart!
I have to wonder if she was playing first base and leveling runners going through the bag, would she have been tossed? Would just as many have defended her actions?
Yeah, and to get back on topic, I commend the runners for not starting a fight with a big, athletic catcher wearing all sorts of protective gear. Hmm. They could start something, get pummeled and ejected, or walk away with a victory and all their teeth. Smart girls.
Weird what gets publicity. If the catcher were Caitlyn Jenner in a senior ladies softball game one would expect a lot of play. Some HS girls nobody's ever heard of, not so much.
In the context of a girls HS softball game I think the behavior is equally bizarre as anything we have seen from the first family of narcissism. Even people who do not follow softball are saying WTH?
The fact that it's a girl does make it more newsworthy.
Newsworthiness is not a judgment purely about how important something really is, but rather how interesting it is to the public at large. And to the masses, girls playing rough is more unusual (and thus newsworthy) than boys playing rough.
What should be 'fair' is the judgment we make on the player. Players should not be treated more harshly, or leniently, based on her gender.
Newsworthiness is not a judgment purely about how important something really is, but rather how interesting it is to the public at large. And to the masses, girls playing rough is more unusual (and thus newsworthy) than boys playing rough.
What should be 'fair' is the judgment we make on the player. Players should not be treated more harshly, or leniently, based on her gender.
The video showed up on my Google + account this morning. It was out of a Chicago station. So, the story lives on.
Hard to say. I tried to google a similar incident in baseball, but I could not find one video or picture. There are a ton of runners bowling over catchers though, and at the higher levels was legal until recently. I caught for 12 years and have played in my fair share of games. I've been trucked quite a few times but have never seen nor heard anything concerning a catcher doing what this young lady did. I'm not saying it never happened, just that I have never seen it nor heard about it. I've witnessed a first baseban hip-check a runner rounding first and that ended up in a brawl.
