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Baseball stands ordered torn down for being better than softball's

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by DeskMonkey1, Mar 29, 2014.

  1. Baron Scicluna

    Baron Scicluna Well-Known Member

    It's not about the school spending the money, it's about the school accepting the donation and having the unequal facilities on its property. That's where they get caught.

    What the school needed to do is either build a softball stand similar to the baseball stand or refuse the baseball parents' donation. Or, split the donation in half.
     
  2. Shoeless Joe

    Shoeless Joe Active Member

    Ahhhh, the good ole American way ... one group goes to work and earns something nice for itself while the other group whines until the government takes half and gives it to them.
     
  3. expendable

    expendable Well-Known Member

    So, we can now say that softball is girls baseball?
     
  4. RonClements

    RonClements Well-Known Member

    The guy down the street has a better house than we do. He should have to tear it down to make his home equal to ours.
     
  5. JayFarrar

    JayFarrar Well-Known Member

    I need to read bob cook on this as I suspect there's much more to the story.

    Anyway, if Title IX is really the reason, then it will set off a shit storm of issues around the country.

    First, if it was private money, the Feds saying how it can be spent is a stink bomb of epic proportions.

    Second, equal opportunities isn't the same as equal facilities. Many college basketball teams have one facility for men and another for women.
     
  6. Armchair_QB

    Armchair_QB Well-Known Member

    The only reason this is a Title IX violation is because the fucking judge in this case is a complete fucking idiot and should be disbarred immediately.

    Title IX - as far as sports are concerned - is about providing access to opportunity, not access to equal facilities for two different sports.

    The only time facilities should come into play would be in like sports - such as swimming, basketball or tennis and even then it's a stretch.

    Baseball is not fucking softball. Softball is not baseball. The sports are not the same, the facilities needed for them are not the same.

    And bleachers have nothing to do with opportunity. Shit like this is just infuriating.
     
  7. old_tony

    old_tony Well-Known Member

    This single-digit-IQ judge is next going to rule that since there's a 3,000-seat football stadium, there also needs to be bleacher seating for 3,000 at the cross country course.
     
  8. ColdCat

    ColdCat Well-Known Member

    since one of them once declared that girls playing basketball in the fall was unequal, I'd say Michigan judges take a pretty wide interpretation of Title IX.
     
  9. jr/shotglass

    jr/shotglass Well-Known Member

    3,893 comments to the original Yahoo! story. It's stirred up more than just us.
     
  10. 3_Octave_Fart

    3_Octave_Fart Well-Known Member

    Fuck softball.
     
  11. Armchair_QB

    Armchair_QB Well-Known Member

    Actually, there's nothing wrong with softball.

    But these parents need to be beaten into a coma.
     
  12. ColdCat

    ColdCat Well-Known Member

    is there and good reason girls just can't play baseball? that would solve the separate facilities issue right there
     
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