"Losing pitcher"

"Buh... buh... buh... it's damaging to the child's self-esteem...."

 

Careful with the 'rulebook' excuse. What do you do when the parent gets the official scoring rules of the conference to eliminate the term? They'd do it, they really would.

 

Congrats to them. The national rules read this way...

 

Hey, if Tiger Woods can admit he's a loser on national TV, some damned softball pitcher can live with being called a loser, too.

 

I understand your concern, but this isn't the best advice to be giving the original poster. He regularly gets his belly tied up in knots over what this singular reader or that singular reader thinks. And nobody can afford that.

If you want to return every E-mail, go for it. But my point is you can't be looking over your shoulder every minute.

 

Maybe a nice anti-anxiety pill, such as Ativan, might work too.

 

Quote from the rulebook.

If she still bitches about it, drop a bag of dogshit on her front porch and light it on fire.

 

Amen.

I really wonder what these parents are trying to achieve by sheltering their kids so much. The real world doesn't give a damn about hurting your feelings (man I sound like a bitter old man).

Truthfully, the overwhelming majority of the high school athletes I have covered and interviewed were fantastic; the bitching and whining always comes from the adults who want Little Jimmy's name in the paper for the outfield assist he made in the sixth inning of a 13-1 shitfest. But when Little Jimmy makes a crucial error that costs his team the game, we best not write that because, you know, it will hurt his feelings and send him into a tailspin of depression. Sons of bitches.

 

Shot, if the e-mail went directly to me, I might agree with you. It was forwarded to me by the news editor. The reader thinks the news editor is my supervisor, regardless of whether she is or not. That means I have to deal with it.

 

FYP.

 

Lord, this isn't hard.

Short reply email, saying losing pitcher is a statistical reference, thanks for reading.

Ignore any other correspondence on this point.

 

What Zeke said.