Reply With QuoteSo, where as Parents have we failed to teach our children how to handle "losing", holding our "tempers" in Check and handling things with grace rather than flying off the handle???
This is very sad!
From ESPN.com (http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/news/story?id=2037077)
Pitcher retaliated after being teased
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Associated Press
PALMDALE, Calif. -- A 13-year-old pitcher was accused of clubbing a teenage friend to death with a baseball bat, moments after the friend apparently teased him at a concession stand following his baseball team's first loss of the season.
The teen attacker, whose name was not released, was arrested Wednesday for investigation of murder and was being held at Antelope Valley Juvenile Hall as authorities prepared to take the case to prosecutors.
He is suspected of killing Jeremy Rourke, 15, after the Tuesday night Pony League game in this desert city about 40 miles northeast of Los Angeles.
The boys had no history of fighting, said Tony Trevino, coach of the Dodgers, which had just defeated the suspect's team, the Angels, when the clubbing took place.
"That's what's so shocking and so appalling," he said. "What happened? What did we miss as a community? What did we miss as parents?"
At the playing field Wednesday night, a family friend read a statement from Rourke's parents, who urged people not to demonize their son's attacker.
He "is not a monster. He's a good boy who made a bad mistake. This is a mistake that will haunt both families for the rest of our lives," the statement said.
The suspect was the starting pitcher when his team was beaten for the first time in eight games by the Dodgers, a team that went into the game with a 1-6 record.
Deputies declined to provide further details of the attack. It occurred during a regular weekday night game that attracts both children and their parents in this community of 116,000.
Ryan Gosporra, 15, said the incident began when Rourke cut in front of the suspect in the snack bar line. Neither he nor Trevino saw the attack that occurred after the last game of the night with about 40 people at the field.
But Trevino, 50, said witnesses told him the two boys teased each other before the suspect pulled a bat from his bag and hit Rourke in the knees, then the head.
After the attack, Trevino saw the suspect standing against a fence with his parents. "He looked scared. He was in shock," the coach said.
League officials said play would be suspended at the field for several days.
"We're really in a state of shock over this whole thing," league President Ken Curtis said. Rourke's father is a past president
Commentary: WTF is going on when this type of stuff happens at a baseball game!?!?!?!?! We never would have thought of doing this type of thing when I played little league all those years ago. We had the "winning isn't everything, it's the only thing mentality", but we still accpeted defeat, we didn't like it, but we certainly didn't beat the other teams pitcher to death!
So, where as Parents have we failed to teach our children how to handle "losing", holding our "tempers" in Check and handling things with grace rather than flying off the handle???
This is very sad!
The focking parents are so many of their children's games are shout, screaming, cursing and fighting in the stands these days that it was only time until this happened.
Unknown Family Issues Maybe. Somethin Had To Be Buggin The Kid For While And Maybe That Kid Just Pushed The Right Button. Scary Stuff Though Man That Sucks.
[QUOTE=Havasu_Dreamin]From ESPN.com (http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/news/story?id=2037077)
Pitcher retaliated after being teased
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League officials said play would be suspended at the field for several days.
Yeah, several days off the field and he'll be as good as new. WTF
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