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Nine-Year Old Jericho Scott Too Good For Little League

8/26/2008 11:54 AM ET By Tom Fornelli

    • Tom Fornelli
    • Tom Fornelli is an MLB Blogger for FanHouse
I remember when I was a little kid first starting to play Little League baseball. In the town I played in, the league for seven and eight year olds was called the "pioneer league", and I was a superstar just based on the fact my dad threw my pitches to me overhand. The fact I was already about 5'2 and towering over all the other kids in the league didn't hurt either.

Yet, even though I had a size advantage over all the other kids in the league, there was never any call from parents to have me removed from the team. You see, this was a different time called the 80's in which people in America actually thought that competition for their children was a good thing. Not these days, though. Shortly after I left the pioneer league and moved on to the minor league, I found out that they stopped keeping score in pioneer league games.

You know, because they didn't want anybody to lose. This made me mad as an 11 year old kid, and it's the kind of thinking that still makes me mad to this day. Now the whole "everybody's a winner" philosophy has taken the only logical next step, as nine-year old Jericho Scott has been banned from his Connecticut little league for being too good. Seriously.
The right-hander has a fastball that tops out at about 40 mph. He throws so hard that the Youth Baseball League of New Haven told his coach that the boy could not pitch any more. When Jericho took the mound anyway last week, the opposing team forfeited the game, packed its gear and left, his coach said.

Officials for the three-year-old league, which has eight teams and about 100 players, said they will disband Jericho's team, redistributing its players among other squads, and offered to refund $50 sign-up fees to anyone who asks for it. They say Jericho's coach, Wilfred Vidro, has resigned.
What a bunch of crap. Is this really what things have come to? Maybe we should just keep our kids locked up in their rooms (which of course will all be safety coated with foam rubber so little Johnny doesn't hurt himself) until they're 18.

What the hell is happening to this country? The people who made this decision to deny a nine-year old kid the chance to play baseball should be ashamed of themselves. God forbid your son strikes out a couple of times, how will he ever recover from the embarrassment?

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