No. Next question.
That’s fine. Garfield226, I apologize for suggesting that you might not be telling the truth about having seen intentional walks used in your experiences with youth baseball.
This thread has taken up far too much of my time already. I restate my understanding that other people may not share my standards. Clearly I am in the minority here, and I’m okay with that. I hope it is not expected of me to modify my standards based on that fact, nor for me to refrain from expressing my opinion about other people’s behavior.
I regret my choice of some words, but in honesty, only to the degree that they were a distraction from any points I was trying to make. And I believe strongly that it is okay to call upon men to act in a gentlemanly fashion. It has no bearing on expectations for how women should behave, and I would hope that women would act in a fair and honorable manner at all times as well.
With that, I take my ball and go home.
Why not? It’s within the rules. It happens all the time. It could help your team win.
Carrying on any productive discussion among adults requires taking that all-important realization that different people can be informed, mean well, and have the same best interests at heart, but arrive at different conclusions. You take the method of assuming people don’t understand, aren’t informed, haven’t read what you’ve read, do not have honor, do not have high standards.
I assure you this: your standards are no higher than mine in sport, and are a good deal lower in debate.
Hentor, thank you. I don’t think anyone expects you to change your mind. In fact, it seems obvious you feel much stronger about this than most of us. If it helps, you made me see past what I thought was a cut and dry situation and understand why others would see what the coach did as wrong.
I still think the Mom is a grade ‘A’ pain in the butt, who did the biggest disservice to her son. The only shining light in this story remains the kid. He sounds like a great kid.
Jim
Well, suppose that there’s a strawman coaching the team that would do absolutely anything to win that was technically in the rules. That strawman would definitely encourage the catcher to antagonize the batters. You can beat that strawman in any debate, KRM. But I am not that strawman, nor is anyone else on this board.
This should be carved in granite and placed where all SDMB readers must read it.
Twice.
I’d bet the league has a written rule about unsportsman conduct that covers that. (Ours do.) It’s a foreseeable problem. Intentionally walking in baseball is even more foreseeable. If it’s outside the league’s goals there should be written rule against it.
Why bother? You’d just misunderstand it, you heartless, ignorant idiot! 
I know I’m jumping in late into this thread, but the OP reminds me so much about a game we had last year and the thread it inspired. It is worth the read…the OP in this thread could have been dramatically positive if this boy did what our boy did in our game and worthy of praise in the face of adversity…and he (Romney) wouldn’t have known unless he was given the opportunity to bat. That is how confidence is gained…is when you can be counted on by your team even through adversity…and his own team and parents didn’t help his own cause. That is the real shame here.