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Barstool Sports wrote:Sports Illustrated columnist Rick Reilly, in his never-ending search for the most heart-wrenching sports stories, details a controversy over a PONY league baseball game in Utah. The controversy: Do you pitch to the team's best hitter or do you walk him and pitch to the kid with cancer?

Here's a quick summary of what happened: 10-year olds. Championship game between Yankees and Red Sox. Last inning. Sox down by 1 with two outs. Runner on 3rd. Yanks' coaches walk Sox's top hitter. Pitch to kid with cancer. Kid with cancer K's. Yanks win. Community explodes.

The Yankees' coaches swear that they didn't even know that the kid, Romney, had cancer and that what they did was just a smart baseball move. Many members of the community agree with the Yankees' coaches. Reilly, Romney's parents and other members of the community say that the coaches did know about Romney's condition and specifically picked on him.

I think it's safe to say that the Yankees' coaches take the game too seriously. Did they have their lefty specialist warming up if Romney got on base? It's a bunch of scrawny 10-year olds. It's not Game 7 of the World Series. Take a down a notch, fellas.

But at the same time, I'm not sure what these guys did is really all that terrible. If Romney just sucked, and didn't suck and have cancer, would anyone have even blinked when the coaches ordered the walk? Probably not. The coaches and players weren't heckling Romney. The Yankees' coaches treated Romney as I'm sure he wants to be treated- like every other kid.

And even though this is sure to become a bigger story, there is one person who doesn't seem to be dwelling on the game- Romney. "I'm going to work on my batting," he told his dad. "Then maybe someday I'll be the one they walk." That doesn't sound like a kid who's scarred for life.

Tim Whitehead wrote:I would have walked the slugger and then beaned the cancer kid to load the bases, making a force out at every base. That's just good baseball strategery.

KnoxVegas wrote:This sounds like a skit from Kids In The Hall.

sohotrightnow wrote:I think the most appaling thing is T. Scott Boatright's haircut.

KnoxVegas wrote:Tim- I will keep teeing them up and you continue to knock them out of the park!

BTW, I have a kid on my team who's last name is Lopez. "Lopez! Lopez!" It never gets old. Slipped my mind.