Saturday, May 12, 2012

BASEBALL TEAM REFUSES TO PLAY STATE CHAMPIONSHIP AGAINST TEAM WITH GIRL


The Our Lady of Sorrows baseball team in Phoenix, Arizona, has refused to enter into the Arizona State baseball championship game with the Mesa Arizona Preparatory Academy because the Mesa team has a girl starting at second base.  Our Lady of Sorrows decided that playing the game would violate the school's mission to teach boys and girls separately. 

Of course, you have to wonder if the Sorrows team did not know that girls could play in the league in the first place.  If they could, then the Sorrows team had the option not to participate.  The fact that they did participate in the whole season would indicate to me that they agreed to the rules of the league.  If they reached the championship game and were faced with the Academy team that had  a girl on it, and then elected to refuse to play the championship game, what they are saying to me is that they wanted to force their own standards against the league in which they participated. 

It was kind of like an attempt at blackmail: either the Academy drops the girl from the game roster, or we won’t play.  The girl, in the interest of the spirit of the game of baseball, had agreed to sit out two previous games against the same team; but, since she worked so hard to help her team reach the championship game, she decided not to sit that game out. 

Now, folks are trying to transfer blame to her for the Sorrows team not paying the championship game.  Her team is upset because they win by default as a result of forfeit; they wanted to win for real.  The other team is upset because she wanted to play the championship game in a league that allowed female players. 

What a sad commentary to have to write in a day and age when the country has a President who chooses to sanction gay marriage. 

That’s MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.  


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