But league President Eric Forsythe defended Downs as a good coach, and said the autistic boy wasn't badly hurt, even though he was sidelined after being struck in the ear.
"There wasn't a bruise, there wasn't a bump," Forsythe told the Daily News. "There wasn't nothing."
EXCUSE ME??? It's ok to bean the autistic kid in the head to keep him from playing, because he wasn't -badly- hurt? Uh...holy Christ! Got empathy? Anyone? Not to mention the complete lack of ethics that would provoke someone to teach an 8 year old that this kind of thing was ok by buying him off this way. Making him into a Little League hitman. OMFG!! Methinks that the rotten in this league goes all the way to the top.
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Date: 2005-07-16 05:17 pm (UTC)"There wasn't a bruise, there wasn't a bump," Forsythe told the Daily News. "There wasn't nothing."
EXCUSE ME??? It's ok to bean the autistic kid in the head to keep him from playing, because he wasn't -badly- hurt? Uh...holy Christ! Got empathy? Anyone? Not to mention the complete lack of ethics that would provoke someone to teach an 8 year old that this kind of thing was ok by buying him off this way. Making him into a Little League hitman. OMFG!! Methinks that the rotten in this league goes all the way to the top.