Intentionally walking ANY kid in a 9 year old recreational league might just be the bottom of the barrel in my book....to do it to get to a kid who is a Cancer Survivor and working his way back to a normal life makes it lower then the bottom of the barrel.

I read about this deal in Reilly's column in Sports Illustrated.

I would pull my kid off that team, PERIOD.

There ain't a single kid on the "winning" team that would have given a damn about losing once they were into their second batch of nachos and a Cherry ICEE.

I don't know what the hell happened to teaching kids to give it your best effort to win, and then if you don't, you congratulate the better team and go back to trying hard to win again.

While I agree that if it's not about winning and losing then why play the game......it's still important for a kid to learn to win AND lose (with your BEST effort).....that's why we have our kids play sports.

Fork that coach.

griffin