Kids today are wicked soft. There’s quite a bit of fun buried in that comment. Here’s why:
The Lowell Spinners (short season; NY-Penn League) are bringing back the Yankees Elimination Promotion for a fifth year, as the Red Sox affiliate works to eliminate New York Yankees teams from youth baseball programs throughout New England.
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“The Yankees Elimination Promotion was originally built as a fun promotion in response to parent’s stories of children losing interest in the game after facing taunts simply for playing in a Yankees uniform,” said Spinners Vice President and General Manager Tim Bawmann. “Five years later teams are still eliminating the Yankees and the joy on the faces of the newly minted Spinners players on the field at LeLacheur Park reminds us why we love this game.”
Only in New England is this an issue. Booo-hooo.
So much teaching kids that life’s not fair, people are mean and that the Yankees suck. Go Spinners.
(thanks to Pete Toms for the heads up)
I was on the flip side of this. Growing up in CT on the border of the Yankee-Red Sox territory war, it was an absolute given that there would be the Yankees and Red Sox (and Mets) in the league every season. One year I had the misfortune of being on the Red Sox. I was not pleased. Thankfully, that was one of the seasons in which the league didn't spring for officially licensed caps and shirts, so at least I never wore a Red Sox unifrom.
One fanbase in the Rivalry thinks about their next championship and how to get there, while the other obsesses over new and interesting ways to express how much the opposing team sucks. It's just mind-boggling.
I'm pretty sure I played on a Red Sox team in my CT little league..We would beat the tar out of the Yankees team. As long as I went home and the opposite was happening on TV, life was good.