re: Little league catcher lays out base runner

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I'd probably gasp if I saw 10 year old kid get drilled into the ground.

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I drew some odd looks from parents for my diametric responses over the years.

When my kid was playing youth soccer at a very young age, the goalie on the opposite team took a nice kick flush in the face and fell down crying. All the kids on both sides rushed to that kid to see if he was OK. Except for my kid who took the ball and put it into the open net. My joyful exclamations were not appropriate for the moment.

Then when he was in the HS football pipeline on the 8th grade team playing CB, he got blind-side crack-backed and he went down and stayed down. I was taping the game for the coach at the time. I kept taping. I figured if he wasn't OK, they'd ask me to come down. (P.S. He was fine, just got a stinger. Didn't play anymore that day.)