re: Pu$$ificaiton of America or not: T-Ball Everyone hits, no outs

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So I submit to the venerable OT: is letting kids at that age play without outs the pussifiaiton of America?

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Terrible. My boy is seven. He's machine pitch. They play regular regulation rules. Three strikes = an out, three outs and their half of the inning is done.

His team won two trophies because they won the regular season championship and the end of season tournament championship. No other teams got trophies.

Kids need to know that fun is great, but the best way to have fun is to win. They also need to know that winning leads to greater rewards.

Kind of a rant here to the OT parents....work with your kids and don't depend on the coaches to do the work.

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a kid caught one and how cool it was to see kids progress and everyone cheered (both sides). He asked if the batter was out and sent to the dugout. I said no because there are no outs or runs and at that age, the biggest thing is trying to hammer home fundamentals. The more reps (at bats, balls fielded, bases ran), the better. His response was “pfft, that’s the pussification of America, he should be taught what it feels like to be out and fail”.

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Story reads like a 4 year old dropped the line "pussification of America"

Dude, buy your kid some lawn darts and Make America Great Again

They aren't even old enough to really understand the rules of the game or things like being out or losing. To them it would just feel like arbitrary punishment. They are just out there playing and not really competing. Kids that age just don't seem to play with that kind of structure, from my experience. You can't force young children who are barely older than babies and toddlers to understand concepts they aren't ready for.

That said I don't know what age the cutoff is. I remember it being kind of a gradual thing when I played little league. Maybe they were "real" games when I was about 7 or so, but things still worked up to be more like a real game until I was 12 or 13. Like we didn't pitch or anything when I was 7, but we kept score and did all that.

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Agree. All you're doing for 4&5 year olds is introducing them to the most basic concept of baseball. They can learn about outs and losing later when they've matured a bit.

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Couldn't agree more. They're fricking FOUR YEARS OLD. Let them have fun and teach them the rest of the rules when they're 7.

When I played t ball we had outs. You hit you run bases all that jazz. If you got out you still ran bases. At 3 outs the bases would be cleared. Everyone batted. It was something like that.

You sound like a f@g! Your kids will be fine no matter what. Your kids are probably harder than you. Btw thanks for taking my name

PoochieJr calling out Poochie.

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say miraculously because typically they’re getting hit in the face or all piling on top of each other for a ground ball.

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I don't know why but this has me cracking up