If you played Little League baseball and still feel the sting from the time you were the pitcher and someone suggested you were more like a belly itcher, the youth baseball program in Cincinnati has a new rule you might like. The Cincinnati league, which includes 23,000 children and is celebrating its 75th season this year, has banned "chatter":"If you're saying, 'Swing, batter,' and this poor little kid is swinging at everything, he feels bad and maybe he turns to the catcher and gets mad. Honest to gosh, I didn't have any trouble doing this," (the league president said).
The first time a player or coach breaks this rule, it results in a warning. The second time it's a one-game suspension. One coach called the new rule "the most asinine thing I've heard in youth sports, and I've heard a lot."
I understand that point of view, but I don't really have a problem with this rule. These are kids, after all, and if the point of youth sports programs is for adults to teach kids about fair play, why not have those adults tell the kids to knock it off with the chatter? I'd love to see the next generation of baseball players learn to let their bats do the talking.
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