Nothing's ever gonna keep you down.

The story of 9-year old Jericho Scott being banned from his Connecticut little league for being better than the other kids makes me mad about a number of things I can articulate (adults who are supposed to be an example to kids packing up and going home because they're losing, talent being treated as a liability, children being lorded over by crybabies) and a number of things I cannot (graaaaaah).

Hopefully the story of Jericho (no, not that one) will keep spreading until the idiots who did this will truly be held accountable, someone else will be put in charge of the organization, and Scott will be able to pitch as much as he wants wherever he wants.

Seriously, what is [fornicating] wrong with you? Tonight's late-night Dugout is after the jump. For extra fun, click on the picture of that kid who is terrible at baseball (or here) for an off-site article about my childhood baseball experiences.

The Dugout

	StroudOfTurIn: All right, kid! I've got a slice of pizza and a Minute Maid juice box riding on this! Bring it on! /steps into batters box
	HBKHatesSleepingOnJerichoScott: /winds up
	HBKHatesSleepingOnJerichoScott: /throws 40 mph fastball (at age 9)
	StroudOfTurIn: AAAAAH /runs away /jumps into trashcan /puts lid onto trashcan
	LittleLeagueCoach: /drinks 0.0001 oz of water from cone cup /spits water all over the place WHAT THE
	LittleLeagueCoach: WHAT'S HE DOING OUT THERE SOMEBODY PUT A MUZZLE ON THAT CHILD
	HBKHatesSleepingOnJerichoScott: whats goin on
	LittleLeagueCoach: Son, what exactly do you think you're doing out there
	HBKHatesSleepingOnJerichoScott: playin' baseball
	LittleLeagueCoach: Not like that you're not! How dare you throw the ball so hard?
	HBKHatesSleepingOnJerichoScott: if i throw the ball really hard i can prolly strike out the other team so they dont score runs and my team can win
	LittleLeagueCoach: I don't know what combination of goof balls and "yu-gi-oh" raised you, but the point of Little League is not to play baseball!
	LittleLeagueCoach: we don't "keep score" here. We don't "win" "games." The Little Leagues are a place for parents to get all pissed off about what their child and feel like they're doing the child a favor by being so
	LittleLeagueCoach: These kids don't want to be here. These kids aren't "trying to win." Look at that kid in the trashcan!
	LittleLeagueCoach: Brandon is terrible at baseball. He stands with one leg bent at all times and dives like Cal Ripken for balls that're already in the outfield
	LittleLeagueCoach: He wants to be told he won whether he did or not and get his participation trophy! Everyone is a winner! Striking Brandon out will make him feel like a loser!
	LittleLeagueCoach: The only thing Brandon has to look forward to is 10 years of acne and a weight problem, the memory of striking out up to four times in a single little league game could kill him
	LittleLeagueCoach: do you want that blood on your hands, DO YOU
	HBKHatesSleepingOnJerichoScott: i don't know what i'm doin' wrong
	LittleLeagueCoach: BRANDON, THROW DOWN THE BUNT, WE'RE DOIN' THE OL' HANDICAPPER GENERAL PLAY
	HBKHatesSleepingOnJerichoScott: /looks at trashcan /stares
	HBKHatesSleepingOnJerichoScott: /puts ball on ground, rolls ball toward trashcan
	StroudOfTurIn: /remains forever pointlessly in trashcan
	Online Host Jericho's "pitch" has bumped into the trashcan. Online Host The trashcan has tipped over and is rolling down a hill. Online Host The trashcan has rolled into a Port-a-John containing the other 8 players on Brandon's team. Online Host Little League is now covered in [feces].
	LittleLeagueCoach: /picks up baseball this is mine, you can't play with it anymore
	LittleLeagueCoach: We hate you! Nobody wants you here! You can't play with us anymore!
	HBKHatesSleepingOnJerichoScott: am i still gonna get a hoos box
	LittleLeagueCoach: /bans Jericho Scott from the Little League chatroom
	LittleLeagueCoach: And get a shorter screen name! You're screen name is tl; dr!!!!
	Online Host Jericho has been kicked from the chatroom for being better than Brandon Stroud at baseball.
	Jericho: whimper :(
	Online Host A few days later in the Best There Is At What We Do Chatroom!
	InTheAIMOfTheFather: What about "My Left Foot?" Have you seen that?
	MichaelFishman: was it about swimming
	InTheAIMOfTheFather: "My Left Foot" tells the story of Christy Brown, a palsied lad who paints with his foot!
	TourDeLance: he's the milkshake guy. "I drink your milkshake!"
	MichaelFishman: grimace?
	PunjabForest: Hey Michael, Daniel Day-Lewis is the guy from Swimfan
	MichaelFishman: whaaaat lol man I hated you in that movie, I don't know why you had to be mean to the swimfan she was so much hotter than your girlfriend and was a total freak, and she probly wouldnt have started tryin to kill people if you'd just been nice to her once or twice
	Online Host Jericho has entered the chatroom.
	Jericho: do you mine if i hang out in here for a lil while they wont let me into the little league chatrooms anymore an i dont wanna chat about the jonas brothers
	TourDeLance: Sure, kid. What're you the best at?
	Jericho: im so good at little league that grown ups made everybody stop playin and disbanded the team
	TourDeLance: hahah oh snap
	PujolJunkie: i have had e'similar prolem
	Jericho: wow albert pujols your so good how did you get picked as the objective best in baseball tho alex rodriguez is prolly the...
	PujolJunkie: hold on for e'secon
	Online Host e5_rod has entered the chatroom! Online Host e5_rod has been kicked from the chatroom!
	TourDeLance: He keeps trying to get in, and even though he deserves to be here we keep knocking him out.
	Jericho: why?
	PunjabForest: because he is a total dick
	PujolJunkie: jericho, listen to me
	PujolJunkie: joo have been given e'gift, joo can throw e'ball harder at a younger age than anyone i have seen
	PujolJunkie: i am good at hitting e'homerons and for average and my slugging percentage is five digits, an i have struggled for everything i have gotten since i immigrated to this country thirteen year ago
	PujolJunkie: people want to bring me down, say i am e'secret old man, but after a while even the people who hate me have to admit that i am e'gray player
	PujolJunkie: joo are too much for the yokel mal-e'droits in the little league, but joor story will spread, joo will be loved and e'preciated
	PujolJunkie: just throw e'ball with joor heart an that super henry rowengartner arm will lead the way
	Jericho: thank you albert!
	TourDeLance: See, that's why Albert gets his spot in this chatroom. Alex Rodriguez would've just snapped his fingers at you.
	MichaelFishman: and you don't wanna know what he tried to do to me :'(
	PunjabForest: have you looked at your torso lately, that was your own damn fault
	Wolverine: hey bubs what's going on in this chatroom

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