I want to know what you would do.
This afternoon, my sons baseball team's opponent had a player
with a medical condition which limited his ability to focus. I'm not sure of
his exact condition (we were informed by another family in the stands). He
played right field, most of the time not paying attention to the game, his
focus instead being directed to something over the right field fence, his back
facing the action. The only time a ball was hit to him, he didn't seem to
realize the ball was near him until after it had rolled past him.
This is not about whether or not he should have been playing
baseball. I think his inclusion is commendable, a life lesson for us all.
My son's team didn't try to hit to right field, and his coaches
didn't tell them to do so either.
You are playing in a competitive league, where wins and loses
matter, and the teams on the field are the teams on the field. If you were the
coach for a team playing against his, would you tell your players to try to hit
to right field? Would you look down on a coach who told his players to do so? Is it fair to the kids on your team to tell them to avoid hitting it to right
field? What if you said nothing and your team just naturally started to
hit it out to right? When you know some people would be extremely
critical of you, implying your team is intentionally trying to hit it to him, what would you tell to your team to do then?
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