Little League Cancels All-Star Game To Spare Children's Feelings

It isn’t just character used in sports either. Knowing what if feels like to fail, and how hard it is to be successful, is what lights the fire in the stomachs of kids and teens wanting to be great in all walks of life. 

You can’t experience joy without knowing what sadness feels like. You can’t fully experience what it’s like to be wealthy until you know what it’s like to be poor. You can’t understand the delight and accomplishment that comes with being successful unless you’ve failed. 

Character building is something that has held true in America for as long as we’ve been here. It is one of the things we pride ourselves on. We fall down, but we make sure we get up and learn from what we’ve done.

What does it say about this new wave of parents who are afraid to scold their kids and afraid to even have something as small as a Little League All-Star team? 

I heard about this new fad of everyone getting medals and trophies, even if they came in last place. When I was a kid, which is not too long ago considering I’m 24, there was a First, Second, and Third-place trophy.

You either finish top three or you finish a loser. I finished a loser before, and it burned me inside until I got to first. I got there eventually, and there was not a better feeling in the world. 

Without going on too much of a rant, let me close by saying this.

This is a very, very disturbing trend in the world of sports. You have to realize that Michael Jordan fell in love with basketball after he got cut in high school and then finally made the team. Countless other athletes dealt with rejection before they pushed themselves to become All Pros.

If we start taking away the incentive of winning from our younger generation now, what kind of athletes will we have in 2020 and beyond? 

Remember how outraged fans were when Randy Moss said he doesn’t try on every play? Imagine a world where a much larger percentage of athletes stop trying on each play, stop trying to get better each season, and stop caring about who’s first and who’s fifth. 

I hope that I never see that day. 

Now proceed to vomit. 

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