Some things are just sad...

Last night we had to take poor Cameron off of the Red Dirt Boys tournament baseball team. Little league started about 3 weeks ago and from game one there has been drama. I have never witnessed such horrible sportsmanship in any sporting event, and the sad thing is that it isn't the kids it's the parents. Cameron's team won their first game and the coach of the other team took his kids out of the dugout and told them not to shake our team's hands. The coach of the other team is a dad to one of the kids on the traveling team. It is just unbelievable to me that adults act this way and that the kids are the ones that suffer because of their choices. When we talked to Cameron about our decision he was absolutely heartbroken. He loves the tournament team. We paid the expense of the travel, the tournament and Cam wouldn't get to play a whole lot, but he was enjoying it. We never complained one time about how little playing time he had. So to top it all off the same dad who has created the stress, teamed up with one of the mother's of another player and together (they are on the little league board together) they were going to protest the game that they lost and bend the rules and work their hardest to make Marty and our other coaches look bad. This lady has said some terrible things about Cameron and his abilities and importance to the traveling team. This mother is the wife of the coach. It is so sad. Anyway, we aren't willing to take the chance of having Cam's confidence and loyalty to something he loves so much be taken from him so we took him off of the team. I just wanted to share our sad story, not for sympathy, but to remind ourselves that winning isn't everything, and that these kids should be able to play together to build friendships with each other and memories to take with them the rest of their lives. It's too bad that ego's of coaches, moms and dads interfere with that. Anyway just wanted to share.