So said the father of one of the girls in the White Bear Lake high school girls softball team after it got crushed 5-0 by the Champlin Park high school team in the Minnesota State Girls’ Softball Tournament.
The reason has to do with the Champlin Park pitcher, who has now pitched 21 consecutive shutout innings.
This was easily predicted a few days ago by another man who played softball for a decade and now has three daughters in the sport, as he analysed the stark numbers for batters facing Rothenberger; only 1 out of every 19 girls who faced him scored run.
The comment from the dad that titles this post is one of several gathered by the sport site Outkick – notably all off-the-record:
As one girl walked off the field, her father met her behind the dugout. “That’s not fair,” she said. “That’s Minnesota,” he replied.
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Another dad agreed, saying this might be an eye-opening experience for the parents: “They’re like, “Oh, they’re crushing my kid’s dreams? Maybe I made the wrong choices.”
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One player turned to her father and asked, “Why can’t you do something?”
That last is the whole thing in nutshell; a terrible conspiracy of intimidation and silent compliance that reduces girls to nothing and their fathers to helpless bystanders. How powerful is this culture of intimidation? Look at the pitiful letter sent out by Eagan Athletic Director to parents ahead of the Eagan-Champlin game.
Tell me again that culture wars don’t matter to political parties.
The only good news here is that this is going to end sooner or later. Unfortunately it may end by girls team sports simply collapsing as girls refuse to “compete” in such farces.
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I doubt the Republicans bit simply because the right/left divide is becoming so entrenched that very soon you will see political biased assigned at birth.
What is (to me anyway) interesting about this whole issue is the highlighting of just where women’s sport stands in the whole scheme of things.
This is of interest because for years now we have seen sheilas screaming about their equality and demanding they get the same rewards as their male counterparts.
In the quoted case one male is destroying that argument completely. In other cases, world-wide, in many sports, we see the same thing: Very, very average performers pretending they are female and cleaning up.
Proving that women’s sport is somewhere from D grade to Z grade – and that is it’s real value when people talk money.
Hopefully we will see a shift and that money will be steered to where it should go and we, the spectators, will get to witness the very best v the very best instead of the mediocre v the mediocre.
I suggest these pooftas, cheating in the lower grades, are doing the world of real sport a massive favour, highlighting a serious departure from reality.
NB: I am not calling for the cessation of women’s sport (particularly the Lingerie Bowl), simply for an honest appraisal of it’s (commercial) worth.
The last US election, plus more recent polling, show numbers that can only be interpreted as former Democrats supporting Trump and the GOP. There are several swing states where Trump would not have otherwise won in 2024 (2016’s a different matter, where Democrats stayed home rather than vote for Hillary)
I’ll await the 2026 Mid-Terms to see of that shift sticks, and even more so, 2028, to see if this is a Trump thing or a GOP thing.
Tom, my comment was, at best, hyperbole but you answered my point perfectly with the “Democrats stayed home rather than vote for Hillary” bit.
These people you talk of would not alter their allegiances even after the Dems put up an insulting candidate.
Politics in the Western World is no longer about a carefully considered vote, it’s now about tribal affiliation.
Fair point about 2016 but that’s my point in comparing it to 2024 – things have changed.
Whether they’ll continue to change in that direction will be seen in the 2026 and 2028 US elections.
But aside from the US what of Britain? Again, we have to await a general election, not due now until 2029, but there’s no question that Reform have made huge strides in the polls, leading both Labour and the Tories now, and that has to be due to defections from those parties.
It is just another example of the degeneracy evident in a failing civilization.
I’ve observed a fair amount of “degeneracy” in my life so it’s not that so much that which disturbs me as does the power apparatus that has gathered around such things and uses them to further itself.
Because ultimately it’s not the degeneracy itself but that it is being used as a deliberate tool to destroy our society by forcing people to go along with such things, even as it causes fathers to fall silent in defence of their children and families
That is the frightening thing because then you can pull the same stunt repeatedly using other issues. As one commentator said a few years ago, after much study of the old communist nations, the whole point of such lies was that TPTB wanted to see if their subjects would accept the lie, knowing it to be such. Also this:
Good article here on transitioning, Tale of Two Trannies, with a trans couple invited by the host to a dinner….
Heh…