“If you keep these kids on the field you keep them off the streets,” Leroy Scott told the paper. “I’d rather have him [Jericho] in the midst of this controversy on the field than dealing drugs on a street corner.”
Larf.
This is from his dad. If there is a risk that your 9-year-old is going to be selling drugs if he can't play baseball, you've got bigger fish to fry.
Why can't he just play against older kids? It might be fun for a 9-year-old to win every game and be the star, but the adults should know that he would be better off in an actual competition, instead of blowing heaters past kids who don't have a chance.
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