I'm doubting that this has anything to do with the kid and how good he is. This is stupid league politics that happens in all minor sports and the kids suffer for it.
My brother was a decent hockey player that played on the B team. When the A team (not the A-Team) ran into some injuries, they were not calling up the best players on the B team.... the coach was calling up whoever had a father willing to grease his palm. So I'll buy the claim that the other teams in the league conspired to have the star player of the 8-0 team thrown out. Wouldn't surprise me in the least. They don't have the best interest of all the kids in mind... only winning through their children.
But the kids father scares me nevertheless: "I'd rather have him [Jericho] in the midst of this controversy on the field than dealing drugs on a street corner".
There's nothing in between? If he doesn't play baseball he's going to be dealing drugs? Come on now.....
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