This coach should be shot!!!!!!!

[Charlie P]

If this idiot coached in my league I'd be in jail.



Cops: T-Ball Coach Took 'Hit' On Challenged Player

POSTED: 2:16 pm EDT July 15, 2005[/align]UPDATED: 6:40 pm EDT July 15, 2005[/align]
NORTH UNION TOWNSHIP, Pa. -- [/b]A T-ball coach seeking to keep a player with a mental disability off the field allegedly asked another player to hurt the boy, state police said Friday.
The alleged incident happened June 27 at R.W. Clark Little League Field in North Union Township, Fayette County, police said.
During pre-game warmups, Mark Reed Downs Jr. offered one of his players $25 to hit the 8-year-old boy in the head with a baseball, according to a police news release.
After speaking with Downs, the second player hit the victim near his left ear and in the groin area, leaving him unable to play in that night's game, state police said.
"The coach seemed to find excuses not to play this child because he wasn't that talented," Trooper Thomas Broadwater told Channel 4 Action News. "On the 27th, the child was basically beaned in the head with a baseball."
The injured boy's mother was suspicious, so she approached the player who threw the ball and he told her about the payment offer, Broadwater said.
Downs, 27, of Dunbar, was charged Friday with criminal solicitation to commit aggravated assault, corruption of minors and reckless endangerment. He is free on bond and faces a preliminary hearing on July 28.

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[kevin1]

May he rot in prison with a huge homosexual cellmate with herpes and chronic halitosis! [:@]Charlie , you'd have to beat me to him ! [:@][:@][:@][:@]

[Coastie]

Some things just leave me speechless, how could anybody do something like that? Maybe the local rifle range has need of a target holder, this guy would be a good candidate.

[ash2042]

That happened about an hour or two from where I live. Isn't it said that little league has come down to winnig. What about having fun. I think the coach should be made to stand at home plate and let a major league pitcher throw a fastball and hit him in the left ear and then one in the groin, see how well he likes it.

[uncle matt]

I just read that an hour ago in the sunday paper. All I can say is that as a long time coach...................HE MAKES ME SICK!

[DaveH]

If this idiot coached in my league I'd be in jail.

That would be the case with me as well.

[silentassassin]

If this idiot coached in my league I'd be in jail

Someone should beat that m****** f****** until his family doesn't recognize him. I would happy to make a contribution to "bail out fund" of any of our PA board members that wanted to go pay him a visit.

[Lucius111]

The area this happened in is only about 15 minutes from my home. What is even worse is that the kid he took a "hit" out on is autistic. Well my oldest son is autistic and you can't imagine what kind of torturous pain I would put that coach through if that was my son. All in the name of winning a freaking little league game. Man now you have both parents and coaches ruining little league sports for kids.

[Aught Six]

The coach is scum and needs to serve some time. What a petty POS.

However, I'll play devil's advocate. Who the heck puts their autistic son in a T-ballleague?! Is thatsupposed to teach social skills? I understand there are different ways that autism manifests itself, but I'd imagine playing team sports would be more stressful than helpful if the kid is locked in his own world, or unable to express himself accurately to his peers, etc.

[North Texan]

I'd like to introduce the guy to my friend Louis (ville slugger).