{"id":1523,"date":"2016-05-13T16:41:05","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T16:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/?p=1523"},"modified":"2016-06-06T14:26:18","modified_gmt":"2016-06-06T14:26:18","slug":"29-theres-no-crying-in-baseball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/29-theres-no-crying-in-baseball\/","title":{"rendered":"#29: There’s No Crying in Baseball!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"No<\/a><\/p>\n


\nIn the movie \u2018A League of Their Own\u2019 Tom Hanks is the manager of a woman\u2019s professional baseball team during the war years in the 1940\u2019s.
\nIn one famous scene he really chews out one of his players for making a stupid mistake on the field and she begins to sob.
\nHanks sees her weeping and asks, incredulously, \u201cAre you crying?\u201d<\/em>
\nBetween sniffles, the girl shakes her head and weakly says, \u201cNo,\u201d but continues to breakdown with tears streaming down her cheeks.
\nThe manager can\u2019t believe what he\u2019s seeing and yells, \u201cAre you crying? Are you crying? There\u2019s no cryin!… There\u2019s no crying in baseball!\u201d<\/em>
\nWell, that was then\u2026 and this is now.
\nMy brother Jay is managing a minor league Little League team of nine and ten year old boys.
\nI went to a game and watched a kid step up to the plate.
\nHe had the eye-black smeared under his eyes, just like the pros\u2026 even though the sun wasn\u2019t out and it was overcast and gray.
\nHe was wearing not one, but two, batting gloves.
\nHe knocked the dirt out of his cleats with his bat, then flipped the bat around like some major league ballplayer that he watched on the TV and was obviously mimicking.
\nHe was also wearing a massive, protective batting helmet with a formidable steel cage on the front that looked like a hockey goalie\u2019s mask, even though the pitchers could barely reach the plate from the mound with their weak, little spaghetti arms.
\nThe pitcher awkwardly wound up and delivered the pitch.
\nThe baseball moped lethargically towards home plate and gently plunked the batter in the arm.
\nThe kid collapsed to the ground in agony, began bawling his eyes out, and had to be helped off the field, coming out of the game.
\nHe continued to cry uncontrollably on the bench until his mother came out of the stands and went into the dugout to console him and give him a hug.
\nWhile the game was still in progress, and his teammates were out on the field, his parents took him home with a big ice-pack on his arm as his mother held his hand with a look of grave concern on her face.
\nI was horrified, seeing how coddled and pampered kids are these days.
\nI have news for you. If my mother had ever come into my team\u2019s dugout to hug me, I would have had to quit baseball forever, right there and then, because I could never, ever face my friends again.
\nGiven the way that people are raising their children in this day and age, is it really a mystery why there are now grown men who are fighting for the right to use the Ladies\u2019 Restroom?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[22,23,24,25,32,69,213,214,269,270],"class_list":["post-1523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-paul-dangelo","tag-dangelo","tag-comedy","tag-comedian","tag-comic","tag-paul-dangelo-paul-dangelo-comedy","tag-little-league","tag-baseball","tag-hit-by-pitch","tag-crying"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p614ww-oz","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1523"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1561,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523\/revisions\/1561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdangelo.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}