Video: The obligatory “Little League sucker punch” clip
posted at 9:00 pm on May 27, 2008 by Allahpundit
The food chain in action: MSNBC runs this for shock value but ostensibly as news, despite not even knowing what the fight was about; mega-site HuffPo picks it up, also for the shock value but adorns it with a perfunctory, politically safe, disapproving intro to give it some substance; your humble correspondent picks it up from them, also for shock value, and applies some nifty media meta-commentary sprinkled with a handful of “sure, it’s terrible, but you can’t look away” irony; and then you pick it up from me and e-mail it to all your friends with the subject heading, “DUDE — POPPED IN THE FACE!!!”, the shock value fully vindicated at last. Cycle of life, my friends. Now I know how O’Reilly feels. Click the image to watch.
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Stole his girl, dog, and BMX.
Limerick on May 27, 2008 at 9:03 PM
Is it just me or has the Huffington Post learned a lesson that MSNBC has not? A year ago the only links to HuffPo were of the “Can you beleive these crazy liberals?” type. Now they feature decent content and some articles written from a conservative perspective. Methinks Arianna likes the traffic, and the potential money.
Theworldisnotenough on May 27, 2008 at 9:04 PM
Talked about his momma.
Theworldisnotenough on May 27, 2008 at 9:04 PM
No only unsportsman like, but of all places/times to be unsportsman like. Of course the most unsporsman like conduct was him not hitting back and his team not helping in the woopin’.
- The Cat
MirCat on May 27, 2008 at 9:09 PM
Called him a queer.
Jaibones on May 27, 2008 at 9:10 PM
At first I thought this was an Onion clip. Then I realized the source was even less credible and got less excited.
Vizzini on May 27, 2008 at 9:10 PM
Stole his super delegate.
mesablue on May 27, 2008 at 9:11 PM
*Gorilla noises*
Seixon on May 27, 2008 at 9:14 PM
What a little jerk. I hope his dad (assuming he has one and that he cares) took him behind the proverbial woodshed for that stupid stunt.
VinnyL on May 27, 2008 at 9:21 PM
This is what happens when you negotiate with terrorists
tomas on May 27, 2008 at 9:24 PM
Hopefully the benches clear. That dude needs Ryan to go Ventura on his ass.
Spirit of 1776 on May 27, 2008 at 9:27 PM
Ha ! !
Too funny . . . But so true
Texyank on May 27, 2008 at 9:28 PM
A sucker punch on HuffPo?
That’s poetic.
drjohn on May 27, 2008 at 9:34 PM
If we are really lucky, a lawyer will get involved and END sports for kids.
Warner Todd Huston on May 27, 2008 at 9:36 PM
Meh. Kids do stupid things. Still a wuss for the sucker punch instead of squaring off with him after school as per normal custom though.
Hollowpoint on May 27, 2008 at 9:36 PM
pwn3d
lorien1973 on May 27, 2008 at 9:44 PM
This is sad. Video here.
jlemieu1 on May 27, 2008 at 9:48 PM
http://www.wsaz.com/home/headlines/19294419.html
jlemieu1 on May 27, 2008 at 9:48 PM
POLICE INVESTIGATE?
What a colossally retarded waste of time and energy.
THAT is what should be mocked a bit more than HuffPo covering this non-story.
Dave Rywall on May 27, 2008 at 9:55 PM
Eh…
[warning. the following is very politically incorrect]
I used to help coach youth hockey up through high-school age levels, and we all knew that the “handshakes” at the end of the game was ALWAYS the most dangerous part of the game; after a chippy game we’d often skip it by mutual agreement with the other team’s coach.
The main thing I see wrong here was that the victim’s team-mates didn’t jump in to help protect him. Yeah, terrible thing, youth violence, violent sports, yadda yadda yadda. The main damn lesson should be that you stand with your team – you win together, lose together, and if necessary, get beaten up together. The only lesson the kids are going to learn here will be that you need government and lawyers to keep you from being victimized. God forbid you try to protect yourself or your team.
bofh on May 27, 2008 at 10:01 PM
LMAO!
BallisticBob on May 27, 2008 at 10:10 PM
I love the classy WATCH THIS! headline.
A kid punched another kid, on no! It’s off to the re-education camps for him.
I suppose he’ll be sent to therapy and doped up now.
MSNBC is just shocked that behavior like this still exists in any form. All of our children should have been subdued by now through daily doses of happiness and compliance.
Sadly, that option is off the table now for the most part.
reaganaut on May 27, 2008 at 10:13 PM
Punk monkey sucka.
robblefarian on May 27, 2008 at 10:16 PM
Gee, AP — Thanks for the extra helping of sneering condescension towards your readers. Sure tastes good with ketchup!
Lee on May 27, 2008 at 10:27 PM
Ha!
Professor Blather on May 27, 2008 at 10:29 PM
He’s too busy spitting in the umpire’s face or hitting the coach with a tire iron. No wait, that’s Mom.
bobthepeeler on May 27, 2008 at 10:31 PM
Speaking of, is that the only place the vid was posted? We’ve been getting a lot of links to HuffPo lately. Me thinks Allah has a new favorite liberal.
BadgerHawk on May 27, 2008 at 10:44 PM
That punk probably got thrown out at first on a squibbler down the 3rd base line and felt entitled to his single….
Hog Wild on May 27, 2008 at 10:51 PM
We used to spit in our hands when I was in little league before the end of the game line up. I know, quite mature. But no one ever took a swing at anyone.
The worst incident I ever saw was in football practice when we were doing a drill where the first person in line lies down on the ground and and then next steps over him and lies down and so on until the line is empty and the first person to lie down jumps up and runs over everyone else. Well one of the meanest bastards on our team got stepped on and he jumped up and wailed on the kid who stepped on him. The coaches response was that he should be more careful where he steps.
NotCoach on May 27, 2008 at 10:53 PM
That’s it?
That must be really scary stuff for all the private school sissy boys out there.:)
faraway on May 27, 2008 at 11:02 PM
ROFL (Rolling On the Field Laughing)
Rosmerta on May 27, 2008 at 11:07 PM
I guess he didn’t appreciate that kid’s “Hey Batter, Batter…” routine.
p40tiger on May 27, 2008 at 11:48 PM
I remember in the 8th Grade someone on my football team did this exact same thing after the game, except for he decked a kid with glasses! Punched him right in the face with the glasses on!
I will post the kids first name “Phil” Not going to say his last name.
Guess what our coach did to him when he found out about it on the bus?(I believe this is one of the games that our head coach got kicked out of, and thats why he wasn’t on the field at the time and didn’t get to see it, our coach got kicked out of a few games for yelling at the refs)
Coach, “Phil! Where is Phil!!!??? Phil Get your a*s up to the front of the BUS NOW!!!”( Phil scared walking up to the front of the bus thinking coach is going kick his butt for sucker punching th kid in the face…)
Coach, “GOOD JOB MAN!!!! COME ON YOU SISSY WHY DIDN’T YOU HIT HIM HARDER YOU SHOULD HAVE AT LEAST KNOCKED HIM OUT!” LMAO!!!(we had some crazy coaches! they were young guys right out of college)
Chakra Hammer on May 28, 2008 at 12:10 AM
Ding Ding, time to throw junior. I feel sorry for the victims of violence, but this kid has to stand up for himself.
koolbrease on May 28, 2008 at 12:52 AM
SuckerSissy punch.The “victim” hardly even noticed.
misterpeasea on May 28, 2008 at 1:49 AM
Just let em fight it out, screw JOOVY Court. By the time their done duken it out they are liable to be good friends.
Bladerunner1701 on May 28, 2008 at 2:51 AM
When will sweeps be over, and they can put this crap away?
darkpixel on May 28, 2008 at 6:23 AM
The pressure on these kids to win is just so high…I think they should all get effort corsages after every game….uggghhh
tomas on May 28, 2008 at 7:39 AM
At that age, it’s pretty dumb to do the post-game handshake line. It’s fine for younger kids, to teach sportsmanship and winning/losing gracefully, but teenagers who lose are usually pissed and those who win are smug. They can be reeeeally competitive, even in baseball, and it’s hard to turn that off right after the game is over. They just go through the motions after the game becase the grownups make them do it. This video didn’t surprise me at all.
rockmom on May 28, 2008 at 8:48 AM
No video footage: Small blurb in hometown paper (if anything).
With video footage: National news on MSNBC.
How did people decide what was newsworthy before the advent of the videocamera?
Yoosaion on May 28, 2008 at 8:58 AM
When I was that age, if I EVER had taken a sucker punch like that at someone, it would have been game over for me for a year. Dad would have popped open an XXL can of whoop-a$$, and my behind would have needed a year to recover. I happen to believe that this method is the preferred one.
The method preferred next is another one that didn’t happen here. It’s a shame that either the punched kid or his teammates (where were they???) didn’t turn around and absolutely bury this little jerk. That lesson would have taught him more than JV court ever will.
It’s a shame that neither method is allowed to happen today.
I had that kind of lesson taught to me by myself the last time I lost control at that level after losing a game, namely after a tennis match in 8th grade. My goodness, was it a good lesson. Dad felt no need to pop open any cans; I did the job better than he ever could have. I desired to see which would dent first from my serve: my racquet or the court. Rather than finding the court, though, my racquet found my left shin with enough force to dent the racquet frame and make me pass out. I still get shin splints occasionally there, 16 years later. I learned my lesson well, and one could say that it serves me right.
flutejpl on May 28, 2008 at 9:36 AM
Sucker punch? More like sucker slap. I’ve seen girls hit harder than that…
maintenanceman on May 28, 2008 at 10:11 AM
“someone kicks sand at an umpire after a contested call”
Sand? Oy!
thebrokenchair on May 28, 2008 at 10:14 AM
Me thinks some chin music is in order the next time that kid gets in the box.
csdeven on May 28, 2008 at 11:19 AM
That was probably the only thing the little turd connected on all day.
cat-scratch on May 28, 2008 at 11:25 AM
Three more days darkpixel. Then MSNBC can get back to reporting the news….Oh wait…….nm
Jim708 on May 28, 2008 at 1:16 PM