Today at my 8 year olds baseball game the scoreboard showed 10-2; however, the coach told the people to stop putting points on after 10 because the team we played really struggled. Would you like your child playing in a league like this? I do.

I think this sort of thing is ridiculous.

It is disrespectful to those that practice and prepare. Why isn't it okay to be proud of success?

You shouldn't keep score if every point doesn't count. Kids have to learn how to handle losing sometime. It might as well be in little league. We always kept score when I played. Even when I pitched a bad game and got slammed the score was still kept. I once gave up 8 runs in the first inning. Coach wanted to pull me, but I calmed myself down in the dugout, and pitched great afterwards. We lost 10-9, but I was very proud of myself for keeping my cool like I did, and at least keeping my team in the game.

I think it's o.k. now. By the time he or she is in middle school though, I think full competition should be allowed unless the opponent forfeits. (Congrats on the win!)

I played team sports when I was a young child and every point anyone earned was put on the scoreboard. None of us were psychologically damaged and we all learned how to deal with losing.

So I personally think it's sortof silly.

I would not, and neither should you!

Game is game, and score is score. Accept this now, if you like, but you will still have to teach your kids about life, one day.

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YAY for the coach! I like this! Winning and competitive drive is a natural healthy good thing but we should not forget why the game is played...for FUN!

I think it's a great idea. I played baseball when I was a kid and had a great coach like that and played 4 years until we got a new coach that only cared about winning. My old coach bought everyone soda when we won and when we lost he made us shake hands and he showed us the importance of having a good time and good sportsmanship..my coach that came later, cussed at us, made us do pushups after the game and treated us like he had money riding on it or something..I lost all will to play because it seemed like we played for him and not for ourselves, I quit after that.

No. If you are not going to score it properly why score it at all? Children learn that there are some things they will win at and some things they will lose at, and that is life. If you only want to play friendly games then by all means do but don't bother scoring it. I think it is unfair to the team who was winning.

Yes, and I think it's great. The game is already lost, no need to rub salt in the wound.

I lost my first soccer game 36 to 3 (normal soccer games end about 4-2), so that was pretty sick. Yet I did not get demoralized and I would have felt even worse if they stopped counting. You gotta learn to deal with such stuff and get better.

While there's a certain value in playing for real, and teaching your kids about losing... being completely steamrollered means the kids aren't even having fun. How can you tell your kid that if they practise, maybe they'll win next time, when the game is like that?

There was a basketball game up here somewhat recently, and when the visiting team was up by some 100 points by halftime, they sent in everyone from the bench. There were a lot of people who were offended, you didn't even have the courtesy to treat our daughters like a real team? But I thought it was sporting of them. They still won by 90+ points-- would you rather they have kept playing, and kicked your daughters' butts by 220-8?(which was the pace it was going at) Do you think your daughters would have honestly preferred that?

You guys should not be letting your kids play in a baseball game where "points" count at all.....If you're going to teach them anything, teach them that you win by RUNS and not "points." And maybe implement a "slaughter rule."

This is the slaughter rule and it's quite common and written into most little league organizations. Usually it's a 10 point lead and a certain number of innings.

It's appropriate because at the younger ages the games can be ridiculously lopsided with one team running up huge leads. There is no reason to demoralize young children this way. The objective is learning at this point, not winning.

We are far too competitive today when it comes to sports. This leads to all kinds of problems, from a skater breaking someone's legs with an iron bar to people being crippled at an early age through sports-related injury.

I am surprised at some of the comments I have seen on here. The victorious team knew they were victorious, and the losing team were shielded from having the scale of their defeat broadcast to all and sundry. The coach sounds like a wise person, and I agree with you about the league.

At one time, sports people tried to win, but if they didn't they gained pleasure from taking part. Nowadays winning is everything, and everything is sacrificed to that one goal. Don't forget, in a culture of winners, we are all losers at one time or another.

WERE WE ARE FROM MY SON IS ON A MINOR LITTLE LEAGUE TEAM WE LOST ALL BUT THE LAST GAME AND THE RULE IS IN THE 4TH INNING IF THERE IS A 10 PT. LEAD THE GAME IS CALLED. WE LOST THE GAMES BECAUSE THE 4 COACHES HAD THERE OWN KIDS AS THE STARTERS NO MATER HOW BADLY THE SCREWED UP. THE WORSE SCORE 27-1 IN THE 3RD INNING.THE LAST GAME ONE COACH AND SON ABSENT ONE STARTER (COACHES KID)INJURED SO HE AND COACH OFF TO HOSPITAL HAD TO MOVE KIDS AROUND WE WON THE GAME 9-2. THE LEAGUE PRESIDENT HAD COMPLAINTS ABOUT THE COACHES AND HE WILL NOT BE BACK NEXT SEASON. SO YES STOP THE SCORING IT MAY NOT BE THE KIDS FAULT IT MAY BE THE COACHES

The league we played in had a rule that the game would be over if the teams were mismatched, by an extreme score difference in the fourth inning. The losing team can choose if they want to continue the game 'just for fun'.