Every parent wants his kid to be a star. But it gets out of hand sometimes and sucks the fun out of things. Unfortunately a lot of parents and more than a few kids think that if the kid doesn't make All-Stars, the season was a failure. It's been said that those who have a high regard for the law or sausage should never watch either being made. Wars have started over less.
Nobody likes to play right field.
This is the truest statement in all of sports. I think when Alexander Cartwright laid out the rules of baseball, the first rule should have been that if the batter hits the ball in the air over the first or second baseman's head, it's an out, because nobody wants to play in that part of the field. A tribunal found that during the Argentinean reign of terror in the late 1970s, the Galtieri junta gave political prisoners the choice between electric shock torture or playing right field. It was the high electricity bill that eventually sent the country into economic collapse. Every girl wants to pitch, except for Darlene, who wants to play shortstop like her hero, UA star Laura Espinoza.