This is a true story.

Recently, two baseball teams comprised of nine-year-olds were competing for their championship. One team was ahead by one run in the bottom of the ninth, and the opposing team had a man on third base with two outs.

The team's star player player comes up to bat, and the pitcher walks him. Now, the tying run is on 3rd, and the winning run is on 1st.

The next batter up is a kid who has recently overcome brain cancer and has to wear a stint in his brain. The pitcher proceeds to strike him out.

This has caused a firestorm, as many people view the manager walking the star to get to the kid who's coming back from cancer to be very distasteful. On the other hand, some say that the kid is playing because he wants to be like everyone else, so he shouldn't be treated any differently.

As a side note, the kid who struck out told his father the next day that he was going to practice even harder, because by next season he wanted to be the kid who the other teams walked.

What do you think?

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