Softball teammates carry opponent around the base

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Sports

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• Western
• Oregon
• Central
• Washington
• softball
• Sportsmanship
• Home
• Run
• teammates
• carry
• opponent
• around
• the
• base

[taywill78]

sounds like a personal problem to me

[chaznsuz]

People - take it for what it was... people helping people... keeping things in perspective. That's cool.

[tetley03]

Classy

[velihall]

Sportsmanship like this does not conflict with wanting to win the game. The two runners she batted in were in. It cost one run (final score 4-2) and Central could have won in other innings and at other moments and I trusts they fully intended to do so. Letting an injury prevent a home run seems an unlikely rule - the person who said they got the rule wrong on that is hopefully correct. If not, that rule needs to be changed. With an over-the-fence home run a pinch runner adds no advantage.

[ccrosbie33]

I've watched a few different clips about this story, and I sort of get the feeling Sara is a bit full of herself. In other clips she goes on about this moment "helping" to achieve her "goal" and how hard it was to end her "career," without much expression of thanks to the assisting players. She's a bit nicer here since the interviewer sort of steers her to say it.

Doing something for someone even without being fully appreciated makes what these girls did seem even more significant to me.

[graw777]

Beautiful human beings... There is hope for this world if there are more like them among us. Most of human problems come from not being able to recognize the human in our opponent. We need to destroy them in order to win, always... thats not right... But some people just dont see it that way and called this an "act of cowardice" (ycdtotv is one of them)... That is wrong dude... Life is more than just defeating the opponent: it is also about being magnanimous before the fallen ones.

[luggan89]

@broadjumper1 i 100% agree with you. and im going to say this as nice as i can, but whoever this ycdtotv person is, you are dumber than obama and thats saying alot.

[broadjumper1]

@ycdtotv - I would have them on MY team. If you believe this act of HUMAN compassion means these ladies lack drive and a will to win, then not only are you sorely mistaken, but an incredibly poor judge of people in general. Sports used to be about teaching teamwork, leadership and building character but many people seem to have lost sight of this, along with much of their humanity. This isn't life or death son, it's a GAME. Attitudes like yours are symptomatic of what's wrong with the country.

[ycdtotv]

@broadjumper1 YOU can have them on your team. I want winners on my team--people who have the will and drive to do their best and play their hardest in the game of life. I don't want anyone on my "team" (in life) who helps the opponent win. You can have them. Sportsmanship is about fair play and respect for your opponent, it is NOT about helping the opponent. If you want to help the opponent, go play for their team.

[broadjumper1]

@ycdtotv - How anyone could take a negative view on this is just mind-boggling. But to then go further, call it pathetic, non-sportsmanship, and call these ladies traitors and COWARDS leads me to believe that you don't understand of the meaning of those words. Yes, this is a sport, but sports are PART of life, and life is NOT a game. Life doesn't come to a standstill because of a softball game. You need to reexamine your values. That's the nature of character, you either have it - or YOU don't.

[20SamRox20]

Couldn't hav said it better.

[fettig35]

This is a video and story that needs to be shown in schools. It is something that Athletes need to see and think about. It is very inspirational and is something I hope never happens to an athlete but it does and when it does I hope they help because it means A LOT to the player!

[blackonefifty]

@ycdtotv

You were the type of kid that didn't win at shit in school, weren't you? It shows.