the banal evil of children

While I sympathise with the your anger, I do not believe an act of state-sponsored violence upon the bodies and reproductive futures of these little sociopaths is the answer. The answer is kneecapping by inflamed mobs of local people.

Yours Truly

Eventually I realized these kids were not getting a chance to bat, and that the man had conscripted them to simply retrieve the balls he was gleefully batting. Their session was punctuated with outbursts from the man - "the ball was IN your glove, how can you not catch that??" or when they took too long throwing the ball back - "TODAY, Jimmy!" The kid closest to him started getting into the bullying aspect, yelling at the other kid to stop being such a slowpoke.

A huge SUV wafted by at one point, and the guy inside slowed down to yell "hey, isn't this ballpark a little big for you?" The man on the sidewalk laughed and say "hey how ya doin?" and when the SUV started to move on the man said "Oh I hate your fuckin guts by the way!" The SUV backed up. "What?" "I hate your fuckin guts! I traded Giambi and he goes and hits a homer." "Haha yeah, well what can I tell you. The whole team's a buncha fuckin clowns, they're all goin down this year. Fuck them!" The man said "Haha, yeah!" and the SUV drove off.

A huge SUV wafted by at one point, and the guy inside slowed down to yell "hey, isn't this ballpark a little big for you?" The man on the sidewalk laughed and say "hey how ya doin?" and when the SUV started to move on the man said "Oh I hate your fuckin guts by the way!" The SUV backed up. "What?" "I hate your fuckin guts! I traded Giambi and he goes and hits a homer." "Haha yeah, well what can I tell you. The whole team's a buncha fuckin clowns, they're all goin down this year. Fuck them!" The man said "Haha, yeah!" and the SUV drove off.

-- Tracer Hand (tracerhan...), May 18th, 2005.

That still sounds pretty picturesque and Brooklyn to me. But my dad is from Brooklyn, so maybe I have different expectations.

kids at that age are AWFUL