NWLL baseball scandal

[Anonymous]

Cap City parents shouldn’t get too high and mighty here. Same stuff happens there too. If one team goes undefeated over an entire season (as happened in AAA), it ought to cause everyone to realize the teams were not fairly drafted.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Cap City parents shouldn’t get too high and mighty here. Same stuff happens there too. If one team goes undefeated over an entire season (as happened in AAA), it ought to cause everyone to realize the teams were not fairly drafted.

In my kids’ league the draft is relatively fair, but every.single.year. there tends to be a coach who doesn’t know the kids well, or even try to do a bit of research ahead of time. Just drafts kids he knows from the neighborhood etc, or bases on quick evaluation. That team always ends up being just awful. Seriously, every single year without fail, it seems to happen, and the kids on that team have a bad experience. No idea how to prevent…

[Anonymous]

IT’S A GAME… GET A LIFE!
THE WORLD IS ON FIRE 🔥

[Anonymous]

As a former parent of a NWLL child, if the lawyers did their due diligence they would realize one of the players they named and his older brother were drafted onto a team in 2020. Fact check.

[Anonymous]

This has been going on for years. So many rotten eggs in NWLL. It still delights me to recall how one cheater/stacker Coach got bit hard by karma and lost both the NW playoffs and later the DC title bc he was such a schmuck. A parent from another DC league still asks me “what was wrong with that guy, he was a total tool.” The guy played favorites so badly (which was ironic considering his spouse’s job responsibility relating to fairness) and mistreated the non-favorites with vigor, going so far as to curse them out. He NEVER should have been allowed to coach anyone’s children.

[Anonymous]

You all sound like a bunch of sore losers..

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You all sound like a bunch of sore losers..

My kid won multiple championships and made all the all star teams but would not play on the traveling teams bc he didn’t like the coaches. I guess he has good instincts about people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You all sound like a bunch of sore losers..

You sound like an apologist for cheaters. Not a good look for you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You all sound like a bunch of sore losers..

My kid won multiple championships and made all the all star teams but would not play on the traveling teams bc he didn’t like the coaches. I guess he has good instincts about people.

Awesome.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As a former parent of a NWLL child, if the lawyers did their due diligence they would realize one of the players they named and his older brother were drafted onto a team in 2020. Fact check.

You are correct, Mr. Fact Check, they were registered as first-time NWLL players in 2020 due to the older sibling having enrolled in a NWLL school. And if you did your due diligence, you would realize that 1) the 2020 season wasn’t played due to COVID, rendering the older sibling’s transfer moot—he aged out after spring 2020; 2) the younger player returned to his home league in 2021 and played on the league’s 12U all-stars (as an 11 year old), and 3) the player’s father and Ricky arranged for the younger player to be waived into NWLL in 2022–without publicly demonstrating proper residency, school registration, or grandfathered eligibility.

Ask Ricky and Rico for the waiver grounds—not the “he was eligible, case closed” response they have offered—so that those who raised issues with the waiver can be demonstrably proven wrong, not simply told so.

And no, the fact that the East Region Director returned the challenges to Rico and told everyone that this needed to be addressed at the district level first does not mean that it was “approved” by LLI. It simply means Rico needed to deal with it formally before it could be appealed to Bristol by CCLL or CHLL. Tough to mount an appeal after the tournament was played, especially if there is no paper, only verbal assertions…

How about we let the sun shine in, clear all of this up so we can get back to focusing on baseball for the kids?

God forbid LLI cite allegations of incompetence and/or corruption as evidence that it was a mistake to allow DCLL to be treated as a state, rather than as a component of MD LL. ‘Mistakes” are forgivable; “patterns of fraudulent behavior” are less so.

Let the sun shine in!

[Anonymous]

My kid played NWLL and for years was coached by incompetent dads who showed favoritism to their boys. Davenport was the only decent and fair coach he had fwiw.

[Anonymous]

Would love to know if any of Ricky’s umpire buds were permitted to officiate NWLL tournament games. A lot of curious calls have gone in that team’s favor over the years in close games. Not basic ball and strike calls, but more rare baseball type calls that are never made in the regular season and are always not able to be appealed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kid played NWLL and for years was coached by incompetent dads who showed favoritism to their boys. Davenport was the only decent and fair coach he had fwiw.

We had a mix of bad dads and good but the non-dads were always the best. When called on the “bad dad” issues, the board overlooked a lot because “he is a volunteer.” There was also a strange anti-private school bias that in the end is ironic bc those pushing it hardest at the time later all sent their kids to GDS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Cap City parents shouldn’t get too high and mighty here. Same stuff happens there too. If one team goes undefeated over an entire season (as happened in AAA), it ought to cause everyone to realize the teams were not fairly drafted.

In my kids’ league the draft is relatively fair, but every.single.year. there tends to be a coach who doesn’t know the kids well, or even try to do a bit of research ahead of time. Just drafts kids he knows from the neighborhood etc, or bases on quick evaluation. That team always ends up being just awful. Seriously, every single year without fail, it seems to happen, and the kids on that team have a bad experience. No idea how to prevent…

Yeah…this is the problem. For some reason you have a coach selecting kids in the first round (often against the advice of other coaches) who are like 11th round picks because they are buddies of their kids.

The coaches aren’t bad people, but not the best coaches. It is hard to get people to coach, so no LL is going to replace a good person just because they are a bad coach. However, you get plenty of parents grumbling when they are on a team that loses all the time.

One idea that gets floated is that coaches don’t select their own teams…they collectively populate all the teams in the league and then are randomly assigned each team (and their kid is on that team). In theory, no one will try to game a team because you don’t know which is yours until picking numbers from a hat.

Of course, most coaches vote against this approach. Would require the league to formally adopt these draft rules and force coaches to use.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As a former parent of a NWLL child, if the lawyers did their due diligence they would realize one of the players they named and his older brother were drafted onto a team in 2020. Fact check.

You are correct, Mr. Fact Check, they were registered as first-time NWLL players in 2020 due to the older sibling having enrolled in a NWLL school. And if you did your due diligence, you would realize that 1) the 2020 season wasn’t played due to COVID, rendering the older sibling’s transfer moot—he aged out after spring 2020; 2) the younger player returned to his home league in 2021 and played on the league’s 12U all-stars (as an 11 year old), and 3) the player’s father and Ricky arranged for the younger player to be waived into NWLL in 2022–without publicly demonstrating proper residency, school registration, or grandfathered eligibility.

Ask Ricky and Rico for the waiver grounds—not the “he was eligible, case closed” response they have offered—so that those who raised issues with the waiver can be demonstrably proven wrong, not simply told so.

And no, the fact that the East Region Director returned the challenges to Rico and told everyone that this needed to be addressed at the district level first does not mean that it was “approved” by LLI. It simply means Rico needed to deal with it formally before it could be appealed to Bristol by CCLL or CHLL. Tough to mount an appeal after the tournament was played, especially if there is no paper, only verbal assertions…

How about we let the sun shine in, clear all of this up so we can get back to focusing on baseball for the kids?

God forbid LLI cite allegations of incompetence and/or corruption as evidence that it was a mistake to allow DCLL to be treated as a state, rather than as a component of MD LL. ‘Mistakes” are forgivable; “patterns of fraudulent behavior” are less so.

Let the sun shine in!

Waivers should just be eliminated. It’s LL…play where you live or go to school…that’s it.

Our LL found the waiver process cumbersome and while we granted in rare occurrences we strongly encouraged the kid just play for their new LL. Maybe our board was just lazy.