89 Replies to “‘Home runs are not allowed’”

  1. But rapey, beheadey, intimidation and terror are perfectly fine. Don’t forget your PLO flag and your head diaper.

    1. My daughter played softball … and “softballs” aren’t soft … they’re really hard. So I guess that only leaves nerf balls? Oh! or whiffle balls!? Nope. They’re hard plastic too.

    2. “No hard balls allowed.”

      That’s how Canada selected the current Prime Minister and Sophie made her choice to be Closer Together with her new doctor.

  3. At the playground at the elementary school on our block in Toronto, the school board had the typical menu of “no” having fun restrictions, including “no running”.

    This was one of many reasons we got a lakeside cottage outside Toronto—our kids could run and swim as they pleased.

  4. This is straight out of Atlas Shrugged.

    Ability is punished and incompetence is rewarded.

    1. There is a short film made oh 15 years ago or so that better describes what your getting at. It’s good but for the life of me forget the title.

      1. Are you thinking of Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut (movie in 1995)? I never saw it, but it fits your description.

    3. They don’t have to, the white people know not to let their kids play in the park these days.

      Needles, you know…

  6. I understand how it plays in to the current day narrative of shared societal mediocrity, but could it be that they are more concerned about the liability of bystanders getting slugged in the head with a ball?

    Rules 1 – 6 are to keep the ball inside the field – no hard balls, no aluminum bats, no high level play…home runs – those are all things that will propel a projectile past the fence into somebody’s noggin.

    And guess who’s getting sued if that happens?

    1. That’s exactly what this is about. All parks have rules. The purpose of those rules is to limit the city’s liability wherever they are in Canada.

      1. cghCOLON

        Hahahahaha, yup communist will communist. They could change other factors and allow actual competitiveness to prevail. Butt not in your commy world.

        1. Putin’s Pimp imagines he has something useful to say about anything. That’s amusing. So you are confessing that you understand nothing about liability.

          1. You sound like a lawyer, or Legal Guild sycophant. We need to go back to common sense attitudes in which individuals were responsible for their own safety — barring provable malice.

      2. Yes.
        It doesn’t make it right.
        Cities get sued all the time – probably mostly due to sidewalk maintenance and resulting slips, trips and falls.

    3. Why put a baseball diamond there in the first place if they make it illegal to play the game?
      Bet you don’t see no running on a soccer pitch!!
      They have been pushing commie soccer on kids for decades, I’d rather watch paint dry. It makes baseball look exciting.
      Why? Because it’s cheap. That’s why it’s the most popular game in the world, dirt poor people can play it in bare feet if they have a ball.

      1. “Bet you don’t see no running on a soccer pitch!!”

        Not yet.

        But you will see “No heading the ball” because that might cause brain damage in young noggins. This despite the fact that it never has before, and the sample proving it is all soccer players in the world.

        So give them time, and the “no running!” signs will appear.

        1. That must have been the cause of Diego Maradonna’s drug habit … and wacky behavior … he was self-medicating for CTH

      2. And you think ML baseball or (American) football isn’t boring? I watch curling because I understand and play the game, just as others watch sports for their own reasons.

        1. I look forward to the Winter Olympics … just so I can watch the female curling teams! Hey, so sue me … I like women! A lot!

    4. Then remove the ball diamond then, and anything else that might harm someone.

      It amazing how people try to prop up reason when their is no value in consequence.

      1. Having a ball diamond makes it difficult to shoot up or smoke crack in the outfield. Remove the diamond then our utes will explore the world of chemistry / s

        Liability occurs only because of too many lawyers. Shakespeare had a solution for too many lawyers.

    5. Ha! They want to say “we have baseball diamonds” on their fact sheets but then prohibit baseball. If they were genuinely concerned about injuries to passers-by they would have higher fences.

      We had the same experiences with GTA municipal swimming pools after moving to Toronto from out west. All the things we enjoyed doing at pools out west were prohibited in Toronto area pools, ostensibly due to concerns about liability. It’s a mindset.

      Years back I took a friend from Toronto to the Rockies to go hiking. Along a river canyon I warned him to be careful as the trail was narrow and there was a significant drop. “OMG, in Ontario there would be railings and signs!”

      1. “Years back I took a friend from Toronto to the Rockies to go hiking. Along a river canyon I warned him to be careful as the trail was narrow and there was a significant drop. “OMG, in Ontario there would be railings and signs!””

        Spend some time in smaller Mexican towns. Their sidewalks are like that…huge cracks/slab heaves, missing or broken manhole covers. The clear lesson: BE CAREFUL. Watch where you are walking…you’re not in the Nanny State anymore, and you will have no one to blame but yourself if you get hurt.

    6. Any jury of responsible citizens should boot such specious liability claims out of court .. but, two problems: “responsible citizens”; and the stranglehold lawyers have on “justice”.

  8. ‘ No home runs ‘? Why not say don’t try and hit the ball hard and don’t even think about fouling a ball over the sideline fence?
    Aluminum bats are for softballs. The liability issue is crap, I could still easily knock a softball over the fence with a wooden bat and an underhand pitch. Administrative state on acid.
    I’m with Kate, the country’s garbage, just tear everything down and give the ‘stolen’ land back.

    1. RedPop
      Knew a blond who played slow pitch. She could deliver an underhanded pitch at one hell of a speed, to the point they would not let her pitch at the company “fun” games. Oh, did I mention she was a looker?

      1. Tell me about it. Played in a mix league in Toronto for 15 years. Have you seen Jennie Finch?

      2. I remember as a kid in Montreal, Molson’s used to sponsor a summer fastball team of three talented guys. Fastball is an underhand pitch but literally really fast. Those 3 guys would play against a full side of 9 and invariably beat their opponents. Those guys were incredible. The pitches were hard and fast. They usually drove the ball over the fences.

        But then again, there once was a time of talent, skill and competition. All of which are lacking today in this country

        1. “But then again, there once was a time of talent, skill and competition. All of which are lacking today in this country”

          Yup. Now everyone gets a ribbon…

          (or do they even have Sports Days in school anymore?)

    2. My boys played Little League … there are NO wooden bats … at all. Too heavy for the kids. They learn much easier with aluminum bats (and yes … they could hit home runs … and did … on a diamond that sized … at age 10).

      1. Metal bats have been toned down since about 2000. New regulations every few years. Heavier. Slower. The hot bats I saved from the 1990s are all illegal now.

        1. Bummer. I loved hearing the “ping” of those BIG BARRELED lightweight aluminum bats. I paid $100+ for those fabulous bats. Psst … duck pitcher! and get that glove up to protect you!

          2. Pretty sure my kid had the Reflex C-core from the 1990’s … or something very similar … he was the smallest kid on his team … and could homer easily if he connected solidly

  9. Just like all the “No tobogganing” signs that have sprung up as well. The cherry on top was the plandemic nonsense of taping off playgyms, removing hoops from basketball nets, and filling skate parks with sand. I mean, if it’s all about minimizing risk and keeping us all “safe”, right?

    1. Some faceless bureaucrat is making unnecessary “decisions” for us so they can be “in control”.

      1. Jennifer Keesmaat was the queen of making useless decisions that made the city of Toronto worse, but John ‘the weathervain” Tory wouldn’t fire her.

  10. Just read The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt- these type of rules are exactly why kids are losing out.

    1. Jude

      And all those turtles (speed bumps), extra long slow lead ins to 200 pop bergs, and many more conditioning crap being exercised. A friend, from a communist country told me years ago that recycling was about conditioning, and he was right.

  11. Imagine the candle lit shrine surrounding my “ticket” from the City of Toronto for hitting a home run here!

    Hopefully there’s a winter toboggan run nearby so I can line these tickets up on the garage wall … my “wall of excellence”

  12. The same friggin’ city is currently seriously contemplating decriminalizing hard drugs.

    Our world is a fever dream.

    1. That’s working well in BC /sarc.
      Incompetent buffoons making bad decisions because they think they are doing the right thing, or not.
      They are clearly clueless when they call it “Safe Supply”.
      People’s pets are getting jabbed by discarded needles and being harmed, let alone kids.
      Treatment is what is needed, but they always say we cannot get staff. If they would look outside the box and stop this nonsense that only the government can provide treatment they will find many organizations willing to step up to help. But no, it has to be a government union job.
      Canadians everywhere are being very poorly served at all levels for the amount of taxes we pay these dolts.
      The permanent unelected bureaucratic class is at war with the people who pay them.
      If COVID didn’t open your eyes, you are not paying attention.

  13. All games will end in a tie.

    Teams must be composed of 50% female, with 20% representation from LGBTQ community, as well as racial and religious quotas.

    No cheering of good plays will be allowed, so as not to offend those who can’t make them.

    Wood used in bats must be certified as sustainably harvested.

    1. But, but, but … I fashioned a bat out of Koa wood from a tree split by lightening in Hawaii … and named my bat Wonder Buddha. Surely there’s an exception for my “cultural” bat? If it measures, weighs, and comes up to spec’s.

        1. DOES ANYONE HAVE INSIGHT WHY THIS POSTING HAD TO BE DICED UP LIKE THIS DOES THE SDA FILTER WORK ON SCREWY AI ALREADY?

  17. So why hasn’t the sign been torn down and thrown in the nearest trash can? What’s wrong with Torontonians?

    2. Allegedly it’s been removed now after Keesmaat called her friend in the planning department and complained about it.

  18. Civilization is sinking ever so faster.
    You get the bottom feeders the power to decide on rules and they will make sure you don’t move.

  19. Okay, Devil’s Advocate here.
    This is the result of lawyers, insurance companies and people who love to get rich by accident.

    Eventually, no one will be allowed anything fun or nice.

    1. Mike T – the Borg say ” you must comply “. We were notallowed baseballs when I went to school 50 years ago. Was bull then and still is. Played baseball for 30 years and at a high level.

  20. We might be looking at it the wrong way…park has likely been there for years and was likely in a remote location at one time. Urban sprawl means complaints. People aren’t happy unless they’re bitching about something. Happened with my dad and his farm, he got tired of the pissing and moaning despite being there first and finally sold it.
    I see the park has lights…that’d be no.1 for the complaints right there.
    Enjoyed watching a game of baseball some years ago near where I live…the park is smack dab in the middle of suburbia, city planners were smart enough to make sure there was a more than adequate “no build” radius around it.
    It’s called planning.

  21. Weak men produce hard times. Welcome to the roller coaster. It’s all downhill from here.

  24. I doubt any of the soi bois in Tronna could hit a homer anyway.

    Now the butch dyke crowd… but they tend not to like hard wood or hard balls anyway so…

    ahem

  25. Maybe vaxx genocide isn’t so bad after all.

    There’s nothing wrong with Canada that 25 million dead wouldn’t fix.

  26. Funny how the more rules we have, the more lawless the country becomes. Maybe it’s not the rules.

  27. I should be congratulated. I came across three GYM posts in this thread, and didn’t bother to respond to any one of them…

    Progress!

    But what I really wanted to say was that instead of creating a new country, wouldn’t it be possible to surgically remove Toronto (and on that note, Ottawa…) from this one? The ROC would be much better off, wouldn’t it?

  28. This is what happens when the “woke” and the “progressives” get involved with sports.

    They take all of the fun, skill and competitiveness out of the games…..and replace it with a guy with phoney tits.

  29. Drive-by shootings are ok but you can only hold your Just In gun sideways.

  31. Gee seems the only rule they did not add was that you need to have on clean underwear to play.

    bverwey

  32. The “No Home runs are allowed” also applies to the Blue Jays at Rogers Stadium.

  33. Well, I can relate a similar Ontario story from 1973, entered a high-school fund-raising car rally, finished in a very fast time, and was disqualified for going too fast.

    A place to stand and a place to grow

    they call this land Ontari-slow.

  34. Clearly written and approved by people who were always picked last in gym class.

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