Play Ball

Alright maybe I’m not the brightest bulb in the universe but I do know that the major reason that kids in this nation are getting bigger and bigger around the waist band is that they are no longer going out and playing outside. Ok I admit I did once in a while chose not to go outside on a nice day to play basketball or touch football and instead played on my friends Xbox until my head hurt from staring at the screen for to long. But I played organized sports all year long so I could get away with staying inside once in a while. After seeing this story I have come to a conclusion that Americans hate to see kids taking the intiative in them having fun.

My friends and I always had plans to build things we could use for our own entertainment, but we either never got started or if we couldn’t build it in two days we went on to do something else. These kids, however, built a legit wiffle ball field in an empty lot using building material that would give Tim Taylor trouble. All their hard work was for nothing as bitter neighbors continually called the police and even threatened to sue the town if they did not do anything to stop these kids from having FUN. This is sad and pathetic and is a perfict example of the direction the majority of the country is headed. The neighbhors complaints included kids playing until past nine at night, more then fifty kids playing at one time, and a noise and privacy concern. What a load of B.S. if fifty kids in my town growing up got a wiffle ball tournament going down at the local little league field I would have been down there in a heart beat. I did not have an opportunity like these kids and it pisses me off that there are people out there that would take an opportunity for these kids to play and have fun being kids without being supervised by adults.

The town to there credit did try to compromise allowing the kids to play at a old school baseball field. The great thinkers in the town though either forgot or did not do their research about the surrounding area of the field. In the middle of the parking lot next to the field is a trailer with a health warning about aesbestos. Does this town get what they are doing. These kids are not stupid many of them after reading the sign said that there is no way that they are going to play near that trailer. I don’t blame them for their reasoning. These kids did something that fewer and fewer kids are doing in our country play outdoors.

If the kids in my neighborhood wanted to play wiffleball in the empty lot next to my house I wouldn’t say a word as a matter of fact I would enjoy watching the kids enjoy themselves playing outside and away from the T.V. and game consoles which control our entertainment now. I salute these kids for taking it upon themselves to improve the area in which they played their hearts out. Our country needs more kids like these if we are to become a nation in which all others envy around the world but for now we’ll just have to watch as the nations youth’s waistlines keep bulging more each year.