Thursday, February 07, 2013
Enrique Soto Sentenced To Ten Years In Prison
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posted on February 07, 2013 at 03:41 PM by Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Griffin (Vlad) to amateur, athletics, general, international, latin america, oakland
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Enrique Soto, one of baseball’s most prominent trainers in the Dominican Republic for the last two decades, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison after being convicted of charges of sexually assaulting two boys that were part of his academy 10 years ago, according to a report that first aired Monday night in the Dominican Republic on Noticias Sin.
Better late than never.
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1 2 3 4 >WTF tenet of the Church does a girl playing baseball go against?
That's the beauty of organized religion based on arcane scripture - you can pretty much find a way to justify anything you want. It's great!
Its not the Catholic Church, this time at least:
Except, if you're really a traditional Catholic, you're not supposed to be interpreting scripture on your own.
Good for you!
Nutjobs! Get your nutjobs here!
She shoulda taken the field and offered the opposing pitcher and apple.
Our Lady of Sorrows is run by the U.S. branch of the Society of Saint Pius X, a group of conservative, traditionalist priests who disagree with the reforms of the Vatican II Council in the 1960s and broke with the Catholic Church in the 1980s.
I know very well who the SSPX are. They've not actually formally broken with the Church, though their in an irregular situation. Their founder ordained 4 bishops without permission, and all 5 were excommunicated. Pope Benedict lifted the excommunication a couple of years ago, and there's actually a negotiation going on right now to bring them back into full alignment.
Aren't they the nutters from Mexico with the founder with the little boy problem?
Nope. That's the Legion of Christ/Regnum Christi.
Macial was really an F-up. Also had several long-term girlfriends and multiple children.
The SSPX are also known as Lefebvrists (after their founder Bishop Lefebvre).
Okay. My bad. Should have known better than to name his group "legion."
In that movie with Ben Stiller?
Randy Baum gets the "Blaming the Wrong Party" award for this ridiculous state of affairs.
So they're Lefebvre Believers?
I think I see the connection now - the '89-'91 Mariners never played a game against a team with a girl, either. Luckily Bob Shirley retired in '87.
<slow sarcastic golf clap>
He can cry all he wants, but Spanky knows he didn't get the tag down on Sid Bream.
Oh...
Ha Ha
/nelson
If it were tackle Football, or wrestling, or boxing, I would sympathize. It's a perfectly valid viewpoint that boys/men should never be physically aggressive towards girls/women.
But baseball and flag football?
The messy problem of rampant Lefebvrist anti-Semitism needs to be dealt with.
Dude, you know this has nothing to do with violence and everything to do with sex. They might touch a breast or something.
You may be right in this case; although I have no idea why they would worry about that in baseball.
I'm just saying, there are legitimate reasons not to want to have boys playing girls in real contact sports.
There are wackos in every group, and the wackos are the one most likely to head into schism if the main Society reaches an agreement with the Pope (as is expected this month).
The anti-semites are certainly more likely to be dealt and marginalized with within the broader Church, rather than within a break away faction.
Second base. Can't have a boy sliding in to break up the DP and having a girl land on top of him. He might jizz his pants or something.
Really, this is about archaic gender roles and the belief that women aren't worthy of being equal to men.
Again, you could be right in this. I have no idea what these people think, but that's not generally true about Traditional Catholics.
Believing that women and men are different doesn't mean you believe they are unequal.
One time when I was about 14 my baseball team played an All-Star girls team. My brother caught and I played SS, and this one girl was taking a super aggressive secondary lead off 2B. So my brother and I had one of those sibling-psychic moments and after the next pitch he gunned it down to pick her off. These girls were quite good (and from what I gathered quite competitive), she was well out but came in spikes high and ripped a gash in my pants from crotch to knee. It was certainly a lively experience, but I can tell you I wasn't in any danger of being aroused.
Shoulda backhanded her and told her to make you some dinner.
You really are a piece of work. What you are implying is that it's OK for boys/men to be physically aggressive towards other boys/men outside the arena of contact sports, which is a pretty screwed up viewpoint.
My daughter plays full contact football, and gives as good as she gets. It's taught her, among other things, enormous self confidence notibly lacking in most of her girl friends, that she is not some sort of fragile flower that the world has to treat with kid gloves. She stands up for herself in many instances in which her peers do not. Between football and her Tae Kwan Do red belt (yes, she spars with the boys), no one better mess with her.
The over/under is that you put three people on ignore and leave before post 200.
You really are a piece of work. What you are implying is that it's OK for boys/men to be physically aggressive towards other boys/men outside the arena of contact sports, which is a pretty screwed up viewpoint.
I implied no such thing.
But there's a big difference between boys rough-housing, or even men getting into fisticuffs, and hitting a girl or woman. If you don't see that, I'm sorry for you.
If you got a call from school that said your son was in trouble for punching a kid that was teasing him, your reaction wouldn't be different based on whether it was a boy or a girl?
Snapper, you can't believe that this thread will end well for you :-)
The over/under is that you put three people on ignore and leave before post 200.
I'll take the under on both. Way under on the posts. I'm leaving for dinner, and then I'm going to watch CC-Price.
Oh, no doubt. She's only 10, and I don't see her playing more than a year or 2 more. These south Florida 10-12 year old boys hit hard enough. Plus, I don't want to take a chance she impacts her swimming, because that's where the (scholarship) money is at : )
of course you did. How else to interpret this?:
The implication is clear, that if boys/men are aggressive in the context of sport, then they will be outside of that context. Otherwise, why care? It's just a competition. But you seem to care only about the potential aggressiveness of males toward females but not males toward other males, because obviously it's OK for boys to play football against other boys.
You missed the joke.
It doesn't matter one way or the other.
I would not be comfortable being physically aggressive towards a woman, even in the context of the sport. I would not tackle a woman in football. When I've played basketball against women, I was far less physically aggressive; e.g. make sure to keep the elbows down, don't risk hard fouls, etc.
I don't favor physical aggression by males vs. males (I've never started a fight in my life) but it's far less concerning, and not out of bounds in every situation.
His daughter is also named Briene of Tarth.
Yes. I played CA class I youth soccer and each year from around 10 to 14 years old my team would scrimmage against the girls' team 2-3 years older than us. Those girls were really rough.
I was going to make that joke! But then I recalled that my Baelor the Blessed reference already started up a nerd thread a couple days ago.
I will limit my role as pedantic Westeros-lover to correcting the spelling on Brienne.
That's you own personal choice, and that's fine, but it's not a position that should be institutionalized in any way. That faux Catholic school should be suspended from all inter school sports for a year, and permanently banned if they pull a stunt like that again.
Obviously. They're into water sports.
<slow sarcastic Roger Cedeno clap>
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