Here’s a general rule of thumb: If coaching a youth sports event, one should not become so enraged with an opposing coach that he or she physically charges them and attacks them so violently that it warrants an arrest for assault.
Sadly, two South Bend, Ind. T-ball coaches failed to heed that simple advice, with a coach aggressively attacking his opposing equal number, knocking him to the ground and pummeling him while his players looked on in tears.
The coaches involved were 32-year-old Anthony Borders -- he’s your alleged attacker -- and 56-year-old Oscar Cantu. The two coaches allegedly began verbally sparring with one another during a summer matchup, with the Maurice Matthys Little League umpire on site intervening to keep the event from escalating in the early innings.
According to South Bend ABC affiliate WBND, the second time the coaches began chattering at each other, Borders made a hard charge directly at Cantu before he even had a chance to prepare.
"All of a sudden we were arguing and I was on the ground- I didn't see it coming. I didn't know what happened," Cantu told WBND. "I was on the ground and when I looked around I knew there was a couple of my kids that were crying."
Police showed up on the scene shortly thereafter and Cantu bleeding on the ground, leading to Borders’ arrest for assault. WBND reported that Cantu was recovering shortly after the attack, but that he suffered a broken nose and burst blood vessels in his eyes from the attack.
To think that all of that came from a far-too-heated argument during a t-ball game. The children may have been crying because of the violence, but they easily could have been crying at the coaches’ collective idiocy, too.
I feel like this story has a major hole in it...such as, what caused this attack? I am a huge supporter of parents being tough on their kids, especially in sports, because I don't want to have my son turn out to be the next Clay Aiken. There's 2 major things that could've caused this attack that I believe we all could see as legitimate: 1) The opposing coach threw at one of the attacking coaches players. There's a chance this could happen, especially if the player being thrown at is the next Yaisiel Puig, fresh off the boat with a bat in hand. And if somebody threw at my star player and I was a coach, no matter how old the players were, I'd knock that guy into next week. I want the damn trophy. Whether its t-ball, single A, or MLB, I WANT TO WIN! 2) The opposing coach made some remark about how the coach who did the attacking didn't give all of his players the proper playing time. Now this shit really grinds my gears. Even playing time. If my future kid ends up sucking at a sport (which is clearly hypothetical seeing as there's no chance he will with my DNA), I'd want his coach to sit his ass on the bench and practice. I'm not gonna reward some four-year old snot who couldn't catch water if they fell of a boat be rewarded by playing centerfield because its the "league rules". Well you know what little league officials who make this dumbass rules...you can fuck off. Because when I teach my future son the value of being rewarded with playing time because you're better than the next guy and he's starting at shortstop for the white sox in 2035 and your son is working at the car dealership selling hybrid Prius's, I will laugh directly in your face. But at the end of the day, it all comes down to one thing...WINNING.
P.S. That kid in the picture definitely whiffed off the T...before you become the face of another t-ball photo, take a batting lesson squirt.
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