Adults take little league sports way too seriously.
Especially when they lose.
The latest example comes from Texas where Kenneth Wendt, who is a Harris County sergeant and a volunteer youth baseball coach. The team he was coaching lost and he wasn’t too happy about that instead of being mature and taking the loss like an adult, he acted like a child during the team handshakes after the game.
While the kids were shaking his hand and saying good game, he squeezed their hands too hard, jerked them, and bumped into them. They were even heard talking about how much it hurt.
Video went viral and now Wendt has been fired as the coach and is being investigated by the precinct. He should be fired from there too because if that’s how he treats kids just imagine how he treats adults.
A Harris County Constable Precinct 5 sergeant has been relieved of duty pending the outcome of an investigation into his actions at a youth baseball game in west Houston last weekend, according to the constable’s office.
Harris County Constable Precinct 5 said the Houston Police Department is handling the investigation into Kenneth Wendt’s poor sportsmanship that was caught on camera after his 9-and-under Scorpions Baseball team lost to Prospects Baseball on Saturday.
The two youth baseball teams had just finished a game and lined up to high-five.
Wendt, the youth coach for the Scorpions Baseball team, the team that lost, was seen on video bumping into the first kids in the line from the opposing team, acting in an aggressive manner, according to parents.
They come in and they slap you hard on the hand. And you’ll be like, ‘hey, don’t do that.’ But an adult, you wouldn’t expect it,” Prospects 9U baseball coach Victor Torres said. “I was upset. I was really upset.”
The Scorpios Baseball organization said his actions were unacceptable and did not align with the organization’s values.
He was removed from the team the following day.Precinct 5 said no other information on this incident can be released until the investigation is complete.
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