Announcement
Be Part Of The Solution And Not Part Of A Problem.
DO YOUR WORK DETAIL NOW..
The following was printed in this Fridays Daily News after a parent on the Instructional Dodgers (see the story below) called the newspaper to complain that the bathrooms were closed and that she had heard that the team would not be allowed to play their next game (which was untrue) unless the league found out who left the foul mouthed voice mail.
Out of 15 players on the Dodgers only 3 have completed their work detail and one is the exempt manager..
We have gone far beyond the allocated resources
making room for kids to play as the league is bursting at the seams with participation at an all time high.
So please your volunteer work is needed!
None of this stuff makes anybody look good..
All sign-ups for work detail must be completed by June 4...
New York Daily News - http://www.nydailynews.com
Dad's loo-ny tirade at Lil' League
BY NICHOLAS HIRSHON DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Friday, May 12th, 2006
A father upset over closed rest rooms at the Queens field where his son plays baseball unleashed a potty-mouthed tirade on Little League officials' voice mails last week - but apologized after the anonymous message was traced back to him, the league president said. The caller was upset at management because of the recent closing of the men's and women's rest rooms at the Seither Stadium fields at 78th Ave. and Woodhaven Blvd. in Glendale, the home of Ridgewood-Glendale-Middle Village-Maspeth Little League. A notice posted on the doors of the bathrooms said they were closed indefinitely "due to the continued inability of the people using the rest rooms to keep them in somewhat reasonably clean shape and to treat them as their own."
A check of the rest room building yesterday revealed that the notice had been removed. Patrick Piteo, the League's volunteer president, said the man left the angry message on Piteo's personal voice mail as well as the clubhouse's voice mail. Piteo added that he was out of town when the message was left on his voice mail one night last week, and that his 10-year-old son was the first to hear it.
The caller's son plays for the Dodgers, an instructional division team sponsored by City Councilman Dennis Gallagher (R-Middle Village). In the voice mail message, which Piteo played back for the Daily News, the male caller threatened, "Next time, if you keep the bathroom closed, I'll make sure that all the kids start peeing on all your tables" and other equipment. Piteo said he first asked the Dodgers' manager to find out who the caller was before the team's next game but, using caller ID, he was able to match the message with the phone number of the father.
Stacey Shaw, whose daughter, Alexis, plays for the Dodgers, complained that Piteo would have suspended the team if he had not been able to identify the man who left the message. "I think that everything that they're doing is not in the best interest of the children," she said. "No father should call cursing and screaming ... but to punish the child for the parent's action isn't correct." Piteo explained that the bathrooms were closed when Little League officials discovered on April 30 that somebody had defecated on a toilet bowl, the floor and the walls. He said the decision to close them was made at a board meeting with parents' present.
"In the scheme of things, the bathrooms are a privilege," he said, adding that no one volunteered to clean them. According to Shaw, some children were forced to urinate outside because a league official refused to open the bathroom for them. But Piteo pointed out that only four or five parents in the 1,000-child organization had called to complain about the closed bathrooms. He said the 55-year-old Little League has poured $46,000 into fixing its fields.
