芝生化奮闘記

今年の夏の甲子園の決勝戦が再試合となり、両チームのエースが連投について今朝の新聞のこういうコメントが掲載された。

「しかし、極限に近い過酷な条件で、将来ある高校生が肘や肩の重大な怪我の危険にさらされる状態は改善される必要がある。」

たかが３回ぐらいの連投でこんなことを書くならば、一年間３００日以上、毎日４時間前後の練習についてもっと指摘してほしいです。

はっきり言って、この記者の発想の乏しさには驚いています。

Today's newspaper carried the following comment regarding the final of this year's high school summer baseball tournament, which had to be replayed the next day due to the initial match being tied at the time deadline.

"However, there is an urgent need to improve the situation in which elbows and shoulders of high school students, with all the potential, are being exposed to risk of serious injury by being exposed to extreme circumstances."

If the journalist is going to make such a comment merely about a pitcher having to pitch on 3 or 4 consecutive days, then I ask why he makes no comment about the fact that these same pitchers have been forced to endure 4 hours or more of training on in excess of 300 days a year.

The journalist's lack of knowledge, common sense, and intelligence leave me almost speechless.