20 Year Old Ruled Eligible to Play for SRB High Baseball

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by “Stretch” DeTrooth

College athletics has gotten crazy. Name, image, and likeness (NIL) has given college athletes the opportunity to legally get paid. Many college football and basketball players are getting paid 7 figures, and it’s taken the amateurism out of both sports. In addition to the obscene NIL deals, you also have the transfer portal. Players can transfer to another school basically at will. Everyone is a free agent open to the highest bidder. It’s turned into the Wild West, and now you can add more thing to the madness.

A male pro basketball player named Charles Bediako who was playing in the G League came back to Alabama to play, but he was ruled ineligible after playing 5 games for the Crimson Tide. Another pro basketball player named Amari Bailey is fighting to be able to come back and play college basketball, and Bailey actually played in NBA games. This is insane, but the NCAA is powerless to stop it. I’m sure there will be more to come until legislation is passed or the conferences ban it.

This issue has now popped up in high school in The Valley. Former Strong River Bend (SRB) High baseball player, Sammy Bonds, just got an emergency stay yesterday by the Valley County courts that will allow him to play with the SRB High baseball team this season. River Hills High School, SRB’s biggest rival, filed a lawsuit to keep Bonds from playing for SRB High this year, but Bonds was granted an emergency stay that will allow him to play. Bonds is 20 years old, and he graduated from SRB 2 years ago. Bonds played one year at Valley State Community College, but he left college after one year to work in his family’s business.

SRB High baseball coach Sparky Granderson said, “Sammy is a great man, I mean kid. We’re glad to have him back with us for the season. He wasn’t able to play his sophomore year in high school because he got mono, so it’s only fair that he gets an extra season. River Hills is just upset because they know Sammy is a great pitcher, and his addition makes us the favorite to win the district. I don’t make the rules; I just try to abide by them. The court ruled him eligible, so there you go.”

Just about everyone except the SRB faithful is unhappy about Bonds’ eligibility. One local high school baseball coach said, “This is just stupid. SRB’s principal could stop this, Coach Granderson can stop it. But, all they care about is winning. So, the judge has a son on the baseball team at SRB, and it just so happens the stay expires when baseball season is over. How convenient! You shouldn’t be able to play in high school after you’ve already played college ball and you’re 20 freakin years old. It’s retarded!”

A River Hills parent said, “So, my son has to play against a grown man now? Really!? Imagine if this was football; I’m sure it’ll happen in football next year. This has to stop! I guess we’re gonna have to bring back one of our studs from a few years ago. I guess we just need to find a judge to side with us. That dude is going to get booed so bad when they play at River Hills. It’s gonna be worse than when Lane Kiffin and LSU play in Oxford this fall!”

This all seems insane, but all you need is a sympathetic judge to sign off on it. This trend will more than likely continue until legislation is passed. It didn’t pass this year, but wait until school choice passes! It’s going to be the Wild West on steroids.