GolfHos
 
*
November 14, 2024, 09:55:28 AM
Username: Password: Duration:

This Makes Me Want To Zip Home And Hug My Kid

 
Pages: [1]   Go Down
  Print  
Author Topic: This Makes Me Want To Zip Home And Hug My Kid  (Read 2001 times)
0 Members and 1 Lurker/Spider are viewing this topic.
Clive
Full Metal Jacket

Karma: 77
Posts: 4358
Offline Offline


View ProfileIgnore this user
This Makes Me Want To Zip Home And Hug My Kid
« on: May 19, 2008, 11:03:48 AM »

Quote
WAYNE, N.J. - She wraps her arms around her son, gently raising the spindly 14-year-old boy off a couch to his feet. She hugs him and rubs his back, whispering "I love you" over and over.  Steven Domalewski moves his head to kiss his mother, but all he can manage are slurping sounds in front of her lips. His head flops onto her shoulder, spent from the effort.

Less than two years ago, Domalewski was a happy, healthy star pitcher on a youth baseball team coached by his father. He loved martial arts, climbed every tree on the block and zoomed down his street on inline skates. He once shot an arrow into the wall of his basement rec room.

Now Domalewski is severely disabled, left with brain damage after being struck in the chest by a line drive that stopped his heart while he was playing in a youth baseball game....

Domalewski was pitching, on the mound 45 feet from home plate. He wasn't a hard thrower, but he had excellent control. In the fourth inning, the first two batters reached base. He went to a full count on the third batter.  What happened next unfolded in a flash, but has resulted in an agonizing, slow-motion purgatory for Steven and his family.

The batter rocketed a shot off a 31-ounce metal bat. The ball slammed into Steven's chest, just above his heart, knocking him backward. He clutched his chest, then made a motion to reach for the ball on the ground to pick it up and throw to first base.  But he never made it that far. The ball had struck his chest at the precise millisecond between heartbeats, sending him into cardiac arrest, according to his doctors. He crumpled to the ground and stopped breathing.

His father, a school teacher who had been on the sideline, and a third base coach from the other team ran onto the field. Steven already was turning blue.  Someone yelled, "Call 911!" Within 90 seconds, a man trained in cardiopulmonary resuscitation who had been playing catch with his 9-year-old daughter jumped the fence and started to work on Steven.  Paramedics, who were a quarter-mile away doing a CPR demonstration, arrived within minutes. They placed an oxygen mask over Steven's face and rushed him to a hospital. But the damage had been done; his brain had been without oxygen for 15 to 20 minutes.

"Pretty much, he died," Joseph Domalewski said, wiping away tears. "It was just so fast. The thud, you could hear. When it hit him, that seemed to echo."
ARTICLE
Logged Return to Top
Spanky
Full Metal Jacket

Karma: 48
Posts: 4842
Offline Offline


View ProfileIgnore this user
Re: This Makes Me Want To Zip Home And Hug My Kid
« Reply #1 on: May 19, 2008, 11:09:04 AM »

I heard about that. My son plays baseball. Typically catcher and outfield.

I didn't read the whole article but does it mention about a chest plate that can be worn to protect against this?
Logged Return to Top
Walfredo
Straitjacket

Karma: 18
Posts: 2013
Offline Offline

Paintin the town brown

View ProfileIgnore this user
Re: This Makes Me Want To Zip Home And Hug My Kid
« Reply #2 on: May 19, 2008, 11:11:41 AM »

very sad
Logged Return to Top

For hither not, I am the stallion.
Come fear, come love, I am the stallion.
You know that I am the stallion, mang.
I am, I am the stallion, mang.
You know that I am the stallion, mang.
I live, I walk, I am the stallion, mang.
Aske
Lederhosen

Karma: 120
Posts: 31405
Offline Offline


View ProfileIgnore this user
Re: This Makes Me Want To Zip Home And Hug My Kid
« Reply #3 on: May 19, 2008, 11:15:48 AM »

saw that on the news the other day.
 
Logged Return to Top

Quote
Russia has invaded a sovereign neighboring state and threatens a democratic government elected by its people. Such an action is unacceptable in the 21st century.
--  Chimpy McFlightsuit, CEO of Bu$hco Industries of 'Merka
Clive
Full Metal Jacket

Karma: 77
Posts: 4358
Offline Offline


View ProfileIgnore this user
Re: This Makes Me Want To Zip Home And Hug My Kid
« Reply #4 on: May 19, 2008, 11:17:09 AM »

I didn't read the whole article but does it mention about a chest plate that can be worn to protect against this?
Nope.

I pitched, and I can remember some liners back through the box that I barely got any glove on.  That was with wood bats, but I also have the slowest reflexes known to man.
Logged Return to Top
Aske
Lederhosen

Karma: 120
Posts: 31405
Offline Offline


View ProfileIgnore this user
Re: This Makes Me Want To Zip Home And Hug My Kid
« Reply #5 on: May 19, 2008, 11:20:28 AM »

mound is too close for kids nowadays, at least at the top 25% level above age 10 or so.

if they can wield a bat heavier than about 26-27oz  or pitch above 60+mph,  it's time to size up  with modern equipment.

Logged Return to Top

Quote
Russia has invaded a sovereign neighboring state and threatens a democratic government elected by its people. Such an action is unacceptable in the 21st century.
--  Chimpy McFlightsuit, CEO of Bu$hco Industries of 'Merka
Walfredo
Straitjacket

Karma: 18
Posts: 2013
Offline Offline

Paintin the town brown

View ProfileIgnore this user
Re: This Makes Me Want To Zip Home And Hug My Kid
« Reply #6 on: May 19, 2008, 11:36:39 AM »

mound is too close for kids nowadays, at least at the top 25% level above age 10 or so.

if they can wield a bat heavier than about 26-27oz  or pitch above 60+mph,  it's time to size up  with modern equipment.


I agree.  The form of little league we played did a great job of keeping up with mound distance.  I can't remember the exact numbers but I know 12 year olds were at least 50 feet away probably more.  I know our mound was a lot farther than the televised little league WS BS they call baseball. 
Logged Return to Top

For hither not, I am the stallion.
Come fear, come love, I am the stallion.
You know that I am the stallion, mang.
I am, I am the stallion, mang.
You know that I am the stallion, mang.
I live, I walk, I am the stallion, mang.
Blader
Straitjacket

Karma: 21
Posts: 2075
Offline Offline

vagazzling vajayjays since 1876!!

View Profile WWWIgnore this user
Re: This Makes Me Want To Zip Home And Hug My Kid
« Reply #7 on: May 19, 2008, 11:48:51 AM »

mound is too close for kids nowadays, at least at the top 25% level above age 10 or so.

if they can wield a bat heavier than about 26-27oz  or pitch above 60+mph,  it's time to size up  with modern equipment.


I agree.  The form of little league we played did a great job of keeping up with mound distance.  I can't remember the exact numbers but I know 12 year olds were at least 50 feet away probably more.  I know our mound was a lot farther than the televised little league WS BS they call baseball. 


Blader jr (12 yo) was pitching the other night and got creamed by a line drive back to him...in his right shoulder.  Could have been a lot worse.

Glad his mom wasn't there at the time
Logged Return to Top
Torpedo
Full Metal Jacket

Karma: 9
Posts: -6999
Offline Offline

ADP for MVP!

View ProfileIgnore this user
Re: This Makes Me Want To Zip Home And Hug My Kid
« Reply #8 on: May 19, 2008, 03:25:44 PM »

Sad. Sad
Logged Return to Top

Amateurs built the Ark, professionals built the Titanic ...



"And Adrian Peterson is loose!"
tdcoly
Tartan Jacket
From: The home of misfits, renegades, blowhards, idiots and fools.

Karma: 10
Posts: 1279
Offline Offline

Us Dags

View ProfileIgnore this user
Re: This Makes Me Want To Zip Home And Hug My Kid
« Reply #9 on: May 19, 2008, 04:13:56 PM »

Aluminum bats are the bane of LLB. Shocked
Logged Return to Top

"I'm only speeding 'cause I really have to poop"-as seen on a bumper sticker
Darla
Vest & Plus Fours
From: I'm with stupid

Karma: 14
Posts: 861
Offline Offline


View ProfileIgnore this user
Re: This Makes Me Want To Zip Home And Hug My Kid
« Reply #10 on: May 19, 2008, 05:50:22 PM »

really wish I missed this one. Very sad  Sad

I guess I can't protect my kids forever!
Logged Return to Top
Dunk
Vest & Plus Fours

Karma: 14
Posts: 984
Offline Offline


View ProfileIgnore this user
Re: This Makes Me Want To Zip Home And Hug My Kid
« Reply #11 on: May 19, 2008, 09:37:30 PM »

Ah crap. Sad
Logged Return to Top
Uisce Beatha
Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
From: In the Jar

Karma: 116
Posts: 7357
Offline Offline

Get me the tank!

View ProfileIgnore this user
Re: This Makes Me Want To Zip Home And Hug My Kid
« Reply #12 on: May 19, 2008, 09:39:24 PM »

I saw the news program too.  This kid is seriously disabled.  I don't know squat about baseball and the lawsuit could be spot on or frivolous as hell without me knowing.  Nevertheless, I don't begrudge those parents any relief they might obtain.

Horrible even to think about.   Sad
Logged Return to Top

"If you're darker than a caramel, Reverend Al speaks for you." - Aasif Mandvi
"Well, you can tell by the way I use my walk, I'm a woman's man: no time to talk." - stroh
Pages: [1]   Return to Top
  Print  
 
Jump to:  

Related Posts
keep your eye on the ball.
This makes me want to zip home and whip a basketball at the neighbor kids.
by stroh

What's The Closest You've Ever Come ...
Driving along a neighborhood street up the hill towards my home.  It was no
by geo1

Robber just wanted a hug?!!
Yeah, it does.  Say, if I come into your house with a gun, will you give me
by stroh

What's The Closest You've Ever Come ...
In high school, relatively new driver, in mom's mini-van. I was waiting to
by spacey

 


 
  Powered by SMF | SMF © 2001-2009, Lewis Media

Dilber MC Theme by HarzeM