Does anyone else find the idiocy in the UCLA/Ole Miss softball coaches throwing their pitchers 232. & 190+ pitches in their game yesterday? Unfu*cking believable. Mike Smith used to coach at Cal Baptist and throw Tori Fierro quite a bit but one would think that Taryn Mowatt would have provided a voice of reason. On the other side, I guess you'd make the argument that Lisa Fernandez is tainted by the old softball myths about the motion being different than baseball and doing no harm to the kid's arm since she was from that era.
I hope that the pitchers involved are OK. They may not feel the effects now, but they will likely feel them in the future. The coaches are self serving morons, using these kids for their own "professional" glory. They taint the real professionals who look past the instant gratification of a win towards the long term well being of their players.
The real testament to the idiocy is that they weren't really pitching that well. 15 runs scored in 22 innings of work.