- 05:29 AM
- 01/09/09
| Member since: | June 28, 2006 |
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| Last visit: | June 28, 2006 |
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Promises kept. Matt LaChappa hasn't thrown a pitch professionally in 10 years. He is confined to a wheelchair, and constrained by the physical fallout from back-to-back heart attacks. Yet the San Diego Padres continue to pay him as if he were an active player. It might be the noblest thing they do. (courtesy of the mlb LJ community)
posted by evixir at 06:24 PM on June 28
Well, from the opening sentence it packs every trite and condescending cliche about people with disabilities, from the hackneyed and inaccurate claim that anyone is "confined" to a wheelchair, to the inevitable sentimentality about how brave those crips are.