US youth are physical and mental whimps. This leads to a lack of pitching.

(CBS News):"Only three out of 10 young people between the ages of 17 and 24 even qualify to serve in the Army, CBS News national security correspondent David Martin reports.

• The rest are ineligible either because they didn’t graduate from high school, have a police record or are not physically fit.

“It doesn’t surprise me, because I really think we don’t see as much physical activity either in schools or outside of schools as we used to,” said Maria Tukeva, the principal of Bell Multicultural High School in Washington, D.C., where, until recently,

• gym class was impossible.

“We had no gymnasium, no sports equipment or field of any kind,” Tukeva said.

• Now she has a new building, complete with a weight room. But Coach Iwan Balcet says

• the kids who use it are

• the exception."

via Lucianne.com

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