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By Brent Axe | baxe@syracuse.com
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on January 15, 2014 at 3:46 PM, updated January 15, 2014 at 4:41 PM
A little league baseball coach in California is suing one of his own players for $500,000 for hitting him with a baseball helmet during a "walk-off" celebration.
KCRA 3 in Sacramento reports that the coach, Alan Beck, claims that the player’s "carelessness" led to the helmet hitting him in his Achilles tendon and tearing it.
The player’s father, Joe Paris, says his son threw his helmet into the air in celebration while crossing home plate with the game-winning run after a double that won the game for his son's team in the ninth inning.
"I actually thought it was a joke at first," Paris told KCRA about the lawsuit. "Now, I think it's absurd."
Paris said he has already paid $4,000 in legal bills responding to the lawsuit.
"I don't think he meant to hurt him. But, what the kid did, it crossed the line," said Gene Goldman, the coach's Santa Ana-based attorney.
Does this even have a chance in hell?
How big of a jackass you have to be to suit kid over something like this!