Anyone else disgusted?

I totally agree!

However, I honestly don't think what that kid did with the monster walk was directed at the other team nay more than when the kid hit that HR tonight that beat NY and ran around the bases raising his arms, hands and fists in the air. To me that was an act of jubilation and celebration, not, an "in your face" jab at the other team or anyone on it.

To me, the right fielder in that game taking off his hat throwing it, or at least looking like he was throwing it, wasn't an act of poor sportsmanship either. I think it was a 12 YO kid showing the dejection and frustration of getting so close and then losing the game.

There are some who say the monster walk was a show of "something negative towards the other team" making it unsportsmanlike conduct, and there are others who would say what the right fielder did was also unsportsmanlike even though it wasn't directed at the other team.

It wouldn't be a leap to say when we start censoring the actions of players too much, what would follow is a player not being allowed to even smile when he hit a walk off grand slam to win the game by one run, or cry if he gave it up.

These are kids and they shouldn't be expected to have the same emotional control as an adult. They're still learning and can be molded, but they are still children!

Maybe I am a liberal. At least in the sense that I don't believe every display of emotion by a child is a display of a lack of proper social behavior, or an indication that the child wasn't being raised properly by his parents.

To borrow a line from a very old sports show, I think its great for a child to be able to experience both "the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat" without being declared a social deviant!