I don't know the facts, but it almost sounds as if you are trying to justify something that you really know that happened. The worst thing that someone can do as far as I'm concerned is to point out that everyone is against "your kid". And yes, I do agree most the time kids react to parents comments, and what the parents themselves are saying about someones kid. And as mentioned from what I have read there is allot of my kid is all that, and he can do this so much better than your kid. And that is just how parents, and kids are taking it, where you are from. Words like smash, quick pin, 60 stright pitches that are strikes, my kid was in a class full of idiots, ECT. I have been around some very good athlete through my kids sports, and most all the top ones who have records, are the star players, who won the game, the best wrestler, and so on. I honestly can say I have never heard anything bad about those kids, unless the parents came across to everyone else that "MY KID IS THE TEAM", "MY KID WON THE GAME", and so on. Same goes even for my daughters sports. But the ones who where the target of criticism are the ones with annoying parents, blaming everone else for the lose, the ones, who my kid is all this, and that, and he did all this and the other kids suck is why the lost. Are the ones who usaully get these types of lables. The ones who are the true stars, and champions, are the ones who never brag about what they do, or did. Their parents are not constintally bragging to everyone else, that my kid did this is why we won. For they will have enough other people doing that for them that they will not need to.