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The Kid has Class
More than some adults
Little League star Mo'Ne Davis goes to bat for her Twitter tormentor
Mo'Ne Davis, the teenage pitching phenom who took Little League by storm and has inspired a Disney movie, went to bat Monday for a college star who got kicked off his team for a nasty tweet about her.
The 13-year-old, who was named Associated Press Female Athlete of the Year for 2014, reportedly wrote to Bloomsburg University in Pennsylvania and asked the school to reconsider its decision to eject Joey Casselberry, who sent out a tweet calling Davis a "slut" on Friday and ridiculing the idea of a movie about the girl, who exploded onto the national stage with her performance during last summer’s Little League World Series for the Taney Dragons of Philadelphia.
But Mo'Ne showed she has a heart as golden as her right arm, sending an e-mail to Bloomsburg President David Soltz asking that Casselberry be given a second strike.
"He made one dumb mistake," Mo'Ne wrote in an e-mail to Soltz. "I’m sure he would go back and change it if he could."
For his part, Casselberry, a sophomore first baseman and one of Bloomsburg's top sluggers, has apologized, but the school gave him the boot.
“Bloomsburg University is deeply saddened by what was written about Mo'ne Davis by one of our student-athletes," the school said in a statement. "His words do not represent us. We take matters very seriously; addressed the issue with the student-athlete (who has been dismissed from the team), coach and the team.”
Even Mo'Ne's e-mail did not sway the school, although Bloomsburg spokesman Tom McGuire said officials respect Davis' opinion and maturity.
"Her request demonstrates the type of person she is, her level of maturity and the empathy that her family and coach teach her," the school told FoxNews.com in a statement. "Bloomsburg University stands firm on our decision; however, his consequences will be reviewed as is common in disciplinary actions like this."
We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists.
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She is a class act and Bloomburg's action was the right one. People like Casselberry need to think before stuffing foot into mouth. What a jerk he is.
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She IS a class act ! 
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Atta girl Mo'ne. A level of maturity greater than the person who talked sh!t about you.
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When someone resorts to calling another person a slut, whore, faggot, queer, etc, they have lost whatever point they were trying to make and have shown themselves to be a complete loser.
In this instance, the girl's reaction shows she has so much more character that this sorry-azz loser.