commitment - whatever happened to it?

Okay, so Timmy's baseball team took first place in the regular season. Wednesday was the first game of a 3 game playoff series. There is a boy on the team that I've only met once. Timmy said this boy never comes to any games because he signed up for something else. In fact the only time I've ever seen this boy was at a game where he and Timmy each got a blizzard from the coach because of something they did at the practice that weekend before. Said boy has played in about 2 -3 games out of 16 regular season and he still gets a trophy. Then his mom tells the coaches last night that he'll be at all the games this weekend. Why? Because there is another trophy involved? They paid the money for him to be in the league. Then they are never there. To me that's teaching your kid that it's okay to quit in the middle (well not even the middle) of something, and that it's okay to back out on your commitments. I think that integrity is something to be valued and we need to instill this in our kids. If they've committed to something then they need to fulfill that commitment. Timmy joined flag football when he was in first grade. He ended up not wanting to play and he'd sit on the sidelines or stand there out in the field in a daze. When game day came he didn't want to go but we told him that he signed up and committed to this team and he can't quit now. If he doesn't like it, he'll never have to sign up again. So we went to every game and stuck it out until the end of the season. Turns out he doesn't like football and has no interest in signing up again, which is fine with me.