ok, what's wrong with this?

[Outdoorsman]

This one popped up again after last year's little league season. The local paper doesn't have a photog and I tossed them this pic to see if they were interested in having some decent shots. I think this is just fine (some blown out highlights, but hey, it would have been printed small and in B&W anyway), but there wasn't even a peep from the editor. No reply, no response. What was so wrong with this that it didn't even get a response (when, like, NOBODY else is submitting pics like this)? Did I screw it up somehow?