We are putting together our team for next year and I don’t want to leave anyone out, so how many is an ok number to take?
13, 14?
We went with 12 2 years ago and I thought we needed an extra arm, so I was planning on taking 13, but would anyone think about taking 15?
I don’t think he would have won a single fight against anyone he ever threatened. He was like 5’5” 140lbs.
Need a running list of everyone he ever threatened, maybe Seth Green might be the only one he would have a chance against, even the tall chick pushed him around.
Playing in a summer all star tournament for 11U that is open to Cal Ripken and Little League teams. We have 2 kids in our grade that are too old to play with us for Williamsport since we are a LL team, and they have to play 12U.
We inquired about adding them to our roster and the tournament declined, yet the Cal Ripken teams will have all kids that are older than us. Seems weird. Anyone else ever see tourneys like this? It’s obviously a clear advantage for the Cal Ripken teams.
Does anyone know of any hitting software that I could download/buy for my computer where I can analyze swing videos?
It's my son's first year on the 60/90 field, and he's struggling to hit curveballs. Good hitter, just is constantly on his front foot when he's swinging at one and I'm not sure if he's made contact with a breaking ball yet. What are some good drills to help keep his hands back, or is it more on the approach and guessing what is coming?
If a coach or anyone for that matter advises you to catch with one knee on the ground, sitting Indian style, laying down, or any position other than a squatting position when their are runners on base, RUN!
I’ve never seen so many passed balls because catchers have 0 lateral movement when they have a knee on the ground. One you are not blocking anything that requires you to slide, and two you are not getting anything on the throws to prevent somebody from stealing.
Learn a secondary position with runners on base and give your pitcher confidence he can bury one in the dirt and it’s going to be blocked.
One knee down was invented by some nerds who never put gear on in their life. Don’t be a nerd.
Our season came to an end last weekend, and I wanted to give away awards to the kids. Nothing like MVP or Best Hitter, but baseball related awards, and enough different awards that I can give out to 12 kids.
What do you got?
What’s funny about wanting to complain about an imbalance of teams is you always look bad. My son’s season finally ended this week, and he was frustrated every game due to the teams being wildly unfair.
I did ask how teams were made and I was told the board made the teams, and with 8 teams, 4 board members somehow ended up with the 4 best teams. If I complain to people I’m a complainer who only cares about wins and losses. Isn’t that funny? Not the people who clearly stacked their own team, but the people who complain are in the wrong.
To put in context, my son didn’t have another person on the team that he could warm up with because they wouldn’t be able to catch the ball. Glad it’s over, I’ll just complain and vent here. On to the LL tournament where he can at least finally compete.
Played in an 11U tournament this weekend and the bush league stuff I see is annoying. We're a LL team playing in this tournament and we were facing a Cal Ripken team, so automatically it was going to be 10 and 11 year olds vs 11 and 12 year olds. The other team was double our size, they were always going to mercy us, which is fine, good competition to get our team ready to play vs kids their own age etc.
The other team was up 8-0, and the 3rd base coach is having his runner on 3rd run half way down the line (not a big deal, good practice for us), but then the coach is screaming GO GO GO in our pitchers windup. If you are an adult trying to distract an 11 year old kid, you are kind of a loser, plus it's not real baseball.
Every pop up, the coach was screaming, "HE COULD DROP IT, HE MIGHT DROP IT!" So finally I asked the umps if they could tell the other coach to stop screaming during the play if his goal is to distract little kids.
If you coach, don't do this. Recognize when you are the clearly better team, use it as a teaching moment to work on other baseball stuff, so dumb.