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No **** that a 90mph arm will get you noticed anywhere. I didn’t know I had to dumb my argument down this much. But there are lots of college opportunities for baseball players, and maximizing your chances to seen by playing in tournaments full of college coaches is the easiest way to do it.

IM SORRY BUT IF YOU THROW 98MPH AND HIT 600 HOMERUNS IN YOUR HIGH SCHOO TEAM THE TEAMS WILL FIND YOU LOLOL
 
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But there are lots of college opportunities for baseball players, and maximizing your chances to seen by playing in tournaments full of college coaches is the easiest way to do it.

I always wanted to know what the upside was to playing at Brokedick Directional St. or some D3 Liberal Arts Girls Don't Shave Their Pits College.

Supposedly the coaches take it just as seriously there as their D1 counterparts, but there are basically no real stakes for the players.
 
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rudd1

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season 4 netflix GIF by Gilmore Girls
 

catlanta33

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For softball, it's all about showcases now. Can't imagine it's different for baseball. My folks spent quite a bit on me to eventually burn-out and sell door knobs but will say, travel ball was the absolute most fun I ever had as a kid. If you can grind that with them, they'll remember it forever.
 

anthonys735

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-We're firm on saying "no" to football and sticking to 1 sport at a time. Granted, we have CC and baseball about to fire up, but fall ball is 2 days a week and CC is mostly during the school day.

-If you want to do travel ball, have at it. Sounds miserable to me, but if little guy really wanted to do it over the next couple years, we'd probably suck it up. At least, his travel ball would be all local to Central Ky. So far he hasn't really asked so we just don't say anything.

-Baseball is the best for <12. After that it becomes A LOT. Missing every Spring Break. Very time consuming. All year long. Has to be a major thinning of the herd around that age.

-I've been pushing for some wrestling lately but he's not into it yet. Yet.
 

cricket3

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Is there wrestling even in Lexington? I know Woodford County has a team but I don't even know where you would start with wrestling here.
 

MobileCatFan

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*HFM DISEASE UPDATE*

-Please stay tuned for further updates!

The best part for me was when I started feeling better (yet still looked like a leper) and my finger & toe nails began falling off one by one in excruciating fashion. That was a real hoot. That and my wife dropping several not so subtle hints that I was churching up the pain to get out of handling a 2 & 3 year old. Enjoy!!!
 

Kooky Kats_anon

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Thanks @rudd1 for a tasty lunch at Thoroughbred Teverna. Nice meeting you and @anthonys735 . Look forward to extending convo with some smoked salmon and sasseetch during the Vol game.

Just scored 2 Dettling Barrel Strengths at JHOB 🤯.

Back to the Ville. Then northbound after tomorrows drop.

Ran into Luckett and Drew Franklin at KSBar as they were editing content from the todays FB practice…. Little tidbits… Barion and Dingle practiced today… Ford>Flax at RT.

I normally NEVER take off 2 weeks in a row. I feel dirty. Back to grind on Monday. But I sorely miss it.
 

Ron Mehico

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The best part for me was when I started feeling better (yet still looked like a leper) and my finger & toe nails began falling off one by one in excruciating fashion. That was a real hoot. That and my wife dropping several not so subtle hints that I was churching up the pain to get out of handling a 2 & 3 year old. Enjoy!!!


I mean GDit

Also, my wife literally just got on a flight for a girls weekend in DC so I have the 6,4, and 2 year old all weekend by myself, so it’s fine.
 

SAECATFAN

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I sometimes wonder just how much fun these middle aged women are having on GALS WEEKEND TRIPS. I mean I see the group pictures, but I'm just not buying any of it.

Oh you all suddenly became cool, laidback, fun chicks, not stressed or angry, because you got on a plane and are wearing some stupid F'ng straw hat? You've got the energy levels and stomachs for multiple days of bevvies and restaurants? Believe you me, ladies, back home your husbands know what's really going on... you're all tired, bloated, and crankier than ever. Not to mention *everyone* knows that you haven't liked each other (assuming you ever did) in years. I can also give the old SAECATFAN guarantee that not one thing anyone has said or done has actually been funny.

Sounds awful tbh.
 

roguemocha

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I sometimes wonder just how much fun these middle aged women are having on GALS WEEKEND TRIPS. I mean I see the group pictures, but I'm just not buying any of it.

Oh you all suddenly became cool, laidback, fun chicks, not stressed or angry, because you got on a plane and are wearing some stupid F'ng straw hat? You've got the energy levels and stomachs for multiple days of bevvies and restaurants? Believe you me, ladies, back home your husbands know what's really going on... you're all tired, bloated, and crankier than ever. Not to mention *everyone* knows that you haven't liked each other (assuming you ever did) in years. I can also give the old SAECATFAN guarantee that not one thing anyone has said or done has actually been funny.

Sounds awful tbh.
******* it if this the reason I’m not married, because it’s all true.

I just have a dog and he just ran off and came back. And **** it’s a lot.
 

MaxPowerrr

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I sometimes wonder just how much fun these middle aged women are having on GALS WEEKEND TRIPS. I mean I see the group pictures, but I'm just not buying any of it.

Oh you all suddenly became cool, laidback, fun chicks, not stressed or angry, because you got on a plane and are wearing some stupid F'ng straw hat? You've got the energy levels and stomachs for multiple days of bevvies and restaurants? Believe you me, ladies, back home your husbands know what's really going on... you're all tired, bloated, and crankier than ever. Not to mention *everyone* knows that you haven't liked each other (assuming you ever did) in years. I can also give the old SAECATFAN guarantee that not one thing anyone has said or done has actually been funny.

Sounds awful tbh.
OTOH…. They’re being stressed and cranky SOMEWHERE ELSE so that’s a win*






* for ol’ MaxP
 
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We have 2 girls ages 6 and 5. I have no clue if they’re truly athletic or will become above average at any sports. They really enjoy the swim team (the oldest keeps improving, made The City Meet and is very competitive), they both have started gymnastics, and the oldest will be on her school’s soccer and cheerleading teams starting next week. In the winter I’m sure we will progress to her school’s basketball team, do the winter swimming clinic at St X like we did last winter and then do spring soccer.

Between all of that, general running around letting them be kids in general and other activities it seems to be enough.

With all due respect to B Rax and his future MLB All Stars (bc those kids seem to be studs) I have no desire whatsoever to spend the majority of my weekend social life as a 40 and then 50 something year old doing anything travel sports related.
 

august-west

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You know there is one girl who is rich that the others despise, one that has the “perfect” life that the others despise, one who has no husband or children that the others are actually envious of, and one that never does anything crazy but the last night there gets insanely drunk, makes a fool of herself and ends up sleeping with Tyrone the barkeep. I’ve seen a dozen times.


In the meantime we men are basically posting online, mowing the yard, eating frozen pizza for 3 meals a day and jerking off in the shower. If we even take one. I guess what I’m saying is that we are living our good life.
 
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We have 2 girls ages 6 and 5. I have no clue if they’re truly athletic or will become above average at any sports. They really enjoy the swim team (the oldest keeps improving, made The City Meet and is very competitive), they both have started gymnastics, and the oldest will be on her school’s soccer and cheerleading teams starting next week. In the winter I’m sure we will progress to her school’s basketball team, do the winter swimming clinic at St X like we did last winter and then do spring soccer.

Between all of that, general running around letting them be kids in general and other activities it seems to be enough.

With all due respect to B Rax and his future MLB All Stars (bc those kids seem to be studs) I have no desire whatsoever to spend the majority of my weekend social life as a 40 and then 50 something year old doing anything travel sports related.
All I know is there are some elite (for Caucasian) female athletes in the family you married into. So get ready dude.
 
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Solo parenting is *ELITE* Dad time, for sure.
There was nothing better as a kid than when my dad was solely responsible for the parenting. I knew dad would just go to Subway and get a footlong for my brother and I to split for lunch and give us some cash to get something to drink. Much better than the healthy crap my mom would pack.

Plus building giant bike or 4 wheeler ramps, boxing/wrestling, rope swings, and all other manner of chaos were suddenly on the menu. GREAT TIMES.
 

krazykats

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I don’t get the travel hate, I mean I do but assuming you wouldn’t care to do the same pregame/postgame schedule at home then who cares where it’s at? Rent a hotel and hang with the kid and his friends.

It isn’t just about being a pro sports player. That time spent with his buddies cutting up and having a blast. What better can you do for them?

Naturally my wife hates it and we have to go to anderson county Saturday morning which has her pissed but that is for high school soccer. Last weekend I was in Danville for football………point is I’m sure I could do more for me in that time, but they love it and it keeps us involved with them instead of them being antisocial weirdos!

- Shohei Ohtani just had a estimated possibly contract total to 780M over 12 years.

If he gets that I hope it’s from the Cubs!
 

TheShowKiller

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My recollection of parental supervision past the age of 8 - outside of yelling at us to come in for dinner and getting us to sports functions - is very minimal, no matter who was in charge at the house. We were feral animals left to wander through the neighborhood and surrounding wooded areas, building forts, fires, jumping off tree houses onto un-netted trampolines, playing all kinds of contact sports...we even found old boxing gloves in my grandparent's attic and boxed on the trampoline. At no point was any of this stopped, even at a bloody nose or broken bone. Looking back, it's a miracle we didn't get hurt more often and worse than we did.

My parents were completely normal 80/90's parents, I think.
 

jwheat

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I bet there is *always* a game around the Lexington Louisville area. Hell even somerset. You could play a full season of games within an hour of your house.
 
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wcc31

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Thanks @rudd1 for a tasty lunch at Thoroughbred Teverna. Nice meeting you and @anthonys735 . Look forward to extending convo with some smoked salmon and sasseetch during the Vol game.

Just scored 2 Dettling Barrel Strengths at JHOB 🤯.

Back to the Ville. Then northbound after tomorrows drop.

Ran into Luckett and Drew Franklin at KSBar as they were editing content from the todays FB practice…. Little tidbits… Barion and Dingle practiced today… Ford>Flax at RT.

I normally NEVER take off 2 weeks in a row. I feel dirty. Back to grind on Monday. But I sorely miss it.

Two Italians together in Lexington- bet the locals loved that.
 
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Kooky Kats_anon

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Two Italians together in Lexington- bet the locals loved that.
Mussolini would’ve arrested us for sedition as if we were beatniks in a coffee house.

Anthony looks like a dead ringer for my best friend’s brother…wondering if any relation to Rutigliano family. I’d did a double take when he walked in.
 
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Jeff Drummond

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Is there wrestling even in Lexington? I know Woodford County has a team but I don't even know where you would start with wrestling here.

I know Tates Creek used to be really strong. Landon Young won a state title at Lafayette, IIRC.
 

Jeff Drummond

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My parents (like many of yours I'm sure) used to say NO to some things. Was pretty effective iirc.

And so a lot of people forget that.

This sparked a memory from my childhood. My dad was fairly strict about things interfering with family plans. If the season had not ended by the time our vacation was scheduled, too bad. It cost me a spot on the Richmond All-Stars one year when I was completely dialed in all season. I was pissed at the time, but I understand it now.
 
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