All of those kids in LLWS teams were recruited and plucked out of smaller neighborhood teams and had to survive the churn of big time youth sports politics to make it to an ESPN fabricated TV event.
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Actually, it's pretty sad how watered down the LLWS talent has become. Was the gold standard at one point and now it's firmly behind Cal/Babe plus travel ball/select teams.
....except the horrific balls/strikes from every plate ump they pick. It used to be volunteers who had a pti-esque knowledge of the game...not sure if that still holds true or not.
The demise of traditional rec-league baseball mirrors the deterioration of our nation as a whole. By the time they’re 10 the leagues that practice on one weeknight and play their weekly game on a Saturday morning have been picked apart and plundered by these asinine travel ball leagues which require you to spend every weekend in an exurb of Indianapolis or Dayton or some other horrid place. If that’s what you’re into, great, but I can’t understand it.
Here’s a newsflash - your kid is going to go pro in something other than baseball. But if a half scholarship to ******* State Tech is your dream, go for it, I guess, and enjoy your twenty seven weekends a year staying in a Holiday Inn Express and feeding at the trough buffet of a neglected Shoney’s.
Here’s a newsflash - your kid is going to go pro in something other than baseball. But if a half scholarship to ******* State Tech is your dream, go for it, I guess, and enjoy your twenty seven weekends a year staying in a Holiday Inn Express and feeding at the trough buffet of a neglected Shoney’s.
So anyway, KL- don’t enjoy anything.
Not a fair comparison. Travel/select will pull from a wide area, even multi state depending on age. LL is generally league picked, or at the worst, multi leagues in a community.
Per your advice I tried the CC in place of my usual Honey Crisp. It’s a damn good apple. Nice texture and the sweetness has a tinge of dare I say cinnamon. I’m not going to turn down a HC though.
Cat fishing this morning below Barkley Dam on the Cumberland. Catching a bunch of small blues but would be nice to hook into one big one before we leave.
I don’t know why a bunch of middle aged, mostly well to do, white guys GAS what a bunch of college football players are wearing. Just win, damn it.
*HFM DISEASE UPDATE*
-went to bed at 9PM on Monday, woke up at 2PM Tuesday. Woke up to pee, dizzy, fell back asleep and woke up drenched in sweat at 5PM. Went back to bed at 10.
-Woke up Wednesday feeling much better but it felt like I had razor blades in my throat. Looked and saw about 5 “lesions” all in my throat right in the area you swallow. Can’t swallow without severe pain (you swallow all the time FYI) and eating food is torture. Have probably consumed 500 calories in the last two days. Typically what happens is I become so insanely hungry I have to eat something, am able to power through 3 bites, and then the pain makes me stop.
-Have developed 3 painful blisters on my hands in the last 3 hours
-Please stay tuned for further updates!
-went to bed at 9PM on Monday, woke up at 2PM Tuesday. Woke up to pee, dizzy, fell back asleep and woke up drenched in sweat at 5PM. Went back to bed at 10.
-Woke up Wednesday feeling much better but it felt like I had razor blades in my throat. Looked and saw about 5 “lesions” all in my throat right in the area you swallow. Can’t swallow without severe pain (you swallow all the time FYI) and eating food is torture. Have probably consumed 500 calories in the last two days. Typically what happens is I become so insanely hungry I have to eat something, am able to power through 3 bites, and then the pain makes me stop.
-Have developed 3 painful blisters on my hands in the last 3 hours
-Please stay tuned for further updates!
Sounds like it would be quite painful. After witnessing MCF's, I don't wish that on anyone.
At this point I would probably try it if it didn’t hurt.
Bengals games gonna have a different vibe to them
Warm soup, not hot, or some plain vanilla ice cream.
Only had 1 kid get it and that was the diet plan for 2-3 days.
Only had 1 kid get it and that was the diet plan for 2-3 days.
My sons new baseball team uses the Power K as its primary logo. Absolutely beautiful threads. He also got the itch to play football again. Went to his first practice last night. He’s a month behind, but he’ll be ok. Going to football practice again, combined with this weather is just about as good as it gets. First HS game tomorrow. Kettle corn & a fountain coke. Undefeated combination.
Yea my company even insists I have a polo on during these meetings. Little do they know that's all I have on.
I don’t understand why there isn’t a logical compromise on travel ball. I played on a travel ball team growing up. We played in a competitive local league for the summer season, went to one “national” tournament (which was 2 hours away), and played in about 3-4 local tournaments. Granted, I lived in a bigger city than Louisville, but between Cincy, Lex and Louisville you have enough talent to never have to drive more than 1.75 hours for a game and get PLENTY of good competition.
There are plenty of teams that just play “local”. And for the most part if you are under the age of 12-13, you really shouldn’t travel more than a couple of hours a few times a summer. It is fun for the kids to see new teams and places, but it does get overdone. That is the main reason we left the last org we were with. My 11yo was getting burnt out. 15 tourneys and 6 were stay to play. That’s too much.
But the talented older kids do benefit by playing some destination tourneys if it means there’s an opportunity to get them in front of colleges/scouts. The days of getting recruited by playing with your high school team are over. They want to see you play with the best against the best.
If you’re just talking about C/D level players traveling long distances, then yeah. That’s basically a waste of time. But if the kids and families enjoy it and have a good time, who cares?
But the talented older kids do benefit by playing some destination tourneys if it means there’s an opportunity to get them in front of colleges/scouts. The days of getting recruited by playing with your high school team are over. They want to see you play with the best against the best.
If you’re just talking about C/D level players traveling long distances, then yeah. That’s basically a waste of time. But if the kids and families enjoy it and have a good time, who cares?
Ron prayers on the hoof and mouth. It's a terrible disease. I know someone that their kid had it so bad they missed their trip to Vegas. Just horrible.
lol nope. Youth Sports Bylaws make it clear you have to drive by at least a dozen similarly situated clubs/schools before you can find a location for your game.
Note- it’s the location that’s important. So, for example, you could drive from NKY to Louisville for a weekday afternoon basketball game and play a team also from NKY and that’s fine. But you certainly can’t play that team within the confines of the NKY/Cincinnati area. Because then it wouldn’t be part of a “classic”.
Can't think of Zoom without thinking of that turd Jeffrey Toobin and his downfall. I'm sure the former mistress he threatened to make her have an abortion enjoyed hearing him get fired for pleasuring himself on camera in a New Yorker mag conference call.
When O.J. revels in your downfall, you f'd up pretty badly.
When O.J. revels in your downfall, you f'd up pretty badly.
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.
And so a lot of people forget that.
If you're D1 good coaches will find you even if you're just playing high school ball and frankly I don't thinks it's worth it to spend your life traveling for a scholarship to Thomas More or Georgetown College.
If I am recalling correctly, he was the state powerlifting champion in FL. Guy was a ball of muscle. Reinard Wilson who was a stud at FSU that the Bengals drafted in the 1st round in 1997 is (I believe) his first cousin. Talk to anyone on the team during that time and they will tell you he was soft as Charmin on the field.
“Logical compromises” are definitely the rage these days. People can’t enough of them.
Just had a delicious burrito from the food truck conveniently parked next to my office building that was run by an entrepreneurial young POC.
Eat ancient grains breaded ****, Wayne.
Eat ancient grains breaded ****, Wayne.
I think Lazy Tuesday got nuked when Daniel Solzman became Danielle.
“Silicon Valley” actor T.J. Miller has been accused of sending a transphobic email to film critic Danielle Solzman.
Solzman, who is transgender, told the Huffington Post that she became friends with Miller in 2010. They grew close and Solzman came out to him as transgender in November 2015. At the time, Solzman says Miller was supportive.
Solzman says she saw a transphobic joke on Miller’s personal website and emailed him to say, “It’s very offensive.”
Miller replied to the email addressing Solzman as “Daniel,” a “tranny,” a fu*king *******” and a “weird strange terrible man.”
“Silicon Valley” actor T.J. Miller has been accused of sending a transphobic email to film critic Danielle Solzman.
Solzman, who is transgender, told the Huffington Post that she became friends with Miller in 2010. They grew close and Solzman came out to him as transgender in November 2015. At the time, Solzman says Miller was supportive.
Solzman says she saw a transphobic joke on Miller’s personal website and emailed him to say, “It’s very offensive.”
Miller replied to the email addressing Solzman as “Daniel,” a “tranny,” a fu*king *******” and a “weird strange terrible man.”
“Sorry bud, I know it’s the passion of your life and the top thing that motivates you to keep your grades up and stay out of trouble, but some folks on the internet think it’s dumb, so we’re not doing travel baseball anymore. I’m sure the scouts will be at the Garrard County game, just make sure you have the game of your life.”
-My father wouldn’t take me to basketball practice when it was raining because he didn’t like driving in the rain. It’s the reason, other than my 2 inch vertical, that I never made it to the NBA.
-“If your child only plays for a large HS in the United States no college team will even know he exists” says the guy that got talked into signing up for a 1500 dollar AAU team while a scout is on a kayak in the Congo finding the next Oscar Tshebweie
-“If your child only plays for a large HS in the United States no college team will even know he exists” says the guy that got talked into signing up for a 1500 dollar AAU team while a scout is on a kayak in the Congo finding the next Oscar Tshebweie
I’m into logical compromises…
FITNESS HALF A PIZZA IN MY MOUTH but saving half for later because I should try to eat better
Friendly reminder: this time last year, Andrew Abbott was pitching A ball in Dayton as the Reds were in the process of converting him to a starter.
As a major leaguer, he’s 8-3 with a 2.99 era. He picked up the W again last night, and the Reds are tied for the 3rd wild card spot.
False. In this day and age of social media, videos, texts, etc....if a kid is D1, he will get noticed regardless of where he is playing. Word gets out. A 90+mph arm lost in the hollers of Virgie will get a visit.
You don't need to rack up Delta miles or have your parents roll up 1001 IG posts of your exploits to get noticed.
My next door neighbor was an only child and his parents thought he was the second coming. They took him to every camp, practice, tournament, conditioning camp, etc. they could think of. What a waste of time.
Oh, he ended up getting drafted by the Red Sox out of high school and signed for $600K.
Oh, he ended up getting drafted by the Red Sox out of high school and signed for $600K.
I think we are looking passed the one thing that most parents put their kids into travel ball for. To get better at the game. You practice all week only to show off what your improvements you’ve made on the weekend. It doesn’t have to be a trip to Dayton or Atlanta every other week. Furthest my girl went to play was a place called broadhead. That’s about an hour and a half from the states greatest lake.
I would drive an hour and a half in any direction to watch my little girl play ball and do it with a smile on my face.
Some of you either have too much to do or you think you do. If your kid wants to play ball and be good at it then let them do it as much as yal can stand
I would drive an hour and a half in any direction to watch my little girl play ball and do it with a smile on my face.
Some of you either have too much to do or you think you do. If your kid wants to play ball and be good at it then let them do it as much as yal can stand
You’re missing the point. Collectively, we’d all be better off if they stayed more local and did this. Okay, so the RFer might not be a bad *** on every team if they were more local, but participation would be up, costs would be down, and everybody would be happier.
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