Reply to "Catcher's Pop Time"

I always paid attention to my son’s pop time, his velocity, bat speed, and every other aspect of his game ever since I can remember. As a catcher he was always aware of his pop time and as a pitcher he was always aware of his velocity. I also agree players should have fun. But what is “fun”? I think young players have fun when they compete against another team, another player, Playstation, or just a stop watch. Yes you can destroy a young man’s confidence with a stop watch but you can also build it too. It has very little to do with the actual stop watch or the radar gun but the intent of the “operator”. We all measure our sons in one way or another. We measure and record his academic ability and sometimes we put bumper stickers on our cars that says “My son is a 4.0 honor student”. Is that not the same as measuring his pop time and velocity and telling everyone when he hit a 2.0 pop time or touches 90 mph?
Fungo