Reply to "Mom's A Big Help"

RJMHSBaseballWeb member since 2007

quote:
Originally posted by biggerpapi:
We played a game with 10-11 year olds yesterday. One of the moms stood behind the backstop with her own radar gun.

When a new batter would get in the box, she'd tell them how fast the pitch was coming and where she thought the ball was going to go.

I asked the on deck batter if it helped him to know all of that. He kind of gave me that look like "uh, no."

This team also had a coach that would call a curve ball (10-11 year olds!!!) and loudly tell his pitcher to "snap it off."

We lost, but I feel pretty good this morning.

I can't imagine it helps anyone to know the radar gun speed the pitch is coming. To a little kid it's either a hittable speed or it isn't. To an older kid he was to follow the rotation of the ball regardless and can probably gauge the velocity.

9/28/088:13 PM

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