Originally Posted by TPM:
…I am not a coach, but the way I see t is that if the 20th player on a HS team is distracted by the noise (and using this as an excuse as to poor performance, he most likely should be spending his time doing something else because it only gets louder and much more distracting at the next level….
That’s precisely the kind of shortsighted attitude that I’m talking about. Not every player is planning on going to the next level, but every player on the team wants to help at the level they’re at, so why not help them do that? You’ve got this mental lock that every player exists and plays the game only to get to the next level, and if they can’t do that, they should quit the game immediately. That kind of philosophy sure seems goofy to me, since about 5 million kids start playing baseball as children, but only 750 make it to the ML at a time.