Tagged With "Practice Organization"
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Take me out to the ball game!
Boy, do I miss baseball! A little kid sings Funky organ Buck O'Neil
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2010 Pitch & Hit Club of Chicago Awards Dinner, January 17
Hall of Famers Fergie Jenkins and Ryne Sandberg Headline 64th Annual Pitch and Hit Club Awards Banquet (Chicago, IL) Hall of Famer Ferguson Jenkins will be the featured speaker and Ryne Sandberg will join Fergie atop the list of baseball royalty at...
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Poor Velocity from Poor Lay Back in Late Cocking?
[Let’s take a step back in time…….] “WTF….Why are they not improving their velocity with all the hard work they’ve been putting in?” Hours spent in the gym each week working on strength and power exercises, with years of evidence backing that up. Weeks spent honing their craft (they’re baseball pitchers btw), further ingraining the mechanics and postures they’ve been taught to avoid. I even personally examined these kids for any anatomical maladies that would prevent this sort of thing from...
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Serious Men's Question
Have any of you guys (age range maybe 35-50) experienced any 'andropause' symptoms? It has to do with decreasing testosterone levels as age creeps upon us. I copied the info below online--"...When there is less testosterone available to do its work,...
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Coaches Clinic this December
Bernie Walter's Winning Edge Coaches Seminar is a dynamic informative coaching clinic by the University of MD Director of Baseball Operations. Coach Walter has been the USA Baseball National HS Director and has also led the USA Baseball Junior...
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Some Tampa Area HS College Committments
BASEBALL COMMITMENTSAustin Adams, Zephyrhills, P: Committed to USF. Posted a 1.99 ERA in 24.2 innings as a junior with 35 K's.R.J. Brown, Bloomingdale, P: Committed to Florida Gulf Coast. Went 5-2 with a 2.9 ERA as a junior.Ray Delphey, Alonso, P:...
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Throw Hand-Hitting Eye
I found an interesting article from a few years ago about baseball players and eye dominance. The topic came to me after hearing a radio interview my son gave. The host asked about him being a left handed hitter when everything else he does is right...
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Re: Cheerleaders and baseball
To all the cheerleading nay-sayers. Isn't the mascot of MLB teams, the organ player, the big screaming scoreboard, or the group of guys with no shirt holding a "K" signs a form of cheerleading? Yes there are those situations where the girls in short skirts are more annoying than a rock in your shoe. However, in progams that lack that fan appeal and with a correct "plan of action" that is directed to a particular portion of a crowd, cheerleading could attract a larger fan base which in turn...
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Re: Baseball Needs Leadership
I'm really not sure how to respond to all of that. What I know is I love baseball at the HS, college and MiLB level. At the MLB level, I am in awe of the talent, but it has become very expensive...very expensive to attend a game and I'm not crazy about the 'show-i-ness' of the atmosphere. I'm still a guy who loves organ music at a baseball game. I do not particularly like the atmosphere at a pro football game either (I FAR prefer the college gameday atmosphere) and I've attended one pro...
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Re: Prayers Needed
OP -- very sad news. We, like many here, know the family from baseball. We will pray for KP and the entire family, including those at Centennial. Too much sorrow this year, eh? I hope recent tragedies have challenged many to become organ donars.
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Re: BP Songs
I am NOT going to apologize for my suggestion of "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" BABY!!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=J02fBoam-14 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Of7gdaiq2EI&feature=related Ok, maybe not Part Two. But hey, if they can hit to "Sunshine On My Shoulders" then they can hit to this drum/organ duet!
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Re: BP Songs
I was just going to suggest that song...I was playing winter ball in Arizona, and came across a funny story of a guy from San Diego who said his dad was IN Iron Maiden, but then changed his story to Iron Butterfly..haha
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Re: Lance Armstrong
I know some people will disagree with me but does anybody really care about the Tour de France? If Armstrong had never existed most Americans would equate the Tour with a Kazakistanian land rally or something. It sounds like this race is rife with drugs and Lance was probably the best of the druggers. I'm surprised someone who had had cancer which is often accompanied by the multiplication of the cells going crazy, would be brave enough to use something that causes cellular and organ changes...
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Re: Twins embrace Social Media with giant Twitter board at Target Field.
This is why I disagree with replacing Old parks like Wrigley and Fenway. The old historic park is the best, no SmartBoard, no quiche and frozen yogurt, organ music not walk up songs. Watch the **** game, keep score, eat a hot dog and a bag of peanuts. One beer is enough. Stay in your **** seat, sing Take Me Out To The Ballgame in the 7th inning, get off your cell phone, don't wrestle a sumo guy on the field, yell at the ump, pray a foul ball comes your way.... Enjoy the game of baseball. For...
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Re: Grapevine's Chris Gavora died today
Grapevine baseball's motto this year is "ONE TEAM...ONE GOAL...ONE HEARTBEAT." The idea was that tight knit teams often have a sense of having a single heartbeat. Little did we know how prophetic that slogan would be when adopted during the winter. This afternoon, Chris Gavora, an organ donor, gave life to a 10 year old girl in Arkansas in need of a new heart.
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Re: Grapevine's Chris Gavora died today
Oh, wow... that just sent chills down my spine. What an amazing team motto and as you said so prophetic. I'm so so sorry that you all have to go through this experience, but obviously I am thankful for the family of the 10 year old girl.
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Re: Grapevine's Chris Gavora died today
Our thoughts and prayers continue for Chris' family, teammates, coaches and all of those touched by his life, gift of life and story. Oldbat, thank you for sharing the above post regarding "why" Baseball Junkie 2, Thank you for taking time to post and share something positive out of this tragedy. I too had the experience of authorizing organ donation with the passing of an immediate family member and the act of helping others was comforting during our difficult time. We will also pray for...
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Re: Grapevine's Chris Gavora died today
That information is so awesome to hear because I have been in the donor situation with a family member and the knowledge of being able to give someone else the gift of life who has been struggling is just incredible and does ease the pain. Our prayers are with both families! May God bless both of the families involved.
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Re: Grapevine's Chris Gavora died today
This statement (below) from the Gavora family is posted on the NBC Channel 5 website...I am so impressed at their ability to reach out to others during this tragic time in their lives. (Baseball Junkie 2 - I hope it is okay with you that I posted this here....it gave me comfort to read it and I hope it will help others who are struggling with this accident.) "As the parents of Chris Gavora, the Grapevine High School pitcher, who tragically passed away Saturday due to injuries sustained...
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Re: Grapevine's Chris Gavora died today
SPORTSDAY Columnist: Kevin Sherrington is a sports columnist for The Dallas Morning News. Gavora's life was a gift In death, heroic Grapevine teen brings miracle to six lives 12:41 AM CST on Sunday, March 4, 2007 In the last weeks of his 17 short years, before he would die tragically from an injury in a Grapevine batting cage, Chris Gavora saved the lives of six people. He saved them as surely as if he'd pulled them from a lake or a fire or the rubble of disaster. A 54-year-old business...
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Re: Notre Dame Academy -- Let The Buyer Beware
It will be very interesting to see how this new Catholic school affects the Northern VA high schools area and current private schools. This made the front page and back page of the Sports section today of The Washington Post. At John Paul the Great, An Uphill Climb to Start Athletic Programs Face Unique Challenges in School's First Year By Preston Williams Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, November 5, 2008; Page E01 They bound into the gymnasium to rousing classical music, smiling,...
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Re: Cliff Floyd entrance song?
I don't get the walk out song. It really sux for fans. You end up hearing the same 5-10 secs of the same song 4 or 5 times a game and for what? Is it supposed to get the players psyched? Pumped up? In the mood? As a baseball fan, and a music fan, I say mix it up ...or be a good monkey and turn it back over to the organ grinder.
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Re: Cliff Floyd entrance song?
Blame the Padres and Trevor Hoffman. They started it on a regular basis with "Sandman." I'd like to see a player choose The Chicken Dance and do it coming to the plate.
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Re: Proteins
Wow...this is how rumors start... If creatine made you pee blood, then so would eating meat... If you have a pre-existing kidney or organ issue, then yes, ANYTHING can cause a problem. So always check with your doctor. If you can get all of your protein from food, then you don't need powder. But if you can't, powder becomes needed, especially if you are training and practicing hard. Best brands are ProtoWhey & Beverly Nutrition. Muscle Milk is solid as well. All proteins are legal.
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Re: Intern at High A game gets ejected for music choice...
Low volume organ music would incite exactly what....a funeral or church service?
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Re: Is baseball becoming too formulaic?
One of my baseball memories as a kid is the organ echoing through Fenway Park. It wasn't music I liked. I was a kid. It was just baseball the way it should be. The dumbest thing baseball ever came up with is any three objects in a race on the scoreboard screen.
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Re: How do YOU feel about the demolition of Yankee Stadium??
I haven't been in years, but went many many times growing up. I have so many vivid memories. The smell of hotdogs, the organ playing, Bob Shepards voice, hearing NY NY play the second the last out was made. I really remember all of that like it was yesterday. I can't believe they would tear it down. Isn't it a national landmark or something? If not, it should be!
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Re: An old Mans thought
TR many jobs require a drug test for employeement. If a player is clean he is not gonna complaign and should want to weed out the cheaters in sports. Real simple when sports take hard lines on issues, it gets cleaned up fast. Remember the black sox scandals, very little problem in baseball because of the hard line Landis took on it and it set an example for the future. Just look what happened to Pete Rose. TR drug use in sports is a public health issue, Because of lax testing teenagers think...
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Re: Rx for college
serious stuff... UVA or VA tech had a female basketball player get this about 3 years ago. She survived but had portions of all extremities amputated...and organ damage. Thanks for posting this important reminder!
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Re: creatine
Here is some info I pulled off of the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons website.: " # Doctors are still studying the benefits and risks of using creatine supplements. They don't know the long-term health effects, especially in bodies that are still growing. # Because of unknown health risks, children and adolescents under age 18 and women who are pregnant or nursing should never take creatine supplements. People who take creatine supplements may gain weight caused by muscles holding...
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IMPORTANT WARNING FOR WOMEN!!!!
You've heard about people who have been abducted and had their kidneys removed by black-market organ thieves. Well, this kind of cruel theft is happening with other body parts as well!My thighs were stolen from me during the night a few years ago. I...
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Chris Gavora
SPORTSDAY Columnist:Kevin Sherrington is a sports columnist for The Dallas Morning News. Gavora's life was a giftIn death, heroic Grapevine teen brings miracle to six lives 12:41 AM CST on Sunday, March 4, 2007In the last weeks of his 17 short years,...
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Re: Rocha suspended for 100 games
By the time he's allowed to pitch again he will have a very fresh arm and at the same time he can un-check the organ donor box on the drivers license. Who's advising this guy on career choices??????
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TEXAS LIONS KELLER/HASLET/NORTH FT WORTH
Texas Lions Baseball is expanding into the N. Ft Worth/Keller Area and we are now scheduling tryouts for the 2016 summer. As an organization, we are committed to player DEVELOPMENT. We focus on helping our players develop their physical skills while also teaching and stressing the importance of the mental side of the game. We hold multiple organized practices every week during the summer to ensure that our players leave our organization better than when they came to us. All of our coaches...
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SEMO’s Underwood sees opportunity (through one eye)
SEMO's Jordan Underwood has recovered from losing an eye on the mound to return to the mound on a new team. He's only the Friday starter on very good team.Southeast Missouri State head coach Mark Hogan is glad he took a chance on Jordan Underwood -- a...
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A Great Story: WF coach Tom Walter
http://www2.journalnow.com/new...ch-gives--ar-763374/http://www.usatoday.com/sports...-walter-kidney_N.htmWake Forest Baseball Coach Donates Kidney To Player Suffering Rare ConditionTuesday, February 8 2011 12:47 AMWritten by: Jay BusbeeShare50 Last...
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Re: Weight Lifting before throwing
BK35 Walk into any University bookstore that emphasizes athletics and pick up books dealing with exercise physiology, motor skill acquisition, anatomy, kinesiology, diet and energy plus many more and you will see that the direction of baseball training timelines for youth in particular has been evolved by monetary considerations, scouting opportunities and well meaning but incorrectly understanding of physiology coaches and establishment. Your son can’t be the best he can become with this...
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Re: Best mound visit?
Without a doubt, a mic'd Tommy Lasorda, pulling Doug Rau in the first inning of game 4 of the 1977 World Series. The profanity is unbelievable, arguing with Davey Lopes, and Nancy Bea's organ music playing in the background. If you Google Jim Healy radio clips, you'll get the Jim Healy Tribute site, - this audio clip of this infamous incident is near the bottom of the page.
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Re: A Great Story: WF coach Tom Walter
That is one of the most unselfish acts I have ever heard of and quite an amazing story. How many people would be willing to give up an organ to someone who is not a relative or extremely close friend? Not only is Coach Walter "talking the talk," he is "walking the walk." My prayers and best wishes are with Coach Walter and Kevin Jordan for a full and complete recover.
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Re: Prayers for Clint Mayhew
He loved his ill Grandpa so much that Clint became a certified organ donor to try and help him. Just before he could,Granpa died last Monday and it was more than Clint could stand. He was a fine young man and all who knew him are in shock. Thanks for the prayers for this fine young man,his family and friends.
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Re: More prayers needed - The young man has gone to God - Please pray for his family
According to the Booster Club president at the high school Chris attended, he was an organ donor and his heart was transplanted into a 10 year old Arkansas girl to give her a chance at life. From tragedy, God gives hope.
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Re: Season Begins
Coach, can you please explain the logic behind or any possible benefit the kids get being required to wake up at 4:00am on school days to practice? Studies indicate the kids are already sleep deprived. This lends itself to a multitude of incindental problems including health and educational implications. Could the reason for the early practices be, it fits the coaches schedule? Please dont tell me it teaches discipline, that reminds me of football coaches that foolishly deny water breaks in...
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Re: Season Begins
It's a title IX thing in our school district. Our coach runs it so that the greatest burden is on varsity players and least on the freshman. Varsity is either very early or very late. Besides, waking up early is not a burden, it just needs to be planned for by starting sleep earlier. If the parents of those players allow their kids to stay up late the night before an early practice, how is that the coaches fault? BTW, which studies are you referring to regarding sleep deprivation, or is that...
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Re: Season Begins
I'm not one of those "weeder outers" as a coach. I don't run them till they puke so that they don't come back and I want the best look possible before I make cuts. One major rational is gym space. We too are very limited. Every sport gets equal access to the gyms. Therefore, if you have a limited amount of time in there you have to make some concession. Getting up early is nothing for us and the majority of our kids. We've been doing plyometric training/weight room since the 2nd week of...
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Re: Scholarships in honor of Chris Gavora, Texas Baseball Player
Also, here is a statement that the Gavora family released to the local media .... "As the parents of Chris Gavora, the Grapevine High School pitcher, who tragically passed away Saturday due to injuries sustained during baseball practice, we like to extend our thanks and appreciation to the faculty & staff of Grapevine High School; the Colleyville paramedics; the doctors, nurses and staff of Parkland Hospital; his Mustang teammates; our many friends and relatives; and the good people of...
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Re: Call for Nominations for Weekly MVP
I nomininate Zak Hermans, a Coppell HS junior, who pitched a seven-inning no-hitter last night in Coppell's 2-0 win over a solid Lewisville team. Whistles, crowd noise, yelling from the dugouts, and organ music over the loud speakers din't distract Hermans, who threw eighty-one pitches and was just a walk and hit-batter away from pitching a perfect game. Not bad for a young man who played on JV last year!
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Re: Japanese Highschool Girl Drafted
Next thing you know we'll have TV shows with people eating centipedes and strangers cohabitating on desolate islands... Is that a pipe organ I hear???
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Re: Call for Nominations for Weekly MVP
I second this one. I see in the paper he hit an HR on Saturday. A district game no-hitter and home run in one week ain't bad.
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Re: Cortizone, is it a PED?
You could never ban creatine, your body produces it naturally and you ingest it everytime you eat red meat. Creatine is the most studied nutritional supplement, because it is the most misunderstood. An athlete could create the same risk of dehydration and muscle pulls by ingesting a diet high in red meat and not hydrating sufficiently. Even without creatine, a dehydrated (not in the clinical sense of organ dehydration, but in the athletic sense of muscle dehydration) athlete puts his muscles...