Tagged With "Jimmy Barnes"
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Re: Video Posted of Martinez at Cockfight
We just need to learn to prioritize better, it seems that it’s ok to kill animals for food and hide for our baseball gloves, but not for betting on who dies first in a ring. Maybe if the cooock fighters or dog fighters could justify that they were using the roosters feather for hats or down to keep us warm it would be ok. Or if the dog fighters could say that they just raise the dogs for food and the dog that wins the most taste the best and its ok. In some countries they eat dog, cats and...
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Re: Freshman pitcher's first day of try-outs
A lot of missing info here in your scenerio. What type of program is the HS? What kind of expertise does this coach have? What is the track record for pitchers? Generally speaking, and Lord knows I don't know much, we have never tried to change a pitcher during tryouts. In fact, we state that we are NOT GOING TO COACH them the 3 days of tryouts. It comes down to what they know etc. and simply put, we don't want to mentally destroy them if they are doing things that we might consider changing...
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Re: Baseball player in Wyoming
momneedshelp, Welcome to HSBBW! Here is what I would recommend. First, immerse yourself into HSBBW and ask a lot of questions and do a lot of research into recruiting and training techniques. What position does your son play? I want you to consider this for a moment.. the odds against a position player from Wyoming are astronomical. Now, it can be done BUT -- BUT -- please consider having your son concentrate on pitching only. It is the one baseball position that can be trained absent...
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Re: What is going on with our College athletes?
There are a lot of good points made here. I'm not sure that there is any one thing to blame or any one thing to bless. It does seem that it is easier for the media to get these stories out there. What used to go on behind the barn stayed pretty close to the farm, perhaps only disclosed long after the fact, when the perpetrator was looking back, chuckling at the mistakes of his or her youth. However, now, not only is misinformation dispensed at a rapid rate, but there is instantaneous self...
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Re: What is going on with our College athletes?
These are all extremely well-thought and well-written thoughts on what the heck is going on. I'd like to add my thoughts to the mix. I think a lot of it has to do with what P&CMom said-- There don't seem to be many consequences anymore---and it doesn't just start when kids grow up to be in college. It isn't happening in the grade schools, either. I know I'm dating myself when I remember the days of writing 1000 times--in perfect cursive--after school--"I will not (insert bad thing)".
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Re: Parental input...need help/answers
I think it comes down to learning a core set of pitches before starting on a different pitch set that requires drastically different wrist and arm positions. I think that is the real issue. It's not that teaching a curve ball intrisically hurts a kids arm. The problem arises when kids try to throw a curve without mastering the proper throwing technique for the other pitches. Lets face it, we have all seen kids out there that can rifle bullets but can't hit the broad side of a barn with that...
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Re: Batting cage installation instructions?
Hey bop, First welcome to HSbaseballweb and hope you visit often. It's a great site with a lot of knowledge and perspectives about baseball. Second you are going to find the retractable tunnel to be an awesome thing to have. If it's not too late there is a kit you can buy almost anywhere online that has everything you will need to hang your tunnel. Most kits will include 3 100' wire cables 6 hook and eye turnbuckles 6 eyebolts 70 snap links Cost is around $200 or less I had a 70 foot tunnel...
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Re: What would your dream hitting facility look like?
I currently have 3 outdoor cages, a practice infield, and a Barn with 2 full length hitting tunnels fully enclosed with lights, pavement and artificial turf...AND IT'S GETTING BULLDOZED AT THE END OF THE SEASON TO MAKE ROOM FOR A NEW FOOTBALL STADIUM AND FOOTBALL PRACTICE FIELDS. Welcome to Texas High School Sports. They are building me a new baseball complex off campus. I'll have a full size practice field, but I doubt I'll have an indoor facility like I have now. Oh well, I guess we'll...
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Re: tis the season
Just finished reading "One To Remeber: THE RELENTLESS BLIZZARD of MARCH 1966". Manitoba, NDak,SDak and MN were hit with what many called the worst snow storm ever in that area, of course the "old timers" remembered worse. I was 15(yes, that makes me nearly old now) at the time and remember being stranded on the farm for 5 days and looking down at the roof of our barn from atop snow drift. That is a long time to be stuck at home with your brother and sisters! wvmtner, I lived in Grand Forks...
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Re: Hitting Instructor Billy Johnson
I took all of my sons to Billy. I have recommended him to others and have had only one who went to another and quickly to no one. I sat through many sessions with Mack, LJ Hoes, along with LJ's father. I also was there and watched Justin Maxwell (Maxwell has since changed, don't know for the better though). Justin, when he was signed by the Nats, was very happy with what BJ did for him. LJ's father was very pleased and so was LJ with what BJ was doing. I can assure you that Gibbs didn't...
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Re: Choosing a college. Which weighs more, the school or the coach?
This site often refers to a good "fit" in regard to school selection. IMO, every player has a different needs, requirements, and goals. I know when my son picked his school it came down to weighing the tangibles and intangibles in order to find a "good PLACE" P rogram- This would include the level of play, program history, and team fit L ocation- Some want to stay close to home, some want to spread their wings. A cademics- Speaks for itself C oach- 1st impressions are great, he's done the...
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Re: Why not have a batting cage in your backyard?
Hubby and son tore out the deck in our first backyard and built a cage. In NOR. CA., yards were very small in our neighborhood, so cage took over entire backyard. They got a Batting Tudor whiffleball machine. That thing can flat out bring it from 30-40 ft. Throws Knuckleballs, too. Then they rebuilt cage and went with a Atec Machine that can throw the live baseballs or rubber balls. So as soon as that was completed, we moved of course. In the Midwest, we got some acreage. They built a cage...
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Re: Marshall mechanics
I know the discussion will always be confused with the difference between the all important top half mechanics and it’s beneficial aspects dealing with top half injuries opposed to the bottom half crow step middle rotational model all the way to the full late rotational model bottom half that eliminates bottom half injuries but since we will most likely never see the full model be given its day, talking about that is fruitless for all except those who have a strong constitution or wish to...
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Re: why making a kid play on hs only in summer is terrible!!!!is ihsa going into aug.?please your opini
Tar, We (Blazers) were 4-0 in pool play (scoring 21 and giving up 3) and were the #1 seed out of 72 in Jupiter! We lost to the eventual runner up Dallas Tigers in the PG tiebreaker in the round of 8 (extra inning load the bases with 1 out). Believe me we had 4 pitchers left in the barn...we had plenty of depth. Not to be argumentative but I agree with Sox...the difference in overall talent is not what it once was... I think though that overall you find a higher volume of top and polished...
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Re: Are you missing your son already?
If it's any consolation (and it's not), it is a little easier when they head off for the second year. While son number one was ostensibly at home this summer playing summer ball, between late night summer league games, early morning work for me, necessary day trips to see the girl friend (his, not mine!), there were spells when I didn't get to talk with him for 2-3 days, even though I'd hear him snoring as I leave for work. He leaves tomorrow (having to go 3 hours out of his way to see the...
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Re: NE is kinda sleepy
There are a number of indoor baseball places in Central Mass. Homerun Club and Strike Zone in Worcester. A place in Auburn. A new place opened up just across the border in Connecticutt. I tried to talk my son into going into an old Tobacco barn to practice as it's long enough to play catch in, but he wanted no part of it. Much rather Dad pay.
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Re: youth curveballs
Bum, I'm at the the 2011/15U World Wood Bat tournament that PGstaff's organization is running this week. The quality of teams varies considerably, but some of the best teams in the country are here. No pitcher at this tournament is trying to "dominate with" with only a fastball. Good hitters at this age can pound high 80's fastballs--if they know it's coming. Every pitcher needs an offspeed (change up or curve) pitch to keep hitters off balance. The available evidence suggests that a high...
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Re: Should Penn State Football be shut down?
No but anyone that had any kind of connection to Sandusky should be banned from any kind of sports program for the rest of their lives. Anyone with direct knowlege of the incidents should go to jail. Any retired individuals with knowlege of what went on should forfeit any and all pensions and benefits perminanantly. Giving Penn State the death penalty, while quick would just hurt people not involved in any way with this tragety. It is closing the barn door after the horses got out.
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Re: Should Penn State Football be shut down?
Think about this though, it's no different when a CEO runs a business to the ground, the ones who suffer when the business goes under are the workers. The workers who would have no clue what's going on in the ivory tower. They get screwed the most while the CEO gets rewarded a multi-million dollar golden parachute for his efforts and moves over to another board getting paid a multimillion dollar salary do do it all over again.
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Re: USA TEAM Mid Atlantic Regional
Son was also told in the barn pitching to throw strikes and not worry about lighting up the gun, so he threw strikes, I think becasue he was PO they passed on him. Oh well live and learn, hopefully we will get to try next year and maybe round 2 will be somewhere besides Pineville , I hate to say it but it was in inside job....
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Re: Sandy Koufax
Reminds me of another lefty who took a while to figure it out, but when he did, was something really special. This guy couldn't hit the broad side of a barn when he first came to my home town team - his BB/9 was 7.9 in his first full year here. He turned out okay though.
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Re: Sandy Koufax
Well, I agree that accuracy wasn't his best attribute when he first went to Seattle, but actually his first partial year and his subsequent full year were 4.8 and 4.9. The next two seasons were the ones that aggravated folks-- 6.8 and 6.2. Then he figured it out. I remember this because my brother-in-law and I took turns praising or denigrating him!
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Re: Big East - Defection of the Catholic Colleges?
I agree, Tom. I think the field is great, well maintained, top notch, much better than the BC 'tail gate' field And the setting is terrific, right on campus. Hitting barn - no issues. Field house and workout facilties and sports med facilities are as good as we saw in some ACC schools and superior to some in other east coast conference schools I have seen. But, I am no expert. (And of course, now I am biased.) But the lack of a 'stadium' feel probably deters SOME top prospects who are used...
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Re: Contacting HS coach with question...
My last two years of coaching baseball, I had a lot of parents from incoming freshmen ask where they should go for lessons. In fact, I had one area hitting instructor buy me lunch and talk about what they teach/do and if I thought that they needed to add stuff. He wanted me to come and watch his lessons and then, if I like what he was doing, steer players his direction. Keep in mind, I'm in small town USA. Prior to that, none of my players went for lessons. They all got together in a small...
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Re: How cold is too cold?
When I was in Kentucky it got pretty cold (although others have it worse). We didn't have a rule and we couldn't practice inside until basketball season was over. Our field was a community field so I couldn't touch it until our season started. By that point it was saturated and we had to wait until we got a break in the weather to work it to get it ready. We had a barn at the county fairgrounds that let us put nets up to hit in but we had to share it with softball. So one day we would be in...
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Re: Seriously what would you do?
Originally Posted by infielddad: "I respect your opinions, but in my case, son is ranked top 1000 in country, has a MLB pitching coach, travel was ranked 18 in nation by PG." bacdoor, I am not certain I understand the point with this information you have posted about your son. Are you saying he deserves something because of this in terms of the issues in this discussion? Would it be also correct that because of the ranking and "stuff," your son has more to give for the HS coach and program...
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Re: Bizarre New Restrictions D1 College Is Placing On Pro Scouts
That's the problem with big sweeping written policy announcements, the horses are already out of the barn now. If they soften their stance now or even if they completely reverse it, there's no doubt that it becomes one more arrow in the quiver for their recruiting competitors. And the other school might have much the same policy or issues of concern, but just didn't draw so much attention to it. Usually wise to measure twice and cut once when handing down inflexible rules. Often times the...
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Re: Your HS program
likes: the bonding my son gets with lifelong friends, the idea that community is important and he plays for them, the good baseball both on his team and in his league, the parents who also have that sense of community and pull for each and every boy, the field, the hitting/ pitching barn that was built 2 years ago that is attached to home dugout, the assistant varsity coach who this year has taken over the off season training dislikes:the parents who only only worry about thier kid and bitch...
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Re: Approaching college coach on playing time
seventhinningstrecth - those things you list as concerns appear to be outside of your son's and your control. Worrying about those things will only detract from the task at hand. Life is unfair and especially baseball. Maybe the coach is going off the radar gun for the time being and not the stats. Maybe he is going to give the high velocity guys the long leash even though they can't hit the broad side of the barn for the time being. The best thing you can do for your son is to encourage...
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Re: PG Crosschecker Top 500 National HS Prospects Class of 2008
Wow. And neither KG nor I had anything to do with starting this donnybrook. Regarding the top whatever list since deleted by a moderator. I'm just pleased that of the names I recognized, only one has gotten a base hit off Texan Son over the last several years that he has faced them. Can't think of any showcase other than a PG event to which I would send Texan Son. But they are expensive, so we're still saving up the pennies. If you think PG will help, write the check. If not, then don't. But...
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Re: So what are you doing to get ready?
Great list coach. I dont think people understand that getting ready for the season means so many things and starts right after the season ends. We have to maintain our field. That means that during the summer fall and winter it is up to the coaches to cut the grass weed eat spray for weeds etc etc etc. There is a tremendous amount of time and effort put into maintaining a baseball field and the facilities such as the cages etc. We start our off season strength and conditioning program in...
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Re: Indoor Facility
I agree with CoachB25 about having it built at my place - how in the world did you get such a huge donation? I would have to sell my soul to get something like that. CoachB25 also makes a great point about space for other drills. In our facility (a barn the county lets us use) we hang two nets in the corner and next to the wall. In one cage we split it in half and have two hitters going at once. One side hits and the other works on bunting. That leaves a huge chunk of space to put two indoor...
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Re: Tim Lincecum ( anybody watch him pitch)
Sad how little video exists of even pre-70s greats. Regarding Feller's arm problems after age 29: by then he had been in the majors since age 17. That video of him was made in 1946, probably his best year. He pitched an incredible 371 innings that year with an ERA of 2.18. Interesting tidbits on his HS years: " had one overriding desire: to play baseball. His father, who had been a semi-professional pitcher in his younger days, encouraged Feller's interest in baseball. He built a pitching...
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Re: ANYBODY here south of Springfield????
I can see my house, barn, and entire property on that pic.
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Re: "Mom, have you seen my cup?"
BBFam [1st page of the thread] - if your guy keeps it in your purse in case of emergency, isn't that a little like closing the barn door after the horse has left??? If it's an emergency, it's already too late if it's in your purse!
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Re: Cancer surgery
There is a field, with two horses in it. From a distance, each horse looks like any other horse. But if you stop your car, or are walking by, you will notice something quite amazing... Looking into the eyes of one horse will disclose that he is blind. His owner has chosen not to have him put down, but has made a good home for him. This alone is amazing. If you stand nearby and listen, you will hear the sound of a bell. Looking around for the source of the sound, you will see that it comes...
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Re: Razorback High School Prospect Camp
My son has attended a couple of camps at UA. The last prospect camp he attended was in the late fall. He really enjoyed it and yes, the coaches were on site and very much hands on with the players during the entire camp. At that time, Todd Butler (who is now at Wichita State) was the hitting instructor and was in the cages with the boys the entire time. Likewise, Van Horn was in and out of the hitting barn watching the progress and then on the field during the defensive portion of the camp...
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Re: Any websters going to IU holiday camp?
SoutherNo1, After us northern folk finish fixin the wheel on the tractor, choppin wood, milkin the herd, and huntin for dinner, we make a ball out of tape, grab a broken handle from a snow shovel, and have bp against the side of the barn. You need to catch up on your knowledge base.
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Re: Any websters going to IU holiday camp?
Would this be the tractor you keep parked on the mall in D.C.?????? (It was the Yankee press that blamed that event on us innocent Carolinians ... we know it was a Nawthern Tracter !!!!!)
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Re: Hitting...the most important tool
I think the original topic "Hitting ... the most important tool" is intended to apply to the individual player, i.e., not everyone on the team is going to be a great pitcher, but really goood teams have an abundance of individual good hitters, and elite position players are first and foremost great hitters before their other atheletic attributes come into play. This doesn't mean they can only hit ... just the most important attribute of being an elite position player is hitting, then your...
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Re: Do Scouts Prefer Pitching Speed or Accuracy?
I would like to think that both velocity and Control are Equal, but that would be only in a perfect world. Velocity is King, always has been always will be. Here is a good example: Colt Griffin. Was drafted in the first round back in 2001, I think he got about 5 million, Everything I read about him says he was throwing as fast as 102mph. (look it up in Google) But couldn’t hit the broad side of a barn. I don’t know if he has every made it out of 2AA ball. What I’ve read is his Velocity has...
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Re: JHU Baseball
Great first game The second should be a barn burner---two great programs going head to head
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Re: OUCH
BEE What does it matter if he is a senior or not ?--- they just got "out of the barn" Better to be safe than macho---your thinking is why guys go down in the first two or three years of their pro careers--the damage is cumulative not today. The "highlight of his baseball career " means nothing if he comes up lame this year--by the way the win means nothing in their conference--they need to win the conference to go to the NCAA's--think about it !
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Re: OUCH
Anyone know what the temp was there on that game night?--the game was played at night--first pitch at 6:31 PM And the point I make is not necessarily the weather but the the fact that it is the first game out of the barn--- and it was the first win over a ranked team in over 20 years--- my thought is that a young coach got overzealous in his first Head Coach Game. Only time will tell if Coach made a mistake Interesting fact--last summer in the Cape the kid started 9 games and only threw 56...
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Re: Beach District Game of The Week 1
Sounds like this weeks (Week 1) "Game of the Week" was all that we expected, a good game to watch. Congrats to PA. That sets up next weeks (week 2) "Game of the Week" as Kellam visits PA next Friday . Ought to be a Barn Burner. Kempsville drops one to Bayside 4-3, after going down 4-0, Kemps was able to get back within 1 but fails to convert on Bases Loaded with 0 outs. Little gives up 9 hits, 1 BB and had 5K's in 6 innings but a couple of key errors with runners in scoring position killed...
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Re: Playoffs
CC Moody and CC Calallen are on a collision course to play in the region 4 final, if the can both manage to get there. Last year it was a little disappointing to see them meet in the area round. but that didn't stop a total of over 18,000 fans from watching the games over a 3 game series. And boy, was it a barn burner. The series could have gone either way. In fact, Calallen was the only team last year that managed to beat Moody, and they did it twice! This year may be the sequel. These two...
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Re: Do Kids Change?
My son could barely hit the broad side of a barn when he was growing up. As a middle-infielder, his bat was definitely his weakest tool. That started to change around age 15, and his skills really ramped up at age 17 when he found an instructor who knew him and his particular strengths/weaknesses/needs like the back of his hand. His hitting ability is now on par with his fielding ability -- something we never thought we'd see.
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Re: Two way players
TPM; Have you heard how Kris is progressing? His senior year in HS he used to catch bullpens for my son down in "the barn" at Bryan's. Always wore a white cowboy hat with pine tar on the bill. Have kind of lost track since he was drafted. Now my son is a FR at UNC-Asheville and he said that Bryan is coaching the Pitcher's with the Asheville Tourists (minor league team). I always thought they were very nice people. Bryan even sold my son one of his GSHP bird dogs, which my son promptly turned...