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Re: no-stride
baseballpapa, I'm glad you believe in what you belive in. Of course I don't agree. I believe in our system and it has worked. Our power numbers are extremely good for a high school team. Of course, you might argue that those doubles and triples would be HRs if they were to stride. Each to their own. Regarding your question about changing hitters. I don't ever change a hitter until I've watched them and allowed them to either have success or failure doing what they do. Then, I step in.
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Re: Cut The Hawk :>) Tim Federowicz #19 Catcher for NC Tar Heels
that was an absolute bomb. Impressive
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Re: Cut The Hawk :>) Tim Federowicz #19 Catcher for NC Tar Heels
Tim played for the Bayside Yankees last summer. Luckily I didn't face him. My friend played for them and said he was legit, and I was like ok ok. But that was a bomb last night. He's a Freshman All-American also, and if you're a catcher with that kind of power, wow. That probably would have been out even with a wood bat, which is a whole other subject in the collegiate game. Even still, a bomb.
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Re: sad day
My prayers go out to Ryans family and friends. You know most everyone lives has been affected by the premature death of someone they know since 9/11. So many Americans have lost their lives and it does seem unfair at times. Our forefathers fought for our freedom as we still are today, as well as for other countries. Ryan Clark has given the ultimate sacrafice for his country as have so many young men throughout the history of our great nation. The fallen heros we mourn have given their lives...
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Re: Chronicles from DTiger
Round Two: Why is there so much peer pressure to cuss these days? I can't stand hearing kids strikeout, flyout, whatever and then run to the dugout and you hear a real loud F-bomb. Why is this the norm any more? Thanks!
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Re: Pro Football is Fixed
Personally, I feel that the NFL needs to do some investigating into the officiating in this game. The reversed interception was terrible. However, there was also the pass interference non-call on the bomb to El (and when El was held on flick pass a play or so earlier), and the worst call: When the Colts jumped on D across the line, the officials blew the play dead & then said there was no foul?! In baseball terms, that's the same as a HR hitting the foul pole & instead of ruling it a...
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Re: Enjoy the moment!
With two sons that play, i've had many great moments and feelings. Every year I somehow try to freeze it, so time will stop and we can stay there, but to my dismay time keeps rolling on.
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Re: Pickoff Moves Video??
Here's the boy last summer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dTp93cb6wY He's playing JV ball in Tx this year. Went 4-0 with a 1.76 ERA. Alright, enough of that........ Last summer against the Va Diamonds 16U, he had three pickoffs in 2.7 innings of relief. This spring, he has improved his move to first. He picked 7 guys this year. One kid, twice in the same game. His new HS coach (also was a LHP) has worked on his "moves" to make them unpredictable. I've noticed that the more kids he...
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Re: Most impressive baseball feat you have seen!
Sorry guys but the HR that Tanner hit was not a walk off but it did tie the game. The Blackhawks ended up winning the game in the next inning. I was coachinfg first at the time Tanner hit the bomb and had previously called my wife at the hotel and told her to start packing as I thought we were done. Needless to say I was wrong. Just goes to show you that BLACKHAWKS ruled then.
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Re: Connie Mack 17s World Series
Ya the Patriots were ahead all the way till the 6th 3-1. The Super 17's scored two in the 6th to tie it up and Brian Dixon came in and struck out two in a row to get them out of a jam. Lunday pitched great and got a little tired in the 6th due to pitching four days before. The Patriots lost in the bottom of the 7th, full count lead off walk off bomb. The batter could have easily been rung up the two previous pitched but umpires do want to end the game too.
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Re: Where were you on 911?
I was asleep when I received a call from my husband who is the Operations Manager at LAX control tower. He told me that two planes has just flown into the towers and that it was believed to be a terrorist attack. For the rest of the day, aside from an occasional potty break, I sat in my family room, glued to the TV as it all unfurled. Several times during the day, the local news broke to the airport ... the eerily empty airport ... where news reporters would talk about another 'scare',...
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Re: College pitcher / qualifications for a closer?
Hello ladies. In my experience coaches will take a chance on a few pitchers to see who will be the best fit for closing. It may take a player with a certain attitude, calm demeanor, one who could have a bomb go off next to him and he wouldn't flinch. Thats the ideal view from a coach. Even if the coach does or doesn't have one of these players, he will want a player who can throw hard, throw strikes and get hitters out quickly. He may be a pitcher who has 1 or 2 quality pitches, may not have...
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Re: Let's hear from the Jesuit boys...
I'm a Jeuit student as well and i play with jesuitbaseball on the patriots. We played well out at paris, with some suprisingly very good players from the longview area. We didnt play as well in the first game with jesuit. It showed the we had lack of practice but we bounced back in the second game. There was a kid that hit about a 475 foot bomb off us. And dtiger gave up a devistating bomb in the 5th. But we bounced back to tie in the bottom of the 6th.
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Re: Paul Byrd and HGH Report
What a coinkydink that the story breaks the day before he's supposed to start game 7 of the ALCS. I've never been into conspiricy theory, but it doesn't take a conspiricy to leak something from on up high in a manner timely enough to upset the mentality of a player who will likely play the greatest role in whether his team succeeds or fails. I think the proper term would be manipulation. Imagine the stain on the heirarchy if it comes out later that Wakefield took something, and it didn't get...
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Re: Manny Ramirez
The celebratory arms raised in the air should be reserved for a player who very rarely hits a bomb, and even then, in the right circumstance. That would signal to me a great moment in a kids baseball career. Like, wow, I did that !! When a polished hitter with power like Ramirez does it continually, it makes me think what Ryan or Gibson would do when they pitched????
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Re: Manny Ramirez
That would be an era gone by when players policed players. These days, since the umpires now look at themselves as the drawing card, they have taken over policing the game and we have the Manny being Manny type activities. Heck, I saw Charlie Haeger, the White Sox pitcher, get thrown out with no warning for hitting someone with a 60 mph knuckleball.
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Re: How do you deal with a demanding parents with a super talented kid?
Enjoy your post, my friend. Well, that is a little bit extreme though. If I want set up the lineup or calling every pitches, I better put some money in the team, and make myself a coach. Hey, being a coach for the LL team is not fun, you have to be in every game 1 hr earlier, under 100 degree heat, hitting ground balls or fly balls to the players. You take blame for every loss while kids got all the credit for the win. Coaching is a very hard job to do especially at LL level, because you...
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Re: How do you deal with a demanding parents with a super talented kid?
StarDad, I think your boy gonna be the Bomb! I met Lebrons Mom and I thought she was so nice and sweet, invited me into her house and treated me like a friend! You know like I was a regular dude and some people didn't like her! I say they were just jealous! Boy she sure had a lot of shoes!
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Re: How do you deal with a demanding parents with a super talented kid?
Hey, IB, did she let you ride in the Hummer that she "bought" when LeBron was in HS?
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Re: Large Recruiting Classes
Sometimes it is difficult for a h.s. player to know whether he can "honestly compete for a top 25 spot on the roster." He may be "the bomb" on his high school and select teams, only to discover that he is in the middle of the pack (or even lower) when he is comparing himself to his college teammates. On the other hand, a good college recruting coordinator should have a pretty good handle on how the h.s. player will stack up against his future college teammates. I don't believe it is right...
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Re: non baseball memories
Wow, good stuff. I only got into a nice short memory. I come from an engineering family. My father was also an engineer. His father was the same (as is my brother). Dad grew up in Pittsfield Mass, began school at Yale then to Ohio State, but I recently found out he finished school at Tri State College in Angola, as he had joined the the Air Force and needed to finish his degree. There he met my mom. She is from outside of Detroit and grew up on a farm. My grandfather (who I never knew)...
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Re: Expect an announcement aroudn 5:45 today from the Rangers!!!
Funneldrill, You should know better than to play media source! It's not who you know! Biggest surprise since the "A" bomb!
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Re: Game Music
Danny, I'm really not sure anyone but the batter really listens to the walk-up songs. I'm at work so can't listen to your son's song right now, but will definitely do so this weekend! I'm looking forward to it. 2B's song is "Winning is Done" by Young Ray. Most of our guys songs, in fact all, are hip hop. Perhaps our most seemingly mild-mannered player, who wears #1, has as his song "No. 1" by Nelly. We've got some 50 cent, TI, Lil' Wayne. I warn them that if they send me something with an F...
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Re: Game Music
lol...once, our coaches let the seniors pick out a freshman's walk-up song if he ever got to bat. Pretty darn embarrassing walking up to Sponge Bob!
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Re: College Spring Season
Yes CD! Congratulations to Backstop-17's son Adam for his MONSTER Homerun at the Lander Invitational Tournament this past weekend. The ball cleared the 335 left field fence hitting trees about 100' up in the air! It must have been close to a 500' bomb if we could have gotten the tape measure out! It was too cold to measure it off though. Adam Pendelton
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Re: College Spring Season
It was a bomb I was sitting there watching him hit and there was never any doubt. He also did a great job behind the plate. He throws very well and it sure wouldn't hurt if his pitchers would attempt to hold runners. His throws were strong quick and on the money and he never had a chance on a couple of stolen bags. He is a fine looking player on a very good team. I really enjoyed watching him and FF's son play. Good luck the rest of the year.
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Re: College Spring Season
Coach may, I just saw where your son hit his first college bomb! I hope you got to see it.
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Re: ALL BEACH TEAM PICKS?
Why give a player 2 positions and short another player some recognition? We all know Morimonda was a bomb of a pitcher and player of the year, but All team first base too???? Seems like Taylor Topping could have been given first team 1st team first base. And I too think FC got robbed of a few spots...finished 17-5 and had fewer picks then some other schools. Come on!!! Be objective and not just pluck a name for a spot!!!
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Re: Bombing the SAT
RJM, 2 suggestions. First of all, coming close to 1100 on the traditional 2 components is not "bombing" the SAT's. OK, it might not make the Ivies happy, but lots of very high level schools' baseball programs can get your son in with scores and grades like those. UVA, W&M, Vanderbilt, Wake, Duke all come to mind. I'm glad you have high standards in your family, but let's not overreact. A lot of kids you know would be ecstatic with those scores. Secondly, not to be a commercial, but since...
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Re: 18U SUMMER SCORES
Frozen Ropes d Conn Bombers 8-5 in 10 innings on Madison Carter's 3 run, two out, walkoff bomb. Big pool game tomorrow with both teams 3-0. Frozen Ropes v Richmond County for pool title and a spot in bracket play.
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Re: DIAMOND SPORTS-HUGE TOURNEYS IN JULY
Top Tier wins championship 13-2. Whoever the third baseman was on Chi Cream is a prodigy in the making. Apparently he just turned 16 and is 6'2", 200 lb athlete who hit a 420 bomb and can play the game. The best position player i've ever seen for that age. I heard he goes to Von Steuben. Good luck to Illinois teams going to Battle Creek Connie Mack regionals for the right to travel to Farmington New Mexico. Illinois teams in Battle Creek are Sparks (2), Longshots (2), Lombard Lightning and...
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Re: DBAT Mustangs Phillips wins South Plains Region
I have known the fine people at both DBAT and Tigers for many moons and find all to be honest and truthful people. Not sure what all the fuss is about, someone dropped an F bomb, another flips someone off, happens all the time in sports, get over it and move on.
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Re: Blog of AFLAC All-American Games - coach's view
He just hit a bomb off the left field wall for a dbl. Good looking player.
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Re: Congratulations !!
I was there to see him hit that bomb in Chapel Hill. But what really impressed me was the way he played the game. His pitchers were struggling to throw strikes and he blocked everything all game long. He battled back there and did an outstanding job. You could just tell he was the kind of young man that loved the game by the way he played it. Joe was an outstanding player who will make a great college baseball coach. He already is an outstanding young man. Coach Merc I know you are so proud...
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Re: Does this sound stupid to anyone else?
I know one level it didn't help. Years ago, when the kid was 12, and we went to Cooperstown. Remember those short fences? Turned our entire team into a bunch of upper-cutting fools. Of course, that might have been the weak coaching (guilty). Seemed like the more I told them to forget about the fences, the more their little 12-year old brains were obsessed with them.
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Re: 2010 College Reporting thread
Hooray! Son just got his first mound appearance of the young season, closing out Trinity's 15-3 win over Austin College. 2 ground-outs and one K looking. He looked solid and confident. He'll be pleased! ILVBB's son had another monster game at the plate, going 3-for-3 with one bomb, 3 RBI, and 2 runs scored. Game 2 starts soon and is webcast if you're craving some live baseball. Trinity (TX) -vs- Austin College
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Re: 2010 College Reporting thread
Congrats to my second favorite d3 team and the two dads (Krak and ILVBB ) that have sons doing well there! I think I have watched as much of the webcast season as the two dads have!
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Re: School Uses Webcams for Spying
While this "incident" has raised some questions in regard to video, I see no problem with a school system monitoring equipment location via GPS, or the web history of students using school owned property or a K12 ISP. What if a review of the web history uncovered frequent visits to skin-head or other racist sites. What if it was a how to make a home made bomb. How about kiddy-p0rn. How about excessive credit card use. A site about the use and modification of assault rifles. The use and abuse...
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Re: 2010 College Reporting thread
Coach I enjoyed watching your son catch today. He really battled back there and did a fantastic job. And that Bomb he hit was a no doubter. And my brother was more impressed with the nice sac bunt he layed down. Good luck the rest of the way.
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Re: Freshman Pitchers playing the Varsity Level
My son played on the Varsity as a Freshman and had a great experience. He really learned how to pitch and gained a mental toughness that you just can't teach. His first start he gave up a 400' bomb and got beat 10-1. The very next start he came back and mixed things up better and had 11 k's in a 12-0 win. The older kids respected him because of his work ethic and his determination to win , so he got along well with everyone. The thing that surprised me the most was when he gave the team a...
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Re: District 15-4A
Red Oak beat West Mesquite 17-0. Cody Alsup hit his 2nd homerun of the season. It was an absolute bomb!! Brent Fletcher threw 4 very strong innings with the soph. McMillon coming in to finish. They probably struck 15 hitters combined. It was a very good game by the Hawks all-around!
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Re: Southeastern District Games: March 15-20 (Week 1)
The play of the game for the Hickory Oscar Smith game (in my humble opinion) was made by Hickory center fielder Will Flora. After diving for a bomb hit to the right CF wall by the Smith 3rd basemen (that he barely missed) Flora was able to catch the ball off the bounce and throw from the seated position to the second base cut off/ who then threw the runner out at 3d base as the Smith player tried to extend the hit into a triple. Unbelievable!
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Re: Midseason report: New bats having big effect on college baseball
I disagree with this based on what I've seen. I didn't see all that much bunting in the past with the old BESR bats. Why do that when just about everyone was capable of driving the ball. Thus you could afford to wait for the big inning and or the long ball. Now, I see every team sacrificing, even in the first inning, an out to move a guy into scoring position. They are taking every opportunity to score a run here and there rather than waiting for the 3-run bomb. Pitching inside with the old...
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Re: Beach Blast
FC 8, Lake Taylor 3, Berman thru 4 good innings, a few runs were off errors, Sophmore Daniel Rienerth thru last 3 innings, Costen made several good plays at SS, Frehsman Joey Brown had 2 hits, Costen had several hits,1 was a bomb to deep center into a 30mph wind, Rienerth, Senior, had 3 rbi's, just good steady baseball,
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Re: Need help with a rule...
Well, there was no play to be had, so he didn't interfere; he didn't assist any runners; he seemed just to be a bit excited. The only thing during the play I'm worried about is the potential for unsportsmanlike conduct, but absent that, yes, a warning is appropriate.
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Re: When a Coach comes to watch...
Don't sweat it. Just enjoy the summer and play some hard nose ball. You will be surprised at the number of coaches in attendance to watch another kid when they see you laying out for a gapper! Main thing, don't bomb this coach's email or text. You've already made a great follow-up. Now the onus is on him if he is legitimately looking at you. If you're going to be at another showcase tournament, send him another email letting him know. Good luck!
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Re: What do you do?
Can we please stop with the "he's putting them in danger bit"? Each one of these kids had to get a physical in order to try out for the team. Granted high school physicals aren't the greatest ever but running isn't going to put your life in jeopardy unless there is some sort of existing heart condition. I'm not defending this guy but it's not as bad as everyone is making it out to be. Maybe he's got a valid reason as to why he's doing this or maybe he's an idiot that is wearing down his team...