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Headfirst Honor roll camp - Rocklin California
Thought I would take a chance and talk about son's experience at the camp. There were 115 players. The camp was held at Rocklin HS on their Varsity and JV fields. It was a two day event. The camp began as most camps do with a short talk from the camp...
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The DH
Being a pitcher's parent sometimes I don't always pay attention of the difficulty of other player's roles.In dicussion the other day, son said he felt the toughest job (besides the relief pitcher ) is that of the DH.The DH needs to be able to sit...
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College recruitor files suit against fibbing parent.
Neuter NewsCollege recuitor sues fibbing parent.This will go down among insane lawsuits. Bob Jones assisant coach at Southwest College has filed suit against a parent of a potential recruit for severely exaggerating the fastball of his son by over ten...
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Bad Parent
I have to get something off my chest. I've been lying awake at night over this one.My son played in a big Northern Illinois tournament this week. Wednesday we played a team where the 3rd baseman made an error.I can only assume this was the boy's...
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Proud Parent
I have rarely (maybe never) done this but today for some reason I feel the need to do so .... I am going to post an email that we received from our son Andy, this morning. As most of you know I have a hard time bragging about either of our sons. Both...
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Travel Ball nightmare
We have 4 games left in the most expensive lesson I have ever learned.We paid $1500 plus uniform. Which was $235.That gave us 9 tournaments plus a nationals.It was supposed to include two paid coaches, practice field rental, indoor rental, and game...
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ACC tournament, a parent's perspective
Just getting back from our first ACC tourney, just a few things I picked up that I would like to share.The tournament is too long and I am glad to hear that next year they will change the format. With so many teams hoping to make the regionals, I...
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Promoting your son
We would all like for our sons to “move up”. Things could happen very rapidly without much outside help from the parent with the exception of paying for the necessities and devoting most of their free time to travel. Then again things...
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At what level does is it become fair for the media to criticize?
I remember the first time a local newspaper wrote an article about our son's performance in a game that wasn't titled too nicely. Kind of threw me back a tad. No big deal really. It was about 'game performance' and was more or less accurate...just a...
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So how did you know it was the right fit
We're always talking about the right fit for our players. So how about you, what made you decide it was the right fit for you as the parent. For me it wasn't the field, it wasn't the football stadium, it wasn't 80K people packed into a town that...
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Senior Season is Over
I just needed some mom support. My son has a back injury and has been told that his season is over. This is a potentially career ending injury. He was told by a neurosurgeon that he may be able to recover to play college ball. As a parent my heart is...
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Newsflash: Limom84 can be a normal person!
Welcome Bullwinkle has joined the chat. [Bullwinkle] Hello to anyone! limom84 has joined the chat. [limom84] hi [limom84] hello? any1 there [Bullwinkle] hello [limom84] r u a playa or parent [Bullwinkle] Dad [Bullwinkle] u? [limom84] Mom, silly [Bullwinkle] that is the big question... is it true? [limom84] what r u talking about [Bullwinkle] the styles of your writing [Bullwinkle] seems to change [limom84] of course, i'm a mom. i'm moody 2 [limom84] do u like the styles as u call them...
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What happened in Key West?
Grandview cuts Conchs' season shortBY PAUL DEHNER JR. Citizen Staff KEY WEST — The food was cooking, the teams were in the dugouts and the fans were rolling into Rex Weech Field Saturday night, but the Key West High School baseball team's...
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Southland Conference Award.....
Okay, I know that parents aren't supposed to brag, but I can't help it. My son, Jesse, was named the Southland Conference "Pitcher of the Week", after picking up a 4-1 complete game victory, against the Lamar University Cardinals. SLC...
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The important things in life
A few weeks ago a local orphanage in the Clemson area went to watch a game. DK was pitching that night and word got back to him that an 11 year old girl had fallen in love with #47.My son later found out that this little girl had been removed from her...
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unfair practices
Heres the situation: High school varsity team. Possible players living in Mexico and going to school and playing in US. Living in so. cal. parents are required to show proof of residency, it is a growing problem in the area, the district claims...
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Travel Ball - Good and Bad.......
With all of the recent posts, I thought I would chime in with my experiences in my son's journey.Mine started playing organized "coach pitch" at 8 years old. When he was 8 or 9, a coach asked me to allow him to play for his travel team. I initially...
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Harvard Play To Win Camp
One of four sessions of the Harvard play to Win camp being held this weekend in Cambridge, MA. Coach Walsh is in charge and runs a tight ship here. At many camps you do not see or hear the head coach. At this camp Walsh is front and center and seems...