so who will be there at North Central on Monday? my favortie day of the year
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I will ...
how are those il orioles doing so far this year? how are you able to get to all these extras with the new wife and all? she must be a cub fan....she doesn't want anyone around when she m-f's the tv.....hey r u guys at northwestern this weekend? see ya soon on the fields....
AC standouts in my opinion:
Bajer
Biela
Bjerke
Chmiielewski-92
Crosby-90
Doyle
Estand
R Garcia
Kaczmarek
Loggins
McConnell
McMurray
Scarpetta
Tompkins
Smolinski
Wright '08 throwing 88-89
Conway-6.56
from what I saw, had a great time all day at my favorite place to watch high school ball.
Bajer
Biela
Bjerke
Chmiielewski-92
Crosby-90
Doyle
Estand
R Garcia
Kaczmarek
Loggins
McConnell
McMurray
Scarpetta
Tompkins
Smolinski
Wright '08 throwing 88-89
Conway-6.56
from what I saw, had a great time all day at my favorite place to watch high school ball.
Holding our own I geuss. Our scores are posted on our site.
She m f's the cubs and keeps right on coming at me..lol..
See you real soon.
She m f's the cubs and keeps right on coming at me..lol..
See you real soon.
FUNGO. did you mean Capetta, ss from Montini,in stead of Scarpetta?
fungo, I certainly agree with some of your evaluations but are you sure on a few of them you are not using past evaluations? Do you think all the players mentioned did well yesterday or when you have seen them in the past. One last comment, when I brought up Austin Wright's name as an 08 a couple of weeks ago I think Beenthere's comment was the entire world would know about him if a lefty sophmore threw that hard, well now at least a few people know. 88-89 is not bad after throwing a game on Saturday. Personally I wouldn't even have thrown him yesterday after pitching sat, but not my choice. Too bad he didn't get a chance to hit.
I think Wright is a 07. I have played against him many times and he does throw hard, but very wild and a head case.
Fungo, what did you think of AC (Aaron Conway). He is my secondbaseman and is a fantastic kid. He ran an incrediable time last week up at the White Sox facility and then they had him repeat because they thought something was wrong with the timer. He duplicated that time. If someone else knows the time, please post it. I only know rumor of the time but if the rumor is true, WOW!
Line...Congrats to him for hitting 88-89 at the Area Code tryouts.
A high school lefty at 90, who's an '08, will be a millionaire upon graduation...if he stays healthy and wants to go pro.
Make sure he gets seen by Perfect Game.
A high school lefty at 90, who's an '08, will be a millionaire upon graduation...if he stays healthy and wants to go pro.
Make sure he gets seen by Perfect Game.
No, jmk, Austin is an 08 as he is going to be a junior at Conant hs this fall. He has always played up one age group since he was very young. As far as wild, I don't think so anymore as I have watched him for a long time and he has worked very hard on that aspect of the game. A couple of hard throwers that came up with that rep named Koufax and Ryan seemd like they eventually worked it all out and had pretty nice pro careers. The head case part you might be confusing with being young and playing up all those years. As I have watched him the last couple of years he has matured on the mound and also has a tremendous presence on the hill. I feel the key for this young man is to keep working and stay healthy, which would include proper throwing mechanics and hopefully a hs or travel coach that does not throw him into the dirt and leave the million been reference sitting on the table. Sorry jmk, I guess I don't agree with someone making refernce to a 16 year old as a "head case"
Oh. I remember him from playing with the Elk Grove travel team back when we were in junior high and always threw hard but maybe he has matured a lot.
it was what i saw yesterday, what did you think from what you watched? only 3 or 4 kids touched 90, only a few sub 7 60s, and not many kids could hit the ball except jake, casey, and butch. fielding i guess you could really argue with my picks, but i think everyone would have different views i guess
fungo, I sent you a pm.
Coach B:
Your second baseman ran a 6.56 and looked very good. ...
Fungomaster's list is a very accurate one.
Your second baseman ran a 6.56 and looked very good. ...
Fungomaster's list is a very accurate one.
Hope everyone had a good time and tomorrow we will have the team picked for California.
Jarthur,
Do you plan on announcing the team on this blog? If not, where and when? Thanks.
Do you plan on announcing the team on this blog? If not, where and when? Thanks.
Just Curious..I see Ralphy Garcia made a good impresion, how about Marvin Sanchez??any word on him...
JArthur any idea when the team roster will be made public?
PM and I will let you know the Illinois kids who made it. Give me a day or two.
Where can we see a list of the team?
http://ssbaseball.rivals.com/
They should have updated information as we get closer to the tournament.
They should have updated information as we get closer to the tournament.
PM me if your interested.
How many players from Illinois made it???
quote:Originally posted by jarthur:
PM me if your interested.
Im interested
jarth, sent you a pm
does anyone know what Illinois players made the area code team, just as to who I will be playing with.
PM me
pm Flanie and jarthur
Is there a reason that this is so secretive?
lineshot...you took the words right out of my mouth!
The only reason that I can think of is that they might "invite" some kids who don't want to go; and, in light of that, they don't want to tell someone else that you weren't on the first list, but someone else declined to go....which could easily happen if they published the list before they received commitments from people.
The only reason that I can think of is that they might "invite" some kids who don't want to go; and, in light of that, they don't want to tell someone else that you weren't on the first list, but someone else declined to go....which could easily happen if they published the list before they received commitments from people.
oh
ja...Seriously...Why the "secrecy"?
Congrats to the Midwest Team on their defeat of the Brewers (Cali kids) today. Quite an impressive feat with all of the critisim surrounding this team. Michael Kazzmarek closed out the 7th to secure the 2 to 1 save. Great Job! Tomorrow the Rangers! Midwest team is 4 and 0.
http://areacodebaseball.com/
Congrats to Jake Smolinski, #14 is SPARQ testing........... Also has 6 hits this week so far.
Congrats to Jake Smolinski, #14 is SPARQ testing........... Also has 6 hits this week so far.
Nice work Jake and congrats to the team. Jr, I don't think the critism was pointed at the players on the team, just questioning some of the process and felt some players were missed for whatever reason.
Again, the Midwest/White Sox/SPARQ team wins. 6 - 4 over the Rangers (Texas kids). Team SPARQ wins the Area Code games outright! Rafael Garcia with the game winning RBI. West Coast schools all over our kids. Jake Smolinski had 8 hits for the entire tournament. Great Job guys!
JR,
Congrats on the wins. So how did my guy do? Sounds like things went well.
Congrats on the wins. So how did my guy do? Sounds like things went well.
Great Job fellows. Get that Midwest respect out there!
congrats to the team, heard many great things on how things went for the week. hearing Jake Smolinski has proven he is the best prospect in Illinois.