Does anyone know what happened to Darrell? His new place is already shut down.
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Big Surprise 
Darrell merged w/Tommy Tiger and his place shut down ....... hummmmm??
I thought they un-merged and Darrell went his own way. Have they merged again?
Here you go, K-Dad....
quote:Originally posted by Texan:
Here you go, K-Dad....
Don't throw me under the bus.
I've met Darryl one time, and he was a perfectly nice guy.
Nice guy but a terrible businessman. His summer teams owe a lot of baseball people money they will probably never get (league fees, tournament fees, etc.).
Darrell is a great guy. I think he knows baseball, but they ran the worst business I have ever seen.
I wish them alot of luck and hope they see to it to refund the money of the ones who had signed up to play for the fall team that never got off the ground.
I wish them alot of luck and hope they see to it to refund the money of the ones who had signed up to play for the fall team that never got off the ground.
Darrell is not the ONLY bad businessman in the mix!
Preach on Melynda! I don't know Mr. Richardson or much about his organization, but we met a real dud ourselves. Unfortunately, they continue to prey on the "less informed." Darn it! Where is the karma boomerang?
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I have a friend whose sons DR Tigers team went to Austin this summer for a tournament, checked into the hotel, only to find out that the tournament check bounced and they were not in the tournament. They would not reschedule it to accommodate the DR tiger team so everyone had to go home without touching the field. 
I find it interesting that people I don't know seem to know so much about me and most is not true.
Austin- all 7 DR Tiger teams went and all 7 played. It was not the best tournament They all got to play and to my knowledge most had a great time. We paid at the tournament so, no way that happened. Everyone checked in went to a BBQ dinner that night and then had team meetings. In most businesses there are slow times and you try to juggle payments to get through. I did the best I could and for every negative comment I am getting 2 people calling me wanting me to keep working with their son.
I never claimed to be a business person. The main reason I am getting out is because it is such a business. Baseball is supposed to be fun for the players and everyone involved.
For the 12 guys that paid for fall baseball they all have been told when they would get a refund.
Tommy and I are still good friends end of story.
I wanted a club that everyone had a chance to play. I never claimed or told anyone we would be the best around. That was not my goal. I did take my group of guys to almost last in BBi to 4 last year.
The rest is not for me to post on this web site.
However, you can email me at Djracademy@aol.com and I will reply.
I wish everyone the best of luck.
Austin- all 7 DR Tiger teams went and all 7 played. It was not the best tournament They all got to play and to my knowledge most had a great time. We paid at the tournament so, no way that happened. Everyone checked in went to a BBQ dinner that night and then had team meetings. In most businesses there are slow times and you try to juggle payments to get through. I did the best I could and for every negative comment I am getting 2 people calling me wanting me to keep working with their son.
I never claimed to be a business person. The main reason I am getting out is because it is such a business. Baseball is supposed to be fun for the players and everyone involved.
For the 12 guys that paid for fall baseball they all have been told when they would get a refund.
Tommy and I are still good friends end of story.
I wanted a club that everyone had a chance to play. I never claimed or told anyone we would be the best around. That was not my goal. I did take my group of guys to almost last in BBi to 4 last year.
The rest is not for me to post on this web site.
However, you can email me at Djracademy@aol.com and I will reply.
I wish everyone the best of luck.
Darrell,
I wish you and Audra the best of luck, you have been nothing but kind to my son and our family and I always knew you were in this for the right reasons.
Our experience with Darrell was through lessons and he was always going the extra mile, if the time was up on the lesson and things still needed to be ironed out he would go over the time limit and never charged extra.
When my son had elbow issues, unrelated to lessons and tied into weight lifting, he sent us to the right Dr. and P/T person and always followed up with emails expressing interest and concern. Amazing thing is that we only had a few lessons w/Darrell, my son is no stud so that wasn't the reason, he owed us nothing, he just cared.......
I compare Darrell to the instructor we used for almost 3 years (and what an investment we had in that) and never received the caring, concern, empathy that we received from Darrell and Audra.
This summer we faced one of his teams and my son struggled on the mound, Darrell took the time to come over after the game and had a heart to heart with my son, sent an email as well and that meant the world to him......how many coaches/instructors do this.
I will always speak highly of Darrell and wish him and his family the best.......this example is just our experience and I am sure there are those out there with similar experiences and those with just the opposite....... that seems to be the nature of this business.....................
I wish you and Audra the best of luck, you have been nothing but kind to my son and our family and I always knew you were in this for the right reasons.
Our experience with Darrell was through lessons and he was always going the extra mile, if the time was up on the lesson and things still needed to be ironed out he would go over the time limit and never charged extra.
When my son had elbow issues, unrelated to lessons and tied into weight lifting, he sent us to the right Dr. and P/T person and always followed up with emails expressing interest and concern. Amazing thing is that we only had a few lessons w/Darrell, my son is no stud so that wasn't the reason, he owed us nothing, he just cared.......
I compare Darrell to the instructor we used for almost 3 years (and what an investment we had in that) and never received the caring, concern, empathy that we received from Darrell and Audra.
This summer we faced one of his teams and my son struggled on the mound, Darrell took the time to come over after the game and had a heart to heart with my son, sent an email as well and that meant the world to him......how many coaches/instructors do this.
I will always speak highly of Darrell and wish him and his family the best.......this example is just our experience and I am sure there are those out there with similar experiences and those with just the opposite....... that seems to be the nature of this business.....................
Mr. Richardson, my response was not directed at you. As I stated, I don't know you and know very little about your organization. I was referring to a totally different "select" baseball organization and my sincere apologies if what I was trying to say was construed as negative towards you. I was trying to get two points across in the same posting. Huge mistake. I don't know anything about your operations and was not commenting on them, but I'm afraid my thoughts might have run together. Best of luck to you and your family. Seems like people are going to miss your skill, passion and dedication to the game itself.
Darrell --
My first post was intended as sarcasm, attempting to say that merging with the Tigers didn't seem to end up helping your organization .... ironic that something that should have helped only hurt!
Second post was indirectly stating that Tommy himself is not a good businessman -- but he does have more "money" on his teams (for now).
How do I know? My son played for Tommy & the Tigers for 10 years. I know.
By the way, thanks for doing R.L.Turner proud! You, Lonnie Ivey, & the Redhead have been about it as far as baseball is concerned
Melynda
My first post was intended as sarcasm, attempting to say that merging with the Tigers didn't seem to end up helping your organization .... ironic that something that should have helped only hurt!
Second post was indirectly stating that Tommy himself is not a good businessman -- but he does have more "money" on his teams (for now).
How do I know? My son played for Tommy & the Tigers for 10 years. I know.
By the way, thanks for doing R.L.Turner proud! You, Lonnie Ivey, & the Redhead have been about it as far as baseball is concerned
Melynda
We need more people like Darrell out there helping our young kids learn to play the game the correct way.
Wow, you all are good at the moonwalk! Mike Jackson would be proud. 
PD -- I have yet to walk on the moon! 
I have a hard enough time just walking normal. let alone "moon walking"
let alone "moon walking"
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Bighit15:
I couldn't decide to delete this thread, close it, or let it go on. I will leave it open for now, but no more personal attacks.QUOTE]
I think most posters were talking about DR the business not DR the man. It’s kind of hard for it not to be personal when the name of your business is "Your Name". If you’re going to name your business with your own personal name you better make sure everything runs smoothly or it can bite back at you.
As far as not making money, like I have said before, profit is not a dirty word, as long as you’re honest and sincere with your venture and meet or excede people's expectations. That being said you cant make everyone happy, but you should try to.
I couldn't decide to delete this thread, close it, or let it go on. I will leave it open for now, but no more personal attacks.QUOTE]
I think most posters were talking about DR the business not DR the man. It’s kind of hard for it not to be personal when the name of your business is "Your Name". If you’re going to name your business with your own personal name you better make sure everything runs smoothly or it can bite back at you.
As far as not making money, like I have said before, profit is not a dirty word, as long as you’re honest and sincere with your venture and meet or excede people's expectations. That being said you cant make everyone happy, but you should try to.
Ahhh Darrell. Retirement is nice. People still criticize what you did, but you just don't care anymore.
I've been out of pocket for a while. Is this site still about HS Baseball or the successes and failures of American Business? If the latter I have some hot rumors on Kenneth Lay.
It looks as if the members here have joined the rest of America. Taking more enjoyment out of the failure of others than their own successes.
I've been out of pocket for a while. Is this site still about HS Baseball or the successes and failures of American Business? If the latter I have some hot rumors on Kenneth Lay.
It looks as if the members here have joined the rest of America. Taking more enjoyment out of the failure of others than their own successes.