Would love to welcome everyone to join us on this live call Wednesday at 7 PM. For the first time ever, every one of the current national champion baseball coaches from all levels will come together in one place. Just go to @JRudd_Scout on Twitter at the time of the meeting, and you’ll see the link to join.
Attached is a poster for the event. Please pass the word along about this great opportunity to come closer together as a baseball community and to learn from the best!
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What are we going to learn? What are the topics being discussed? An hour for 9 guests doesn’t seem like enough time to get much meaningful content other than to say you had them all on at the same time.
Lol. You just reminded me why I stopped coming to this message board.
@Josh Rudd (@JRudd_Scout) posted:Lol. You just reminded me why I stopped coming to this message board.
And you just reminded me why you haven’t been missed. Advertising and pandering services aren’t supposed to be allowed on HSBBW
@Josh Rudd (@JRudd_Scout) posted:Would love to welcome everyone to join us on this live call Wednesday at 7 PM. For the first time ever, every one of the current national champion baseball coaches from all levels will come together in one place. Just go to @JRudd_Scout on Twitter at the time of the meeting, and you’ll see the link to join.
Attached is a poster for the event. Please pass the word along about this great opportunity to come closer together as a baseball community and to learn from the best!
Josh - just let me now if you need a parents perspective on the panel. I can talk about what it is like to raise a prodigy and how high end D1 coaches are biased against someone with my son's level of talent. I can discuss how to get around these coaches and keep your son on the path to the majors. DM me if interested.
@Josh Rudd (@JRudd_Scout) posted:Lol. You just reminded me why I stopped coming to this message board.
Lol, so in other words you have no idea and are trying to get clicks for advertising. Maybe in your next post you can actually answer the question and maybe drum up some clicks.
@TerribleBPthrower posted:What are we going to learn? What are the topics being discussed? An hour for 9 guests doesn’t seem like enough time to get much meaningful content other than to say you had them all on at the same time.
Josh Rudd: "Lol. You just reminded me why I stopped coming to this message board."
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Hey Josh, Ive followed your twitter feed. You might have interpreted the tone wrong. Thats a pretty legit issue/question. With just an hour, after 9 introductions, there had better be a hard focus on just a couple issues or it has a high chance of being a waste of time. What will those be? There are a lot of people on this site. Right now you're kinda leaving on a bad note....
@Dadbelly2023 nailed it. There is a lot of personal ownership and legitimate pride with HSBBW. While it's not 100% "pure," it's easily the closest thing to that out there. An authenticity that is super rare. People work hard to stay actively involved and contribute to the "pay it forward" culture of it. MOST of it is done by people that don't stand to make one red cent (or promote something else that DOES make them money) due to their participation.
I have no problem with anyone who wants to promote their business. I'm a fan of capitalism. But this isn't the place. You need to know your audience. As best I can tell, Rudd hasn't come around HSBBW for a while. Why is that? And more importantly, what brought him back this time? Was it to promote his business? Or to truly share and contribute? If Rudd sincerely wants to contribute and pay some things forward, here's my advice. Start a new account here. Make your profile name something along the lines of "BaseballLover2571." Make no mention of who you are. Say nothing that might ultimately put more money in your pocket. Show a continued and sincere interest in helping others only out of the goodness of your heart. Be selfless. Do these things and you'll be surprised how differently you're treated here. Just give free information versus say, creating a new thread that leads with "FREE." Most people here are very sharp. It's part of what makes this such a gem. But with those smarts comes fair skepticism and a loyalty to keep the site as authentic and pure as possible.
Speaking of skepticism, @TerribleBPthrower and @Dadbelly2023 are right on. You've got 9 coaches across a super wide swath of the game plus a host. 10 people, but only 60 minutes. And after the obligatory introductions and pleasantries sprinkled throughout the hour, asking what the goal and value is, is absolutely fair. Is the event really about helping people? Worth their time to learn things they don't already know? If so, market it as such. But with minimal information provided outside of a flashy graphic that tells us it's a "ground-breaking event" and a snide remark to a question from a poster here, what exactly are you expecting, Josh? I'm sure it was not easy getting these 9 guys together at once. Congrats on that feat. What we haven't got is the why.
