Strange but true stuff players have done at tryout camps.
1) Show up late. Nothing makes them mad more than a players that shows up late. One player showed up 4 hous late.
2)Have bad 60 yard time and then claim the stop watch is broken, grass is high, wet, or running uphill.
3) Claim the radar gun is busted. One player whose dad claimed his kid threw 95 mph. Ask to see the radar gun reading. When he was told 87 mph, yelled your gun is broken. Showed 3 other guns with the same reading and told "yeah all 4 are broken huh".
4)Claim despite you have no velocity you have Greg Maddox stuff. Hmm pinpoint control of 4 pitches and fastball that moves 18 inches going 88-90 mph.
5) Show bad fashion. A few notable fashion disasters. Wearing shorts, tennis shoes and wife beater T-shirt to a tryout camp.
One player wore giant yellow sweat pants, people kept yelling "Hammer Time" when he fielded a ground ball.
6)Throw Grenades on your throws. A few players throws look similar to a grenade toss, traveling high and about 100 feet. Not good if your throws are rolling into the infield, on throws to home plate.
7)Be collecting Social Security and attend a tryout camp. Some players in their 70's have showed up to tryout camps.
8) Show up hung over or drunk. Players have actually come to tryout camps straight from the bars.
9) Ask to borrow equipment. Not good to ask scouts if you have a spare shoes, glove or bat at a tryout camp.
10) Steal the teams equipment at the tryout camp.
Players have walked off with bats, baseballs, helmets and a radar gun.
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