Here's a link to a story about a minor league player being traded to Laredo for 10 wood bats. It sounds like he's got a long way to go to reach the bigs.
http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=ap-tradedforbats&prov=ap&type=lgns
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This is great! It reminds me of a story from high school. As seniors, we told one of the juniors that was new to the team that coach traded him to our crosstown rivals for 2 fungos.
Now, this kid was very gullible and a bit sensitive, so he took the bait.
He could not believe it, "how could coach do this to me? I thought he liked me?"
We were like, "yeah, he wants to see you so he can collect all your stuff. You know how much coach likes his fungos."
So our teammate does not dress for practice, brings all his stuff to coach and says, "coach, here's my stuff. Couldn't you get more for me than two fungos?"
The look on our coaches face was priceless!!! Our coach says "son, I think your teammates are having a little fun with you. But, since you are so gullible to believe it, I probably couldn't get 2 broken fungos for you! There ain't no trades in high school baseball! Go get dressed and start running foul poles because you're late!"
We just about fell out. It took about 30 minutes for laughter to stop.
Oh, and my teammate that got traded for 2 fungos, he is a head coach at a 5A school in this area! Everytime I see him, I tell him that I have a broken fungo for him.
Now, this kid was very gullible and a bit sensitive, so he took the bait.
He could not believe it, "how could coach do this to me? I thought he liked me?"
We were like, "yeah, he wants to see you so he can collect all your stuff. You know how much coach likes his fungos."
So our teammate does not dress for practice, brings all his stuff to coach and says, "coach, here's my stuff. Couldn't you get more for me than two fungos?"
The look on our coaches face was priceless!!! Our coach says "son, I think your teammates are having a little fun with you. But, since you are so gullible to believe it, I probably couldn't get 2 broken fungos for you! There ain't no trades in high school baseball! Go get dressed and start running foul poles because you're late!"
We just about fell out. It took about 30 minutes for laughter to stop.
Oh, and my teammate that got traded for 2 fungos, he is a head coach at a 5A school in this area! Everytime I see him, I tell him that I have a broken fungo for him.
FD... thats priceless... I'm sure he trys to hide when he sees you coming...
He won't be able to hide next year!!!
FD... Im sure gonna miss those Tuesday night games in Granbury and Weatherford... NOT
Yeah, our farthest district road trip is to Lamar! VERY NICE!!!
FD... how's your team gonna look next year? Also, did Toby decide where he was going to school. I've known his family since he was in a high chair and diapers...
On paper, we return a bunch of pitching. The combined record this year of the returners on the mound was 17-5. 2 of our top 5 hitters will be back and we played alot of kids this year so we'll have 4-5 other guys that got 30-40 Ab's. Mansfield returns 5 starters, Martin is Martin, Lamar returns quite a few starters as does Arlington and Bowie. Should be a good race.
Toby has an offer from Hardin Simmons. A few JC's are getting here now. I have a call into a D 1 school that just had a coaching hire. This guy is behind on recruiting and needs players. I believe Toby can play at this school if given the chance.
Toby has an offer from Hardin Simmons. A few JC's are getting here now. I have a call into a D 1 school that just had a coaching hire. This guy is behind on recruiting and needs players. I believe Toby can play at this school if given the chance.