Proper Etiquette

you guys are good...you guys...great group! 

Thanks for all the pointers.... now I have to buy a video camera? 

and find a really good ball player...

maybe I can hold a showcase tryout to find the best... 

 

TPM, I dont want to use up to much bandwidth...this post was just enough.

 

thanks for all the help... I have to go post onto another section of this forum...

good night to all... 

 

 

This is where your money needs to go.  What cracks me up are the videos who have music, graphics and all that other crazy stuff.  Do people think that actually works?  BTW this a general statement not directed at you jlaro.

 

If your son (not you) wants to be noticed and play at the next level he needs the talent and be seen.  Going to PG events is what he needs to be doing.  This will help him not extraneous things that really serve no purpose.  

 

I grew up in WV and although I've been gone from there for about 20 years now I still understand what the area is like.  Sadly, it's not a hotbed for baseball talent.  Yeah guys get drafted and succeed but not at the numbers of other states.  So your son is fighting an up hill battle already because if the talent is not there then the right people won't be there.  You have to get out of your area to be seen.  Going to Lexington (pretty good baseball there) and Atlanta (you'll see talent there) is how he's going to be seen.

 

Look we're not trying to mean or hateful so please don't take it that way.  We've seen this many times and we just want to help you maximize your opportunities for your son.

 

I'm not sure if you're trying to be sarcastic here because you don't appreciate whatever negative responses you think you may have gotten. If you interpreted this thread that way, I'm really sorry to hear that. There's some GREAT info here. Info I wish I would have had when I was coming up through the system. Info from people that have been through the system many times over and, in some instances, are still in the system - from the other side. 

 

I'll bow out of this one. If you don't want to take the advice, no point in giving it. I think I can help, too. Oh well.

 

PIS is a contributor on this site.  Go to his website:  Play in School.  He videos players and there are examples on his website, including keewartson.  Sometimes he is at major events, so you may want to contact him.  It would be much cheaper than a good camera...plus, he knows what he is doing.

 

JH,

 I am not trying to be sarcastic at all... you guys are giving me some great advice...

you all have the best advice always.. I been reading alot but dont post as much...

my baseball level is no where to talk about...  

it was funny how I ask about going up to a coach at a showcase tornament and it got mixed in with my signature and the post got mixed....  

Thanks for all your help thanks for the advice.

 

coach2709,

 You were from my area WV  so you know..we are here 14 years now... we also lived in VA and in SC.. too.. you are right about the area... its a football area...like you said not a hotbed for baseball.. 

that is why I want to give my son a chance to play at the next level college..

He is with a showcase team now the huntington hounds , going to travel games all summer,

going to PG in july and then again in Aug..

 he is showing interest in playing at the next level so i am trying to support him in anyway I can...  

and to all, thanks for all that you do here on the boards...

I didnt mean to sound sarcastic or funny in anyway... I read all the advice...

thanks again to all,

Joe 

jlaro,

Sometimes I take things far too literally and I have a hard time reading "tone" in a written message.  Please help a dumb guy out as I'm trying to follow along here...  You said you didn't mean to sound sarcastic or funny in any way.  So, when you said you have to buy a video camera and find a really good ballplayer and maybe hold a showcase to find one, that was not sarcasm?

yeah sure in a funny way...in a funny sense of humor...that I have... 

so when the one poster said with 'email and video of a really good baseball player ..

 how should I take that ......Sarcastic...?????  

so I said I have to find a good camera and baseball player....

I do some photography and when people tell me 'do you know a good photo-guy.? 

I tell them I will see if I can find one for them....humor funny..

 

Like when you go to dinner and the waitress ask 'how was everything' and I say.'

I didnt have everything....

or when you go to a bank and the teller name is there and it reads.''Robin banks'

and you tell her .' how long have you been robin Banks..??? she then call the cops...

Humor.... funny to some and not most....and stand-up is not my full time job either...

cabbagedad.... how did you take it..??  

 

thanks,

from a dumber guy.

Cabbagedad,
Glad that wasnt me asking that question! Ha Ha!

Ha Ha... my reply's are way to long...sorry.. to much coffee tonight ...and working the night shift is wearing me down... 

 

 

1215 am , I need  more coffee...

if it wasnt for cyber-space I wont have friends...

I bet all is saying right now 'I can see why"   ha ha funny

is there such as thing as "watching way to much baseball"?