To our young Hsbaseballweb PLAYERS

quote:

Originally posted by itsinthegame:
Just keep going.

Never stop.

Amen

-Kevin

Hey catch - I am glad you like that.

And I hope you dont mind me giving you this opinion.

The ratings and the rankings and all the bs articles and talk mean nothing. Ever.

The only thing that matters is what you do with the next play.

Regardless of whether you are a pitcher or a position player - the only thing you should ever care about when you are playing this game is the next play.

It is that simple.

quote:

Originally posted by itsinthegame:
It is that simple.

I agree!

D or the monkey must have had a good day!

itsinthegame,
All too often do players get caught up in the naysayer's or pessimist's opinions about said players that it impedes their confidence. This has happened with myself also. If there is one thing that I have learned throughout my baseball career thus far is that, your opinion about yourself is the only one that truly matters. I agree with you 100% that you should smash those who "see the glass as half empty". I hope that other young players, such as myself, stumble upon this thread. Those are some powerful words you shared with all of us. In my opinion, they should be taken to heart. However, that's for the individuals who read this to decide for themselves.

-Kevin

TPM,

Nope.

Ok, I give up..hint?

Was it your latest Moose recipe?

Its - I thought I might get to see D play. Taking my daughter for a visit to USI in April... but team is away that Saturday.

amen

And don't forget about Monkey's and Wild Dogs,
IT'S favorite animal, outside of the Moose?

Just keep playing, and never give up.

The things that should be smashed are the templates baseball dogma indoctrinates gullible people with little real understanding of the game, into taking as gospel.

There’s a fellow on another board who insists that if a player who goes to a showcase of any type doesn’t run a 6.4 60, he may as well go home because he’ll never be picked to go anywhere but to the shed for rakes and the line chalker. Another fellow insists that if you’re a RHP and aren’t at least 6’2”/195, you’ll never see the pros.

I take issue with people like that because all I want to see happen is, every player gets given a fair chance to receive quality coaching and demonstrate their skills. Unfortunately, there are many who see that as wanting to give something to players they don’t earn, but that’s far from true.

SK, never worry about the Naysayer's,
Just keep playing the game.

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Originally posted by theEH:
SK, never worry about the Naysayer's,
Just keep playing the game.

That’s a lot easier for us “more mature” folks to say, than it often is for those still able to bend over and touch their toes to live through.

I couldn’t even guess how many time I said either those exact words or something very close to it to not just my rugrat, but to a heck of a lot of other kids like him, who didn’t fit that profile.

Some of it is ok, up to a point. I never had any problem with the kids having to suffer a few indignities to earn their bones. But after you’ve told you child for the umpteenth time to just ignore the ignorant fools, and that he’ll just have to play better than everyone else like he’s always had to, it gets very old.

Not only does it get old, it makes some of us pretty bitter too, and it sure doesn’t give the kids the best outlook on life. Also, it wouldn’t be so bad if the Naysayers weren’t the ones in control, but that’s seldom the case.

If there’s on common thread to many of the posts I make, its that the primary thing I want to see coaches at all levels do, is to keep as many kids playing the game as possible. Not because I want to see anyone given a free pass, but because everyone grows at a different rate, learns at a different rate, grasps different concepts at a different rate, and most importantly, mentally matures at a different rate.

There are far too many kids who could play at 16, 18, or 20 if they had stayed with it, but got chased away from the game because they didn’t fit some profile some coach had when they were “X” years old.

Wow Scorekeeper! Very well said.

If I didn't know any better I would say that...
...

SK

quote:

There are far too many kids who could play at 16, 18, or 20 if they had stayed with it, but got chased away from the game because they didn’t fit some profile some coach had when they were “X” years old.

They didn't get chased away.
They choose to stop playing.
Believe me I know about Late Bloomer's.
And the one's that just keep playing will end up surprising even themselves sometime's.
EH

quote:

Originally posted by Tiger Paw Mom:
Ok, I give up..hint?

Was it your latest Moose recipe?

TPM,

Yup - LOL

theEH:

You're right, sometimes they choose to stop playing. But they choose to stop playing because they were getting tired of being chased away. And chased away for some reasons out of their control, such as politics and body type, or even an abusively bad coach. It's often a matter of self-preservation.

But they were definitely chased away. I've experienced it.

Ya I know it's sad.
I guess that's were the parent comes in.
Not to make everything better??
But to let them know you care.

I've been thinking about what IT'S said about it doesn't matter what your stat's are, that you were an all-star, that you were league champs.

It's this pitch that matter's.
And then the next pitch after that??
It's a constant next pitch.
That's a tough sport if there ever was one.

Think about this A player goes his whole career as a solid contributer, Good number's, a real Gamer.
And he make's one error, With the ball between the leg's.
And that's all they remember??

On the same note.
A player's ok, so-so hitter.
Come's up to bat, and Hit's a game winning walk off HR in the bottom of the 9th WS game.
And he's remembered forever. Go figure??
EH

theEh,

You're right. It's sumthin, aint it?

I guess this is why they call this a "game". So we don't take baseball so seriously!