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Originally posted by Lamar Fan 08:
I agree that it stinks...The pitchers haven't thrown but maybe 1 or 2 times. How do they plan to get their arms in shape?


They'll be fine, soon as you play your first non district game and the coach leaves the #1 in for 150 pitches when it's 40 degrees, it'll get in shape in a hurry. Big Grin



JUST KIDDING
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Originally posted by KellerDad:
quote:
Originally posted by Lamar Fan 08:
I agree that it stinks...The pitchers haven't thrown but maybe 1 or 2 times. How do they plan to get their arms in shape?


They'll be fine, soon as you play your first non district game and the coach leaves the #1 in for 150 pitches when it's 40 degrees, it'll get in shape in a hurry. Big Grin

JUST KIDDING



That was funny except that it happened to me freshman year, thrown 85 pitches with no warmup in 40 degrees, that did wonders for the arm Wink
Last edited by jesuitbaseball
Last year, while OPson was playing for Rockwall, the Jackets played in a tournament in Shreveport. Our first game there was on March 2nd against the #1 4A team in Louisiana, Haughton HS. Their starting pitcher that night was a kid named TJ Forrest, who had committed to LSU. The game went 8 innings and he pitched the entire game. I asked our scorekeeper how many pitches he had thrown and it was more than 130, but I don't remember the exact number. I'm talking MARCH 2nd!!

Look at this article I found recently dated April 13, 2006:

"For Haughton RHP T.J. Forrest, the 2006 season was supposed to be his year, but what started out like a bang, ended just as abruptly. T.J., along with 3 other players, had sat out the 2005 season because of the LHSAA transfer rule. Forrest, an LSU signee and potentially a high draft pick this June, felt a pop in the 2nd inning of last week's big rivalry match-up between the Buccaneers and Captain Shreve. T.J. was throwing 92 mph in the first inning, and after the "pop" he was down to 82-84. An MRI showed some damage, and a second opinion by Dr. Andrews, who is an LSU alum and a very well-known "Tommy John" surgeon, confirmed what everyone feared...T.J. would have to have surgery. Forrest still should have a very bright future at LSU and we all wish him a speedy recovery!"

Go Jackets!!
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Originally posted by funneldrill:
Varsity and JV got about 8 innings in today, and that is before cuts. Freshman got in about 6 innings. Pitchers threw 2 innings, no one threw more than 45 pitches.

It was a great day! I love my freshman, too bad half of them will be going to Legacy High School next year! If not, we could be scary in 1-2 years.


Passion oozes from this post! As a parent, I'm thankful if you coach my child. As a coach/teacher, the excitement is contagious. Good luck this season.
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Originally posted by Lamar Fan 08:
funnel, do you guys make cuts after tonight or go one more day?


We are required by our district to have 5 days of tryouts. So, on Wednesday, as soon as the temperature got to 33 degrees, we went outside.

Today however, we stayed inside. Since we can not get into our gyms I kept our baseball class kids in the locker room for "skull" practice. They had to take a written test on all our terminology, signs, situations, etc.

After school, all the other kids trying out, including the freshman, got 2 hours of mental skills training as well as "skull" practice. Their test did not have terminology on it, but it did have lots of situations so that I can see what type of baseball "knowledge" they have.

So, while we could not get on the field to evaluate them, we were able to get some mental evaluations on them. Not just baseball knowledge, but questions like, "if you came up to bat with the bases loaded in the bottom of the 7th, what are you thinking? Do you want to be in that situation?



"winners want the ball!"
Last edited by funneldrill
i look at this site often cause my dad frequently posts on here but decided I wanted to give some praise where praise is due.

Funneldrill is a really exceptional coach he always had the nicest things to say about the way I played the game over the last three years and was more than willing to suggest me to any college coach. He really knows baseball inside and out and gets the most out of his players.

Thanks funneldrill for all your encouragement and I hope you get a chance to see my little brother he's without a doubt more talented than me. He's a third basemen at Seguin not a cathcer like his brother Wink

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