Your son's College Baseball Experiences

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Originally posted by TripleDad:
SHOW ME MAGIC!

Right where the Birdies are headed - Straight down.

LOL

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Here's a question thats on my mind,
How did your Player handle there sophmore year.
Did they feel more pressure to perform well with the incoming class coming in.
Freshmen year it's all new.
So anything that happen's it's great.
But did they act differant there sophmore year??

EH good question. I got the impression that college baseball players tend to lose grade distinction very quickly --- much more so than high school players. It all comes down to talent and a senior might appear to be the rookie whereas a freshman may be the go to guy. I think the main distinction of being a sophomore is it's time the player has to accept his "role" on the team. A freshman might conjure up the idea he isn't starting (even though he was a star in HS) simply because he's a freshman. The sophomore year finds many of the same players on the bench or in back-up roles as in the previous year. Excuses are hard to manufacture both for the college player and his parents. Most don't even bother trying to explain why their son isn't playing...
Fungo

TG, back before the flood, when I graduated, the specific courses taken did seem to be less relevant (ah, a favored word of those years as well ) to one's career. Barring the obvious ones like engineering and suchlike.

Now, however, read the job descriptions posted in the online ads. Employers are looking for specific degrees. (I mean, a DEGREE in Meeting Planning?) HS students are being told to gear their current courses to their desired field so they will be prepared. (That was the point at which my daughter raised her hand and asked if it was OK for her to be 15. Cheeky kid.)

There are many things we can teach our children. But teaching them to regard their education as their parents did at the same age would be like teaching them to hit the way our coaches did 30 or 40 years ago....as if nothing had evolved since then.

TPM, the regular confusion amuses me. I chose my screen name as a double entendre....my location and as a nod to Virginia Woolf, might as well confuse the issue. You know how men are about women knowing baseball.

I imagine that from College ball on, that the pressure to perform is always there in the back of there mind.
It come's with the Territory I guess.

It's just hard to read whats on there mind.

I hope it's Determination, And a willingness to never give up.
EH

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Right where the Birdies are headed - Straight down

Dyslexic, O , your right on.....I pitty those that think left is right and right is left, AND of course those that can't tell up from down and down from up!

Its.. so sad , my heart goes out to you those with your infliction. Breaks my heart.

its....you did NOT just make fun of our Ozzie. The last person to do that had an unfortunate visit from a streak of particularly vicious St. Louis-style lightning.




So...is it open season on Donn Clendenon? (Do you have any idea how hard it was for me to come up with a Mets 'star' when ya'll actually won that (one) WS?)

Tripledad,

I am going to sleep now - but I will leave you and your "bird of the same feather O" with this:

I will call your upside down Ozzie:

and raise you a Shamsky and a Buchek

Orlando,
Hey, I just wanted TG to know that he was debating a her not a him.


fungo,
Really good post.

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(Do you have any idea how hard it was for me to come up with a Mets 'star' when ya'll actually won that (one) WS?)

NOW THATS FUNNY!!!!

its, sunshine of my morning and rainbow of my days, if you're going to counter someone like Ozzie ....you might want to choose a player someone other than a Mets fan has....I don't know...heard of?

RAISE YA!

Feels like a stacked deck waaaaaay in my favor.

So very true, TD....we could go on all night --- Lou Brock next!

My my my - a couple good Birdies - and you get all excited.

You take Gibby - I got this guy:



and this guy too!




Bad birdies!

OK, its. And then there's....

Charlie Cominsky
Mordecai (Three Fingers) Brown
Jesse Burkett
Rogers Hornsby
Cy Young
Grover Cleveland Alexander
Preacher Roe
Rabbit Maranville
Dizzy Dean
Joe Medwick
Pepper Martin
Leo Durocher
Frankie Frisch
Walter Alston
Marty Marion
Dizzy Dean
Enos Slaughter
Johnny Mize
Vinegar Bend Mizell
Stan Musial
Wally Moon
Red Schoendienst
Hoyt Wilhelm
Minnie Minoso
Ken Boyer
Bill White
Roger Maris
Dal Maxville
Ray Sadecki
Curt Flood
Bob Uecker
Steve Carlton
Julian Javier
Donn Clendenon (snap!)
Joe Garagiola
Tim McCarver
Joe Torre
Ted Simmons
Jim Kaat
Al Hrabowsky
Dennis Eckersley
Bruce Sutter
Willie McGee
Orlando Cepeda
Bobby Bonds
Bob Forsch
Lee Smith
Jack Clark
Joe Girardi
John Tudor
Will Clark
Edgar Rentaria
Larry Walker
JD Drew
Mike Matheny
Albert Pujols
Jim Edmonds
Scott Rolen
Chris Carpenter
David Eckstein


HOFers: 38
HOF Managers: 8

Hey, TD...who all did I miss?

ITS,
Don't you do it?
Don't pull out your ace in the hole.
Keep it a little longer.
EH

EH,

I tried to hold back - but I cant do it.

You can add up all the Birdies listed - and they still wont equal One Kennnnnnnnnnny Bossssssssssswelllllllllllllll!

My alltime favorite player:



Ya Gotta Believe!!!

mmmmmm.....
er......
whats that smell?

toxic topic creep?

Haverdad/Brussels

Son at college, just finished up Fall BB, now in off-season starts day with a 5:30AM run, followed by weight room work out for about an hour every morning. After finishing classes, team does work on their own, but is based upon a throwing schedule for pitchers. He said his first game is sheduled for January somewhere done in the south.

That's all I've been able to get out of him, other than that he doesn't talk about it.

LLORton! you trying to hijack our hijacked thread?

Wah! Never...just thought might answer original post.
peace.

I think you all are right. We messed this one up.

Maybe Julie can move our Cardinals vs Mets stuff into another forum.

Sorry about that folks.

Back to the original question....
My son played at a D-3, at what I guess would be considered an "academic" school.

Basic daily schedule was working out in the gym each morning from 6-7:30, classes from 8 to 1. Practice or weekday game from 1:30 to ???? and games throughout the weekend. Lots of boring bus travel, homework late at night, on the bus, whenever there was time.

His biggest complaint was he could never take certain classes (basically anything that met in the afternoon or night)and any other extra-curricular in the spring was out of the question and in the fall was an "iffy" proposition at best.

I haven't read all of the posts, but just wanted to say something about classes and money. At my school the amount of hours you take does not impact the amount of money you spend. Whether you take 9 hours or 18 hours you spend the same amount of money. So you're not necessarily "wasting" money by taking easy electives. Oh and one more thing. My "rocks for jocks" class is pretty tough. Not anywhere near as easy as everyone else said it would be.