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scarletandgrey
Cleverly disguised as a responsible adult!
No wonder China took so many gold medals!
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Muck
Enjoy Every Sandwich
Jaxbuck;1238582; said:I remember in tee ball back home in New Paris, that my cousin and I were on two seperate teams and the two coaches hated each other so much our teams weren't allowed to shake hands after the game. They would scream obscenities at each other from the dougout and our teams took on a lot of the bad blood and got into several little "brawls". This was tee ball in Ohio in the 70's (not that its affected me any).
Freakin' Awesome!
Oh wait...
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sandgk
Watson, Crick & A Twist
At age 9 I don't recall all the organized sports dominating - and perhaps that is the underlying problem. We would organize our own games, pick up our teams and have at it. You soon learnt who the better players were, and you either adjusted, got better yourself or resigned yourself to the realization that you were not going to be fastest.
Parents and too young youth team / leagues get in the way of peer group based social development - and that is a shame.
Parents and too young youth team / leagues get in the way of peer group based social development - and that is a shame.
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jimotis4heisman
Banned
when was the last time you saw a group of kids outside playing sports? you hardly ever see kids outside at all anymore and rarely is it sports related...
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Buck Nasty
You'll have nothing and like it
The kid is obviously on some type of performance enhancing drugs, what else could it be. Did you happen to notice how much bigger his head was at 9 than when he was 5.
the pussification continues...
the pussification continues...
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OCBuckWife
I am the evil monkey in your closet
Jake;1238298; said:"When Jericho took the mound anyway last week, the opposing team forfeited the game, packed its gear and left, his coach said."
That's a great lesson to teach kids. When faced with a challenge, cry that it's unfair, concede defeat, and go home.
It isn't just parents teaching that ethic. Take a good look at the Olympics this year. I would give you rep but I have given out to much in the last 24 hours. Which the system has been telling me for over 24 hours but it must be that SEC speed the forums have.
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Yeah ... I don't understand the speed issue here either. 40 mph from just off the front of a mound is not too fast for 8-10 year olds. Hell, we (adult coaches) threw harder than that at 7 year olds in our coach pitch Peanut League this past spring. After six whiffs and getting the ball on a tee the first couple of weeks, the kids eventually learned how to hit.buckiprof;1238284; said:
If your kid can't hit that, then you need to either take your child to a diamond with a bucket of balls and pitch to them until they learn to hit, or take your kid to the nearest Putt-Putt golf course with a Little League batting cage and let them have a few hundred cuts until they can't swing a bat anymore.
Control is the MAJOR problem at the Little League level, not pitch speed. If the other team has a hard thrower that is routinely over the plate, I would BEG the coach to let that kid pitch, because my good hitters will club doubles all fucking day off that, while the poorer hitters will catch up and become better.
It's the kids that throw every third pitch to the backstop that totally screw up your own teams hitting approach. Those are the kids that should be barred from pitching until they learn how to get every ball over the plate, because they're not a help to their own team, they're a legitimate danger to yours, and they make every fucking half inning take 45 minutes.
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Brutus1
Don't be penurious, donate to the BP Spring Dr.
Boy, they must be a bunch of pu$$ies in New Haven. I'd hardly call 40 mph
too fast. Maybe for an 8 year old it is, but stoop, you shouldn't have 8 year olds playing with 9 and 10 year olds in the first place. 7 and 8 year old should be instructional, 9 and 10 they should be well on their way to knowing how to hit , catch, throw and run.
The whole damn problem today is that parents sign up their kids to play ball, yet refuse to work with them when they're not at practice. That pisses me off. You can tell the kids on the team that put their glove in the car after practice and don't take it out until the next practice. It's easy to take a bucket of balls to the park and pitch or hit grounders/flyballs to them. Work with your kid so when he plays in the game, he can hit the ball or even swing the bat instead of striking out then walking back to the dugout crying like a f'n baby.
If you're not going to work with the kid then just sign him up for soccer.
too fast. Maybe for an 8 year old it is, but stoop, you shouldn't have 8 year olds playing with 9 and 10 year olds in the first place. 7 and 8 year old should be instructional, 9 and 10 they should be well on their way to knowing how to hit , catch, throw and run.
The whole damn problem today is that parents sign up their kids to play ball, yet refuse to work with them when they're not at practice. That pisses me off. You can tell the kids on the team that put their glove in the car after practice and don't take it out until the next practice. It's easy to take a bucket of balls to the park and pitch or hit grounders/flyballs to them. Work with your kid so when he plays in the game, he can hit the ball or even swing the bat instead of striking out then walking back to the dugout crying like a f'n baby.
If you're not going to work with the kid then just sign him up for soccer.
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jimotis4heisman
Banned
seriously how often do you see kids out in the street playing sports anymore?
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You're right, kids don't use broom sticks and cars as bases any longer. Those fields are ruining society...jimotis4heisman;1238771; said:
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Dryden;1238705; said:
Me and a friend of mine were one of those kids that can throw it hard and had good control. My dad would tell both of us when we were ahead in the count to throw one to the backstop either over the head of the ump or into the other batters box to keep the batters on their toes. I was 8
But seriously... this whole generation of kids are going to be wussies and it is all our faults. I cannot wait til my son grows up and plays in these type of leagues. First step is I will want to be a coach and the first thing I will tell my team is we are keeping score cuz each game has a winner and a loser. But then again I will probable be banned from coaching cuz the parents that taught their kids that "everyone" is a winner and that their are no losers will join forces to kick me out.
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