Yeah, but is your ten year old ranked by perfect game?agsalaska said:
Would y'all please stop arguing like little children. Y'all are worse than my ten year olds. Go right fight somewhere else.
If not, what do you know.
Yeah, but is your ten year old ranked by perfect game?agsalaska said:
Would y'all please stop arguing like little children. Y'all are worse than my ten year olds. Go right fight somewhere else.
agsalaska said:
One thing that changed with the PG takevoer of USSSA in Austin is now we have no idea where the tournament is going to be until Wednesday night. With USSSA we would generally know by MOnday or Tuesday if we were going to be in RR, Georgetown, Temple, whatever. Not sure why it changed because the promotion company is the same.
Here is hoping for something north of Austin this weekend. We are leaving for Branson Monday morning.
Weekend long tournaments? Crazy!WES2006AG said:
This argument is a perfect embodiment of why most of us laugh at the select baseball people. Have a good friend that drops a lot of cash for his coach pitch select team to travel all over and play in weekend long tournaments. He is convinced that his kid will be behind if he doesn't, even though we all know there is no correlation to a 7 y/o and what they will eventually be.
For some perspective, I don't have kids but have umpired some of these select tournaments and the life or death attitude the parents have would be funny if it weren't so sad.
So the problem is the increase in teams?baseballaficionado said:agsalaska said:
One thing that changed with the PG takevoer of USSSA in Austin is now we have no idea where the tournament is going to be until Wednesday night. With USSSA we would generally know by MOnday or Tuesday if we were going to be in RR, Georgetown, Temple, whatever. Not sure why it changed because the promotion company is the same.
Here is hoping for something north of Austin this weekend. We are leaving for Branson Monday morning.
Well, Nels and Walkoff still run it, as you mentioned. It wasn't the switch that changed things, it was covid. Nels had to scramble for fields when NEM, Taylor and Old Settlers were closed. The fields have all opened back up, but TPS sold to Gateway, there were some other changes and now the tournaments are stacked with so many teams.
Lonestar_Ag09 said:
Alaska do yall home school?
I coach a team of 3-5 year olds. You're spot on. 1st practice I could tell which 3 year olds play with dad/brother (they can hit off of coach-pitching, and know how to stop a ground ball), and which 5 year olds get dropped off at the country club daycare while mom & dad go to the gym (picture "Smalls" from Sandlot, can't even hit off the tee).PhatMack19 said:
-The bad kids are really, really bad. Like don't know how to stand in the box or throw a baseball. We didn't have kids like this. Our bad kids would almost be All stars now. The gap is way way bigger than when grew up.
Moral of my story- Get outside and play with your kids!! The neighborhood games we grew up with don't exist anymore.
Lonestar_Ag09 said:
That last line is exactly the problem, kids don't learn to play organically anymore. They only learn to play when they are on a team. Heck I'm pretty sure at like 6-7 I could run an extremely effective hot box because we played it all the time on the sidewalk growing up.
I'd bet that $ was the reason for the change more than anything. Personally I liked USSSA's website better. Otherwise about the same. Still starting 8 am games 10 minutes late waiting on an umpire. Wondering if the umpire can see or is sober for the game (there actually are a few good ones). Games running way behind because of poor planning and long breaks between games. Yea it's about the same. 22 teams for our tournament this weekend in AAA. I still think it was better when we just played American Legion but that ship has sailed.agsalaska said:
One thing that changed with the PG takevoer of USSSA in Austin is now we have no idea where the tournament is going to be until Wednesday night. With USSSA we would generally know by MOnday or Tuesday if we were going to be in RR, Georgetown, Temple, whatever. Not sure why it changed because the promotion company is the same.
Here is hoping for something north of Austin this weekend. We are leaving for Branson Monday morning.
Bassmaster said:
Speaking of umps, what was this weekend like for those of you who played? Our first game yesterday, 1 ump behind home plate. He was fine despite our opponent railing on him every single call he made. But that is nothing new for them, they do that every game they play. Both fans and coaches. We saw several other fields at Scrap Yard had the same thing. We ended up winning 11U open and had two umps the rest of the way yesterday. I had read before the weekend that people were saying there were going to be shortages.
docb said:
If one error cost the game how did the runners get on 1st and 2nd........
It's usually a lot of things that cost a team a game. Got out hit, out pitched, out coached, but hardly ever one thing loses a game.