Brenham Ag 15 said:

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I'm an assistant baseball coach at Brenham and this was the biggest game of the season for both teams. Both teams were tied for second in district going into Friday and a loss would drop the losing team to tied for 4th. That's why the game was so emotional. Brenham won 10-4 in 12 innings.

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Brenham battling to be in 4th place in district???

Wow how that program has fallen. Guess Lanny wasn't the problem after all.

Sometimes baseball is just like that. So many varsity players don't make it to baseball practice until March that a lot of teams may not be in top form through the first few weeks of district play while those guys knock off rust.

I see more 3 or 4 seeds playing baseball in the 3rd round and beyond of the playoffs than any other HS sport.

Alpha Texan said:

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Sometimes baseball is just like that. So many varsity players don't make it to baseball practice until March that a lot of teams may not be in top form through the first few weeks of district play while those guys knock off rust.

I see more 3 or 4 seeds playing baseball in the 3rd round and beyond of the playoffs than any other HS sport.

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Yeah, that's really not the case there, especially with a basketball team that didn't make the playoffs.. That program use to be the pride of the whole community.

I don't blame the first CSHS pitcher for the celebration considering Brenham was throwing racist insults at him

huh. I hadn't ever really thought of that. Is that a thing if you're all baseball? I would think that your body would be better off playing baseball year around than picking up 4 months of football, but I also picked up A LOT of injuries playing baseball year around. I would kind of think that as long as you shut your arm down for a couple of months in the year to allow any inflammation to cool off, that would be the healthiest you can stay.

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RikkiTikkaTagem said:

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Trashing select baseball, which some people send 50 weeks a year and tens of thousands of dollars a year on….check.

Watchlisted

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I don't think this is some big moral gotcha that you think it is. Playing any sport for 50 weeks a year is not good. More and more kids are getting into college with broken down bodies because they didn't mix things up and use other motor skills.

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There's no "moral gotcha" in my post. My post is purely just recognizing that this thread was going to get emotional and and be a long thread that was worth watching because of the things I listed. I don't have a side on this thread, just enjoying the back and forth between people.

RikkiTikkaTagem said:

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Aggies2009 said:

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RikkiTikkaTagem said:

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Trashing select baseball, which some people send 50 weeks a year and tens of thousands of dollars a year on….check.

Watchlisted

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I don't think this is some big moral gotcha that you think it is. Playing any sport for 50 weeks a year is not good. More and more kids are getting into college with broken down bodies because they didn't mix things up and use other motor skills.

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There's no "moral gotcha" in my post. My post is purely just recognizing that this thread was going to get emotional and and be a long thread that was worth watching because of the things I listed. I don't have a side on this thread, just enjoying the back and forth between people.

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My apologies!

Interesting, great read. Thanks!

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Alpha Texan said:

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huh. I hadn't ever really thought of that. Is that a thing if you're all baseball? I would think that your body would be better off playing baseball year around than picking up 4 months of football, but I also picked up A LOT of injuries playing baseball year around. I would kind of think that as long as you shut your arm down for a couple of months in the year to allow any inflammation to cool off, that would be the healthiest you can stay.

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It's a huge deal if you're all any sport, not just with baseball. Overuse of the same muscles is rough. With baseball it's more rough because a player is working one arm more than the other.

https://www.stack.com/a/5-reasons-college-coaches-love-recruiting-multi-sport-athletes/

College coaches love multi-sport athlete for the injury prevention aspect and others.

When I was training for my first marathon, I learned the importance of cross training (swimming and biking since they're low impact) just to mix up the muscle groups being used while getting more exercise. An hour of swimming between long runs felt AMAZING.

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The 8 starting NFL quarterbacks from this weekend played 24 sports combined in high school.
Matt Stafford 🏈⚾
Tom Brady 🏈🏀⚾
Josh Allen 🏈🏀⚾
Patrick Mahomes 🏈🏀⚾
Jimmy Garoppolo 🏈🏀⚾
Aaron Rogers 🏈🏀⚾
Joe Burrow 🏈🏀🎽
Ryan Tannehill 🏈🏀⚾🎽

— Brian Spilbeler (@CoachSpil) January 24, 2022

CampingAg said:

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Aggies2009 said:

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Alpha Texan said:

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huh. I hadn't ever really thought of that. Is that a thing if you're all baseball? I would think that your body would be better off playing baseball year around than picking up 4 months of football, but I also picked up A LOT of injuries playing baseball year around. I would kind of think that as long as you shut your arm down for a couple of months in the year to allow any inflammation to cool off, that would be the healthiest you can stay.

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It's a huge deal if you're all any sport, not just with baseball. Overuse of the same muscles is rough. With baseball it's more rough because a player is working one arm more than the other.

https://www.stack.com/a/5-reasons-college-coaches-love-recruiting-multi-sport-athletes/

College coaches love multi-sport athlete for the injury prevention aspect and others.

When I was training for my first marathon, I learned the importance of cross training (swimming and biking since they're low impact) just to mix up the muscle groups being used while getting more exercise. An hour of swimming between long runs felt AMAZING.

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The 8 starting NFL quarterbacks from this weekend played 24 sports combined in high school.
Matt Stafford 🏈⚾
Tom Brady 🏈🏀⚾
Josh Allen 🏈🏀⚾
Patrick Mahomes 🏈🏀⚾
Jimmy Garoppolo 🏈🏀⚾
Aaron Rogers 🏈🏀⚾
Joe Burrow 🏈🏀🎽
Ryan Tannehill 🏈🏀⚾🎽

— Brian Spilbeler (@CoachSpil) January 24, 2022

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It is a great point but that graphic isn't totally accurate. Stafford quit baseball to focus on football after freshman year. He also played basketball as a freshman.

CampingAg said:

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Aggies2009 said:

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Alpha Texan said:

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huh. I hadn't ever really thought of that. Is that a thing if you're all baseball? I would think that your body would be better off playing baseball year around than picking up 4 months of football, but I also picked up A LOT of injuries playing baseball year around. I would kind of think that as long as you shut your arm down for a couple of months in the year to allow any inflammation to cool off, that would be the healthiest you can stay.

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It's a huge deal if you're all any sport, not just with baseball. Overuse of the same muscles is rough. With baseball it's more rough because a player is working one arm more than the other.

https://www.stack.com/a/5-reasons-college-coaches-love-recruiting-multi-sport-athletes/

College coaches love multi-sport athlete for the injury prevention aspect and others.

When I was training for my first marathon, I learned the importance of cross training (swimming and biking since they're low impact) just to mix up the muscle groups being used while getting more exercise. An hour of swimming between long runs felt AMAZING.

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The 8 starting NFL quarterbacks from this weekend played 24 sports combined in high school.
Matt Stafford 🏈⚾
Tom Brady 🏈🏀⚾
Josh Allen 🏈🏀⚾
Patrick Mahomes 🏈🏀⚾
Jimmy Garoppolo 🏈🏀⚾
Aaron Rogers 🏈🏀⚾
Joe Burrow 🏈🏀🎽
Ryan Tannehill 🏈🏀⚾🎽

— Brian Spilbeler (@CoachSpil) January 24, 2022

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Wow. Exaggerated or not, this is very interesting.

Alpha Texan said:

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Interesting, great read. Thanks!

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It's incredible how far sports science has come even in the last 10-20 years. Very interesting stuff. Glad you enjoyed it.

It shows the difference between great athlete and refined baseball player.

When I see a video of “disrespectful” baseball players under 18 years old, I ask:

“What value is this content bringing? Is this person sharing this to help? Or do they consistently share this content they’re ‘disgusted’ by for easy engagement?”

— Tom House 〽️ (@tomhouse) April 26, 2022

Typically very obvious when you can see the video is pulled from TikTok where it’s already gone viral

— Tom House 〽️ (@tomhouse) April 26, 2022

If there haven't already been a thousand examples for how you can make yourself look pretty dumb when you don't keep your emotions and body language in check, good people of all ages do make mistakes so hopefully it hits home this time. I personally know two of the kids that were made to look bad by the limited scope of this video and they are very good, hard-working, and mannerly young men. ("The apple doesn't fall far from the tree." Their parents are outstanding people as well.) And though I don't know him personally, I know enough about the swordsman to know he's a very, very good young man as well and had never in his life done anything quite like that on a baseball field before. There was a lot that happened during the game that (for some peculiar reason) didn't make the video, especially the crap (mostly verbal and gestures but also flying projectiles, one hitting a position player in the face) that was dished out by the fans, players, and even a coach of the opposing team. And I'm more affiliated with Consol than I am CSHS, by the way, before you jump to conclusions. Still, lessons to be learned and I just showed this video and this three-page TexAgs thread to my youth player to make sure he understands ahead of time how easy it is for someone to put together a video or photograph that mostly/only tells part of the story and then disseminate it for the whole world to see and have yourself painted in the worst possible light and then have to sit by and watch the world criticize you and conclude you're a much worse person than you really are. I hate that these boys slipped up a little bit but it provided an opportunity to show my son that negative body language can be used against him.

Was the blue team College Station High or were they in black? Blue team seemed to be a lot worse than the black team.

That would be purple and how in the world could you discern that from a 40 second video clip lol. CSHS is purple

Like racist jokes and opposing fans throwing stuff at players? What side of the line are those things on?

They called an Asian CSHS pitcher sushi boy, yelled at him to paint their nails, and were barking at him. Sounds racist to me.

love Tom House.

this is a great post.

It's a spliced up clip. Brenham kid threw up a piece sign crossing home and did a thumbs down toward the CSHS dugout after hitting a double. Doesn't make a team better or worse than the either because of talking crap.

I realize you are referring to who is talking worse not talent wise. That's clearly CSHS, most of the video focuses on them. But neither side is in the clear

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LukeDuke said:

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CampingAg said:

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I blame Tik tok and select baseball. Look at me culture.

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You're blaming select baseball?

That's a bit of a reach don't you think?

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The culture that emanates from the majority of select baseball organizations, yes I am.

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Even if select ball culture contributes to where the behavior comes from....the fact that it's happening on that field is all about what the coaches in that game are allowing over the course of the season.

Are running poles, playing time adjustments, and red faced colorful speeches not allowed by coaches anymore??!!

Or are you saying that the "select ball culture" you speak of is being embraced and permitted by some high school coaches as well?

Whatever happened to beaning an opposing player when they had crossed the line? That's one of the elements of baseball policing itself. there was a time when showing up the other team meant a fastball in the back. Does that not happen anymore?