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    Daughter broke the single season HR record for her high school

    I really don't know. She was more of a line-drive hitter. Her best friend and another young lady I coached from the age of 10 hit over 20 her senior year. If I were to take a guess, I don't think that BB hit more than 8 in any year.
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    Daughter broke the single season HR record for her high school

    Very impressive!!! Congratulations!!!
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    Pitching 700+ pitches in two days.

    I respectfully disagree. I coached baseball for a few decades and finding a pitcher who could throw strikes was never easy at the lower levels and, to be honest, many HS have one or two decent pitchers and then, not so much.
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    Pitching 700+ pitches in two days.

    I am trying to think of how the OP's situation happened. Please give more information including the number of games and the pitches thrown in each game. I doubt that this year we have had a pitcher throw more than, perhaps 110, in a game. At the amount cited, the run rules should have kicked in.
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    Share Some Conversations:

    Not long. As I have mentioned, my practices were intense. No one stood around. We were always doing something. For example, if we had a pitcher doing their BP work and finishing throwing to hitters, we might have the 3B and SS take their positions. I would yell about being on their toes...
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    Share Some Conversations:

    Sure, sometimes I would yell, "Everyone on your toes." That meant that a changeup was going to be thrown. Typically, everyone would shift as I yelled this as I walked out of the dugout. The goal was to have people look at me while they shifted. The third baseman and shortstop both adjusted...
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    Random Pet Peeves

    Soooooo, I am an old crabby guy. The music or sound systems rolled up to the fields hacks me off. I don't want to hear your music as I try to get my team ready to play. I certainly don't want to hear your music if I am four fields removed from you and your diamond.
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    DIII Selection Monday

    Who do they play in St. Louis? My guess would be Washington University. I have a friend who has a daughter playing there.
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    Share Some Conversations:

    As an FYI, this thread is open for all to share conversations with their DDs. We can all learn from those conversations. They might be some simple or difficult situations and we have all gone through them in varying degrees.
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    Share Some Conversations:

    I wanted to share some of the conversations my DD and I have been having. As I have pointed out, she has been eaten up by softball most of her life. I've posted several times before that we constantly had to tell her that softball was what she did and not who she is. With the college...
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    Playing up (School Ball) ???????

    As an aside, and I don't know any of you or those HS programs. In the conference that I have coached in for the last few decades, multiple D-I pitchers have come from the conference. Another few will graduate either this year or next. Our out-of-conference schedule has our players playing...
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    Playing up (School Ball) ???????

    ... and the great thing is that you can save your dd from this terrible experience next year. Just say NO!
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    Skull Sessions

    I can't answer your question with a source but I can recommend that you watch The College World Series with the players. Write down questions/situations, and talk to them about how to play the game. Typically, it was hard to get everyone there but if you can get key players there, they can...
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    What do y’all see?

    It is virtually impossible to determine much from stills.
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    Just met my neighbor...

    My DD and son-in-law are building a house about one block away from us. It is on a cul de sac. Her soon-to-be neighbor came over and I gave him a tour of the structure. He said that he wanted to check the cul de sac for nails since he was bringing his RV out. They are headed to Texas for a...
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