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    Pay as you play TB team?

    Oh, sorry! I didn't realize you weren't the coach! One of my biggest pet peeves is coaches using their DDs to communicate with individual players!
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    Pay as you play TB team?

    It sounds like all the communication with this family has been between your DD and the player. Have you spoken with the parents directly? Or the player (Not sure the age group).
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    Looking to Change Organizations...what are the right questions to ask?

    Just to make sure I understand...when you say that the org has showcase teams, are you referring to the teams that get the single invite from showcases where they only invite one team per org? In our org we have an ungodly amount of 14u and 16u teams, and one of the 16u teams calls itself the...
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    Missing School for Softball

    No...what I'm saying is if you are going to screw your kid out of their education for a day, why screw the school too? When we go to our next showcase in Vegas, we can just as easily leave early Friday and skip school the whole day so we can hang out in Vegas before the softball chaos starts. Or...
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    Missing School for Softball

    I've been reading this conversation the last couple of days and it's been quite interesting. I'm not sure where some of you are from, but just calling a student absence in without an excuse is not going to be considered an excused absence in California. The Ed Code is specific about what can be...
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    Action Pose

    My DD at PGF last week (14u)
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    Attending Softball Camp

    Taking my DD to her first college softball camp in a couple weeks and as I'm making plane and hotel arrangements, I was just thinking about what parents do during the two-day camp. Are parents normally allowed to stay and watch? I'd love to watch, but I don't want to be "that parent" either...
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    What to look for in a 1st Year 14U Travel Ball team?

    My DD's team went dark in the Spring, since most of her 14u team is 00's. In our area, there are always teams that get together for the dark period, then go back to their regular teams after HS is over. Although the team was mostly made up of girls from the same organization, we still had girls...
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    Video

    Thanks guys. I'm trying my hand at creating my own skills video instead of paying somebody to do it. I did a rough one over the weekend using footage from a showcase (awesome that they recorded all the games in HD, even if it's $15 a pop!). They did the standard angle from the backstop behind...
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    Video

    I'll be recording DD next week with a borrowed GoPro. Any advice on best positioning of the camera for a catcher? And maybe the settings I should use? Thanks!!
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    Cool Catcher

    Does anybody know a catcher that is using one of these? I told my DD about them and she looked at my like i was crazy. Seems uncomfortable to her to basically have an ice pack on the back of her head!
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    best fundraising ideas for summer?

    We found that restaurant nights worked really well with our rec league. Not so much for travel. The difference is that you have an entire league to support. In travel, we're at the mercy of just the single team and their parents. We tried once and basically only the parents came plus just a...
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    best fundraising ideas for summer?

    Our only fundraiser this Spring is a raffle for an iPad mini (Grand Prize) and an Amazon Fire (Second Prize). We have 16 players selling 20 $10 tickets each. That's a total of $3,200. We are paying out about $400 for the prizes and raffle tickets. $2,800 profit...not including extras sold (prize...
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    pop times

    We recently learned how mesmerized coaches can be with pop time. We just left a 1st year 14u team that measured pop times from time to time. All three catchers were 2.0 and below. The fastest was about 1.8. To this coaching staff the 1.8 pop time automatically made her the top catcher on the...
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    Oh, lucky me

    I was actually talking to Crystl Bustos a couple months ago and she said that boy's softball is huge in Canada...maybe that would explain both the language and the boy!
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    wearing "old team" apparel

    Not only do our girls have to wear team practice shirts to practice - they have assigned colors as well...my DD even tried wearing her old team socks, but it was even mentioned at the end of practice that she needed to throw them away (you don't have to wear team socks to practice, but they just...
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    What Does the Fox Say?

    Heard the other school's band playing it at my son's varsity football game last week! Uggghhh!
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    3B Coverage on a Bunt

    Our team has the catcher cover 3rd...something that my catcher DD is certainly not used to! The corners and pitcher have all crashed, so there would definitely be more than enough players to cover home...left field does not cover 3rd...they are still kept in a backup position in the event of an...
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    Championship game Changes in Rec

    I'm with everybody else on this...changing the rules that you've played with all season for just one game doesn't make any sense. If anything, I like the mid-season rule changes. This lets you start off a little slower, but then add in some "real" rules...rules that will more than likely be used...
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    Hard Decisions

    This year, our team was told at the very first team meeting that the coaches would be evaluating everybody at the end of the season. I kind of agree and disagree with this, but I know that my DD is very hard working and puts a lot of effort in everything she does, so I don't think about it too...

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