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    Coaches don't know the rules, argue most of the time!

    I'm embarrassed by the two guys I coach with almost every game. I get the impression they didn't ever play any sort of competitive ball so they have no clue, but think they're experts. I've been wrong a time or two but some people seem to enjoy making fools of themselves every time they go to...
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    Mom, cmon, really?

    It makes all the difference in the world. When I played LL baseball the 9yr olds were generally told to bunt twice, and good luck on the 3rd one. They never got a chance to hit. One hit might be all it takes to get a kid going!
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    Defensive Strategy: Walk with a runner on 3B

    DC, I completely understand, I was a 13 yr old catcher once upon a time. Our league is so bad that getting three outs instead of giving up 5 could very well be the difference in the game. Daddies manipulating rules and taking advantage of 9yr olds is the main reason it got that way. I really...
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    Getting Paid???

    I know one "coach" who makes a killin. A few months back he cancelled a jr high practice and told the team they needed to come pay him for hitting lessons. This consisted of him using the school facilities for batting practice. His usual hitting lessons have 20-30 girls hitting in three cages...
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    Defensive Strategy: Walk with a runner on 3B

    That play really gets on my nerves. I've thought about having 1B cover looking for a throw from the pitcher, this will make the runner take a wider turn. Then have 2B stay around their initial position waiting on a throw from the pitcher if the runner tries to go. If they do it the pitcher...
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    Media blasting

    He's on the Yankee's, he cheated in my book. Any other team the umpire messed up, gotta see the ball.
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    41 to 0

    I already started a thread a few months ago about our league so I won't rehash everything. We coached the leftover kids in 10-u after a couple teams were hand picked. A couple weeks ago we were playing a double header. First game the team wasn't great but it was just walk after walk for our...
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    hello elbow?

    I'm far from qualified to explain anything. To me, its basically the way your arm swings when you walk, just exaggerated. It can't get much more natural than that. Check out the threads on here in the pitching forum esp the "sticky", its as in depth as you want it to be. I just clicked on...
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    hello elbow?

    My wife did the hello elbow deal her whole life and is experimenting with the ir method. She was one of the better pitchers in our area when she was playing. She's 25 and hasn't pitched in several years. Needless to say she was a little rusty when we started coaching this year. I had to throw bp...
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    Definition of League roster???

    Whats the dilemma? I know in our league there are some girls on rosters that aren't playing. Either they didn't sign up and are on the roster somehow or, the coach signed them up knowing they wouldn't be playing. I think this is crap, especially when we have to play 14.
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    Oregon - Tennessee ball thrown at runner

    I coach 10-u so we don't have these issues, I'm talking on the college level. If I were in it for my ego I would have quit five minutes into the first practice. If a coach tells his team to intentionally do this kind of thing they have decided to play big girl ball. If coach A is telling his...
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    CWS Announcers

    There's no reason they can't do it all the time. They waste time repeating the same stuff about the heat, yankees, lakers, jets, lebron, tebow, manning and on and on. They could cover all sports if they used their resources and time better. I have 3 espn channels and its the same stuff as...
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    Oregon - Tennessee ball thrown at runner

    Rooster I agree on the unwritten rules. Batters stand on the chalk in softball and take away the inside corner (However, the umps seem to make up for it by giving them six inches on the outside) With the new "you don't have to get out of the way rule" they're standing up there to get hit. The...
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    CWS Announcers

    I hate what ESPN has become. They have to sensationalize everything, its impossible for them to just broadcast a game. They change who's the best pitcher in the country depending on who's on tv at the time. Is it Ricketts, Traina, or Escabido(sp)? They tell the same stories every game, like the...
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    Too much money involved, will ruin the sport in the long run.

    Some of the better girls in our league are from the worse side of town. There's no way they could play travel ball. I think rec should be taken a little more seriously, its the only chance some girls get to play. Two grand, on the cheap side, is rough for a lot of people in this country.
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