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    DD Getting frozen out of High School ball. Any options during that time

    My DD has long since graduated HS and is now off the payroll, earning her own money as a nurse, but we had a similar situation in HS. She made varsity as a freshman pitcher and the “#1” pitcher (a senior) had parents who were close to the AD. During a double header early in her freshman season...
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    What have you learned this season that might help the rest of us?

    My DD is 16 and has been a pitcher for several years. Last year she was doing well, so well that the (booster club president) dad of an older pitcher, seeing his DDs innings drop, successfully put pressure on the coach and got his DD innings that she didn't deserve, and basically ran the coach...
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    How to help an ambidextrous pitcher.

    Correct. Let her develop both sides. An added benefit is that should she ever have an injury she could possibly keep pitching.
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    Can Sport Specialization Cause Youth Injuries?--Yahoo Sports

    My read on the article doesn't come to the conclusion that specialization is the cause. My personal observations are that the demands of sports has gotten out of control to the point where it's hard to be a multiple sport athlete. In the past it was easy to play multiple sports. Each season...
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    help with 2 girls with the same number.

    Yup. The existing kid gets to keep their number, unless they don't want it. The younger girls need to learn the lesson that senoirity has it's perks. It will serve them well later in life.
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    Help With Playing Time Issues

    In my experience there are two types of parent-coaches. The first is someone who love the game, is good at coaching and one way or another ended up coaching his DD's team. The second type is one who volunteers as an "assistant" with the sole intent on using that position to get his DD more...
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    Please be cautious!!!!!!

    I live in Wisconsin so we don't get the extreme heat that some areas do but we did have a couple of tournaments where the heat index was off the charts. In addition to all of the normal things like drinking lots of water and such, I brought along a cooler with extra water, spray bottles, and wet...
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    Help With Playing Time Issues

    While all of that is fine, the problem the OP is having is IMHO directly a result of having 6 positions on the team occupied by the various coach's kids. That only leave three for anyone else and as was stated, those three are outfield. You mentioned that very few coaches you know will "keep a...
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    ASA Rule Book in PDF format?

    Here is an older (2005) and probably copyright-challenged one... 2005 ASA rulebook
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    Problem Player, Did I handle it right?

    Excellent post. Bravo
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    Parents as player agents?

    I'm (almost) totally on board of letting coaches coach, but what about when other parents complain about playing time and are able to get traction? Do you sit back and let it happen or do you do some advocating of your own? My DD had that happen this past spring on her HS team. The coach is now...
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    Louisille XENO

    We bought my DD a 2012 Xeno at the start of the summer. She is now firmly in the groove with it. Last night they had a double header and she went 6 for 7 with three doubles and 6 RBIs. The three doubles all hit the fence. I hope the bat holds up, but barring any reliability issues it is a monster.
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    Being the best you can be

    My oldest DD just graduated HS this year so I'm pretty familiar with that. She is almost a sophomore in college already due to all of the AP classes, was in the top 10% of her class, and got a full tuition academic sholarship , but at least in our school, no one can get above a 4.0. She came up...
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    Being the best you can be

    Wow, apparently everything in California is inflated. Here in Wisconsin our HS GPAs don't go above 4.0 (straight A's).
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    Tinsy winsy little itty bitty leap

    I've seen this happen a lot and before you can consider it an illegal "leap" you have to consider the surface in front of the rubber. The drag toe can legally break contact with the ground if the dirt in front of the rubber is below the normal grade. For example, most pitching rubbers have...
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