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  1. Cowdogz

    Barnhill-Collegiate Player of the year. #usasoftball

    Somebody named "blacklabgator" with 21 posts, all in this thread, and somebody named "cweb" who thanked almost every one of them. Yeah, nothing fishy there.
  2. Cowdogz

    Bailing with the stride foot

    I'm starting to see those on the baseball diamond this year, including most hitters on a 10U team the other night. DD had a hard time finding one she could see around and wound up with the Rip-It. Not sure he'd buy into it. These mental barriers are the worst.
  3. Cowdogz

    Bailing with the stride foot

    13-yo lefty DS, first year on the big baseball diamond. In the cage he has a good swing and is not afraid of any pitch (the other night he tried to clear out a ball that was obviously going to hit him and fouled it off his face). At game time, he shies away from the inside pitch and lately is...
  4. Cowdogz

    Paticience at the plate

    Seems like you already have an opinion. How about you offer it and maybe we dialogue, instead of you asking an ambush question?
  5. Cowdogz

    Choosing correct bat weight?

    I don't know if baseball and softball are different on this score, but I heard one hitting instructor say to hold the bat in your outstretched arm parallel to the ground. If you can't hold it there for 20-30 seconds without the arm dropping, it's too heavy.
  6. Cowdogz

    Paticience at the plate

    Try front-toss with tennis balls, only you bounce them on the way in.
  7. Cowdogz

    Does it matter?

    What's with that coach? Your kid should be the table setter for all those supposed "home run hitters."
  8. Cowdogz

    Are there any sane people left in softball?

    I'll bet you've never seen an umpire arrested in the parking lot...............for OUI...........immediately after the game.
  9. Cowdogz

    Introverts, Unite! Separately. In your own homes.

    Remember Tinker to Evers to Chance, the double-play combination that was so deadly they wrote a poem about it? Tinker and Evers didn't speak to each other off the field for years.
  10. Cowdogz

    In a mood, I can't take it anymore... and it started with backdoor curve.

    Bill likes the ball to change planes. Every pitch in baseball changes planes by definition, b/c it is thrown off a hill on a downward trajectory. It starts out of the strike zone and moves into it. A fastball in softball starts at the pitcher's hip (in the strike zone) and doesn't move much...
  11. Cowdogz

    putting in the work

    Sounds like the results would be the same either way, no? Don't feel too bad, mine was the same way. Rarely motivated to do extra work. She'll either regret it when she's older, or she won't. Either way there's not much you can do about it right now, so stop driving yourself nuts about it.
  12. Cowdogz

    OK guys, give me your honest opinion...

    It looks more to me like she is timing the ball instead of getting there and camping out under it. OP, I would be careful about posting your Freshman daughter's email on YouTube, or anywhere public for that matter.
  13. Cowdogz

    "Back Door" vs. "Front Door" definitions?

    "Back door" starts outside and breaks for a strike. Never heard "front door" either. I've heard "front hip," where it's thrown at the hitter to break for a strike. Come to think of it, "front hip" and "back door" are pretty much the same pitch. The difference is the side the hitter is...
  14. Cowdogz

    is this a bad infield fly call by blue?

    Brings up an interesting scenario. Say you have a shift on, and one of your infielders is essentially a fourth outfielder. Does a fly ball to that player invoke IF? What about a fly ball to the empty position?
  15. Cowdogz

    The Pirates pitcher who succeeds by not throwing strikes

    Softball is a whole other animal. Like someone mentioned before, as a baseball coach I set a team philosophy for calling pitches, and then let 13-year-old catchers go do it. I only call a pitch from the bench 2-3 times an inning, sometimes more depending on the situation. It's their game, I...
  16. Cowdogz

    is this a bad infield fly call by blue?

    I don't know why you wouldn't expect your pitcher to make that catch.
  17. Cowdogz

    DD's brutally torturing me now

    I appreciate your reasoning, but I would accommodate hers as well. It's solid.
  18. Cowdogz

    DD's brutally torturing me now

    DS was going to run winter track anyway, so I told him to run sprints so his baseball and football games would benefit even if he wasn't placing in his events. He has gained a TON of speed.
  19. Cowdogz

    But honey dont be mad.When the dirt gets here it will look better! lol!

    To paraphrase Harmon Killebrew's dad: You're raising kids, not grass.
  20. Cowdogz

    Bill Hillhouse talking about softball hitting

    This is a good practice in general. The brain doesn't hear "don't." If I say, "don't think of an elephant" the first thing you do is think of an elephant. A hitter should say, "lay off the changeup" rather than "don't swing at the changeup."

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