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    Feeling protective

    Daughter plays high school ball. The team has MAJOR drama problems. It got so bad that last week some of the girls started yelling at each other and a football coach thought they were going to brawl. These types of things have happened more than once. The coach apparently decided to have...
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    Help me help my daughter

    Here's the story. My daughter (an 8th grader) didn't try out for the middle school team because they were going to be all beginning players and she just didn't feel that she would get much out of it. Some girls quit the varsity team and left the varsity/JV teams a little short, so they had to...
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    Going to war

    This isn't really about being a softball parent so much as it's about being a 15 y/o's parent. She is a really good girl. She has a strong moral compass, she doesn't get in trouble, she's a good kid. However, within the last year we have been having trouble getting her motivated to do anything...
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    Don't say anything, but...

    It's that time of the year.
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    Appropriate sanction?

    My daughter plays first base on her middle school team. She gets a little grounder hit down the line, charges it, picks it up, and tags the girl out coming down the line. The runner punches my daughter in the throat. The umpires ejected the girl and apparently the school will be fined $300...
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    Metal Cleats

    My daughter was stealing second in a game the Friday and she and the SS arrived at the bag at the same time. My daughter slid into second on a good, clean slide and heard a ripping sound. Her metal cleat caught the SS just above the ankle, ripped through the sock and put a deep, 2 inch long cut...
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    Burnout

    No, not my daughters (they could play non-stop 365) -- me. I have two girls playing both travel and school ball, and it's starting to wear on me. Schools are severely underfunded here, so the cost of playing school ball is starting to rival travel costs. That I can handle. What I'm really...
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    Miken NXT Freak: FPNX10

    Picked up a new one for $119.95 with free shipping. Was that a good deal?
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    Cold weather survival gear

    It's getting cooler here, and while I can endure the remainder of the fall season without major modifications to our summer equipment, I am not going to endure another early season freeze fest when high school ball starts in February. I bought a Mr. Heater Buddy heater. I'm thinking about buying...
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    Downside to exposure tournaments?

    My daughter is a 98 player and she has been invited to play in an exposure tournament on a 96 team. I'm not even sure it's that great of an exposure tournament (lots of invited coaches bot none listed as confirmed on the website), but my question is broader than this tournament. Can a player...
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    Trench Foot?

    Daughter played in a tournament yesterday. Pretty good downpour between first and second game. Toward the end of the second game, she started complaining that her foot hurt. After the game, we took her cleats and socks off and saw that her feet looked a wrinkled up from the water and painful to...
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    This seems a bit childish to me

    al.com Softball Forum Find the entries by dbag454 (33706, 33770 and 33780) and follow the threads. They are interesting, and I guess some valid points are being made, but this seems a bit obsessive and childish. Are these wars common? Ayone with interesting stories about these sorts of goings...
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    Daughter asked me post a video of her swing

    She's looking for feedback. If this is not the proper place, I apologize.
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    Confidence problems

    My daughter is 11 yo (12 in January), and she really enjoys softball. However, she is a very timid child. It has gotten to the point where she is afraid to make mistakes so much that she plays very hesitantly and not aggressively. Last night, I asked her why she didn't swing at a pitch right...

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