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    Dealing with team's diamond diva

    I question whether this is a realistic description of what it's like to grow up today. Compared to when we grew up, are youth sports more competitive or less competitive? Are kids today more aware of who wins and loses and who's good and who's not, or less? Rec ball is struggling to survive in...
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    Dealing with team's diamond diva

    My experience is almost the opposite. In 9-10 years of watching my DD my travel ball, I've found her teammates to be more supportive and positive than what I experienced growing up playing baseball and softball. I had some crappy teammates. I could've been a better teammate myself. I wondered if...
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    Dealing with team's diamond diva

    Sounds like the coach handled it. I would hope and expect that he carried through with his promise to bench her. Have any teammates supported or defended you?
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    letting kids play other sports

    College coaches always say they believe in playing multiple sports, but I wonder why none of them has their players form an intramural basketball team over the winter months. If it were really so important, wouldn't the college coach prescribe that as part of college training? IMO, coaches...
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    Say sorry to the pitcher....what?

    What I'm not following is the difference between ''costing'' the team the game and ''losing'' the game. Not disagreeing with anything per se, just got confused about that.
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    20 girls 'committed' in the 2020 class...

    Questioning the wisdom of something is not hating. Depends on how you do it. I'm sure there are some who have been overly judgmental and condescending and maybe even mean about it. Hope that wasn't me. I don't think so. As far as jealousy, hard to say how many are motivated by that. When my DD...
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    20 girls 'committed' in the 2020 class...

    Of course she's a great player. We figured that. But that's not the point. The problem that I have with the early commits like this one (a 7th grader) is that this now becomes her identity - softball player committed to Florida. That's a helluva a lot to live up to for a 7th-grader. That shapes...
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    Say sorry to the pitcher....what?

    What does that mean? I guess I'm one of those parents. :)
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    20 girls 'committed' in the 2020 class...

    Hard to believe that a school has 20 commits in one class. Most of them have to be walkons. What school is it? I figure the truth is the truth, and if it's not the truth, someone hear might be able to refute it.
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    High School Softball- why do it?

    High school sotball provides greater thrills and greater misery than travel ball, IMO. At its best, if you're really lucky, you're on a state-contending team with the right teammates and right coaches, and you're playing for championships that really matter to people. Let's say you win the ASA...
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    Posting team and individual game stats for the players to review

    I don't see any good reason to make them available to all. While I love MaxPreps for the purpose of looking at stats as a fan, I don't think it helps the team to make them public. I'm not so sure. Depends on how balanced the team is. Frankly, I haven't found players to be especially...
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    Taking pitches

    Is the coach signaling more takes to the whole team, or mainly your DD? If it's just DD, then I'd be suspicious it's a confidence issue, either in her hitting ability or her ability to layoff a bad pitch when she's ahead in the count. If a player is getting more walks than hits, it's probably...
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    Buying a pitching machine

    Front toss is great, but the problem with hitting is not reaction time itself. It's reaction time caused by speed. That's the one thing that a pitching machine can provide that tee, front toss & side toss cannot - the actual speed of a live pitch. Reaction time is not a problem independent of...
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    The dark side of recruiting...

    Hope so, but I don't trust that this form of justice will occur. Players are not going to bypass their best offer (ie their dream school, etc.) because of hearsay like that. The coaches will spin it. The players will take their chances if they really want to play there. I'm sure the coach...
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    A/elite level pitcher

    What is ''A''? What is elite? Is "A" level the top 10 percent of travel teams at a given age division? Top 20 percent? If I'm a coach looking for a pitcher to play a certain level, the main thing that I'm looking for is a history of production at that level, or a dominance at a slightly...
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    Two kinds of softball players ...

    That describes a lot of parents.
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    Two kinds of softball players ...

    It also will be fun to see how it evolves over time. Yours is still young. When mine was 11-12, I really don't know what motivated her. Honestly might've been playing for dad, who was the coach at that age. Thought that if dad coaches a team, it must be important, and when I do well, he's proud...
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    Two kinds of softball players ...

    This is an interesting one because that was always a big motivator for me, but for DD, she thrives in situations where the coaches and teammates believe in her and is quick to exit coaches and teammates that don't. Wonder if it's a gender thing, but I haven't thought much about it.
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    Two kinds of softball players ...

    That's how she would respond to getting help. But how would she respond to getting demoted? To the #2 pitcher who gets 30 percent of the innings? There's no right/wrong answer, but that might be a check mark into one type or the other. Also, in defining Type 2, I don't mean these players are...
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    Two kinds of softball players ...

    Good answers all, thanks. When i was thinking of two types, I was thinking of travel players, those who would say softball is their main occupation. For rec players, you probably do have more types. Also would think the types are ends of a spectrum rather than distinct types.

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