re: LSU Baseball 2023 (and beyond) Recruiting Thread - Old Thread - Please unpin

Got it. I'm sure same general people running the renegades. Derek was involved back then too.

I know Carrollton doesn't go to cooperstown anymore, which is a bummer, because that was one of the funnest baseball experiences of my life.

Yeah, my age group about 15 years ago was when playground ball started to die out. the competition in rec ball was so bad, we started playing travel ball before it was today's "travel ball." We took 3-4 of the best players from 3 or 4 parks and had a pretty decent team (State runner-up in AAA, which was the most competetive division considering majors had 2 teams who were literally filled with future professional athletes - Thibideaux Terror being one who I would argue is the greatest collection of 12 year olds on one baseball team ever ). It was rare that there were travel teams at tournamnets in 2005ish who were just flat out terrible. Not the case today.

We didn't play at the parks for 11-12s because of the aformentioned competition. It was a waste of time if you were trying to get better. The last time I participated in JPRD athletics was when I was 13, just because if you made the JPRD team you went to a pretty competitive "world-series" and it was pretty much just one term per playground in a league. Harahan and Little Farms had to combine to make a team, same with Cleary and Delta. It was sad to see.

shite I drive by Harahan playground every now and then and both baseball fields are destroyed. They were used as a dumping ground after Ida and I guess it wasn't wroth it to fix the fields.