re: Is this part of the wussification of boys?

They are crying because their dads got concerned they were becoming wussies and promised to knock the crap out of them if they fricked up during the game.

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Baseball was sport I was best at.

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Same with me.

In my home town everyone my age played baseball.

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Played through high school and considered trying for college until I tore my shoulder up in football.

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Same with me until I fricked up my arm throwing too hard when I wasn't warmed up.

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These kids are better athletes today than ever.

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Only the ones who take steriods and/or human growth hormones.

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When I played all stars in LL there were maybe 50 people at the games. Now it's packed house and millions of viewers on TV and social media.

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When I played LL baseball the regular season games had very few people watching but the All Star game and the tournament games always had a packed house.

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A lot more pressure for them, they handle it better than every single person in this thread would have including me.

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No more pressure than we had during our All Star and tournament games.

You can speak for yourself but not for me.

I loved playing when the stands were filled.

It didn't bother me at all but then I knew I was a good player.

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Eta: by no means am I saying I would have made a college team. Just told I was good enough to try out.

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Same here. I was thinking about trying out for my college team but I knew I wouldn't have the time to practice.

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They are crying because their dads got concerned they were becoming wussies and promised to knock the crap out of them if they fricked up during the game.

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Perhaps. My dad never saw me play ball. He never played pitch and catch with me. He was a roughneck and got home very late and left for work at 4 a.m. for the marsh fields. It never bothered me.

OTOH, I wanted my son to be good at baseball. He wasn't. I wanted to play with him every day and he resisted. He had to find his own skills.

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Everything above makes you a horrible person.

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Is that the best pitch you've got?

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Don't blame commericials, movies, Harvard, or the government if you're raising a pussy. Look to yourself and your wife.

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As for crying, i actually cried more watching sports compared to crying while playing

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As for crying, i actually cried more watching sports compared to crying while playing

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I only cried twice watching sports, once when i was a kid and frickin Mike Lansford .... And when LSU beat Oklahoma in 03

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I know the feeling. When I was 13 I played on a Pony League team (13 and 14) that won the Parish (County) Championship. I rarely played.
When I was 14 I was the star of that team but we finished 3rd.
I can honestly say that I enjoyed having both experiences...winning on the bench and not winning on the field. I learned a lot of life lessons.

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When I was 12 I played first string on our LL tournament team.

We won all of our games and our next game was for the Long Island Championship.

If we won that game we would play for the New York Championship.

All of the bookies were picking our team to win because we had won all our previous games by blowouts. Many of the bookies were picking us to go all the way and win the LL world championship.

Because the other team had a good pitcher my manager wanted to put only boys in the game who could hit a home run so he decided not to play me because I never hit a home run.

Instead, even though he was a horrible fielder the manager put Jackie Black in the game because once in a blue moon he hit a home run.

He was a horrible fielder because he was afraid of the ball. All the other players thought he should not even have been on the team.

The manager put him in center field hoping that the right or left fielder could catch any ball that was hit to center field.

The game was 0-0 with both pitchers pitching no hitters until the top of the fifth inning when a player on the other team hit a single to center field.

It went through Jackie's legs and rolled all the way to the fence and the player was able to score on the single and 3 base error.

We ended up losing 1-0 with our pitcher pitching a one hitter and their pitcher pitching a no hitter.

I always wondered if the manager had put me in center field whether we would have won the game because I would have caught that ball and it would have only been kept to a single.

The team that beat us lost their next game for the New York Championship.

Every time I hear the song "Center field" and the words, "Put me in Coach" I remember that game.

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And while I'm at it, I hate the LL using aluminum bats that won't break

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You know they do that because little kids don't know how to hit as well as the pros, so they break bats a lot more? The aluminum is to prevent LL teams from having to buy a shitload of wooden bats they keep breaking when they can just have a few aluminum bats that don't break.

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I never tried to hit a home run and was not afraid of being hit by a pitch.

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All BS aside, I officiate LL games on a side, and some of these kids trying to jack the ball out of the park is really bad. Although I see a lot of kids getting hurt due to poor fielding techniques, and hit in the face specifically. Those are more of a bad bounce, though.

As for the last part, I've made a few close calls like that in tight situations. Thankfully no big deal