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This board is enamored with the travel ball lifestyle

Posted on 5/9/19 at 12:26 pm
Posted by Hawgnsincebirth55
Gods country
Member since Sep 2016
16100 posts
Posted on 5/9/19 at 12:26 pm
But has the ex d2/d3 college baseball player personal coach been discussed any? It seems this is the missing link from braeylyn playing RF batting 9 hole and SS in the cleanup spot. Everybody has to go to their own hitting/pitching coach l. Anybody else noticed this?
Posted by Tiger Ryno
#WoF
Member since Feb 2007
103178 posts
Posted on 5/9/19 at 12:28 pm to
You don't believe a professional coach who played college baseball can be helpful in developing players?
Posted by Chad504boy
4 posts
Member since Feb 2005
166507 posts
Posted on 5/9/19 at 12:28 pm to
Nope only you.


Looking for a catcher coach for my little girl Sapphire though
Posted by PT24-7
Member since Jul 2013
4382 posts
Posted on 5/9/19 at 12:29 pm to
My buddy told me best.... “a kid should learn a curve ball the same way he learns about sex. From some retarded 12 year old on the playground who doesn’t know what the hell hes talking about.”
Posted by tketaco
Sunnyside, Houston
Member since Jan 2010
19605 posts
Posted on 5/9/19 at 12:29 pm to
Baws
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Travel Ball
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Posted by Dead Man Walking
Member since Mar 2019
963 posts
Posted on 5/9/19 at 12:31 pm to
Good thing I played baseball or I wouldn't know WTF you were talking about.
Posted by Cosmo
glassman's guest house
Member since Oct 2003
120431 posts
Posted on 5/9/19 at 12:32 pm to
Yep. Buddy of mine takes his 2 sons (12 and 9) to private pitching and hitting lessons with some former player/coach once a week pretty much year round. He wont tell me what it costs. I always give him shite about it. He thinks it is a completely normal and reasonable thing to do.
This post was edited on 5/9/19 at 12:33 pm
Posted by Thib-a-doe Tiger
Member since Nov 2012
35460 posts
Posted on 5/9/19 at 12:32 pm to
Your g/f lose any weight today?


If she did, she’ll end up fricking that coach
Posted by PortHudsonPlaya
Houston
Member since Jul 2017
3170 posts
Posted on 5/9/19 at 12:32 pm to
If your kid doesn’t have a pitching coach, batting coach, dietician, and personal trainer by 7 years old then you’ve already failed him as a parent. You, as a parent, doesn’t know what it takes to make him the best.
Posted by AA77
Member since Jan 2016
3797 posts
Posted on 5/9/19 at 12:34 pm to
Jaxon my 7 year old is getting tommy johns surgery in June. He’ll be ready for fall ball.
Posted by dpd901
South Louisiana
Member since Apr 2011
7526 posts
Posted on 5/9/19 at 12:34 pm to
I can think of no worse way of spending a weekend than baking in the summer sun for 2 days watching stage parents yelling at their kids and then drinking away my sorrows with people I’d otherwise not associate with next to a crappy pool at a marginal hotel all evening knowing full well I’m pissing away thousands of dollars because there’s no way my kid will actually make it to the “next level”
This post was edited on 5/9/19 at 12:36 pm
Posted by MobileJosh
On the go
Member since May 2018
1065 posts
Posted on 5/9/19 at 12:36 pm to
I give hitting lessons and help with my nephews team when I am in town. The kids appreciate it and I enjoy it. Not sure what your problem with it is.
Posted by PhilemonThomas
Member since Jan 2015
2944 posts
Posted on 5/9/19 at 12:36 pm to
Naw baw. Around Baton Rouge we have plenty of former Tigers around to coach. Some of them even made the Show.
Posted by GreatLakesTiger24
One State Solution
Member since May 2012
55854 posts
Posted on 5/9/19 at 12:37 pm to
They love the travel ball lifestyle because their kid isn't athletic enough for AAU baskeball (a sport that actually has scholarships)
Posted by BigPerm30
Member since Aug 2011
26054 posts
Posted on 5/9/19 at 12:38 pm to
I don’t waste my money on lessons. I teach him myself. LilPerm has a 89.3 WAR this year in travel ball.
Posted by Gaston
Dirty Coast
Member since Aug 2008
39062 posts
Posted on 5/9/19 at 12:41 pm to
My son, 12, is ending his travel ball career this year. He ended with, I think, 31 medals, two trophies, and a ring.

He’s taking his talents to his 7-12th boys school where he’s destined to set many records. Football, soccer, track, lacrosse, sailing, and maybe basketball.

Travel ball did him well though, he’s got grit and he’s ready to play all of the sports they’ll let him. Can he get 4 varsity letters his freshman year, maybe not...but he’s sure going to try.

Here he is Tuesday night at the regional private school track meet.
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This post was edited on 5/9/19 at 12:44 pm
Posted by LaBR4
Baton Rouge
Member since Sep 2005
51048 posts
Posted on 5/9/19 at 12:44 pm to
Friend at work says his daughter Bayli has her own hitting corch:
The son Trysten has his own pitching coach

A lady work says her daughter Bayleighh has an in-field fielding coach.

Bayli and Bayleighh are on the same team
This post was edited on 5/9/19 at 12:48 pm
Posted by jbgleason
Bailed out of BTR to God's Country
Member since Mar 2012
18928 posts
Posted on 5/9/19 at 12:47 pm to
Fun fact. I had a former MLB pitcher that coached me in pitching up until I started high school. Enormously helpful and taught me a wicked slider.

He was our next door neighbor and would coach me in the back yard in exchange for beers out of our garage fridge. Even helped my dad build us a pitching mound out back.
Posted by cas4t
Member since Jan 2010
70945 posts
Posted on 5/9/19 at 12:56 pm to
I only think this is crazy if the parents can’t afford it and/or the kid doesn’t want to do it. I was involved in travel ball and private lessons as a kid and I fricking loved it.
Posted by The Torch
DFW The Dub
Member since Aug 2014
19434 posts
Posted on 5/9/19 at 12:59 pm to
Not mine, they call him The Natural
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