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Posted on 10/22/18 at 11:41 pm to PCRammer
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Let the kid play the game he wants to play. No one said you had to be good at something to enjoy doing it.
This.
Sports are a big slice of life. Sometimes you win and most of the time you lose. It's how you deal with the losses that define you. Sometime these over achievers become All-Americans. Let the kid chase the dream. I love it that his dad supports him.
Posted on 10/22/18 at 11:55 pm to PCRammer
Let him play and try out, the reality is most of the kids playing travel ball are not going to make a high school team, so if he doesn't make it he wont be alone.
Posted on 10/22/18 at 11:58 pm to PCRammer
You can't coach determination
Posted on 10/23/18 at 12:00 am to PCRammer
Dude, if he's not good enough then he won't make the team. That'll be the moment he knows it's over.....if not before.
Posted on 10/23/18 at 5:46 am to PCRammer
Tell his dad that his son has a 0.5% chance of becoming a major league baseball player
Posted on 10/23/18 at 6:16 am to LNCHBOX
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Let the kid play the game he wants to play. No one said you had to be good at something to enjoy doing it.
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Posted on 10/23/18 at 6:17 am to PCRammer
It's your job to try to help him gain the tools to make realizing his goals possible. My 2 cents would be to spend more time improving his general athleticism and less time with the batting coach. He needs the weightroom 3 times a week as well as plyo-agility-speed training 2 or 3 times a week. Improve his general athleticism and you will see him improve as an overall baseball player.
Posted on 10/23/18 at 7:03 am to PCRammer
If h doesn’t make it
Find a jiu jitsu or wrestling school (freestyle not Wwe)
His athleticism will go up
Find a jiu jitsu or wrestling school (freestyle not Wwe)
His athleticism will go up
Posted on 10/23/18 at 7:05 am to PCRammer
RUDY....RUDY......RUDY.....RUDY
Posted on 10/23/18 at 7:25 am to PCRammer
I was a late bloomer. I was a backup in all sports when I was 14, one of the smallest kids in my class, the youngest kid in my class, etc. Then I grew almost a foot between my 9th and 10th grade years, started on every team my junior and senior years, and I was the only one in my entire class that got offered a scholarship (football). I kept growing in my freshman and sophomore years in college, and went on to be All Conference. I bet people thought the same thing about me that you think about him at 14.
Posted on 10/23/18 at 9:02 am to PCRammer
If he continues to work, he is still at the age where he is developing the necessary skills to play. Failure to make the team can be used as motivation. Encourage him to ask the coach what he needs to work on in order to make it the next season. This shows maturity and initiative to the coach, and he will not forget it.
Posted on 10/23/18 at 9:49 am to PCRammer
Hold him back in school this year. I had a dozen friends growing up who's idiot parents held them back in the 5th or 6th grade for the sole purpose of giving them a better chance to make a high school team. Sad.
Posted on 10/23/18 at 10:10 am to CoachDon
Does the kid have any interest in computers? Let him learn the human body,(not the porn side, the muscles sides) and start evaluating what makes a great pitcher and a great hitter. Then start recording his friends and his own moves and then work to improve them.
Posted on 10/23/18 at 10:24 am to PCRammer
Let the kid play the sport he loves until he can’t. Eventually he’ll get cut or he’ll graduate. No reason in pushing him to track or swimming if he doesn’t enjoy it or even enjoy it as much. My father and my football coaches tried to convince me to quit baseball so that I could focus solely on football; I was much better at football and our baseball team was really bad. Baseball was the first game I fell in love with, though, and I still love it. I was going to play as long as people would let me. I played in a wooden bat league during college, too.
Let him hold on to the dream while he can. If he doesn’t make JV then be there to support him and help him find something new. He might surprise you and make the team, though.
Let him hold on to the dream while he can. If he doesn’t make JV then be there to support him and help him find something new. He might surprise you and make the team, though.
Posted on 10/23/18 at 11:37 am to PCRammer
quote:chicks dont wanna frick the distance runner. Stick with baseball
distance running of course).
Posted on 10/23/18 at 11:46 am to PCRammer
So you are going to throw cold water on this kid’s confidence? Are you trying to prevent him from feeling bad for not making the team??
Posted on 10/23/18 at 12:33 pm to PCRammer
If he is 14 and love the game, let him play it and have fun for as long as he can. To him now, it's not a job or chore to do. Let him have fun, especially if he enjoys it. He'll look back regardless if he is good or not and have fond memories.
Natural selection will weed him out, hell, it may even make him better if he needs to work hard to make teams and improve. Once that time comes, he will learn a life lesson of how to deal with shite life give you.
I do see your point, one of my kids has teammates who are on travel teams and in no reality will they amount to a decent college level player. If you hear them and the parents talk, you swear the Pros have them on speed dial already. Talking to the Dad sometimes I want to say, you know your kids on the team because you pretty much fund it out of your pocket. It's a pay to play system, but I don't.
Natural selection will weed him out, hell, it may even make him better if he needs to work hard to make teams and improve. Once that time comes, he will learn a life lesson of how to deal with shite life give you.
I do see your point, one of my kids has teammates who are on travel teams and in no reality will they amount to a decent college level player. If you hear them and the parents talk, you swear the Pros have them on speed dial already. Talking to the Dad sometimes I want to say, you know your kids on the team because you pretty much fund it out of your pocket. It's a pay to play system, but I don't.
Posted on 10/23/18 at 12:44 pm to The Korean
I think more kids need reality checks. You HAVE to bust your arse if you want to be an elite player. You HAVE to do more than the required practice. fricking kids on my sons team think he gets special treatment, for some crazy reason, because he plays a desirable position...no little shite, it’s because you NEVER put in the work. I just wish, one time, a coach would be honest in front of the parents...hell, ever.
Posted on 10/23/18 at 1:08 pm to PCRammer
Michael Jordan didn't play varsity Bball till he was a junior.......
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