re: Travel bawl lookin pretty good these days

With PG taking over a lot of the tourneys over here, they have a 100 pitch count/weekend rule now which is going to knock a bunch of teams out. There are a bunch of teams who like to overuse their pitchers and will ride them on a sunday. It's pathetic they have people like that out there, but they do. Hell, the team we lost 2 twice this weekend had multiple 10 yr olds throwing curveballs and for strikes at that. I bet the kid we faced yesterday threw a curve 1 out of every 3 pitches. Just sad.

I like the idea of practicing to learn the game but the weekend cramfest tournaments are ridiculous.

That's very true. When we started our first team after 6u rec/7u fall, only half of them are still playing baseball at all and they are 12yrs old this season.

[img]Thats pathetic....those kids will be ruined by the time they are 13-14 years old. Surgery by the time they are 15-16...I've seen it happen way too often[/img]

Completely agree. Some parents don't understand what these idiot coaches are doing to their kids.

I also think the tournament system is a horrible model that's really designed purely to make money for directors. I wish there were more weekend round Robin 4 game events or double headers where you play 2 games and go home.

We played in one of those at the scrap yard earlier this month and it was awesome. Lost game 1 after being off for 3 months then won next 3 games. Knee exactly when we would play and be home. Kids loved it.

I wish there were more events like that but coaches want to win the intergalactic championship

You will see big changes with they go from coach pitch to kid pitch at 9 years old, when some kids start hitting puberty before others, when they transition from 56/80 to 60/90 and between the 12 year old year and the 13 year old year.

Some kids will fall off, some kids you thought were the worse will pass up the kids that you thought were the best.

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I wish there were more weekend round Robin 4 game events or double headers where you play 2 games and go home.

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The local mayors and tourism directors wouldn't allow early departures.

I went to a 11u game the other day to watch a buddies team he coaches and kid plays on just to catch some live sports action

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I will never understand why coaches don't get 4-5 teams together every now and then and just have a jamboree type deal.

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We did that pretty much our entire 12 year old year. We got together with local nola teams, Houma/Thobodeax teams and some northshore teams and used the weekends as fundraisers and warms round robins because we were all going to Cooperstown that summer

Insurance is one reason. There is a lot of liability in hosting games, even if you rent the fields, etc... Most teams don't want to be on the hook to get sued if a Karen gets beamed by an errant warm up throw between the fields or little Johnny gets trucked by a linebacker sized kid at home plate all his teeth are knocked out.