Emteein

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American Legion is not rec

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Well if it’s not it is more rec than travel/tournament ball.

You signed up, were put on a team that I didn’t go to school with any of the kids, all the teams wore the same uniforms(just different colors), we played our season had a closing tournament and that was it. If that’s not rec ball I don’t know what is.

My beef with travel ball/ tournament ball whatever you want to call it, is that it doesn’t stay in season. It has spilled over into every season. This is at 8 years old and even younger.

During football season kids either missing games or being late because of baseball. During basketball season same thing. Not to mention countless birthday parties and other kid activities missed all for baseball. Parents living their baseball dreams through their kids are going to get these kids injured or mentally fricked. Constantly being pushed all over the place. Never allowing the body or mind to truly relax and heal or just do kid stuff.

The mental aspect is probably the worst part but probably hardest to measure.

At our school we actually have school baseball starting at 1st grade my kid is in 3rd and it blends a handful of rec ball kids with mostly travel ball kids. So I get to see both worlds side by side.

When a travel ball kid strikes out or gets out it is a full fledged meltdown. Which is usually followed by a parent dressing down their kid to get your fricking head in the game. Rec ball kid, is upset but the reaction is more oh darn and is followed by a shoulder shrug.

All this to say, there should be a more advanced league, however it should stay in baseball season. Put the bat and ball down for 6 months or whatever amount of time. Play other sports in between or just be a kid ride bikes, play in a ditch, build a tree house, whatever. Just do something other than baseball.

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Those fricking roofers.

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ISWYDT

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Livingston Parish: Louisiana’s Florida.

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Historically speaking it was part of Florida before it was part of Louisiana

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Everyone had a thing for Lee Miller. She was a freak & her dad was a pic taking pedo. She was great at what she did & fearless.

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It didn’t really cover her relationship with Man Ray and the surrealists. That whole movement was full of weirdos and pedos who if they weren’t toeing the line were definitely crossing the line for the sake of art.

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I dunno, Max Boot, before he went crazy with TDS, wrote the Union Navy at the end of the war was equal to the British Navy.

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I really find that hard to believe. The British navy at that time was still world wide. The royal empire just had way more experience on the seas.

Recently kicking Russia’s arse in the Black Sea in the Crimean War and kicking china’s arse in the opium wars establishing Hong Kong Their navy was so far superior to any other that no one even Challenged them for 30+ years. It was until the end of the 1800s before they went back into use taking control of the Suez Canal in Egypt.

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All kids love mac & cheese.

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I never saw my kids come to such a hard stop on a food. They went from M&C is life to why are you trying to poison me with this filth literally over night.

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18 year old virgins.

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Not my youth, but when I was in college…

The Black Donnellys

Way too good of a show to just disappear.

Roy rogers used to be pretty methy back in the day. But I haven’t been in that area in 20+ years.

ETA: IIRC candy lane back when the Dutchtown oak tree was still there.