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Emteein
Favorite team: | LSU ![]() |
Location: | Baton Rouge |
Biography: | |
Interests: | Tigers |
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Number of Posts: | 3945 |
Registered on: | 6/10/2011 |
Online Status: | Not Online |
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re: This guy gets it, re Travel ball
Posted by Emteein on 3/26/25 at 1:55 pm
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American Legion is not rec
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.
re: This guy gets it, re Travel ball
Posted by Emteein on 3/26/25 at 1:31 pm
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Baton Rouge never really had a rec league, I’m with you there
Not true, there was American Legion.
Not sure if it’s a thing anymore, but American Legion was youth baseball in BR until the 1990s.
re: This guy gets it, re Travel ball
Posted by Emteein on 3/26/25 at 7:09 am
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.
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.
re: Peak John Cena vs Peak Hulk Hogan for the wwf title
Posted by Emteein on 3/1/25 at 6:22 am
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Bro, it’s not real.

re: Baton Rouge Scandals
Posted by Emteein on 2/23/25 at 8:55 am
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Those fricking roofers.
ISWYDT
re: Anyone get this new flu?
Posted by Emteein on 2/21/25 at 2:59 pm
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For a while it was almost cured by Covid.
For a while there were no other ailments other than covid. It was wild. It’s like all other infectious viruses ceased to exist.
re: Livingston Parish Sheriff's Office - Can someone explain this ?
Posted by Emteein on 2/14/25 at 9:34 am
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Livingston Parish: Louisiana’s Florida.
Historically speaking it was part of Florida before it was part of Louisiana
re: Iran launches new drone carrier
Posted by Emteein on 2/12/25 at 8:16 am
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They should have slapped serious production restrictions and a multi-step training and licensing process for randos to own them.
Because terrorists follow laws and restrictions.
re: "Lee" starring Kate Winslet
Posted by Emteein on 2/11/25 at 12:02 pm
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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.
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.
re: Why do super cheap people think it’s a good quality to boast about?
Posted by Emteein on 2/11/25 at 6:22 am
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The most annoying people in cheap O world are those who drive all over just to save like 10 cents a gallon on gas. Congrats on saving 2 bucks on a 20 gallon fill up I guess
They could easily just drive 100mph everywhere and not use as much gas.
re: Would the Union Army have been strong enough to beat British after Civil War?
Posted by Emteein on 2/7/25 at 10:07 am
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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.
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.
re: Would the Union Army have been strong enough to beat British after Civil War?
Posted by Emteein on 2/7/25 at 8:35 am
Why fight the British? Just for shits?
Also, British strength is never their army. They were a naval superpower.
ETA:
Their navy would have kicked our arse pretty much at any time pre- world wars.
Also, British strength is never their army. They were a naval superpower.
ETA:
Their navy would have kicked our arse pretty much at any time pre- world wars.
re: Some home run things y'all cook for little kids.
Posted by Emteein on 2/1/25 at 7:17 am
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All kids love mac & cheese.
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.
re: The Mount Rushmore of Medieval Heroes
Posted by Emteein on 1/24/25 at 7:25 pm
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Charles Martel
Aka The Hammer
Great nickname.
re: Why are 30+ year old women so delusional ?
Posted by Emteein on 1/18/25 at 8:49 am
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18 year old virgins.

re: Top 30 Most Accurate War Movies of All-Time
Posted by Emteein on 1/7/25 at 6:02 am
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go look up Oskar Dirlewanger if you want to read about a truly evil piece of shite scumbag.
Jesus, need to got to church after a light reading of his exploits. It’s incredible that there are people like that in this world. Truly an evil person.
re: Forgotten TV shows from your youth....
Posted by Emteein on 1/3/25 at 3:18 am
Not my youth, but when I was in college…
The Black Donnellys
Way too good of a show to just disappear.
The Black Donnellys
Way too good of a show to just disappear.
re: The Spanish Reconquista came to end on this day 533 years ago...
Posted by Emteein on 1/2/25 at 9:38 am
Charles Martel hammered their asses in Tours sent them back south of the Pyrenees.
re: What is the name of the really ghetto street in Prairieville
Posted by Emteein on 1/1/25 at 4:56 pm
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.
ETA: IIRC candy lane back when the Dutchtown oak tree was still there.
re: Does Your Dog Often Bring Home Human Skulls and Leg Bones?
Posted by Emteein on 12/20/24 at 3:17 pm

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