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It's that time of the year again for the playoffs, but what a shame no more Harold Reynolds to announce the games, he was the best Little League announcer i ever heard really explained the game and the kids feelings.
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I would love to get to Williamsport one year to take it all in. Quite an event. The bats they use now days need to go though. They are taking all the drama out of home runs.
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Those aluminium bats allow a lot more hits and home runs, but cost is the determining factor for keeping them to many broken bats with wood. When my son was playing baseball at college they were going to go back to wood bats because of the safety factor of how fast balls come off those metal bats, but again cost overruled safety and the metal bat stayed, but they limited the size to weight to cut down the speed the ball came off the bat still tough to react, it helps a little but i have seen some pretty nasty accidents and near head misses of the pitchers and third basemen.
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Well these bats they use now are not the same one's I used growing up. I used the Tennessee Thumper and Worth bats. Now days they are using $300 bats. I think they need to tinker with the core of the baseball and the compression because people don't want to give up those expensive bats.
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My mistake i went back a little to far, you are right they keep improving those metal bats and there pop by staying within the limits of size and weight and adding more cost. I still like the idea of wooden bats and sawing the bat off with those bad swings.
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I do too. Course I was a pitcher. But I would have loved to bust those fastballs in on the hands and breaking a few hitter bats.. Sadly I don't think I ever faced a hitter with a wooden bat.
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Sounds like your friends took things a little too seriously. It is amazing how the game does seem to stay in your blood, and many peoples love for the game, buried after age 12, resurfaces about the time they have children, and stays with them the rest of their life.
Yankee fan eh Munch? Seems to be a lot of those around here.
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Most of the kids sports are taken to seriously that is the fault of most parents, being a coach of young adults can be challenging from time to time and i am speaking about dealing with parents although there are some jerks for coaches to... My favorite kid baseball movie is The Sandlot, that is one good movie i can watch it time and time again. Of course the classic baseball movie is The Natural with Redford they do not get better than that.
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Now on to IWISHIHAD, it is sad what parents have done to youth athletics. I talk to kids who play 150 games a year than go right into a 75 game basketball season. AAU sports, that is the organization for "advanced" athletes. Well I argued with a parent a few weeks back who was telling me how imperitave it was for his kid to play all those baseball games. I said "2hat about swimming, dirt clod fights, fire crackers etc.". He just proceded to tell me how all of the kids on the high school team had played AAU so he felt his child needed to play. And I asked him what he thought would happen if his kid didn't start in high school but he didn't respond.
The problem is, the parents, who are supposed to keep things in perspective for the kids, are the one's who go nuts.
My line of work you run into a lot of it. Hundreds of stories.
I agree they are forced into these long programs of sports because if most players do not do them they are push aside by the high school programs and the booster clubs that seem to control many of the coaches and who makes a team, not always but very often in the bigger schools. These long seasons for baseball at young ages, i feel add more injuries than help the kids progress and so many programs are forcing kids to make a choice on one sport at such a young age because of the time commitment and the pressure put on them. As far as the AAU is concerned they have taken a stronghold again but if you have a good director in your area and have a team you can have a great time playing and slide by all the BS. that some coaches push as being only limited to certain teams, we played in of AAU tournaments for years with just a fun team when all the select teams would weed out there best players to play and hurt so many kids feelings, they would just croak when my private team would show up at the big tournaments, we knew some of the kids and coaches of the so called select teams we did have a good team but we were there because they allow open teams to come in any time, my team were just friends all the way back to early grammar school and played together through high school as a side team because by then a lot of my team were at four different schools. These coaches and parents of these select teams could have divided up there large teams and brought two teams but choose to hurt feelings, another problem is that if two teams A&B come they might play each other and there is always the chance that the B team might beat the A team and that would hurt all the politics in youth sports and all the hype they place around the best players.
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