The league the DDs grew up with dwindled as well. I think lack of pitching was a huge contributor, and once there are few enough teams, it cant sustain itself. The families that committed in 10u to develop their kids as pitchers (lessons, work at home, etc) felt they needed to move on to higher...
DD has a friend/former teammate that goes to a smaller high school in the area.
A couple years back, they scored 32...
...and LOST. 33-32 in 7 innings.
38 BB, 8 HBP, 17 errors, "only" 26 hits for the game. Sounded brutal.
No kidding! That will be us next year.
DD has a D1 deal where academics cover a certain amount of tuition, and athletic covers the rest of tuition, books, fees, and most of room and board. I say 'most' because there is a stipend involved and the percent it covers is up to what she spends for...
That's complete BS. I know PGF does that but those are true practice games where nobody cares about the outcome. Had one last summer end bottom of the inning, bases juiced, two outs, great batter up.....game over. But the score had no impact to anything.
As was said. Make sure you are the...
True. Although I still saw some real shots, so I thought of them as Honest balls. They really had to square one up to get it out, just like the old days. No cheapies.
CO on the other hand...
I think TCS put Flubber on the balls, plus thin air, plus most games were called with really tight...
Most I have seen have been after the weekend. The soonest was immediately after being eliminated from a national tourney. It was about playing time in the summer. P5 Player who had already graduated, so I guess they decided the travel wasn't worth it for the next month. I felt bad she...
Replying to myself here, with another year behind us.
The skills camp that I mentioned in the older post resulted in multiple offers, one of which DD accepted fall of jr year and a year later she is now signed.
Between then she moved up to the 18u National team. Their Sparkler was much...
It's a good point about actual weight vs label. In 12u, DD had a -11 xeno. Actual weight? -9.5.
She went straight from the 31-11 Xeno to a 33-10 Demarini with no problem. The Demarini was actual weight and more balanced.
No one answer applies here. The player, actual weight, and...
I'm in the minority with you RH. I enjoy the broadcasts for the reasons you mentioned even if I know that the pitch that just hit the top of the zone with topspin was a missed drop, not a rise.
DD got a Liberty Advanced 12" as her first "real" glove halfway thru 7th grade. Played it until midway thru junior year when it started getting floppy where balls would kind of bend the web back. Lots of games on that one and it performed really well at 3rd, SS, P and numerous diving outfield...
Honestly when I first saw the thread title I thought it said
"Teacherman propeller hat"
Oops. Was really confused for a bit (nothing new there, just ask DD).
Almost got DD2 into a Whisper recently after trying out a bunch. Was in the final 2 but the GA won out. Oh well. Prism was DQ'd early.
DD1 is going to a Demarini school in the fall so I am interested to see what she ends up liking.