DD who is now an assistant HS softball coach and also helps the middle school. Middle school has Varsity and B team. One of the b team players has only one arm, but is dedicated to the sport and wants to play. DD advised she is small for her size, athletic and quick.
DD is working with her on...
DD graduated college 05/06/2017
DD graduated 05/06/2017
DD graduated on Saturday and on Monday she begins to teach as a substitute teacher and will be teaching summer school math at the high school, she signed a contract to become a high school teacher to teach math and AP math to student...
Anyone besides me stay up and watch the Ole Miss vs UCLA game? It was after 1 AM before the game ended here.
Great game 11 innings UCLA won 8-7 both pitcher threw around 200 pitches.
Lee IMO was a little off and did not get the border line calls and her misses were off the strike zone a little...
Alabama and Auburn Sunday before the game Auburn was expected to start a pitcher who had been called for being outside the lines on the mound. Auburn coach Clint Myers noticed the lanes on the mound looked off before the game started after being measured it was discovered they were 23 inches in...
GHSA sets new pitch count rules for baseball, pitchers are limited to 110 pitches and if they throw more than 86 pitches they are required to have 3 days of rest before being allowed to pitch again. If they pitch between 31-85 pitches then 2 days of rest is required, if they throw more than 36...
After work I went with DD to watch one of her 9 YO students (she gives pitching and hitting lessons) play in a 9-10 YO state tournament, they beat the opposing team 18 to 3. The opposing team's coach refused to let his players shake the hands of the team after the game was over. :mad:
The coach...
Tampa Bay Rays are now using virtual reality for batting practice.
Tampa Bay Rays are now using virtual reality for batting practice | Fox News
Earlier this week, virtual reality sports training company EON Sports VR announced a partnership with Major League Baseball team the Tampa Bay Rays...
The Dictionary explains it as pronation or eversion is the inward roll of the foot (medial malleolus) while walking or running. As another way to look at pronation instead in terms of the degree of inward roll is in terms of where the foot pushes off at the end of each step, or at the end of the...
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Above is an email from DD, who seems stressed reference the 2 strikes stance the coach is advocating. Seems rather strange and IMO seems rather awkward how my mind sees it JMO.
My advise was to never get into a 2 strike count. :cool:
DD had a pretty good weekend pitching, she has a very sore ankle on her resistance side. Due to her sore angle she has been used sparingly so far this season. They were playing a team which has been averaging 9 runs a game for the season. She did not start pitching, but came in cold in the first...
DD was home for Christmas and was running on the farm when she stepped into a hole and suffered a sprain ankle. She treated it with the RICE method and it showed improvement.
It has continued to bother her and she finally went to the trainer, he advised the bone (which name she could not...
This is some older news, but I just learned about it from a friend. What is interesting to me is some of the numbers claimed in the article such as 5.2 million added to the local economy by tournaments. :eek:
So far I don't know of how it has went sense the article.
Former partners play...
They say most MLB pitchers use some type of foreign substance on the ball.
I've never seen or heard of a softball pitcher being caught using a foreign substance on a ball, other than rosin, but I'm sure it happens.
Does a pitcher using a foreign substance on a softball give that much of an...
Some of you will remember my DD recently had suffered a concussion, but she is doing fine according to the trainer, doctor and her.
I did talk to someone who's son while playing football for a middle school suffered a light blow to the head. He was having head aces according to his dad. His...