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He's always let kids play more than one sport. There are plenty that played football and baseball too throughout his tenure. What he does do...is not start them or cut minutes, because they aren't there for everything in the summer and fall. Not always, but most of the time.

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Yes, this was the statement I was trying to make, but just didn't say it as well as you.

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Been a thing said for years that we got kids we shouldn't have, yet, I think we never got sanctioned by LHSAA until 2021 or 22 and that's with the LHSAA having gone through the entire athletic dept previously on multiple occasions. But tell the truth, all the while, it was kids that should have been at Peabody for football, that were at ASH and Tioga before open enrollment. It happened all over Rapides. If the RPSB and LHSAA overlooked it for some, why not others?

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There is no doubt everyone else is doing it as well, especially for those other sports.

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Projecting confidence can and should be taught. Most of the fans and half the coaches don’t really know the rules. Umpires have to at least seem they like they know them backwards and forwards.

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I think your assessment of how many coaches know the rules is too high. Especially at the high school level. I'd put that number closer to 25%. As for teaching how to project confidence, you have to be careful, because you don't want to become the Angel Hernandez type that makes wrong calls and then refuses to get help. We teach our guys to "make a call" and sell it when necessary, but if a coach asks you to get help, you get help. Our ultimate goal is to get the call right. If that takes me talking to my partner then so be it.

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Who cares? Umpiring isn’t a popularity contest.

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Believe it or not, a lot of coaches do. They want someone who seems knowledgeable, but approachable. If you have the reputation as stubborn or arrogant, then you start the game already with a negative assumption from the coaches.

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Dang I didn’t know that. I guess I can see why it has to be that way, but I think that has some unintended negative consequences.

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On the contrary, combined with the LHSAA/LHSOA making coaches meet us at the midway point of the line to discuss calls, I think a lot of this de-escalates a lot of situations. I can't speak statewide, but locally we have only had two ejections so far this year with two weeks left in the regular season. Historically we would be around 10-12 ejections by this point in the year. My first hand experience is that these steps are all good things. Coaches feel heard, and do so without as much emotion. All good things, because ultimately we don't WANT to eject a coach. We want everything to go smoothly and coaches to be able to stay in the game and help do what their job is, coach their kids. We don't want to be the story. We want to be an afterthought when someone thinks back on the game.

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Did Bill Vinovich deserve to officiate the Super Bowl the following year following that debacle?

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Tell me you know nothing about officiating, without telling me you know nothing about officiating. Vinovich didn't make the call/no call. He was on the crew. So to put it into words you may understand, if the fry cook on your shift at Sonic dropped a basket of fries while you were on your rollerblades bringing me my food, should you lose your next shift?

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There’s no path to “upgrading” - the demand exceeds the supply

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Unfortunately the laws of economics don't follow. If they did, officials would be making a LOT more money.

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Don't know. Too busy watching paint dry

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Yet you found time to come make a comment. Here is your attention that you so desperately seek.

Not sure which game you were trying to watch but mine is working. Watching the O's and Blue Jays.

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You put your geek arse beta kid in timeouts don’t you?

Prob lead the anti bully parent group

It’s cool.
They’ll grow out of it

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You're a grown man who owns multiple wagons. Grow up Peter Pan!

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You're really no better. As with every thread on here, you spout off with "everyone is lying about travel ball" but when confronted with people's anecdotal experiences you will eventually say, "well that's not how my kids travel ball team is".

Maybe, it can be both? Maybe, some of the good things you say are true, and some of the bad things they say are true? Maybe, travel ball has a reputation for a reason and it's not because a bunch of people on the internet decided to pick on travel ball parents.


sure but most of it is "I heard" or I read on social media BS

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Are you clocking 10 year olds?'


unless you are blessed with a rapsodo embedded in your eye the radar gun is the best way to monitor fatigue. Pitch counts are good but many kids are not capable of throwing that many pitches and become fatigued before hand and will not say a word about it. At that age its very hard to tell the difference between say 56 and a drop to 51(10%). but a continuous drop like that over 5-6 pitches means they are fatigued and should be pulled, throwing strikes or not for the health of the kid. Injury risk sky rockets when the forearm muscles become fatigued. should be clocking every pitch for no other reason than that, at least spot checking.

not even goign to get into improving velo requires tracking velo part of it.

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This generally decreases as they get older. Not just baseball but any travel sport. I attended a coaches meeting for basketball at our school league and listened to the local gym owner tell parents that "when your kids are in junior high, they need to start focusing on 1 sport".


it does. most kids quit baseball after 12 with the move to the bigger field, always have. I dont agree that they should specialize, at least until high school. also dont believe that you should force a kid to play multiple sports if they dont want to either and have atleast tried the sport...once they get to middle school anyways. younger then that, force them, they wont know if they like it or not unless they try it.

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Again, with age i find this to be less true, at least locally.


in the state of LA every team is pretty much off july-septemeber. there are a few events like PG all state in july and a couple world series at start of july but unless its a tournament out of state like cooperstown, cal ripken or PGI...its over by july 4th.

very few teams play more than 2 tournaments in the fall. Some play a sunday league. most play 1-2 tournaments and practice mid sept- November
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Maybe, but it's a self fulfilling prophecy. A few years back, a shrewd park owner convinced some parents that "if you just pay x amount, you can have access to this park year round and your kid will definitely play in college". So word of mouth spread, and more people started to pay more for "better results". Well, now it has morphed to "if you don't play travel ball your kid will never play JV sports at school", and "if we don't cut the 7 year olds who aren't out of the womb athletic, then we'll never get priority at practice fields or seeding at tournaments." I state this all the time, it didn't HAVE to be this way, but now it is. Now, for most cases, you do HAVE to be on a travel/tournament team or your kid will fall behind. There are exceptions, but in the end, if he wants to play high school ball (and even that is considered inferior to true travel teams) then we, the parents, must pony up $2-3k every year and say goodbye to weekends for 6+ months out of the year.


not really..... its more the kids that practice more and play more are better 99% of the time. so when it comes nut cutting time and you have to perform for the HS coach...they are taking the better kids period

they arent asking where the kids played, what travel team they played on...but the more skilled players are going to be the travel kids 99% of the time and most of the time its going to be the ones playing higher level travel.

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I'm not reading all that. I'm happy for u though. Or sorry that happened.

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No need to stop you p*ssies.

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Sometimes there is very much a need to stop.

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