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Agree with Chad. The evo shield stuff is designed to be fitted to you after you take it out of the box. It’s moldable to you and then dries to form so it fits the same every time. Just make sure you get the adult size.

Hand guards are pretty simple. Loop to your middle finger and Velcro to the batting glove. Nothing real special about any of them.


Sliding Mitts get a bad rap and youth definitely don’t need them. But if you get your hand stepped on by an adult in metal spikes it’s worth it. For your purposes probably not. But HS and College guys that hand is worth something to them.

Bats…Marucci makes some good ones. We’ve really liked Victus and Old Hickory. Most of them for a good one are $170-$225 and you get what you pay for. Baum makes a composite wooden bat that’s legal in most HS summer leagues. They are extremely durable and won’t hardly break. They’re also more expensive but if you’re worried about breaking it then it’s worth it. They are very popular and swing really well.
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Probably by SLC LL producing too many players that good kids were being cut by Barbe… so they had to go somewhere. But that point is incorrect because it’s more than just the Big Two in Calcasieu… Sulphur was the #9 seed, Westlake won state, and other schools there are good too


It’s really just the growth of SWLA is going North into Moss Bluff and Ragley and south which is Barbe still. But it turned SH into a 5A school and South Beau into a 3A school and both are still growing. But SH is one of the smallest 5A schools in the state. Barbe is still a great school but it’s over crowded and land locked. The only reason another school hasn’t been built south of town is Barbe baseball. The golf course in Westlake has helped that school a ton also. And the city invests in the facilities for the school.

But 85-90% of kids go to public schools in SWLA. That’s not the case in the rest of the state. It’s not bc people can’t afford it. Just that our public schools are still really good. St. Louis Catholic is about to build a new campus and it’s the only private school option for baseball now.

But as LSU777 has said. It’s the coaches and commitment to year long development. It’s the culture of the community to own their own development. Barbe created it. Now others are following it also. The formula for winning 5A state used to be 2 quality arms. Now it’s pitching depth. Gotta have 4-5 arms to win 3 games.
2-2
VC and St. Charles tied top of 6
Post game Interview

Hats off to Brad Bass. Takes full responsibility for it as a coach and acknowledges that’s the rule.

Watch until the end. He’s the last interview. Great kids at Catholic. Congratulations to them.
My zero turn lawn mower? Does that count? Next up is my wedding ring but aside from my wife’s wedding ring and Apple Watch I’ve never spent over 1K on jewelry. Seems like a waste to me but if that’s your thing I don’t hold it against you.
We used to use Dramamine patches. Is this still the best option for motion sickness or is there something new that’s better.
They’re indirectly funded by the cartels. They’re are the drug runners for the cartels and the small time dealers that infiltrate our schools ruining the lives the kids that buy. They don’t know what they’re selling. Just what the next level up guy told them it was.
Senior skip day all over the state. Most classes are done. Just good kids caught in a bad spot.
Cops headed that way like crazy. Like 50 of them on i10. Maybe more.
If you’re driving it past 100k miles buy the Tundra. If you’re driving it 75k miles buy the one - any model- with the most bells and whistles that you would use.

I’ve had Ford, GMC and Toyota. At about 85-100k miles something relatively mid major will go wrong on Ford or GM. By 150k one more thing. They Toyota will be maintenance free to 150k. I lost a radiator at 189k on a Toyota. Was the first mid major problem I had. Rebuilt a front end on an f-150 at 100k miles. Same f1-50 developed a major oil leak at 125k miles. Had to trade it in.
There’s several fields here to consider.

Medical device sales and Pharma sales.

They are 2 different things and have different hours and regulatory environments. The closer to patient care the more highly regulated.

My advice…
1.) Create a LinkedIn account. Use ChatGPt to build your resume and work experience. Tell it to frame it for future medical device and pharma sales jobs.
2.) Connect with as many people as you can. Try and get over 500+. But try and meet as many people as you can in these sales roles. Connect with all of them. Then set the filters for the jobs you are looking for. Jobs will pop up. Once they do look through your network to find someone that knows someone that works for the company. If nothing else connect with the recruiter and the hiring manager and ask for an opportunity to talk about the role. If you do find someone that works for the company ask them to refer you. They get finders fees for referrals that get hired.

It’ll take time. But if you have the will to just network network network something will work out. Pharma is less demanding on quotas. Med sales will be high risk high reward. Both industries come with risk of layoffs.
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Whatever you do don’t wake him up in the night. Unless the house is getting robbed or on fire there’s not a real reason to wake him up. Even then it’s better for the robber or the fire to wake him up. ??
When he starts a kid at 1B that clearly hasn’t gotten reps at 1B and misses a basic cut for a 1B that’s on the coaches. You can’t blame Serna. Kid is a star. He’s young and introduced at a new position and looked like he’s never been coached on what to do there. When you take a freshman that’s played his whole career at SS and move him to 2B you can’t blame the kid. For people to be saying Ruckert should hit the portal have no clue what they are talking about. I’ve seen the kid play throughout HS. Kid is a star. He’s young. He’s exactly what we need here. But the coaches aren’t preparing the kids for the situations they’re putting them in. Full confidence in JJ to figure it out but this is on JJ and his staff. Clearly the kids need to perform better but it’s also abundantly clear their preparation isn’t there either. That’s on the coaches. High standards here. Accountability has the high for both coaches and players.
It’s ok to think highly of JJ and not want him fired but still be observant of some of the misses this season. I think he’s a phenomenal coach and his competitiveness will work to fix the problems. I really don’t think we’re out of anything yet but margins keep getting smaller.

2 observations…defensively the staff hasn’t prepared for additional options especially at 1B. I love giving Serna a go there but he whiffed on the cut and it cost us. Second we’re mid way through the season. With the fall and half of the season to not have settled on our infield is a huge miss. Clearly the kids aren’t hitting but we have no clue who our starting infield should be. Other than Milam the rest is a complete guess both offensively and defensively. To me that’s on the coaches. At some point he’s going to have to settle on a guy either for offensive or defensive.

Love JJ but as a staff they need to do better.
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He is getting the North Carolina job. Duke was almost available too. Would have been a massive bidding war.


What part of MID MAJOR do you not understand.

Let’s say the Stephen F Austin job opens up. They offer him 500k. We give him 500k also as a parting gift. He has a good job to try again and we get to move on at a much lower cost. From what I hear McM is a really good guy and very well liked. I’m not sure the appetite exists to kick him like we did Brian Kelly.
What if Verge understands the financials of the buyout and just isn’t ready to do it but has told McM it would be in his best interest to look around and find another job. As these mid major jobs open up of McM could land one of those I could see a scenario where Verge lets him exit gracefully and maybe sweetens the deal a bit without having to pay the whole buyout. Then we go after The General or possibly already have something in place because Wade and Rouse are already well connected.

If he can’t find something then he stays another year. The incentive is it’s easier and looks better on a resume to take a job while you have one. We did a very similar thing with Trent Johnson. This would also explain why it’s taking some time and he hasn’t been fired.

re: I charted every Oklahoma AB

Posted by tigereye58 on 3/20/26 at 10:20 am to
Wonder if you have this…how many of the first pitch strikes were takes versus swinging. Also how many were FB vs off speed. If a guy can locate first pitch off speed I always find they’re really effective the rest of the game. When it’s only FB it eventually leads to hits or walks.
Work every other way. BP needs to he nothing but off speed off the spin ball hitting line drives over short stop. Same thing for Dardar.

re: Some of you are wildly insecure

Posted by tigereye58 on 3/13/26 at 7:37 pm to
I’m not talking about the guys talking baseball. All the griping about the traditions of Vandy baseball. I mean get over it. Talk baseball. Mute the damn tv of you can’t take a whistle. We have the K lady. She’s an LSU tradition. Announcers have honestly been really respectful of LSU, Johnson, Bertman etc.
Come on now Project…you’re one of the good ones. lol

Some of you are wildly insecure

Posted by tigereye58 on 3/13/26 at 7:30 pm
It’s like you haven’t watched LSU Vandy baseball…ever.

The whistler…the announcer…Vandy Boys.

Mature a little. Get past the 19 yo BS and watch the baseball. You have no credit criticizing our guys play when you gripe about the stupid stuff. It’s like UGA fans complaining people stand up too much in Tiger Stadium.

Downvote if you’re insecure. Upvote if you’ve watched LSU baseball a time or 2.

BTW….our pitchers have to find the zone. Too many free passes.