TigerAlum93

Great year for both teams for sure.

I think Dutchtown did SH a huge favor beating Barbe. Barbe won all 3 matchups this year with SH, and while I think the SH roster is just as talented as Barbe's, I think SH beating Barbe is more mental for them. I think they would have had a hard time beating Barbe in a best of 3 for that reason, but that is why they play the games. SH took care of business when Barbe could not.

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i dont like it and I think you took my reply as i approve of it, i dont, but I also understand that a coach prolly doesnt want to lose his best player and would be more willing to work around it

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I did take it that way somewhat, thank you for your response/clarification.

My comments come as more of a concern for the culture/society we have created than winning any travel ball games or 7 on 7's, to me its SO much bigger than that and goes against what many successful leaders agree are the pillars to success in life. I also hate watching youth/HS sports reduced to this, as one poster said, it was once the only "pure" thing left, now even that is tainted with all of this madness.

I have even seen some of these HS baseball "phenoms" be starters on their HS football team, yet skip district HS football games to attend fall baseball showcases, some of these kids are in your area. I could not imagine that in my day, both my HC's would tell me to clean out my locker.

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no i think you misunderstood how good dutchtown and zacahry and even mandeville/hahnville where on that side of the bracket. They all have big time recruits too. you also under estimated how much of a difference there is between seniors and freshman. Barbe played 3 or 4 freshman every game in the series. that makes a big difference and its why i said to be cautious with those post you were making. not having heath hurt too

i admit I did think barbe would end up winning it all but i thought it was going to be very very tough. I thought all season dutchtown was good and thought they would be a top 4 seed before the last 2 weeks of the season


I think many posters on here too dont understand that at the big 5a schools the talent level is all really really good. And with the spread of info many programs have very good off season programs now, they watch video, they scout for tendencies etc.

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Thank you for educating me LSU777. Having never played or coached organized sports myself, and not having kids as athletic as all of these social media sensations, and yes, maybe you have forgotten more baseball than I will ever know, it looks like I was off base. Don't know this Barbe coach like you do, or who the next elementary school phenom is, I was out of line for commenting on things I know nothing about.

I'm here to eat my crow, I did not think Barbe could be beaten in a 3 game series. Maybe I was guilty of buying into their showcase and social media PG/PBR hype their top guys like to push, did not see this one coming. Well, they will have more time to work on that now. Congrats to Dutchtown on a big series win, bouncing back from a beat down in game 2 on the road, hard to do, especially at Barbe. The cringe videos, signs, etc at Barbe don't seem to carry the intimidation factor they were designed for. That 5A title is for anybody's taking now, should be interesting.

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Anything can happen. Isn’t the semi and final only one game?

Barbe has won a lot of close games. It just takes one bad day. They should have won last year too.

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True. But we are talking about THIS year. And when you are 37-1 and winning ALL the close games, there is something to be said for that.

Pretty sure they are 3 games series now, but not positive. So back to what I said, they could possibly drop one game to the other team's ace, but they are not losing a 3 game series in this non-select bracket.

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very familiar with all of them

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No way!

This is actually a very common issue amongst all of us. One side being stronger than the other. Good training programs for athletes have uni-lateral work programamed for this reason and injury prevention, especially for knees/ACL. I program it in for ALL my clients. Even if it is just a few extra reps of one exercise, you want to address all imbalances. I have always been right side dominant. I corrected this in myself over a year or two of doing some unilateral work, and starting with my weak side first, doing a few extra reps per session on the weak side. I prioritize compound barbell movements, but if that is all you ever did, you will have the stronger side compensating for the other. So its always a good idea to add in say a dumbell movement for legs, arms, chest, back, etc to make each individual side bear the burden.

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We will see some home cooked times for sure.