take2andhittoright

I remember when CPA and Trousdale Co. were in same classification a few years ago and some of the Trousdale people were getting tears mixed in with their tobacco drool because CPA had 3 or 4 D1 signees. They were about to meet in playoffs, and someone with CPA made up a t-shirt that had a photo of those 3 or 4 guys when they were 5 yrs old (their age when they enrolled at CPA) along with the other kindergarten kids at CPA that year. If Ingle can find that recruiter that got those kids to commit as kindergarteners he could really have a great future.

Right now they are all still tied.

What kind of gloves?

Goodpasture had a daddy that got some Goodpasture guys together mixed with a couple other players. It was not commissioned by the head coach. Also, that's fine to supplement the coach but when a coach forces you to play and pay him that is what is ethically wrong. And there are schools that do that. They tell their players that they are selfish if they go and play somewhere else, "You're letting your teammates down". Now when i say force that is what the kid and parent thinks based on the coach telling the kid that. You are right kids get better with at bats and innings and add this, vs better competition. I'll give you an example of a kid that couldnt even go play with a travel team after high school summer team was over. Go figure that out. The summer coach new that the high school coach did not let his player play with anyone else in the summer so the summer coach asked him to play with them when the high school summer team was over. HS coach found out and made up some other stuff that the kid had to do so he couldnt go play. Kid would have pitched in 2 trnys, one a 5 day trny the other a 6 day trny, would not have had to sleep in a hotel room and pitched vs better competition than he did all summer. The reason i know this is my son played on the summer team that had asked this kid to pitch. Now get out there and fundraise.

You are correct sir. They (coaches of forced summer programs)tell the kids that they are being selfish if they don't play for the school team in the summer. The baseball coaches with a baseball background will provide a team so that guys will play in the summer and only charge what it really costs to play and not line their pockets and allow the other players to go play on a more competitive team if they so chose. The other coaches that have a forced summer program tell the kids they must play and you will pay this said amount and they(the coach)will benefit from it personally. What happens then is the guys that are backups during the real school season still don't get to play that much in the summer. Someone needs to do some research and find out if the state finalists have the forced baseball programs. Lets see Farragut, they have a pretty good squad and have done ok lately. They do not have the forced summer program. Mt Juliet from the midstate doesnt have the forced summer program, they have done the best lately from middle TN. Lipscomb no force, Goodpasture no force, those 2 teams seem to do alright. When Smyrna had Sonny Gray he didn't play on school summer team and they went to the state his sr year. So bottom line about the forced summer program is money and it aint "it will make our team better". TSSAA says it's legal so back to the fund raiser the coach can charge what he wants and make you play for him or he can kick you off the team. Now if you are a good player that coach will have a different set of rules for you cause he does want to win during real school season.

A fundraiser I know some teams do is for the school to have 2 travel teams for the summer and charge the players whatever amount you want. There is nothing in TSSAA rules that says you can't do it. If you had a 15u team and a 17u team with a total of about 30-35 players and charge $400.00 each that's about $12,000.00-$14,000.00. Of course out of that you would have to pay for umpires,ins. and trny fees. Play about 30 games for each team pay out about $3,500.00 total and you have made some money.

Are you telling me that if I go by a high school baseball field during the dead period that the gate will be closed and there will not be one kid from that high school on that field? According to your post that would be the case, but I believe your post is wrong. You are putting out false information. Surely there are exceptions as I know of several high school players that played on their field during dead period. Please explain the rule if I am wrong. I will be more than happy to turn them in if they broke the rules.

Sounds like you may have put your team in the wrong tournament. Sounds like you might be concerned about winning too. If your kids are going to quit because they lost some games maybe they don't care about integrity and they would like for you to acquire some of them illegal players. If you where in a legit trny and your coach had some reason to think they were too old then he goes to trny director and team in question presents birth certificates. In fact your post doesn't even seem real. I'm mad at myself for even responding. My bad.

You mean to tell me a high school coach answers to 2 "advisors"? Wow, when you say "advisors" is this parents, an agent, local mafia..... what is it? Makes no sense. Please explain "advisors.

Thats pretty good but my boy hit .980 in 10 under last year. Wow, they have 10 under T-Ball. he should have hit .990. I bet you yelled at him when he made that out.

Depends on which hand he wipes with.

Just depends on what hand he wipes with

7.08 Any runner is out when— (a) (1) He runs more than three feet away from his baseline to avoid being tagged unless his action is to avoid interference with a fielder fielding a batted ball. A runner’s baseline is established when the tag attempt occurs and is a straight line from the runner to the base he is attempting to reach safely; or (2) after touching first base, he leaves the baseline, obviously abandoning his effort to touch the next base; Rule 7.08(a) Comment: Any runner after reaching first base who leaves the baseline heading for his dugout or his position believing that there is no further play, may be declared out if the umpire judges the act of the runner to be considered abandoning his efforts to run the bases. Even though an out is called, the ball remains in play in regard to any other runner. This rule also covers the following and similar plays: Less than two out, score tied last of ninth inning, runner on first, batter hits a ball out of park for winning run, the runner on first passes second and thinking the home run automatically wins the game, cuts across diamond toward his bench as batter-runner circles bases. In this case, the base runner would be called out “for abandoning his effort to touch the next base” and batter-runner permitted to continue around bases to make his home run valid. If there are two out, home run would not count (see Rule 7.12). This is not an appeal play. PLAY. Runner believing he is called out on a tag at first or third base starts for the dugout and progresses a reasonable distance still indicating by his actions that he is out, shall be declared out for abandoning the bases.

hey by03, sounds like there was a play at the plate if he got tagged out. What if it's the same situation and a kid hits a walkoff HR, can he miss all the bases? There is no play on him. Should the other team not appeal? According to you, you wouldn't. You must be a Smyrna homer. Did you ride your bike or carry your lunch to school?

I didn't know they had academics at Smyrna