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HOOKEM4

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  1. He posted on longhorn (or burnt orange?) fan zone and in a sea of crazies, he stood out. What a psycho. I have an old desktop with the awesome takes from that board. Swam was amazing in his crazy. I need to fire that thing up. Crazy call back. That was over 20 years ago I dealt with him.
  2. My 12 year old only started baseball because his brother was loving it in 8u. His first season was spring 12u when he just turned 11, never played before. He was a team favorite bc of his attitude. He was terrible but made a play here and there. Fall season he was an afterthought. They ran out of pitchers and one day they through him in. He went 5 inning and had 13k's. Ever since he has been every teams top pitcher. I coached him this last spring and the allstar season. We beat every team he pitched against. Rec and allstars. Point is, it is never too late. Support and teach them at their pace. Don't worry about the future. Worry about today, you can control that.
  3. I know this response is late but I had something happen this week that reminded me about my 18yr old self. My grandma game me a book when I was 14 or so that was basically propaganda about how oppressed the confederacy was and how they weren't that bad. It caused me to have a fucked up view of the world until I sought out more information. I had to actively look for it. If I wasn't proactive, I could have lived in my ignorance forever. It is easy to do so. I was taking care of my mom after she had surgery and while at her house I saw the book. I cracked it and read a few pages and realized how crazy it is now. Hell, the cover is a confederate flag. Kids are 100% a product of their environment and even at 20 do not have a solid grasp on anything. Hell, I am over 40 and still struggle to reconcile everything.
  4. I skimmed some of this but in my opinion, I would let him play as many rec sports as possible. My kids played rec league until it was painfully clear they needed more. I coached them and took them to training sessions with professional coaches so I could learn how to coach better honestly. Once it was clear I had nothing to offer to get them better we went select. It is 100% pay to play for most organizations. Your son needs to want to train outside of regular practice on his own volition. If your son dominates, you will get people from different organizations recruiting them or you can work to getting your son on the better teams. There are a shitload of politics but in the end, if you train them and they are good, they sell themselves. My goal is for my kids to have fun. They are consumed with baseball. They practice together essentially everyday. I do not force anything. I offer options for training and if they want to do it we go, if not, we do something else. Just be present, offer them options and make sure they love it, don't worry about the select pressure bullshit. 99% of the select kids won't make a HS team. 100% of the kids deserve to have an enjoyable childhood. Make it happen for your son.
  5. Not enough drip, it's supposed to be pink/purple/blue and bedazzled! 🙄 I just built a batting area for my boys. They were hitting off the dirt area where they wore out the grass 2 years ago. Leveled it and put in turf. Yeah, I need to clean out the jungle but I am lazy and I just did it 2 months ago. The rain makes things grow!
  6. I had a kid on my 12u rec team this fall that hit a home run that a dad measured where it hit on a sign on another field at 320'. It is crazy how the 12u kids grow so differently.
  7. Yall can do you but my kids are not watching that movie for several years. I am also the person that restricts access to content and monitors everything. The internet is not a place you let 9yr olds roam free. I am not going to allow it even if his friends have shit parents. That said, watched the movie again on a shitty stream. Laughed harder the second time.
  8. Good thing I didn't bet I would eat my hat. Needed it to tip to Kikuchi. Jesus.
  9. Let's go Pena!
  10. We could have been sellers and ended up better off than we are right now. We are going to get swept by this minor league team aren't we? Nono, I will stay positive. Running on no sleep right now. Let's go stros.
  11. Yup. Well done bud.
  12. Perfect start.
  13. If I ever post a yarn, sorry. I have no idea what the fuck that is. /get off my lawn!
  14. How long until the internet fires up 100k bots to turn x into a scat porn site? I wish I knew how to do it and I would gladly help.
  15. I worked today and deserve this. Dammit!
  16. The problem with the far left is they dont realize they need to get off their fucking soapbox for long enough to realize they are fucking losers and need to adapt to the game. The game has changed and you need to realize what it takes to win. They go low and you fucking go high! It worked so well that we have a fascist at our doorsteps. I am a gun nut, free market, bitches about the work ethic of my employees psychopath that has donated the max to a Black/Indian female presidential candidate to stop fascism. Yet you bitch about the compromises. That is why democrats are losers. Fuck it is tough dealing with you fuckers. Now I am in your camp and it is embarrassing.
  17. She is pissed she can't get that d from him. Amazing being so brainwashed you repress your insecurities only to put them on full display!
  18. This is a weird hill to die on but you do you bud. Compromise is bad, they should have done something the facists in the house wouldn't have passed and I would be happy!
  19. I forgot about this. Amazing.
  20. Best response at the bottom. Who was this? Screen name?
  21. I am a parent of two and I can say I am not better. Being a parent is like becoming blind at 30 in a world with no braille or white canes and trying to find your way around. I am just guessing what will make my boys solid humans. My wife and I do our best we can that day. Constantly second guessing our decisions. I am positive I am screwing something up while hoping I don't. People that use kids as some sort of reflection of their value are insane. You really don't know if you did a good job for 30 years or so.
  22. So we might be able to use him to take out A's players and possibly beat them? Where does the bandwagon line start!
  23. The fact this fuckstain cannot be seen/photographed on or near anything even remotely resembling a couch ever again is hilarious.
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