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4 minutes ago, HOOKEM4 said:

If you fall below 8 players you have to forfeit. A team did that last weekend in 13u and ended up with a better seed (didn't play the no1 seed that smoked everyone). They ended up with a 3pm game over our 8am that we got for actually playing. They took their 0-7 scored forfeit and we lost giving up 9 runs at 11pm while they were sleeping at home. Those 2 runs cost us a late game. Just a stupid stupid setup.

Yea that was always an in game rule back in the day (say in the 2nd inning two fielders take each other out and you are down to 7) but if you just outright walked on a game....that was that.  At your age it may be about sleep, when they get a bit older it gets to be about pitching.  

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Yeah I agree. I am still living with the memory of the fuckery of last weekend. We will play it straight and let shit fall where it may.

 

Edit: it is always about pitching though. 

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4p and 8pm at The Rac  this weekend for us, after we got an initial schedule saying we had the 8a and 12p games at Cotton Sports Ranch.

Travel time is about the same for us but would much rather have the early 8a games, considered booking a room in Waller Sat night only to realize the 2 Sunday brackets are either Waller or BBUSA. 

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10 months post TJ surgery, my son got back on the bump against live batters for the first time yesterday.  Just 3 batters.  I didn't see it, but he said it was a mixed bag.  He struggled with control, but his arm felt good.  He's slated to pitch Tuesday (20 pitch max) on JV.  

He's worked hard during recovery and followed a pretty dialed in protocol.  Big improvement in core and leg strength over that timeframe.  Got a really good pitching coach with experience in TJ rehab and a good grasp of biomechanics, so his delivery is way more consistent and repeatable.  I think he's in a better, healthier, more disciplined spot than he was prior to injury.  We're really trying to keep him from overdoing it, but he's 17 and pushing the envelope.  

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On 4/6/2025 at 12:41 PM, HOOKEM4 said:

Can we talk about how stupid these game times have become? Schedule too many teams for the fields, games stack up and get later and later. Last game is supposed to start at 8:15, doesn't start until 10:15pm. Sunday games are at 8am. Really stupid. It comes down to who got to play early Saturday. We had kids that went home and ended up with 4hrs or less sleep. Bullshit scheduling. Basically we should have just forfeited the second game just so we could have clawed back 3 hours of sleep for the boys. Defeats the point of the tournament imo.

The tournament director got his $$ so that's incorrect 

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One of my players lost 2 teeth at first last night in practice losing the ball in the sun. So that was fun. 

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It seems I have now been exposed to roster shenanigans. We beat a team handily Saturday and faced them in the semi's yesterday.  Only they had 3 players that were not there Saturday.  3 much larger players, 2 of which hit HR.  Tried to look up the team and see how they had been doing this season and they had no record aside from this tournament.  

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1 hour ago, T’Boo Ted Marshall said:

It seems I have now been exposed to roster shenanigans. We beat a team handily Saturday and faced them in the semi's yesterday.  Only they had 3 players that were not there Saturday.  3 much larger players, 2 of which hit HR.  Tried to look up the team and see how they had been doing this season and they had no record aside from this tournament.  

So, when you go to the big tournaments, you see this quite a bit.  USA Prime, among others, has a bunch of local and regional teams, but they will cobble together a “National” team for the biggies.  As a result, there are some stacked rosters at those events that aren’t continuous teams.

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What alot of teams like that do is keep the team name the same but just change coach name.
Ballers-Jones 13u and slaughter teams. Then go to a big local tournament play down a level ( majors to aaa to aa) keep same roster but go as the ballers-Smith 13u.

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Reading this makes me ponder on an upcoming decision on whether to put our youngest in select.  He turns 7 in a week and has only played LL.  We had several coaches try to recruit him for this season and we turned them all down.  One of the teams was an 8U and wanted him to play.  Struggling with the whole select world as I see all of these kids who play select and little league and most of them aren't anything special.  I also see these kids get burnt out by the end of LL and into all-stars.  I wish there was a less aggressive baseball league outside of LL to play that didn't demand so much travel and late night games.  My boy would love the extra practice and reps but I'm just not sure about the time commitment.

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My son started select ball last summer.  The coach was recommended by another family at our school.  The coach is great - knowledgeable, motivating, not over the top with criticism. The other parents on the team are pretty chill - no loudmouths.  As far as the team goes, it's been good.  Going to tournaments was eye-opening though.  There are A LOT of people who take this shit VERY seriously.  I just wonder what they are all thinking.  Do they think their kid has a chance to play MLB?  My son's goal is to make his HS team.  He's going to be a freshman next year.  I think he has a pretty good chance of making the freshman team.  Whether we continue with select ball remains to be seen.  He's definitely improved because of it and has had a generally positive experience.  I just don't know how much is too much in terms of commitment by our family.

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I think I noted it above but this is our first go-around in select and the tournaments are crazy.  Every family has a cart full of a ton of shit.  A bunch of tarps and boomboxes with pre-game and walk-up music.  The parents (98% of whom are morbidly obese and shit-faced by late afternoon as they sell booze which is crazy to me) are nuts -- yelling at the umps, their own players, other players, other parents, their coaches, other coaches.  This was our fourth tournament and last weekend I saw my first near fight.  A bunch of country rednecks v a bunch of hispanic folks. I don't know what happened (was on the field next to us and wasn't paying attention) but a bunch of the parents (dads and moms too!) got into a shouting shoving match, screaming f-bombs, gonna kick your fucking ass, etc. Rednecks got tossed and promised to be waiting in the parking lot for the other group after the game.  I'm not sure if that happened.  A bunch of 11 and 12 year olds just standing the whole thing.    

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2 hours ago, Ojo Rojo said:

My son started select ball last summer.  The coach was recommended by another family at our school.  The coach is great - knowledgeable, motivating, not over the top with criticism. The other parents on the team are pretty chill - no loudmouths.  As far as the team goes, it's been good.  Going to tournaments was eye-opening though.  There are A LOT of people who take this shit VERY seriously.  I just wonder what they are all thinking.  Do they think their kid has a chance to play MLB?  My son's goal is to make his HS team.  He's going to be a freshman next year.  I think he has a pretty good chance of making the freshman team.  Whether we continue with select ball remains to be seen.  He's definitely improved because of it and has had a generally positive experience.  I just don't know how much is too much in terms of commitment by our family.

Yes.

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I think I noted it above but this is our first go-around in select and the tournaments are crazy.  Every family has a cart full of a ton of shit.  A bunch of tarps and boomboxes with pre-game and walk-up music.  The parents (98% of whom are morbidly obese and shit-faced by late afternoon as they sell booze which is crazy to me) are nuts -- yelling at the umps, their own players, other players, other parents, their coaches, other coaches.  This was our fourth tournament and last weekend I saw my first near fight.  A bunch of country rednecks v a bunch of hispanic folks. I don't know what happened (was on the field next to us and wasn't paying attention) but a bunch of the parents (dads and moms too!) got into a shouting shoving match, screaming f-bombs, gonna kick your fucking ass, etc. Rednecks got tossed and promised to be waiting in the parking lot for the other group after the game.  I'm not sure if that happened.  A bunch of 11 and 12 year olds just standing the whole thing.    

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My 11 YO just went deep for the second time in LL last night. No doubter off the best pitcher in the league and then threw 4 IP for the win. He’s hit bombs in select and won games on the mound in select plenty. Still, doing it in the playoffs in LL with his buddies is a whole different thing. It’s insane watching kids throw around 70 from 46 feet and then watching another kid turn on it. 

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