Originally posted by TPM: I find it interesting there was no response to CM's post. Not understanding if you have an older son and been though this beofre, why all the daddy questions, you can't figure all of this out on your own. You are 45 but have a son who reached AAA? Something isn't kosher here, to much information.
My questions and experiences are new with my youngest. My oldest there wasnt all this travel ball stuff.
Posts: 139 | Location: South Florida | Registered: April 06, 2009
Originally posted by BOF: OCB all I can say is WOW. You well on your way to raising the next Todd Marinovich. Good luck to you..BTW So Cal is a terrible place so stay away.
No matter what I think of you or your son I would never stoop so low as to call another mans child something that inhuman.
If this is the type of example you set for your child then I guess my tax dollars will be paying for whatever prison he ends up in. Good luck to you btw as well.
Posts: 139 | Location: South Florida | Registered: April 06, 2009
OCB- When you come onto a message board and ask a question, people are entitled to their own opinions in their answers. If you don't like their answers, appreciate them for taking their time to at least think it over and help you with whatever it is. There's no need to rile people up just because you have some sort of self-pride insecurity. From what you have said in your posts here and in the past, you should have a sit down and have a lesson in maturity with your son, because evidently if everything you say is true, he is leaps and bounds ahead of you in this department. My best advice to you is to shut up, keep your outrageous opinions to yourself, and don't accuse people of being unsuccessful and incorrect just because they don't agree with your stupidity.
"People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring." ~Rogers Hornsby
Posts: 595 | Location: A field somewhere | Registered: May 28, 2005
Here are my two cents, from a dad who never played organized baseball and who has a 13yo son that has never played travel/select ball.
Living in Central Texas we could play baseball year round, but what's the point? To me, the risk of burnout or arm problems are too great, not to mention the expense - would rather spend the money on a math tutor.
As he will be entering HS next year he may play some tournament ball next summer for exposure to more competetive ball. Not alot - just to let him see a higher level of competition.
As mentioned on another thread, my son is smaller and slower than most of the other kids he plays with - a late developer (I hope!!) An adequate position player, his ability to read the ball and a good arm compensate some for his lack of speed. But his greatest asset is that he has no sense of anxiety either pitching or hitting. One run lead, bases loaded, no outs - he says he looks forward to pitching in that situation, and is often called on to do just that.
IOW, his mental attributes are stronger than his physical ones. Not sure how playing 90 games a year would improve that much.
Posts: 7 | Location: Central Texas | Registered: June 04, 2009
No I didn't play USSSA ball nor did any of my boys and they all played college ball
I have been around youth sports for longer than you have been alive and I have to tell you that you are the scariest parent I have met yet and I have met thousands of them
Being rich, retired and pompous at 45 does not make you know what you are doing--
And I am with TPM, and this does not happen often--a son retiring from AAA ball and a 10 year old---the math doesn't work for me
No I didn't play USSSA ball nor did any of my boys and they all played college ball
I have been around youth sports for longer than you have been alive and I have to tell you that you are the scariest parent I have met yet and I have met thousands of them
Being rich, retired and pompous at 45 does not make you know what you are doing--
And I am with TPM, and this does not happen often--a son retiring from AAA ball and a 10 year old---the math doesn't work for me
Sorry the math doesnt work for you but as I mentioned in another post assumption can make us a what? You can imagine I dont feel like sharing much info at this point. So I will leave this one to your already incorrect formed opinions.
It seems that there is a certain mold that most of the dads fit here. However just because someone else doesnt fit the typical mold on this board makes them scary or wrong.
I will leave all of you with this to maybe prove the point. I will use RPMs reasoning which is scary to me. You all say that playing year round baseball is bad. First who do you think will be the #1 pick in the MLB draft this year? Once you figure that out look at his youth career. Second as RPM says show me current evidence that playing yr round baseball with 6 to 8 weeks off per yr hurts a child that doesnt pitch.
Posts: 139 | Location: South Florida | Registered: April 06, 2009
1) The mold the posters in this thread come from is one of perspective. It's a healthy mold. Your lack of perspective is scary.
2) Whomever will be the first pick in the draft will be an athletic superfreak compared to most kids. He will be able to do things most kids can only dream. It will about genetics, not playing year round regardless of how much he played as a little kid.
3) Thinking it's not a concern for a ten year old playing one sport year round is scary. If you ignore every other piece of advice, talk to your pediatrician and a sports ortho specialist regarding a prepubescent kid playing the same sport year round and the the potential effect on growth plates and Repetitive Stress Syndrome. When my son was ten he played over one hundred games in four different sports. Even though it was four different sports our family sports ortho specialist warned to be careful. There's a big difference between kids playing a lot of pickup ball and always playing and practicing in an organized fashion. My son has friends in various sports he played who played one sport year round starting at an early age and missed a season due to growth plate, other skeletal issues or tendon and muscular problems at some point between middle or high school.
I also don't buy the kid who played AAA ball and a ten year old. Given your age that sounds like one kid from a high school marriage, then a second marriage years later. You seem too perfect and holy to have been divorced.
* Impossible is just a degree of difficulty *
Posts: 4475 | Location: Mid-Atlantic | Registered: October 29, 2007
The OP is not looking for sermonizing or anyone's opinion about the good or bad of playing year round. He's not looking for advice on how to spend his money or raise his kid. He asked a simple question.
Posts: 232 | Location: Texas | Registered: November 13, 2003
Originally posted by cball: The OP is not looking for sermonizing or anyone's opinion about the good or bad of playing year round. He's not looking for advice on how to spend his money or raise his kid. He asked a simple question.
This thread is a spillover from another thread. The question in the original post is about packing up and moving because the poster isn't getting his way where he lives.
* Impossible is just a degree of difficulty *
Posts: 4475 | Location: Mid-Atlantic | Registered: October 29, 2007
Originally posted by cball: The OP is not looking for sermonizing or anyone's opinion about the good or bad of playing year round. He's not looking for advice on how to spend his money or raise his kid. He asked a simple question.
This thread is a spillover from another thread. The question in the original post is about packing up and moving because the poster isn't getting his way where he lives.
I know RJM. I read those posts too. Alot of things the OP has posted strike me as odd or not a path that I would take but ( for now) it's a free country. It's his son, his money, his time, his choice.
Posts: 232 | Location: Texas | Registered: November 13, 2003
We have failed this poster. We are the ones to blame for all of this banter here. All we had to do was agree with him and give him the answers he was looking for. Shame on us!
Posts: 871 | Location: NC | Registered: July 26, 2008
Originally posted by cball: The OP is not looking for sermonizing or anyone's opinion about the good or bad of playing year round. He's not looking for advice on how to spend his money or raise his kid. He asked a simple question.
Its actually nice to see that someone here understands. This was a very simple question and yet this thread has headed way off course. Even though some of the advice received was appreciated it wasnt asked for.
RJM: again thats an a$$-umption for you to think I am too perfect and holy to have been divorced.
Posts: 139 | Location: South Florida | Registered: April 06, 2009
Originally posted by Coach_May: We have failed this poster. We are the ones to blame for all of this banter here. All we had to do was agree with him and give him the answers he was looking for. Shame on us!
You are correct CM - but all he had to do was to look out his front door to see where you can play ball year round.
Posts: 99 | Location: va | Registered: July 10, 2009
When OCB gets into the "i am retired at 45--I ahve enough money--" he is looking boost his own value, in his mind, whatever that may be---don't protect the guy---try and protect his kid
