Snowbelt Man

Disciple, Husband, Dad, Grandpa, Coach - OC Chardon High School; Hitting/Baseball coach; Multiple state championships. Jesus is Lord! Shalom

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@ChuckModi1 Clark should go play in Europe and let the WNBA get back to their dismal crowds and tv ratings.

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@PastorDScott Dr. Scott - I’ve been to your church and respect your ministry. The reason nobody whined about race is because it wasn’t about race. If Bird and McHale had been opponents, they would have treated each other the same way that they treated all opponents. The WNBA is a joke!!

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@PastorDScott Clark should go play in Europe and let the WNBA fly commercial again.

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@BaseballBros Yes - I had a first baseman get a broken arm on a play like this - though it was not deliberate. He definitely deserved to get plunked!

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@VigilantFox 35 years not fair? He’ll be out in 17 years in his mid 30’s free to kill again. What a joke!

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@CollegeBSBNews I'm 73. I've been around the game of baseball all of my life. Never has the game produced more idiots and punks. Watch the great Roberto Clemente homer in game 7 of the 71 World Series. 1971 WS Gm7: Clemente homers in critical game - YouTube

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I've spent a lot of the past 25-30 years coaching baseball. This means that I've have seen a lot of live baseball up close from 6-year-olds to college players. I've coached in well over a thousand games during this time.

This summer, I am not coaching a baseball team. I spent the last week watching live baseball at the D3 National Championship at Classic Park in Eastlake. The quality of the baseball was really good.

But what really caught my eye was the way that these kids competed and treated their opponents. There was no F-bombing the other dugout after a strikeout or a home run. There was no turning a home run trot into a marathon dance around the bases. Yet, the passion for the game and for the competition was still on full display.

I thought - this attitude reflects the coaching. I see these D1 college coaches making excuses for some of the ridiculous stuff that takes place in the dugout and on the field. It's even spilled over into college girls' softball. People dropping F-bombs like they're candy.

That's my rant for the day. Denison finished their record-breaking season by coming out of the losers' bracket in their pool and then winning the best of 3 series with Endicott 2-1 with both games yesterday going extra innings. Yesterday's games put on full display why the game of baseball is the greatest game ever invented.

When Herb Score was asked how he could maintain his enthusiasm for the game after so many years in the announcers' booth, he said: "You never know what you're going to see when you come to the ballpark." That was certainly true yesterday.

Congratulations to my close friend, Dave Jevnikar, and his Denison Big Red. He actually left Chardon and saw all 8 Denison games that it took to win the whole thing.

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@shegone03 @realbenmcdonald @LSUbaseball Pathetic - and it's ALL on the coach!

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The power of music - heavenly, earthly, soulish, demonic. True or false? You decide.

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@uniformcritic home plate umps stole the series. go watch it. you could have challenged and won half the called strikes on Indians hitters

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@coachzblair10 Idiots!

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@coachzblair10 No wonder no one wants to ump.

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@ShaneSchaetzel In other words, churches that actually read and believe the Bible.

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@BaseballBros Plus, he's slow.

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@BaseballBros Pathetic. Zero bat speed. Popup that landed fair. However, it would be pathetic if it was a shot to right center. Where do kids get this stuff?

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@shegone03 @Brewers @Nationals @MLB @notgaetti @BobFile @twuench @billdubs @iamrags Everyone that I see taking "pitching lessons" is being taught to fall off to the side like on the first bunt. No more ending up square ready to field your position.

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@shegone03 @platecrate @barkbox The worst thing about all of this shit is the absolute lack of respect for the greatest game ever invented.

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@coachzblair10 Pathetic! I’d call timeout, go out to check on him, and publicly embarrass him.

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@shegone03 Clown show

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So, I’m throwing BP to my 10 year old grandson and in the cage next to me is a high school player that I know hitting off a machine and checking his exit velocity on the tv screen every pitch. I notice that he is either popping up or rolling over on every pitch. I grab him, put him in my cage, and make him hit ten pitches to the opposite field then tell him to just hit. And he’s hammering the ball without looking at a screen to tell whether he hammered the ball.