Mickey was the best and is a legend in Pinellas County and beyond. If you ever played for or against us at The East, Mickey was gonna make sure you were taken care of with the utmost love and respect. Sad day today 💔
Act like you’ve been there before. Celebrate with your team. Not at the direction of the other team. College, and frankly high school baseball, is unwatchable with all this garbage .
I talked a dad who told me he spent $10k a year on travel baseball between tourneys, travel, and gear for his son. He got a partial scholarship to D-2 school. If he had put the $10k in a mutual fund each year, he would have had about $190,000. The scholarship was $5k a year.
Alright. Rickey Henderson is at third base. One out. Tie game. Bottom of the 9th.
You’re the fielding team. DEEP fly ball to right field.
Who do you want as your right fielder?
Playing 3 games a week during the High School season is perfect.
Then summer hits and suddenly it’s 5-6 games in 3 days… sometimes even 3 games on last day.
Way too many games. Players are exhausted, breaking down, and injuries start piling up.
Not Good…..
Or people like me that didn’t go to a big college so just watch “good games” and watch upsets. With the regular season being junk now where upsets don’t matter it’s become college basketball where the regular season is a waste.
The loudest voices against expanding the playoffs seem to fit some of the following categories
1. Grew up in the 90’s
2. SEC fans.
3. Employed by ESPN
Here’s why 👇👇👇
College Football used to be great each Saturday with each game meaning so much. Now it’s so watered down regular season upsets just don’t matter=Boring regular season like college hoops.
One trend I am noticing...the SAME people who never wanted a 4 team playoff are the SAME people who didn't want a 12 team playoff. And now those SAME people are pounding the table against expansion. Even tho the 12 team playoff has been a MASSIVE success they don't admit it!!!
@ByChrisWright@tampaball@Biggamebobby Coach this is not intended to debate your overall point but it should be noted that 1A and 2A are almost exclusively private schools….just as there are very few privates in top class
Some parents drove 3-5 hours today and spent hundreds of dollars…
just to watch their son walk 4 times.
Do this instead:
Pay a local kid $20 to throw to your son for an hour instead.
He’ll probably get more development from that than another travel ball weekend.
We sadly see this all the time and the kid goes D1, plays a hand full of minutes and then drops the next year to where they should have been to start….
So sick of “D1 or Bust” mentality.
And for what?
So your parents can tell people at a dinner party?
6-7% of HS athletes even GET the opportunity to play in college IF you even get the chance to play at the next level...GO where you can play four more years.
THATS what matters.