Author Topic: Cal Ripken baseball (Read 1318 times)

Reschke · « **Reply #45 on:** May 17, 2005, 11:12:50 AM »

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Originally posted by midnight Target
My Uncle was a football coach (HS and College). He was adamantly against peewee football. He thought it was much too dangerous for younger kids.

I was forbidden to play until high school. I just wonder if he was right. Do you see many injuries in Peewees nowadays?

Honestly through two seasons in our community there have been four injuries requiring kids going to the hospital. One was a kid who had no business being on the team and had a vertebrae fractured because he was standing around on a kick off return team. The other three were two cleanly broken bones in the radius and ulna (lower arm) and one fractured humerus (upper arm). The humerus fracture was out for 4 weeks before being cleared by the doctor. The neck and lower arms were out for the season. The two lower arm breaks were freak accidents diving for fumbles.

I played peewee football and all the way through college. I never got seriously injured until college when I broke both collar bones in a game and played the rest of the game. The the next season I destroyed my right knee; (complete ACL rebuild with a cadaver (allograft) tendon and Gore-Tex LAD (ligament assisting device). The the next two seasons were my left ankle getting destroyed (more torn ligaments and bone spurs) and that was the end of my hopes for Pro football.

I am of the opposite opinion though on injuries in football at peewee levels. These kids rarely hit hard enough to break an egg and they have padding basically from the top of their heads to their toes. Plus if they stay in their weight class (My son moves up to 85lbs this coming season.) then you stay in the same group all the way through at the same skill level and mostly the same strength level. Which does change once they move into middle school.

The biggest hurdle I have had as a coach (I too have coached from peewee through college) is that as an older kid comes up they need to be retaught after coming up through bad coaching in peewee. That is the much larger issue because it is bad coaching that can setup a child for serious injuries. If you teach them and drill them enough on the proper way to play then it becomes second nature that they never forget.

Ripsnort · « **Reply #46 on:** May 18, 2005, 07:01:37 AM »

Post-results of G-Man's starting role as the pitcher.

He went 4 innings throwing a shut out, 7 strike outs, score was 10-0 when the coach put in the "second string" players (with a big lead) in the infield. The other team proceeded to scored 12 runs over the next 2 innings (a few walks by my son) and no support defensively...we could have won that game with a couple of simple defensive plays but the supporting cast was not supporting! Ended up in a tie, 12-12. Either way, he played one helluva game! He's the only pitcher this year to go the entire 6 innings. (We play 4 games this week so coach had to play him the whole game)

Meanwhile, his Xbox and computer both have gathered dust....the kid loves sports.

Ripsnort · « **Reply #47 on:** May 21, 2005, 12:49:02 PM »

I've finished our Seasons little league movie. Still pics mixed with music. I prefer still pics to moving pictures because they capture expressions of the players better.

This is a 320 res version to minimize download size. It looks much better in its full screen TV version but the download time would be longer. Let me know what you think, its 8 min long and 9 meg.

http://home.comcast.net/~ripsnort60/baseball2005_web.wmv

We finish the season today, (make up game) If we win, we'll finish with a record of 10-5-1.

Toad · « **Reply #48 on:** May 21, 2005, 04:26:12 PM »

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Originally posted by midnight Target
My Uncle was a football coach (HS and College). He was adamantly against peewee football. He thought it was much too dangerous for younger kids.

I was forbidden to play until high school. I just wonder if he was right. Do you see many injuries in Peewees nowadays?

I wouldn't let my older son play until 7th grade and I only let him play then because there was a revolt by mom & son brewing. I caved. He went on to play D-1 on a scholarship.

I caved earlier on my #2 son. The precedent was established and he and his mom were eager for it. That kid started in 4th grade. He made the high school team and that's as far as he went even though he probably had more talent than his brother.

Anyone who tells you "you HAVE to start 'em young" in football is .... wrong.

Reschke · « **Reply #49 on:** May 21, 2005, 09:00:01 PM »

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Originally posted by Toad
Anyone who tells you "you HAVE to start 'em young" in football is .... wrong.

I agree with what you are saying as well. I have known kids all through my life that were pushed into something and they never progressed even if they were the best athlete/player in any sport. On example that comes to mind is a guy I went to high school with. He was most likely the best natural quarterback that I have ever seen and he never played a down of football past junior high.

The last time I talked to him a few years ago he told me why he kept telling the coaches he had a knee injury was because of his dad always pushing him for football. The guy loved playing it but had to listen to his dad coach from the sidelines. Our head JV coach wouldn't step in and it cost us a player who could have been great. Although he was a better baseball player but never got a chance to play baseball in college because his dad died and he had to go to work to support his family.

I will not push a sport on my son but once he starts he is not allowed to quit. Once he started playing football and baseball all other sports have gone to the back burner. I am sure that will change but thank goodness he hates that communist sport of soccer.

Seriously I don't mind soccer just as long as they don't take a football field away from the kids that want to play football.

Reschke · « **Reply #50 on:** May 23, 2005, 10:54:30 AM »

This past Saturday my oldest son's team won the 8 year old league regular season championship. They beat the other team 18-5 in four innings. They got the first round bye in the league playoffs and play tonight against a team they have already beaten soundly two times. So it should be a good game tonight and if they win they play for the playoff championship tomorrow night.

Ripsnort · « **Reply #51 on:** May 23, 2005, 11:10:09 AM »

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Originally posted by Reschke
This past Saturday my oldest son's team won the 8 year old league regular season championship. They beat the other team 18-5 in four innings. They got the first round bye in the league playoffs and play tonight against a team they have already beaten soundly two times. So it should be a good game tonight and if they win they play for the playoff championship tomorrow night.

Thats great! I;m jealous you get your playoffs done in one week. We have only 8 teams in our playoff system. We all play at the most 2 games (if you win, you move on) this week. The championship is next week. Seems to me they did this so the playoff teams can all start their star pitcher.

Reschke · « **Reply #52 on:** May 23, 2005, 12:02:18 PM »

We put 6 teams into the playoffs from a 12 team league. Usually all the "All-Star" teams are picked off the 6 play off teams. Its funny though the All-Star rosters were put up today and out of our 11-4 team only two kids were picked for the B team all stars. This is from a team with only three games in single digits and two of those were losses. We are calculating batting averages for our teams trophies today and our top six hitters all hit over .400 for the season. A couple of them hit over .600 with the lower 6 slots in our lineup hitting somewhere close to .300 (~.280-.290).

Reschke · « **Reply #53 on:** May 24, 2005, 08:24:37 AM »

Last night was another win by the little red machine. Those boys came from behind and outscored the other team 18-3 in the last two innings after being down 9-1 going into the bottom of the third. Final score was Reds (my son's team) 19 - Marlins 12. They play the 6th seed tonight for the league playoff championship. That team has beaten them once and we beat them once. It should be a great ball game based on how they both played in the series. Our team lights up the scoreboard and play defense; when they need to; and the other team plays defense first and hits when they need to.

Reschke · « **Reply #54 on:** May 25, 2005, 02:31:55 PM »

Well the "Little Red Machine" pulled it out last night in the bottom of the 5th inning and held on to a 1 run lead after being down 12 - 10 in the bottom of the third they scored three runs to take the lead 13 - 12. They held the lead in the bottom of the 5th inning and won the tournament and regular season championship.

midnight Target · « **Reply #55 on:** May 25, 2005, 03:05:26 PM »

hblair · « **Reply #56 on:** May 27, 2005, 12:39:47 PM »

We finished 8-8 overall. Taking the team to see the braves and phillies play tomorrow. Kyle didn't make all stars, even though he was the #1 offensive player on my team. Couple of in the park homers and 1 grand slam.

Any of you guys pick all stars by stats?

The way we do it is the managers each write down 12 kids names on a sheet of paper. The 8 most popular go to the all star team, then the #1 manager picks 4 more. This seems fair from afar, but the coaches picks are usually friends of family, etc. For example Kyle is much better than a couple of the last picks.

Me being the 3rd place manager I get the 9 yr old all star team. Dylan my 9 yr old is on the team. We might do pretty good seeings how there is only 2 other teams in this area fielding a 9 yr old cal ripken team.

hblair · « **Reply #57 on:** May 27, 2005, 02:03:11 PM »

Oh yeah, sounds like you guys are doing great reschke. Nice job man. Out of interest, do you guys work on bunting pickoffs and throwdowns and such?

Rip, nice movie, would like to see more action tho.

Are those 9-10 yr olds? They don't seem to be corn fed.

Reschke · « **Reply #58 on:** May 27, 2005, 02:31:10 PM »

Our league doesn't allow a real bunt in this age but that changes in 9 y/o ball. Our team was the only one working on rundown situations and double plays and it payed off during the season.

Our league website is http://www.vhyb.com and right now they have the "All Stars" posted on there. In our league you have to "apply" to be considered for the all star teams and off our team there were 4 kids (my son and three others)three were selected. My son wasn't selected but after we checked batting averages he was a .700 hitter for the season with 14 doubles and 26 singles and 21 RBI's. This is from a kid who was in the middle of the lineup and the others above him hit over .800. I was on the low side the other day.

The way all stars are selected here is they put all the kids names on the list and each coach votes on the top 9 for each team. Then the head coach selects the other 3 to fill out the 12 person roster. Our coaches are selected by a vote and its purely political since our head coach didn't get to head coach any of the all star teams. Which is a farce since the guy took a team of 12 kids who had not played together before and spanked every team in the league except for two and both of them lost in the playoffs and they didn't get to the tournament championship to get beat by our team.

Ripsnort · « **Reply #59 on:** May 30, 2005, 10:42:18 AM »

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Originally posted by hblair
Oh yeah, sounds like you guys are doing great reschke. Nice job man. Out of interest, do you guys work on bunting pickoffs and throwdowns and such?

Rip, nice movie, would like to see more action tho. Are those 9-10 yr olds? They don't seem to be corn fed.

We had the youngest team in our AA little league (Sumner district) with 3 of the kids still 8 when they sign ups occurred. We also had 3 kids that had never played organized BB. When the season ended, we only had 2 -10 year olds on the team, yet we managed a winning season! We were eliminated in the first round play-offs in a heartb-breaking 2-1 ball game. The other team managed to score stealing home for the win when one of our closers didn't cover home after the catcher let the ball get away from him

All in all, it was a great season, we didn't expect to even break .500 with the kids we had, but our coach was excellent and brought the best out.