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[quote name="westend1" post="1046687" timestamp="1314974754"] [quote author=LumRaiderFan link=topic=87540.msg1046682#msg1046682 date=1314974284] [quote author=BLUEDOVE3 link=topic=87540.msg1046677#msg1046677 date=1314973916] WHOAAA! Briefly caught on CBS this morning: [b]auto industry selling cars[/b], manufacturing is doing good, retail sales much better than expected this August ...Keep Hope Alive! [/quote] Not selling this car...they can't give these volts away and they want 10,000 sold by end of 2011...can you say subsidize?  Another green idea heading south! [Hidden Content] [/quote] Did you read the article or just the headline? [/quote] I read the article...your point?  Would you call this a success?

[quote name="BLUEDOVE3" post="1046677" timestamp="1314973916"] WHOAAA! Briefly caught on CBS this morning: [b]auto industry selling cars[/b], manufacturing is doing good, retail sales much better than expected this August ...Keep Hope Alive! [/quote] Not selling this car...they can't give these volts away and they want 10,000 sold by end of 2011...can you say subsidize?  Another green idea heading south! [Hidden Content]

[quote name="BLUEDOVE3" post="1046627" timestamp="1314970741"] [quote author=LumRaiderFan link=topic=87540.msg1046585#msg1046585 date=1314968506] [quote author=BLUEDOVE3 link=topic=87540.msg1046520#msg1046520 date=1314935609] Just google the professor's name at American University. He's been forecasting for a while now. [/quote] I'm pleased to announce that professor Allan Lichtman's streak will end in 2012!  :) [/quote]LOL!    :D  "Keep hope alive. We will continue our presidential drive. He will be recognized as the greatest of all time-eee!!!!! Watch and see how the polls will blow your mind-ddddd!" [/quote] I'm with tigersvoice, I don't think even you believe that!  ;D

[quote name="BLUEDOVE3" post="1046520" timestamp="1314935609"] Just google the professor's name at American University. He's been forecasting for a while now. [/quote] I'm pleased to announce that professor Allan Lichtman's streak will end in 2012!  :)

[quote name="bmtball" post="1036598" timestamp="1313611988"] [quote author=rounder17 link=topic=86220.msg1036521#msg1036521 date=1313602196] Why is everyone giving this guy a hard time? He is putting kids in front of scouts, not an easy thing to do. [/quote] Agree 100%.  Why are people so quick to shoot holes in a guy trying to help out local kids?  Might the costs paid help defray the costs of bringing all these scouts in?  In case you haven't heard, the State of Texas, along with many other states, are cutting the budgets of most universities.  Which directly impacts athletic budgets.  So to get a gathering of all these scouts, maybe he has to offer to pay some of their expenses?  The "what's in it for him" is that by gathering all these scouts, maybe he can get a full combine, so he can scout players for his college. Funny how so many people are quick to take credit for a kids success on this board.  But criticize those who legitimately give a kid opportunities.  DaBears-if people listened to you, no one would get recruited.  Just send out e-mails and wait for them to come to your high school game? (perhaps a high school coach?)  Insane.  To get recruited today, not only do you have to have talent, you have to be seen.  Being seen today, means being in the right place at the right time.  Unless you have a kid on your high school team throwing low 90's or an athlete who is a legit 5 tool player, or be playing against one of these types of players, you won't get seen just by playing high school ball.  Of the 2011 class who signed on to play college ball, very few did it by just playing high school ball.  They were seen with their select team playing in a summer tournament, they were seen at a college prospect camp, they were seen at one of these combines, they were seen at one of the Monday night games that Fackler runs, and they were seen at a Perfect Game, or simlar camp.  In order to be seen, you need to attend these combines, you need to go to as many college prospect camps as possible, you need to get on a summer team that travels to college venues, or close to college venues.  All of which, cost money.  As a parent, you have to determine if the benefit out weighs the cost. There isn't one magic bullet to being seen, then ultimately getting a scholarship.  It is a long and arduous process that involves a little luck and a lot of hard work.  Coach Harrington is simply giving kids another option to "being seen".  Is that so bad? [/quote] Good post!

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Dang....hopefully nothing serious!

Prayers from Lumberton

It never gets old!  8)

That is awesome!  8)

[quote name="adminbaberuth" post="1018519" timestamp="1308087388"] President George W. Bush to throw out first pitch at 2011 NCAA Men's College World Series. [/quote] 8)

[quote name="baddog" post="1018514" timestamp="1308085416"] Just a little trivia.....I once heard the question asked on ESPN I believe..... "[b]What was the greatest feat ever accomplished in sports[/b]?" I thought for sure it had to be DiMaggio's 56 game hitting streak, but it wasn't. It's Johnny Unitas throwing a TD pass in 47 straight games. Go Pence! [/quote] This would be a great thread... Two to consider are 5714 strikeouts and 7 no hitters - Nolan Ryan And never won a Cy Young! ??? Go Pence!

[quote name="king" post="1018475" timestamp="1308072117"] Whats the record? [/quote] Joe DiMaggio  56 games  1941

Prayers from Lumberton...Philippians 4:7

[quote name="BRONX ROX" post="1014641" timestamp="1306520138"] Great athlete ;D  [b]Could calls this a PNG O-Line highlight [/b] ;D Gonna miss some of those monsters this year ;) [/quote] I agree...great job by Bertrand but those big boys made some big holes in the D-line!

[quote name="UHCoog14" post="1013080" timestamp="1305946194"] Congrats BC! SETEX's last man standing. [/quote] 8)

Never    :'(

[quote name="king" post="1002727" timestamp="1303880059"] Bill hall !! [/quote] Yep!

[quote name="Year of the Pat!" post="1000819" timestamp="1303406632"] [quote author=LumRaiderFan link=topic=83478.msg1000817#msg1000817 date=1303406372] [quote author=Year of the Pat! link=topic=83478.msg1000781#msg1000781 date=1303401131] Thursday, April 21 is National High Five Day (NH5D), (every third Thursday in April) a day to give a hand in the air salute to another, EVEN if you don't know them! NH5D began at the University of Virginia in 2002 when three friends decided to form their own holiday. [b]Late the next day when the three friends woke up, they remembered they'd decided to form their own holiday and decided to actually do it![/b]The idea was simple, that you could better someone's day by going into your community and offering even strangers high fives. The holiday has evolved to the point that a scholarship has been set up to help a deserving student in the spirit of high fiving! [Hidden Content] [/quote] I wonder if they woke up late the next day because they had been celebrating weed smoker's holiday the day before?   ;D [/quote] If that were the case, it would be National Fast Food Day. ;D [/quote]   :D :D

[quote name="Year of the Pat!" post="1000781" timestamp="1303401131"] Thursday, April 21 is National High Five Day (NH5D), (every third Thursday in April) a day to give a hand in the air salute to another, EVEN if you don't know them! NH5D began at the University of Virginia in 2002 when three friends decided to form their own holiday. [b]Late the next day when the three friends woke up, they remembered they'd decided to form their own holiday and decided to actually do it![/b]The idea was simple, that you could better someone's day by going into your community and offering even strangers high fives. The holiday has evolved to the point that a scholarship has been set up to help a deserving student in the spirit of high fiving! [Hidden Content] [/quote] I wonder if they woke up late the next day because they had been celebrating weed smoker's holiday the day before?  ;D

[quote name="Rebel Yeller" post="998604" timestamp="1303008963"] Thanks for all the posts on this thread! I have shown them to my son who is now at his station. Tonight before you go to sleep join me in saying a prayer for all our service men and women at home and abroad as they defend us and our freedoms. [/quote] Will do...I pray every morning and evening that God will protect our finest as they protect us!

So sorry...prayers for the Williams family. Philippians 4:7

Prayers to Ethan and the Williams family from Lumberton.

[quote name="adminbaberuth" post="995308" timestamp="1302445237"] A pitched ball to a catcher is never scored an error, it's either a wild pitch or pass ball. [/quote] Admin always right!! Although described as battery errors, passed balls and wild pitches are counted separately from other errors. See Rule 10.14: (f) Because the pitcher and catcher handle the ball much more than other fielders, certain misplays on pitched balls are defined in Rule 10.15 as wild pitches and passed balls. No error shall be charged when a wild pitch or passed ball is scored. (1) No error shall be charged when the batter is awarded first base on four called balls or because he was touched by a pitched ball, or when he reaches first base as the result of a wild pitch or passed ball. (i) When the third strike is a wild pitch, permitting the batter to reach first base, score a strikeout and a wild pitch. (ii) When the third strike is a passed ball, permitting the batter to reach first base, score a strikeout and a passed ball. (2) No error shall be charged when a runner or runners advance as the result of a passed ball, a wild pitch or a balk. (i) When the fourth called ball is a wild pitch or a passed ball, and as a result (a) the batter runner advances to a base beyond first base; (b) any runner forced to advance by the base on balls advances more than one base, or (c) any runner, not forced to advance, advances one or more bases, score the base on balls, and also the wild pitch or passed ball, as the case may be; (ii) When the catcher recovers the ball after a wild pitch or passed ball on the third strike, and throws out the batter runner at first base, or tags out the batter runner, but another runner or runners advance, score the strikeout, the putout and assists, if any, and credit the advance of the other runner or runners as having been made on the play.

[quote name="H.I._Cardinals" post="995246" timestamp="1302398488"] My opinion is this, they made a commitment to the HS team by participating in the meet.  If they no showed because of "select" then they need to be kicked off the team.  "[b]Select" means paying money to someone just so they can tell your kid that they are the best, and that the HS coaches aren't doing enough to get little "johnny" or "susie" a scholarship.[/b]  Little Johnny and Susie might be the worst athletes or even students in the school. [/quote] I agree High School should be priority over select but your definition of a select team is way off base...if you think your kid is good enough to play college ball and you're hanging your hopes strictly on the HS coach for recruitment...shame on you!  Select teams in all sports offer great exposure...allows the college coaches of their chosen sport to see them in the off season.