Baseballfan62

Chill out mom, I was just complimenting these former players and that they will be missed. I wasn't knocking the ones on the current team.

Texas Sting - mostly West Brook Freshmen, are in the tournament (play Saturday at noon at Lamar and 6:30pm West Brook). Gladiators 15/16U team consists of players from across SE Texas - Barbers Hill to LCM and PNG/Nederland to Silsbee. Texas Mojo is from Livingston - also in the tourney. Gladiators beat the Texas Mojo 8-4 today. Taylor Townsend, from Lumberton, pitched an awesome game. Way to go Gladiators!

Jacob did not play league ball this year. With Jacob Pitts, Brett Brown, Ryan Quinn, Gerran Freeman, Jordan Woods, etc. not in the lineup this year they will have to make up a ton of hitting and pitching.

Here it is: [Hidden Content] Ryan Quinn, 6' 5" pitcher from Nederland, pitched a 2 hitter for the Gladiators and won 7-0. The entire team did an excellent job and made no errors!

We have several kids with 2 years of high school ball on their resume, some of them already at the varsity level. We have superior pitching, hitting and fielding. You will definitely see many of these kids playing at the college and even pro level one day. This is one great group of kids.

Wonder if the 15 year olds will go all the way and win the World Series this year. These are a special group of kids you only see every 5 to 10 years or so. I think they have what it takes to do it as long as they continue to keep their heads straight. I know there will be some new faces but they should be as good of a team as last year, or better.

No way am I knocking any of the kids from Nederland, but looks to me their entire team (including kids moved up for the playoffs) made the All-Star roster. Did any of the other schools bring their entire team?

Can't believe no one from Nederland was picked for this.

A very talented group of kids and a well coached team.

You hit the nail on the head Dog4Life...select ball is taking over and will continue to take over. League ball talent will continue to erode due to this crap! It's ashame you have to pay extra money to get kids, who work hard and earn their positions, their fair shake. I know some are saying "geez, they are only 9 years old, winning is not everything". Well if it isn't, then tell me why in the hell did they practice for 3-4 hours per day, over 2 straight weeks? Why were player stat sheets passed around before the last game for the prior 3 all-star games. Apparently the coaches never looked at their stats for the regular season. Apparently they completely overlooked who was performing in practice and who was not. It was a complete waste of time since they already made up their minds on positions. Why were the players made to do pushups after making an error? Maybe the coaches should have added up the number of pushups each kid had to do and put that on a stat sheet. I guess all this was a great lesson on life to these kids....no matter how good of an education you get, no matter how hard and good you do your job, it will not guarantee you diddly squat unless you have a sugar daddy pulling some strings. I know the melt down between 2 coaches during the last practice, in front of the entire team, left a great impression on these young kids. One of the coaches stormed off the field saying he quit. Now that was a great lesson in sportsmanship. I have said enough on this subject. Call it sour grapes or whatever you want to call it. Kids who earn their spots deserve much better than this.

I guess you are right. The manager, who only won 2 games all year long in league play, really knew the kids well and every position they were strong at all year long. He was a really great judge of talent. Guess no matter who he played where there would still have been 6 costly mistakes in the infield. Such as easy pop flies dropped.

The board selected these coaches and to me it was wrong. Coaches from the championship team should have been selected. Certain kids were placed in positions who did not belong there which ended up costing them the game last night. They had over 2 weeks of practices to get it right and still had kids in the wrong positions. The coaches lost this one, not the kids. The kids managed to win 2 games in spite of them. I am hoping with a new board next year, this will not happen again. If it does this league will go to the dogs (no pun intended). The only agenda these coaches should have is to win, not to make their kids a star.