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LCM by 10...we're playing in the freindly confines of Gibbons Field...

The once in a lifetime blue chippers can overcome a medicore defense backing them up...but a kid who is simply "good" or "great"...can only watch as a decent effort gets blown by sloppy field play...you can have a gun, but if your infield or outfield is shooting blanks, you die on game day...that is why this is a team sport...good at P, good at 1B, good at 2B, good at SS, good at 3B, good at C, good at outfield, coupled with a good coaching staff and an excellent sense of teamwork= a great chance at playoffs...

It was the pleasure of a lifetime coaching Andre, Jacoby Franks, Earl Thomas, and a lot of other kids in the Orange County Cobras organization. I was their flag footbal coach when they were 5-7 years old...Earl had the breakaway speed even then, and so did Jacoby...so much so that BC Pop Warner flag teams had to tackle them because they couldn't pull their flags on a breakaway...good times...and good memories...great kids...

Camera bag found, turned into Coach W, and returned complete and intact! Thanks to all the Westbrook folks who I got to talk to! Y'all are a class act!

feeling better...feeling better...naw, there it went....

Hello fellow baseball fans! At this weekend's baseball scrimmage between WB and LCM, I left a black camera bag along with a camera stand on the visitor's side of the field. If anyone knows who picked it up, please call me at (409) 920-0731, or leave me a message here on the site. A reward is offered for the return of the bag and equipment. And yes, I am stupid for leaving it out there. I seriously thought I had put it in the van!

I think it's more disrespectful to lay down for a team and NOT score on them. It shows a lack of respect for their team abilities. Does WOS need to work on their soccer skills? Yes, like LCM needs to work on other sports skills, as do many other schookls out there. Can a good coach take a whipping and motivate? Yes! I look for WOS to improve after being beaten that way. Before you say that I am all for LCM, I know some of the players from WOS, they are a part of our youth group. There was no animosity or shame on their part. They had class in that they handled defeat with their heads held high. No one, but no one, could say that they went easy on them.

You know what I love about pre-season polls and hype? The moments duirng a game when many a fan is heard to utter..."who th ehell is that?" "I ain't neever seen him beofre"... Every school has a kid that surprises someone...and that is the beauty of baseball....that it has to be played before we decide who "best" is......

Sadly, the guy I want to nominate decided to work instead of playing baseball...but what the heck...here goes... JOSH MORRIS Bridge City for having the best maturity in Little League... During a game between WESCO and Twin County about 6 years ago, WESCO's coaches disagreed...VEHEMENTLY...with a call from the umpire, to the point where coach 1 and coach 2 got ejected, leaving coach 3 to respond..."I'm not saying anything"...the row then continued with a couple of foul mouthed parents going of...UNTIL....(dramatic pause)...Josh, the 12 year old catcher for WESCO yelled..."can everybody please just shut up and let us play ball?"...a classi c moment of "a child shall lead them"... Of course, WESCO is now the John Harrell Memorial Softball Complex...and Twin County? If there is no baseball there this year, or the following year, the land reverts back to the original owners or their heirs. I am not sure whether it has to be a Little League field or any other type of baseball or softball...maybe the JH Memorial annex?...

funny, I don't see forum moderator under your name, so I think I will continue to post... yep, I am a dad, but I was also a coach...in my post, I never was complaining that my son wasn't going to play, just that everyone hasn't seen everything yet. Griff has a good stable of kids to choose from, so I don't think there is any bad blood out there...most of us parents know each other, and we respect each others kids...so I don't think that there is any problem among us...Griff will pick the best kids, the kids with both talent, and the will and desire to use it as a team...

Gotta go with the Tribe on this one, since Indian ties, even from one side of the state to the other, are heap strong... Tribe by 13... "Once an Indian, always an Indian"

Squaw, thanks for your excellent sportsmanship...you stepped up after many of the trash talkers didn't. I have a son that goes to LCM, but he doesn't play football. But, as a fan, what I saw on the PN-G sideline was a kind of "in your face" type of sporstmanship because they put up their "beat the Bears" signs all over the place. Until then, I had not seen a visiting team do that, and it kind of reeked of,...well...an extreme sense of overconfidence and disrespect. On the plus side, after PN-G was taking their beating in the 4th quarter, I looked at our stands, and then I looked at theirs...the PN-G stands were more full of fans in an ugly loss, than our side was in a big win. That showed me true fan support... Lest you think I am a Bear alumni...I am an alumnus of Ysleta High School, Class of '77...the Ysleta Indians. The thing was, a lot of our students were actually ...Indians...they were members of the Tigua Indian tribe. We had an all girl drum corps that could be heard miles down the road, and an Indian horse rider that would plant a spear at home games on the 50 yeard line... We had a saying then, that still applies to YHS students and alum..."Once an Indian, Always an Indian"... but I did get a little disrespectful of the PN-G Indians at the end of the game...I asked my kids if PN-G had scored...and we responded with... NAAAAAAAHH NAH NAHNAH NAH NAH NNNAAAHHH NAH NAH NAH NAH NAHNAHNAH... :twisted:

LCM might surprise some...Griff has some kids who didn't come up the select ball route or the OYB route. There's a couple of left handers that haven't been seen throughout the Golden Triangle off season teams, so look for some different looks...Briseno and Maldonado. No, Griff didn't go to Mexico for these boys...they are Mauriceville and LCE/LCI/LCJH products, just that they went through the Little League system versus the OYB or Select system.