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[quote author=GCM Fan link=topic=77076.msg927224#msg927224 date=1291602635]
Very well put .
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Really?
I must be slow, I couldn't keep up with all the changes of direction
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I think maybe the point was to encourage your kids with their dreams, display your behavior as an adult, but most importantly, ENJOY your kids in whatever it is that they do, college bound or not for Life gets away from us all! -
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mojica and trae should be locks for 1st team
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The youth soccer program is an organization run by Clint Brasher and Chad LaPray. They have several different teams...boys and girls at different ages. They all play out of Beaumont and/or tournaments.
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Go get 'em Pirates!
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Makes sense to me (jmo) good luck Matt. Tough to keep all your equip. in a tent.First, I too wish Matt the best of luck with his future baseball endeavors.
Second, I just don't get this move. I read the newspaper quotes like everyone else but simply do not get it. I understand that perhaps I am not supposed to get it, but I don't.
It is a loss for baseball in SE Texas, a loss for BC and (when examined objectively) doesn't make sense.
I repeat: maybe its not supposed to make sense to me. Just one man's opinion...
Makes perfect sense to me. Barbe is always rated top in the Nation. Alot of publicity. Good luck to you Matt.
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I wonder if any watched the news on Friday morning (9/12/08) when the news taped the elderly man on the walker who showed up 10 minutes late for the bus. I did and was infuriated. They showed an army guy loading water and MRE's into the man's car and then a "spokesman for state resources" was interviewed and said that the little man was late and that they were sending him home to "hunker-down". He also said that the state resources were depleted and that anyone needing to evacuate now should not leave their homes because there was no way to get them out of town. Within an hour, Mayor Prince was interviewed stating that anyone who needed/wanted to leave needed to be at the Bob Bowers' center because PA district buses would get them out of town until it was no longer safe to run those buses.
This entire thing was a fiasco from get-go. Officials are elected to have plans A, B, C, etc. in these types of situations and they simply didn't. Not necessarily our local officials, but at the state/federal level. I have to disagree that everyone had the opportunity because this entire ordeal was not very well-organized, but at least Corpus Christi had plenty of resources. BTW, I am curious as to the average income in CC compared to here...
I was in Frisco during the hurricane and the majority of news coverage we got was all about Katrina!
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is anyone else having problems getting fema to pony up for their hotel bill? ??? >
>My hotel bill was applied to my deductible by my insurance company! lol That helped alot.
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My parents have received word that their house on Sabine Drive in the Dugas Addition of Bridge City is completely destroyed. Many of the houses in that neighborhood (including theirs) were completely submerged underwater. Their neighbor had stayed behind and was holed up on the 2nd story of a house a few streets over...once the waters subsided a little (he said they were still about 5 feet at the time) they got in a boat and went to see his house and ours. He said there were no windows, no doors, and not even any brick left on the houses. He could see straight through them..
I'm sorry for everyone. I was lucky and my neighborhood was spared. Has anyone heard the extent of the flooding on Irving Street in West Orange? My elderly M-I-L's home is down there and she keeps asking.
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I heard that Vidor vs HJ got moved to Thursday... And that came from the GF of one of the players...
Vidor at HJ Thurs at 6:00. It's on the school website
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check the projections on noaa.gov those are the most accurate.
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wow that is interesting. What position did he play? He is not a really big guy!
Yeah, but what does Biggio know about Football? ??? ;DI don't know much about the team, but I read last year that some guy named Biggio that used to play a little baseball in the Houston area was a volunteer coach last year, he was later hired as their baseball coach.
Biggio graduated from Kings Park High School on Long Island, New York, where he excelled as a multi-sport varsity athlete. Most notably, after the 1983 season, Biggio was awarded the Hansen Award, which recognized him as being the best football player in Suffolk County.[1] However, Biggio's passion lay with baseball, such that he turned down football scholarships for the opportunity to play baseball for Seton Hall University.
He's 5'11". That's a decent size for HS football.
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It would be my guess that she, in her very professional and polite Pauline style, HIGHLY encouraged him to take a step back and reconsider his motives. And she probably did it without ever telling him in direct words what he should or should not do. She's very good at that.
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Oh, I wish we could go back to blue jeans and a tee shirt, tennis shoes and wooden bats, corn dogs and donkey race fundraisers and my favorite, team sweethearts selling home made brownies.
5 and 6 year old little brothers chasing foul balls for snowcones, who had never have put on a uniform, except for his big brother's ball cap, if he was lucky.
You pegged it. Back when little kiddos were being little kiddos, making mud pies, swimming and doing the things that they don't even know exist now. We adults are cheating kids of being kids.
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This isn't about Coach Moore or Coach Bryant, it's about Jaden. Neither of them could have gotten him there without him doing what he does, so it really doesn't matter.
Congratulations, Jaden. You're a great kid and you've worked hard. Go get 'em.
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He's not saying Vidor is a better job. BUT there are things at Vidor he has there he will not have at BC such as Baseball Athletic period where all the players attend, alot of them will be in football. It's things like that that a coach that loves baseball has to think about. He doesn't have to scout for Football at Vidor, would he at BC? UHH maybe, little things like that is what he has to think about.
Heck if he leaves Vidor, every faculty member on the HS campus will be fighting over his job! lol
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If he was projected to go in the first rnd someone would have picked him up before the fifth, and no way he's taken in the 5th and get 1st rnd $$, I dont think even Scott Boras could get 1st rnd money for a player taken in the 3rd much less the 5th. Someones got their wires crossed on this story no dought. You can look up what exactly he signed for on the web, I cant remember what site but its for sure there, mite check Baseball America.Having a college scholarship lined up enters into drafting decisions at least for some. Last year LE had a player projected to be drafted early in the first round. His mother told me that Boston called them before their pick in each round asking for a commitment to sign. Each time they refused to commit. Finally, in the fifth round, Boston drafted him anyway. He eventually signed. Boston must have come up with the big bucks they were talking.
Is this the guy
That's the guy. I don't know. Is a Signing Bonus of $925,000 "normal" for the fifth round?
He reportedly throws in the mid-nineties.
Maybe this one?
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Because of many of the quotes above, lots of problems in BC. Evidently some coaches
rather not deal with the parents etc that Pluto wants to pat on the back.
Oh no, Pluto does not pat politicians on the back!
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When will Tuesdays games be played?
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Prediction, Vidor will counter Green stays and also gets a player to be named later. Why leave Vidor with all the Booster support money he's got there. He may get a car, expense account, GAS CARD, who knows but he stays in Vidor.
Any smart man would!
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Perhaps, this and any other coaches pondering whether to take the BC job are coming to understand that BC had a pretty decent coach who took their baseball program to the playoffs and still it wasn't good enough.
Doggone...my bad...I forgot that he didn't play a part in the that whole playoff thing for the past several years because these kids didn't need him.
Well hello, I always knew you were a smart one. Oh and BTW Gabe, maybe he shouldn't be "thinking" about it and just start praying. You can say what you want, but the parents in Vidor let the man do his job, "his" way. EVERYBODY who has a functional brain cell in their head knows that does not and will not happen in BC.
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There is no doubt Coach Green has done wonders at Vidor. If he is to not take the BC job, nothing wrong can be said about the decision.
It is a win-win situation for Coach Green.
I disagree. While he would obviously inherit alot of upcoming talent, he also inherits alot of hornets that seem to always buzz just outside the nest. He's got it made in Vidor. First class facilities, first class administrators who let him run the program his way and hornets that know their place and let him do his job. I hope he thinks long and hard about giving up what he has.
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This article is right on par. Baseball/softball parents are the most vicious and political of all sports. While I agree that the most successful coaches don't listen to much of the parental input, they still get the pressure.
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Admin, do you have a list of the coaches and what teams they will coach? I know many are usually the same but there seems to be some kind of turnover every year. Thanks in advance.
All will return except the A's, and we filled that spot with a good one. Here is last years roster and coaches
That's about 85 years of coaching experience, I know, retirement age is 65, so we all have a few years left.
Who is the new coach for the A's and when will he be getting in touch with his returning players?
Thoughts on Softball
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Pluto - You have the essence of the message to a TEE !!
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Maddog,
My knowledge of the message comes from many years of hard "lessons learned" with 3 grown kids and then to have been fortunate enough to have a late child and get a second chance with what it's really all about.....simply enjoying your kids. period.
It is my experience that it really does not matter how talented anybody's child is, (or how talented we "think" they are) being good and playing at a higher level absolutely has to be intrinsic. It doesn't matter how much money we spend on lessons, camps, bats, gloves, select teams and tournaments...if they don't want it themselves, they are not going to do it. One must simply support them and enjoy watching them while they're doing it, otherwise you miss out on the best part. Out of my three, one went on to keep playing, one is working construction (and doing very well for himself) and the other is a stay at home mom. It seems like yesterday that I was driving the golden triangle dropping off, picking up and sitting at all night softball/baseball tournaments. Today, they're doing their own thing and you want them to have fond memories of it....not memories of being badgered, nagged and forced to do something that their parents wanted more than they did. When they enter the "real" world, I don't think anybody who interviews them will ever ask, "Oh, Mr. So and So did you play college ball?" I believe the real criteria is the transcript.
ENJOY your kids people....Life is just too short for pettiness.