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I'm gonna predict this thread gets shut down before the first game. That's my prediction! !!!

Great series all weekend! !!! Two well coached teams.

Two great baseball games. Now let's finish. Geaux tigers!!!!

Think your still holding on to the trunk with one hand... lol!!!

Good lord... they are playing football on the baseball field.

That makes perfect sense... We actually practice a play similar to that. Both Comstock and Sundgren did a great job! Classic pitchers duel!! Let's finish Tigers!!

Cards in two. District race has prepared all our teams!

Shepherd and Tarkington are playing now. Winner plays Silsbee.

Any updates?

Coin flip

One of the related articles states that the rule is going to be dropped this August.

Knew HF was going to get someone. They have been playing much better than their record!!!

Dear Jockstrap, Don't trust me go to www.collegeforalltexans.com. It has the average costs for every college in the great State of Texas. Actually it is $22,466 per year, which comes to $112,330 TT&L. The students don't know because their parents are the ones paying the $$$. Come on kid!!

Do you know me???? LOL. Actually Lamar - tuition, room and board is $22,000.00 a year for 15 hours fall and spring. Just going fall and spring; it would take you probably 5 years. That is $110k, if my pea brain got the math right. Looked it up before I posted... so I wouldn't look like a DA. Just cause we may be on different sides of an opinion.... does not really give you the right to start throwing personal insults. JS

Was just stating that was an exaggeration of the facts. As far as the rest, I have heard it all. Heck even from some of the parents who's kids are playing next to mine. Couple of points... first, nothing about select baseball that takes away from that sense of community pride. Second, youth sports whether you are talking soccer, cheerleading, gymnastics, baseball, football,... is big business. Even colleges are in on the gig. I get two or three emails a week from colleges wanting my son to come to their prospect camp. Guess what... they all cost money. Then there is the recruiting services, talk about a racket. Do these select ball coaches and teams get a player more exposure.... absolutely. Do they make calls on behalf of your kid... absolutely. Would some of these kids get scholarships anyway... absolutely. So what does that all mean nothing... absolutely nothing other than it is each parents personal decision to do what they think is best for their kid. But to just blindly blame select baseball for causing all the repetitive motion injuries and everything else that is wrong with the sport, is just flat out wrong.

Can someone please let me know which college or colleges are providing degrees for $30k, 40k, or even 50k, because I want to sign up now before all the spots are taken!!!

Actually I was just trying to bait you in to tell us what we could blame on select/showcase culture. Cause I think I might know where you were heading...

Like creating the best generation of baseball players to ever play the game? Just to back myself up... have read several articles that suggest this. I'm gonna need a bigger spoon!!!

I have agreed with that from the beginning. Just was making the point that he was not representing the facts 100%, and that college players play more than 5 1/2 months, much more. But to point the finger at select ball and say that is the problem is like point the finger at guns and say that the have to be banned because they kill people. People pull the trigger, just like parents (people) have to decide what is right for their son or daughter (how much down time do they need). To blame just select baseball is a short sided generalization.

High school actually does have fall ball and now has baseball athletics.... I see by your user that you are a basketball person... do think all these high school basketball players should stop playing in their summer leagues. Colleges have a fall practice session and players play in summer leagues after their college season!!!

Gonna defend Select Baseball a little bit. Most select teams at the high school level play June & July. Take off August and may play a few Sunday DH games in the fall. The coaches in select ball at the high school level are more about getting their kids seen and giving them the opportunity to get to play at the next level, than winning games... hence the term showcase!!! Pitch counts are usually much lower in Select than in High School. Select takes a bad rap for a lot... some of it may be deserved, but a lot of it is not!!! Do kids need down time, and not play year round? Not going to argue that point, but that is up to the individual kid and parents to determine if and/or how to accomplish that.

Tigers playing much better of late.... Things seems to be starting to gel... Tigers roll!!!

See a tight game with both pitchers controlling the other lineup for the most part... So who can can do the small things and advance runners and scratch a few runs? Can Silsbee control WOS's speed on the bases and keep forces in play? Which team plays error free or close to error free ball? Think it will come down to one or two key plays.... Silsbee 3-2.

Just a business decision... Not bs or agenda... If u were running a business, that hosted nations tournaments every other weekend and someone else came in to run ussa tournaments on your off weekends, you probably wouldn't be real excited about having your organization play in those usssa tournaments either. As someone who's kid has had the privilege of playing for Mo and Wes for years, I can tell you they are very much about the kids and later on if your kid stays with it... There is NOBODY that will work harder to get your kid the opportunity to play at the next level than the two of them!!!

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