HS Baseball

[spidersal]

Football and basketball coverage on SETx sports are pretty darn good, so my question is why is baseball coverage so bad?

[pine curtain]

Looks like you got your answer..... lol

[monknuk68]

Baseball in general that's been a sport that is shrinking in coverage , pro and amateur. Perhaps the length of the game less involvement by youth , compared to in the years past. In my opinion, it is no longer America's pastime. People like having a time clock. Baseball has no really limits on how long you can play. Just my opinion. As for this forum, baseball is always the odd sport out. Some love the sport, but that love is starting to go away. Most people that watch pro baseball or forty years old or older. 

[KF89]

Not many parents or family members care to post about games or scores anymore, don't want to post the losing scores of their teams, because too many get their feelings hurt over anything that is not positive or can't handle the facts, most only care about their kids only & don't have the care or time for other baseball stuff. Ashley Elam does a great job on his Fbook page posting scores & other things about baseball & all high school sports.

[Box1]

33 minutes ago, KF89 said:

Not many parents or family members care to post about games or scores anymore, don't want to post the losing scores of their teams, because too many get their feelings hurt over anything that is not positive or can't handle the facts, most only care about their kids only & don't have the care or time for other baseball stuff. Ashley Elam does a great job on his Fbook page posting scores & other things about baseball & all high school sports.

This is what you need to follow for baseball scores, he does a great job.

[AggiesAreWe]

To answer the question as far as this website goes as to why the baseball coverage isn't as much as football and basketball, there are two specific reasons,

One, our beloved admin Todd Broussard (WOSGrad) is no longer with us. Todd was the man that took care of pretty much everything here at SETXsports. He was the one who posted schedules, game threads, scores and standings for our coverage area teams in all our sports. It was a big loss for us when he passed away in August of 2021. Since then, we have never been able to completely fill his shoes. He was such a special person and we miss him dearly.

Second, in the summer of 2022, I decided to retire (in hindsight, semi-retire) from the site. I had told my wife that when she retired as a school teacher, that I would retire with her so that we could spend more time at the beach together. I would no longer do any broadcasting and would take a step back from my admin duties. I told the owner (Jordan Wilson) that he would need to get some other mods to handle those duties.

Jordan asked me to stay on for a little while until he could get others to take over. So I did. 

We had Bigdog and WOSdrummer99 take over the football forum as far as schedules, pickems, scores and standings. They have been a big help in that forum. Jordan went with a bot system to create game threads and the scoreboard thread. I helped when needed. Football forum is in good hands.

As for basketball, several of the area basketball coaches were concerned that the basketball forum would die off without me tending to it. So they asked me to stay on and take care of that forum. I talked to Jordan about it and we agreed that I would handle that forum on my own with the understanding that after basketball season was over, I would not handle anything else until football season. I put a lot of love and effort in that forum and many folks have expressed their appreciation. But, those days are numbered as well. I honestly don't know how much longer I'll continue to take care of that forum. One, maybe two more years. We will see.

As for the baseball forum, KF89 has done the best that he can with posting schedules and scores. I know how tough it is to try and do it all by oneself. It's really beneficial to have others invested in posting info in the forum. I was hoping other mods or members would help in that regard.

A lot of truth has been stated in regards to the popularity of the three sports, particularly on this website. Football is definitely king and always will be. Basketball has always had more traffic on the site than baseball. I admit that part of that is how we (I) cover basketball much more than baseball. But even so, the basketball forum has 100,000 more posts in that forum than the baseball forum. It is what it is.

KF89 is doing what he can but until we get others to commit to help out, the baseball forum will lack.

Don't ask me, I am about to start my 4 1/2 month vacation from here. lol