basketballer wrote:[url=/users/611.html]deere[/url] wrote:Is it just me or are the numbers for legion ball players getting less and less every year? Is there a reason to blame? small town,lack of interest,bad coach or what?
i blame it on high school baseball.
basketballer wrote:[url=/users/611.html]deere[/url] wrote:Is it just me or are the numbers for legion ball players getting less and less every year? Is there a reason to blame? small town,lack of interest,bad coach or what?
i blame it on high school baseball.
InTheKnow wrote:basketballer wrote:[url=/users/611.html]deere[/url] wrote:Is it just me or are the numbers for legion ball players getting less and less every year? Is there a reason to blame? small town,lack of interest,bad coach or what?
i blame it on high school baseball.
It has nothing to do with high school baseball. It has to do with specializing in other sports, feeling the need to work even though after you turn 18 you will have to work for the next 50 years of your life, and just plain lazyness with no parental kick in the back side. There is no sense of "I only have a few years to be able to play". They specialize in basketball and go to two or three camps. They spend the summer lifting for football. As for baseball, they never grew up playing in the open lot on their own playing just to play the game. Everything has to be structured now or they wont play. You never see kids having a pick up game somewhere. So they grow up failing at the game, never throwing enough to develop their arm or hitting enough to learn how to hit a curve ball, struggle for success which makes it no fun and then they quit.
baseball wrote:InTheKnow wrote:basketballer wrote:[url=/users/611.html]deere[/url] wrote:Is it just me or are the numbers for legion ball players getting less and less every year? Is there a reason to blame? small town,lack of interest,bad coach or what?
i blame it on high school baseball.
It has nothing to do with high school baseball. It has to do with specializing in other sports, feeling the need to work even though after you turn 18 you will have to work for the next 50 years of your life, and just plain lazyness with no parental kick in the back side. There is no sense of "I only have a few years to be able to play". They specialize in basketball and go to two or three camps. They spend the summer lifting for football. As for baseball, they never grew up playing in the open lot on their own playing just to play the game. Everything has to be structured now or they wont play. You never see kids having a pick up game somewhere. So they grow up failing at the game, never throwing enough to develop their arm or hitting enough to learn how to hit a curve ball, struggle for success which makes it no fun and then they quit.
when i was younger we would play pickup games for 4-5 hours a day almost every day. maybe thats why we had success in high school is because everyday we had 8-12 kids playin in a lot somewhere and if we got enough we would go to the actual field
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