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Re: little league.
[Re: dnolen]
#931466
04/11/14 05:16 PM
04/11/14 05:16 PM
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Joined: May 2000
Posts: 4,573
Petal,MS,USA
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10 point
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Petal,MS,USA
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...Think of it this way...The more time you spend with your kid at a ball park...The less time you'll have to worry about them doing something stupid, plus its time TOGETHER you cant get back...
maybe he'll spend that much time with you....when you are old...
Grumpy Old MS Bastage
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Re: little league.
[Re: dnolen]
#931523
04/12/14 01:28 AM
04/12/14 01:28 AM
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McCalla
Big AL 76
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12 point
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Our kids play travel ball and most of them are always 2 day tournaments out of town.. so we are usually gone 10-16 hrs a day depending on how they play.. granted mine are 14 and 16 but yeah they play alot of ball and sometimes there may be 2 games between their next game but you can't go home to take a break when you are an hour or two from the house... it almost seems like a job playing all those hours..but they love it and that's all that matters to us.. plus I am one of the coaches as well..
Last edited by Big AL 76; 04/12/14 01:29 AM.
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Re: little league.
[Re: dnolen]
#931532
04/12/14 02:31 AM
04/12/14 02:31 AM
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Joined: Dec 2002
Posts: 11,346
Kennedy, al
globe
Booner
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Booner
Joined: Dec 2002
Posts: 11,346
Kennedy, al
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Baseball in my area only lasts 7-8 weeks so we kinda hit it hard and try to enjoy it.
Everything woke turns to shucks
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Re: little league.
[Re: dnolen]
#931539
04/12/14 02:41 AM
04/12/14 02:41 AM
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Posts: 34,427
Boxes Cove
2Dogs
Freak of Nature
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Freak of Nature
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Never played or practiced that much in park ball. When my son went to travel only at age 11, he played a lot, 3 weekends a month for 4-5 months, then a little fall ball. We would play one on Friday night, 2-3 on Saturday, then Sunday was hardware day and would play 2-3 more. We traveled to 4 Southeastern states, fartherest place was Southhaven Ms. I don't think the younger kids played that much in travel, at least they shouldn't IMO. Got to keep it fun and not burn out.
"Why do you ask"?
Always vote the slowest path to socialism.
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Re: little league.
[Re: Skullworks]
#931541
04/12/14 02:41 AM
04/12/14 02:41 AM
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Posts: 34,427
Boxes Cove
2Dogs
Freak of Nature
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Freak of Nature
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They do it to get more entrance fees...mo money.  Yep, big $ involved. They folks putting on the tourney's hate to see a rain out.
Last edited by 2Dogs; 04/12/14 03:18 AM.
"Why do you ask"?
Always vote the slowest path to socialism.
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Re: little league.
[Re: SFC3]
#931561
04/12/14 03:30 AM
04/12/14 03:30 AM
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Posts: 5,743
Lower AL
k bush
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12 point
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Posts: 5,743
Lower AL
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...Think of it this way...The more time you spend with your kid at a ball park...The less time you'll have to worry about them doing something stupid, plus its time TOGETHER you cant get back...
maybe he'll spend that much time with you....when you are old... Excellent! That's my thoughts as well.
"Cull" is just another four letter word...
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Re: little league.
[Re: dnolen]
#931570
04/12/14 03:47 AM
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Posts: 4,573
Petal,MS,USA
SFC3
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10 point
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Posts: 4,573
Petal,MS,USA
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...we only have 5 tourneys scheduled...
Orlando, ESPN WWOS
Chattanooga
Atlanta
Longmont CO
....and Huntington Beach...CA
Soon that will all be over...and all I'll have is the memories...
Dont complain about the time you spend on your kids.
Grumpy Old MS Bastage
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Re: little league.
[Re: dnolen]
#931653
04/12/14 07:00 AM
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ford150man
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I have three boys playing but two of them are twins so they are on the same team. Each team has two practices a week and two games a week. I coach my older son's team so I'm there a lot for meetings and such too. I haven't really added up the number of hours I'm there a week but I'm there about 4-5 nights a week, including Saturday. The boys all love it though. When they get to where it's no fun, we'll find something else to do.
If voting made any difference, they wouldn’t let us do it.-Mark Twain
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Re: little league.
[Re: SFC3]
#931673
04/12/14 07:29 AM
04/12/14 07:29 AM
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Posts: 10,484
Bham
Dallas County
Booner
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Booner
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...Think of it this way...The more time you spend with your kid at a ball park...The less time you'll have to worry about them doing something stupid, plus its time TOGETHER you cant get back...
maybe he'll spend that much time with you....when you are old... couldn't agree more.
not sure what the best way to handle them is but they shouldnt be on tv and gettn married and raisin kids
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Re: little league.
[Re: dnolen]
#931777
04/12/14 10:29 AM
04/12/14 10:29 AM
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Posts: 11,275
Walker county
Driveby
Doing the best I can.
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Doing the best I can.
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Posts: 11,275
Walker county
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Growing up we played 2 games a week about 6 weeks out of the summer. Too many dads thinking their son will be the next ARod have ruined what used to be fun.
The true mark of a man is not how he conducts himself during times of prosperity, but how he conducts himself during times of adversity.
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Re: little league.
[Re: Driveby]
#931778
04/12/14 10:32 AM
04/12/14 10:32 AM
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McCalla
Big AL 76
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12 point
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I agree...lot's of Drama at times Growing up we played 2 games a week about 6 weeks out of the summer. Too many dads thinking their son will be the next ARod have ruined what used to be fun.
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Re: little league.
[Re: Ben2]
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04/12/14 11:56 AM
04/12/14 11:56 AM
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Posts: 9,375
Jasper, AL
joshm28
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14 point
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Posts: 9,375
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There are other things to do together besides play baseball. I hope my kids never want to play baseball. Friends of mine spend every waking minute at the ball park. In my opinion that is not necessarily together time. Sure both you and your son are there but your there with 15 other kids and parents. I played every sport, some through college, but remember the days dad took me squirrel hunting or fishing at a pond way more than I remember or enjoyed ball practice. The kids can learn valuable lessons playing sports, but parents turn it into work quickly. I agree 100%. I want my kids to play sports but I don't want it to consume 75% of their free time.
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