Travel ball teams now have to make their during the week practices VOLUNTARY because basketball and football coaches demand out of season practice attendance. What happened to the mutual respect? Every single baseball coach I know gives you that grace but you don’t reciprocate. 😒

Baseball would go through another golden age if all teams spending were within a tight window. Whatever you call that, do that. At some point you run out of pitch clocks, pizza boxes and challenges for temporary interest bumps.

The owners shouldn’t be afraid of the NFL model. Over half of the top 10 most valuable sport franchises are NFL teams, only one MLB team. Throwing more money into a giant pot or more to the players or sharing media rights surely hasn’t hurt them, it’s helped. Everyone is just scared of change.

The Dodgers don’t operate nearly the same as the Pirates. But in the NFL each team has the ability to operate in the same manor as each other. That’s what needs to change. Call it a cap, call it a floor… I just don’t care. Both sides care way too much about what they call things. Semantics.

The Dodgers would still be profitable if they didn’t have every free agent. They want all the money and all the players. Not sustainable. Let’s get it together. There’s 30 players (teams). You can’t run it like a monopoly game, it’s needs to be ran via communism with strict rules and guidelines so we can guarantee fair play… that’s what sport is about, fair play.

If nerd parents start holding their kids back in 8th grade to get better at math then maybe I’ll think reclassing is a decent long term strategy. But I don’t see it.

The players and the owners have enjoyed a good run. Time to get to work and make the sport better for the long term. This current situation isn’t sustainable and everyone knows it. Come together for the fans and the former players that are watching.

I was a late bloomer, gained 40 pounds in college, went to a mid major and still was drafted pretty durn high. If I left after my sophomore year there’s no way I would have had the success I did and be drafted as high as I was. Stay put guys, it’ll pay off.

A high level D1 athlete was not made in high school….They were made at birth. An extra year of high school or 8th grade will not make a bit of difference in the long term, ONLY the short term. Who benefits the most? Adults.

Just an observation… many players are entering the MLB doing a lot of “velo work” off machines…. Welp they ain’t hitting it and I never remember ever seeing players hitting regularly off machines for “velo work”……and were still able to hit velo. It’s not like I never saw AJ Burnett hit double zero on the board at PNC. 🤷🏻‍♂️. Velo has been around for a long time… and the hitters are hitting it less often. Soooooooo. What are we doin?

Tired of watching northern teams get snubbed in favor of popular teams with losing conference records. Don’t care, your season sucked if you have a losing conference record. Reward seasons, not rankings.

Analytics are for people that want none of the blame but all the credit.

Parents/coaches…. Completely losing your stuff at a 12u game isn’t “competitive”, wanting to win the game really bad and be willing to look ridiculous isn’t “competitive”…. It means whenever stuff gets tough you panic…. Just like most men that are in jail. Not ideal to let the kids see that. Figure it out.

Mental toughness is not the absence of doubt. It is the ability to recover from doubt quickly. 🎾 Fear, worry, and anxiety are part of being human. Even @DjokerNole and all of the best performers in the world experience them. The difference is not that they avoid negative thoughts, but that they have trained themselves to return to the mindset that serves them and their mission. Mental toughness is a skill. Like any skill, it improves with repetition. You cannot control which thoughts enter your mind, but you can train how quickly you return to what matters. The goal is not to never get knocked off course. The goal is to shorten the time it takes to get back on track.

Too many parents and coaches focus on the now because that’s what gives them their clout and claim they know. The ones that actually know will never admit it. They always say, “we got time”, “wait and see”, “you never know”, “keep working” and they’re confident in saying that. Be around those people, those are the ones that’ll develop your kid.

If you ever come up to me and tell me reasons you didn’t make it…. “I got hurt”….”I got screwed by a coach”… I’m laughing at you inside. Cus we’ve all been hurt, and we’ve all had bad coaches but still the cream always rises to the top. For every parent that makes these excuses, I see a kid that’ll do the same.

Another weekend of high level 13u PG baseball in the books. Observations: 1. Velocity doesn’t save you 2. Off speed for strikes plays 3. Located fastball plays.. It’s almost like that works at all levels. 🤷🏻‍♂️. I’m starting to notice that coaches/parents are ok with sacrificing command, control, stuff and pitch-ability for velocity.

Maybe kids should take advantage of that ride home with the parents to tell them how embarrassing they were at the field today.

Hey AAU basketball coaches. It’s baseball season….wait til mid July when we’re done.

The same people that complain about elite travel sports are the same ones that demand my kid be kicked out of their kids’ AP class cus he’s distracting. Let us have our arena, we let you have yours. 🤷🏻‍♂️.