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If you watch what any of these teams do in Warmups it is the same thing. They will play catch for 5 minutes, then spend the next hour and a half hitting off tees, into nets and soft toss to the outfield. Of course the muscle memory that they are building is hitting fly balls and no one is correcting bad practice swings either.
One of the worst side effects of the HUGE number of teams playing travel softball now, is that not is the level of player watered down, but the number of actual coaches is too low to actually allow each team to have someone who has played the game at any level above little league. The majority of these coaches could not recognize a swing flaw and if they did recognize it, do not have the skill set to correct it.
Of course, none of this affects us, except to make the game painful (sometimes literally) to call.
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Bill Hohn is the MAN!!
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