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Old Tue Feb 22, 2011, 04:07pm
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Old Tue Feb 22, 2011, 04:25pm
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So.....if the pitcher receives the ball in the mound area, the runner can pretty much do anything they want but upon the pitcher having the ball ON THE RUBBER the runner must stop the bs and be on the base. True ? False?

I like the leaving base early penelty. If the runner is thrown out. So be it. If they are not thrown out they simply go back and start all over as if nothing happened. If they leave the base early and the batter reaches safely they can only the equal of the batter. Hummmmmmm. dosn't it look like their is no penelty for leaving early?
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Old Wed Feb 23, 2011, 10:48pm
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I like the leaving base early penelty. If the runner is thrown out. So be it. If they are not thrown out they simply go back and start all over as if nothing happened. If they leave the base early and the batter reaches safely they can only the equal of the batter. Hummmmmmm. dosn't it look like their is no penelty for leaving early?
There isn't much of a penalty, but note that you are missing one additional point--on an infield hit or bunt, no runner can score if any runner left early (this is the infamous case where a runner can reach home safely and yet not score a run).

You need to look at the intent of this rule. It is not to add softball rules into kiddie baseball. Instead, it is to help balance out the disparity between kids' abilities to get outs vs kids' abilities to run, and it does so always with an eye to the 'full' rules that get introduced in stages as the kids get older (i.e. as their abilities throwing the ball and making plays catches up).
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Old Wed Feb 23, 2011, 11:18pm
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Teach the pitcher to throw to 1st. Teach the catcher to throw to 1st. One good step and throw will prevent this the rest of the game.

I see this same crap (usually at 3rd) in Dixie Youth - I can't stand it. If coaches would teach the kids the fundamentals of throwing a baseball you'd either catch someone off the base or catch them 10 steps before they get to the next base.

I don't quite get it - throw the baseball - How to play the game, step 1. I seem to remember a rather famous coach say one time "you hit the ball, you catch the ball, you throw the ball" - but then those players lolly-gagged around too
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Old Thu Feb 24, 2011, 12:20am
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Teach the pitcher to throw to 1st. Teach the catcher to throw to 1st. One good step and throw will prevent this the rest of the game.

I see this same crap (usually at 3rd) in Dixie Youth - I can't stand it. If coaches would teach the kids the fundamentals of throwing a baseball you'd either catch someone off the base or catch them 10 steps before they get to the next base.

I don't quite get it - throw the baseball - How to play the game, step 1. I seem to remember a rather famous coach say one time "you hit the ball, you catch the ball, you throw the ball" - but then those players lolly-gagged around too
They can't throw consistently well at that age. It's a fact of life. You can't fix it through wishful thinking or practice. Their motor skills aren't well enough developed. It's the same reason they can't play the piano as well as an adult. Their bodies won't follow instructions well enough. Don't throw prodigies at me - they're the rare case, not the norm. Kids aren't miniature adults. They cannot perform as an adult. Ask your pediatrician. And that's why coaches teach the "I dare you" tactic.
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Old Thu Feb 24, 2011, 12:55pm
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They can't throw consistently well at that age. It's a fact of life. You can't fix it through wishful thinking or practice. Their motor skills aren't well enough developed. It's the same reason they can't play the piano as well as an adult. Their bodies won't follow instructions well enough. Don't throw prodigies at me - they're the rare case, not the norm. Kids aren't miniature adults. They cannot perform as an adult. Ask your pediatrician. And that's why coaches teach the "I dare you" tactic.
I wouldn't dare throw prodigies at you. I don't have to. I've seen 8 year olds at the Dizzy Dean World Series, 100's of them, teams full of them playing other teams full of them - that can throw the ball, catch the ball and hit the ball. I see 8 year olds in USSSA every weekend that can hit/catch/throw - and these are still COACH PITCH!!!

Now, 9 and 10 yo's - them boys can play some ball too - and in U-trip they even have enough muscle control to learn not to balk. No these aren't teams with one kid that's super talented...these are 10 or 12 kids that all can do it.

You can take that "lack of motor skill" bologna somewhere else - I've seen too many that have it - it's lack of teaching them to use it. Period. Yes, they have a higher likely-hood to err because, well, they're 9 - but if they are tought how to do it, they CAN do it.

Piano? Really? Comparing "step and throw" to having your left hand doing something completely different than your right hand, reading sheet music and remembering what keys are where - VERY slight difference there, Rich
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Old Thu Feb 24, 2011, 02:00pm
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I wouldn't dare throw prodigies at you. I don't have to. I've seen 8 year olds at the Dizzy Dean World Series, 100's of them, teams full of them playing other teams full of them - that can throw the ball, catch the ball and hit the ball. I see 8 year olds in USSSA every weekend that can hit/catch/throw - and these are still COACH PITCH!!!

Now, 9 and 10 yo's - them boys can play some ball too - and in U-trip they even have enough muscle control to learn not to balk. No these aren't teams with one kid that's super talented...these are 10 or 12 kids that all can do it.

You can take that "lack of motor skill" bologna somewhere else - I've seen too many that have it - it's lack of teaching them to use it. Period. Yes, they have a higher likely-hood to err because, well, they're 9 - but if they are tought how to do it, they CAN do it.

Piano? Really? Comparing "step and throw" to having your left hand doing something completely different than your right hand, reading sheet music and remembering what keys are where - VERY slight difference there, Rich
You're talking travel ball and all-stars, not the everyday normal player.

I've been doing rec ball since 1974. I have clues. I stand by my earlier statements.
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