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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: competitive little kid sports

« on: Today at 12:53:03 PM »

Wow, that seems like a huge PITA. We just do the same thing, but let the league do all the logistical stuff you have to manually do. That is pretty much exactly how our coach does league play so that's pretty cool. Lil SF bats toward the bottom and has gotten really unlucky with at bats so far this year. He has been on deck like 4 times when something has happened and he didn't get to hit. Tuesday night the storms in KC were coming in and i'll be honest, the 3 and 2 folks were pretty much waiting for a kid to get zapped before they cancelled the game. He was up and his DA friend got picked off ending the inning. He then got up and after the first pitch, they finally called the game. Coach had him bat at the top for the next game to get him and others more at bats. Even when coach does stuff like that we still kick the crap out of most teams in league play so I'm guessing if we are still on this team next year, we won't do league, but who knows. Tourneys can be brutal. I love it mostly, but its giving up a whole weekend so adding more will be tough.

It's not that big of a PITA and it's a very small tradeoff to being able to have complete control over our schedule. Date, Time, Location, Opponent, etc. I don't think a league would even be feasible for us. Also I don't know of any competitive spring/summer leagues in Omaha. All the leagues are just rec (which it sounds like maybe what your team is in since they're beating the doors off teams?). I know some of our peers will put together teams to play fall competitive leagues but we have too many kids playing football to make it work.

yeah, its def gotten to be more of a "rec" league as they've gotten older. Your situation sounds pretty good being able to play teams you know. No one is having any fun out there for an hour 45 when the other team is walking everyone. They do max 5 runs per inning but no run rule. So basically if you are up by 16 after the 4th, the game is over because the other team can't catch up. Those games suck ass. Its def not every game, but its getting more and more like that.

yeah, that sounds awful. we play USSSA rules for all games. run rule is 15 after 3 or 8 after 4.

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: competitive little kid sports

« on: Today at 12:37:04 PM »

Wow, that seems like a huge PITA. We just do the same thing, but let the league do all the logistical stuff you have to manually do. That is pretty much exactly how our coach does league play so that's pretty cool. Lil SF bats toward the bottom and has gotten really unlucky with at bats so far this year. He has been on deck like 4 times when something has happened and he didn't get to hit. Tuesday night the storms in KC were coming in and i'll be honest, the 3 and 2 folks were pretty much waiting for a kid to get zapped before they cancelled the game. He was up and his DA friend got picked off ending the inning. He then got up and after the first pitch, they finally called the game. Coach had him bat at the top for the next game to get him and others more at bats. Even when coach does stuff like that we still kick the crap out of most teams in league play so I'm guessing if we are still on this team next year, we won't do league, but who knows. Tourneys can be brutal. I love it mostly, but its giving up a whole weekend so adding more will be tough.

It's not that big of a PITA and it's a very small tradeoff to being able to have complete control over our schedule. Date, Time, Location, Opponent, etc. I don't think a league would even be feasible for us. Also I don't know of any competitive spring/summer leagues in Omaha. All the leagues are just rec (which it sounds like maybe what your team is in since they're beating the doors off teams?). I know some of our peers will put together teams to play fall competitive leagues but we have too many kids playing football to make it work.

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: competitive little kid sports

« on: Today at 10:32:56 AM »

Like next weekend we don't have a tournament but we have a double header (we are required to draft 2 DH field slots each season according to our organization). We know the coaches of this club well so we are going to play our "1s" in the first game and do a developmental game in game 2. We do that sometimes when we have a gap between tournaments. But we also like to coordinate with the other coaches (unless we hate their guts) to do stuff like that so we don't look like a bunch of daddy ball try hards.

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: competitive little kid sports

« on: Today at 10:26:26 AM »

Hey SD. Do you guys do league play in Omaha? Right now we are doing league and 2 tournaments a month. I actually like league as its a little more laid back, but we are starting to get to the point where all the decent teams have left league play so we just kick the living crap out of everyone. They were talking about it last night as we were watching the other team kick the ball all over the place and walk almost everyone. Lil SF had 3 great at bats and was on base all three times so that was awesome, but other than that it kind of sucks. I guess this is a normal occurrence here around 10-11 years old and good teams just play tournaments every weekend. 

We have never played in a league. We have ~30 "weekday games" (sometimes played on weekends we don't have a tournament) where we put our own schedule together and do home and homes with other local USSSA teams. It's just contacting coaches for other teams and trading field slots to play each other. All the local organizations have their own fields they own or lease and every team gets a certain number of field slots. Our organization gets together and drafts field slots and times amongst all the coaches. So like our 11U and 12U teams play on the same sized field. We have like 5 fields in our organization that are that size. We draft days and times for the fields. Do a random pick for draft order, last pick gets to pick twice and reverse back through the order. Then we contact other local coaches we know or want to play and trade slots to set our weekday schedules around our tournament schedule. We are playing in 8 tournaments this summer plus the 30 or so regular games. Like half of our late march and early april games end up cancelled for either it being super cold or wet so that 30 generally gets cut down to 22 or so for the year. Our weekday games are glorified scrimmages. Work kids into positions they aren't your starter at, get kids who don't normally pitch on the mound, get your starters some bullpen sessions (single innings). We also keep a running batting order for those games. So we carry 11 kids and whoever was the last out the game before bats last the next game. It evens out the ABs amongst the team so your front line hitters aren't getting 1/3 more ABs by the end of the season. So lil sd bats 2nd currently but he would bat last in a weekday game if he was the last out the game before. These games count towards nothing, only USSSA games (tournament games) matter for your ranking/points. We do run into some clubs that play their weekday games like it's game 7 of the WS. I can name like 5 programs locally that beat us most times during weekday games that we have never lost to in a tournament. I'm pretty competitive so "losing" those meaningless games we should never lose is a hard thing for me to deal with sometimes but I also know it's the right thing to do developmentally for our kids. Like our current record on Gamechanger is 0.500 but we've played in two tournaments and our only losses are in both championship games so far. We actually run ruled one of those teams I mentioned 8-0 in pool play of our last one. Gave up 1 hit.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Ask Steve Dave Farm And Cow And Ranch And Tractor And Truck Related Questions

« on: May 01, 2024, 09:39:44 PM »

my grandpa used to have a giant tank of roundup on his 3 wheeler and one in a pickup and on days when there "wasn't as much to do" he drove around and round upp'd all his fence lines to keep cedar out!

But they made good fence posts when there were no trees anywhere

I ask this with all due respect and seriousness…did he die of cancer? Lot of those guys who were exposed to Roundup 24/7/365 have.

Pretty sure it's Parkinson's not cancer....or both. My aunt and uncle who are full time farmers  have Parkinson's.

They also had a giant tank of Roundup on the back of a three wheeler.

My dad has basically bathed in roundup the entire time he has been alive and I grew up slopping it around from commercial sprayers and boom rigs and on a tank on a four wheeler I drove around and sprayed things with. Pops has the commercial license for the top grade stuff random farmers couldn’t buy off the rack too. My dad is in his upper 60s now and still no known roundup related diseases (about died a dozen other times from various things as documented in this blog) and so far I seem to not be dead. Really hoping that continues to be the case.


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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Non-Political Market/Economy/Finance/etc. Thread

« on: May 01, 2024, 02:04:09 PM »

Yeah, 100% it’s just that you’re in a calorie deficit. I think Pete keeps the protein industry in business and think he’ll be just fine.


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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Non-Political Market/Economy/Finance/etc. Thread

« on: May 01, 2024, 10:21:03 AM »

Well, good news, because apparently you can both keep the wiener and lose the weight


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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Non-Political Market/Economy/Finance/etc. Thread

« on: May 01, 2024, 10:13:46 AM »

I assume they have a finite window to use them because they either arent safe for continuous useage or the drug companies know they will lose efficacy in prolonged settings or both.

they talk about this on CNBC all the time. my understanding from there is that there are still no known long term real negative side effects (acid reflux being the only one I've heard) and that the weight loss does plateau at some point (ie. you don't shrink to zero lbs) but that the efficacy doesn't seem to wane.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Non-Political Market/Economy/Finance/etc. Thread

« on: May 01, 2024, 09:24:45 AM »

https://twitter.com/yahoofinance/status/1785676405419708895?s=46&t=odWzhuZU7P443NcVwlC1iQ


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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Non-Political Market/Economy/Finance/etc. Thread

« on: May 01, 2024, 08:01:25 AM »

GLP1s are going to eliminate obesity in the USA. and with that an absolute shitload of related ailments.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Tornado Season 2024

« on: April 30, 2024, 05:31:51 PM »

My dad just sent me a picture of a tornado he could see from the back deck!

lmao

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: What song

« on: April 29, 2024, 03:51:43 PM »

it's been done to death, but for good reason, so I'm going with Immigrant Song

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: competitive little kid sports

« on: April 29, 2024, 12:57:17 PM »

Also, attention SD. Is there anything better than the "scan lineup" feature in Gamechanger? My favorite thing is going up to the other team and they hand me a paper lineup. I'm like, i'm about to blow your rough ridin' mind pal.

our GC parent loves it for sure

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: competitive little kid sports

« on: April 29, 2024, 09:55:29 AM »

almost every tournament in our area was either rained out or cancelled because of the tornadoes. the exception was ours because it was in Lincoln which was slightly less impacted by the tornadoes and the fields we played on were turf so we got them in despite the rain. got second place losing 8-5 in the final. lil sd went 3-3 in the championship and threw out two little dumbasses trying to steal 3rd on him. the pitcher we faced went the full 6 innings and didn't walk a single batter. we out hit them but couldn't get kids home. fun game though. beat the living crap out of both teams we got in pool play. only gave up 2 hits (1 each game).

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Ask Steve Dave Farm And Cow And Ranch And Tractor And Truck Related Questions

« on: April 27, 2024, 05:17:23 PM »

only like 2% of cats can live this life. let them figure it out on their own imo.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Ask Steve Dave Farm And Cow And Ranch And Tractor And Truck Related Questions

« on: April 27, 2024, 05:16:30 PM »

irl the bad thing about this cat arrangement is that almost all will die. probably horrible deaths. cats will just show up and live there and that's how cow farmers have cats. trying to cheat the system and bringing in cats has never worked in the history of ranchers having cats. my folks have a cat called "bob" who, you guessed it, has a bobbed tail which froze off probably 6 years ago. anyway, all of these cats just show up and live or don't. you dad is setting up a meat grinder for the local predators fyi.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Ask Steve Dave Farm And Cow And Ranch And Tractor And Truck Related Questions

« on: April 27, 2024, 04:09:54 PM »

the good thing about cats is there are always cats around

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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: MEGA MAGA

« on: April 26, 2024, 09:28:24 PM »

https://twitter.com/IvanasStairCam/status/1784005733110927510

Holy crap


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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Tornado Season 2023

« on: April 26, 2024, 08:43:42 PM »

From the school




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Also this is not a fun deal to see irl. Lots of kids really having a hard time with it understandably. Kids comforting other kids. Teachers trying to be super calm but you can tell they are stressed. sirens blaring outside. the school ran the drill super well. I was getting my kids early to get ahead of the storms and would have been home had I been there 5 minutes earlier.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Tornado Season 2023

« on: April 26, 2024, 08:40:33 PM »

thanks guys, appreciate you

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Tornado Season 2023

« on: April 26, 2024, 08:26:31 PM »

One of our assistant baseball coaches got this one SW of town




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“Objects in mirror are closer than they appear”

haha, that was obviously what he sent with the pic.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Tornado Season 2023

« on: April 26, 2024, 08:08:22 PM »

One of our assistant baseball coaches got this one SW of town




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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Tornado Season 2023

« on: April 26, 2024, 08:00:09 PM »

From the school




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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Tornado Season 2023

« on: April 26, 2024, 07:58:32 PM »

but irl thank you for asking guys. appreciate all of you irl.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Tornado Season 2023

« on: April 26, 2024, 07:58:01 PM »

pretty wild up here but nothing directly hit us. had to do a tornado drill at my kids school at pickup. then had to sign out to be allowed to leave to just get home and hide in the basement awhile and do legos. sirens on and off for like 3 hours. airport got hit some and I've got a flight to puerto rico in a week and FOLKS THAT BETTER BE ON TIME. our baseball tournement schedule is all FUBAR now. just first world problems for us so far and Ts&Ps for those impacted.