competitive little kid sports

['taterblast]

had to google 'sliding glove' because i couldn't get it out of my head that it was referring to the glove you catch a baseball with

[wetwillie]

Are full helmet face masks going to ever catch on? The jaw extension on the helmet seems ubiquitous now.

[MakeItRain]

LOL I'd never even heard of a sliding glove

Certainly you've seen them in major league games, it's that oven mitt looking thing they put on at first base.

[ben ji]

I definitely had to google a sliding glove as well. Back in my day if any 5th grader wore a sliding glove we he would of been labeled a TC FP etc.

[ben ji]

Random question. Do any of the youth baseball fields have field turf?

I still play beer league softball out at Mid America and they recently replaced the entire field with field turf including the infield. Its actually pretty great for beer league softball since the field turf slow down the piss missile ground balls a bunch and reduced the wicked bounces from a dirt infield. Also makes it basically impossible for a game to get rained out.

[nicname]

Random question. Do any of the youth baseball fields have field turf?

I still play beer league softball out at Mid America and they recently replaced the entire field with field turf including the infield. Its actually pretty great for beer league softball since the field turf slow down the piss missile ground balls a bunch and reduced the wicked bounces from a dirt infield. Also makes it basically impossible for a game to get rained out.

Some of the rich people fields do, and a decent amount of high schools.

Best youth baseball fields I’ve ever seen are in Concordia, KS. Beautiful grass infields and nice grass outfields w/ ~220 walls not fences. Perfect for 10u. I think their 12u were like 225 down line and 240 in center.

[wetwillie]

Topeka has a turf field youth complex at Lake Shawnee and Liberty MO has one too

[KST8FAN]

Topeka has a turf field youth complex at Lake Shawnee and Liberty MO has one too

That's a nice complex in Topeka.  Bettis Family fields for baseball youth thru high school.

Those fields at Mid America will get used for youth tournaments as we played there a couple of times.


Tom

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[yoga-like_abana]

Are you allowed to chew seeds at these other facilities with turf? MHK locks it down and I got the need for seeds when at a baseball game.

[meow meow]

Are you allowed to chew seeds at these other facilities with turf? MHK locks it down and I got the need for seeds when at a baseball game.

also, what about entire cheeks filled with levi garrett?

[MakeItRain]

Are you allowed to chew seeds at these other facilities with turf? MHK locks it down and I got the need for seeds when at a baseball game.

You can't even chew seeds on college turf fields like at The Toint.

I hate turf.

[meow meow]

last spring i was at my daughter's soccer game, on turf, i was chewing sunflower seeds.  after the game, there were a bunch of shells around me on the turf, i was like i probably shouldn't have done that 

[wetwillie]

last spring i was at my daughter's soccer game, on turf, i was chewing sunflower seeds.  after the game, there were a bunch of shells around me on the turf, i was like i probably shouldn't have done that 

The liberty facility had seed nazis walking around during the tournament

[ChiComCat]

They enforce it because it's better than cleaning up trash someone else spit out of their mouth.  How hard is it not to chew sunflower seeds? 

[meow meow]

just use a vacuum chicomgiantstickupyourasscat

[nicname]

They enforce it because it's better than cleaning up trash someone else spit out of their mouth.  How hard is it not to chew sunflower seeds?

It’s a baseball tradition you dweeb.

[ChiComCat]

If it's that important, bring a spitter (or your own vacuum).  It seems pretty shitty to make some HS kid clean up trash spit out of your mouth onto carpet.

[yoga-like_abana]

That works for people that aren't playing but not people that are.

[meow meow]

make the players in the field play with a feed bag they can spit into, problem solved

[ChiComCat]

make the players in the field play with a feed bag they can spit into, problem solved

Or they can clean up after themselves after the game, thus protecting the tradition

[Spracne]

Will none of you stand up for this great national tradition? Do our institutions mean nothing anymore??

[yoga-like_abana]

Honestly if they don’t try seeds they’ll never get into chaw. No chaw equals no big leagues


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[nicname]

Honestly if they don’t try seeds they’ll never get into chaw. No chaw equals no big leagues


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Or at least no giant Red Man spit rockets while pounding Busch Lights at rec league softball games.

[steve dave]

Tons of people spit seeds into a plastic bottle like it’s Copenhagen at our facilities.

[nicname]

Tons of people spit seeds into a plastic bottle like it’s Copenhagen at our facilities.

Do you have turf?