Pee Wee Football

[Godfather]

Good points all.  Especially umps and refs sucking.

especially at any bama game...ever.

[GH2001]

Just a word on fundamentals.  A lot of you have alluded to it and this is something I'm a firm believer in and always stress heavily in anything I corch.  When playing biesbols at Jeff Davis, one of my coaches was a fundamentals freak.  We had an assistant coach that spent every minute of every practice, hitting grounders to infielders and fly balls to outfielders.  If batting practice was going on, he was hitting grounders between every pitch.  If you were playing infield, you could count on 50-100 grounders coming your way every single day.  Instruction every time you screwed up.  Do it again.

Repetition and instruction in everything we did was the key.  As a pitcher, I must have covered first 1,000 times in practice.  Seemed like it anyway.  It became engrained.  Ground ball to the right side, sprint for the first base line, find the bag......do it again.  Do it again.  Do it again.  You never thought about it.  Instinct kicked in and that was never, ever a problem in the game.  Our infield was solid as hell because a ground ball was like playing soft toss.  Nobody was a super quick, great athlete.  No diving stops and incredible throws from the knees.  But hit a grounder within reach...you're out.  Period.   

You found the bag. But what about your sack?

[dallaswareagle]

+5.

Coached a lot and watched a lot. Some of you umps SUCK. But there are a lot of good ones.

And as always, if you lose, the ump sucks!

There are some bad umps, they are just out there for the paycheck and in most places there is no real accountability. Most places are short folks and you can't run off what you have. Some weeks this summer I umped 4 nights a weeks and on Sat's. I tend to think I was one of the ones who try's I may miss a call (which I haven't) but I hustle and get in position.

Best thing I love to do to players who think they know some rule they pulled out of their ass, as they try an explain (shout) their side to me about how this is in the rule book I tell them to go get the rule book and show me.







Biggest nono is to bring a rule book on the field, you are ejected automatically. When they look at me with stunned silence I tell them they really now know a rule they didn't know. Most then gets theirs moneys worth on the ejection. 

[Snaggletiger]

You found the bag. But what about your sack?

Keep yukking it up there, triathlon boy. 

[dallaswareagle]

  As a pitcher,     

Keep yukking it up there, triathlon boy.

Long time ago and he was a pitcher, something tells me he knew about balls.

[WiregrassTiger]

Damn! I had no idea you were all this great at one time.

[Snaggletiger]

Damn! I had no idea you were all this great at one time.

I never said they let me play.

[GH2001]

Damn! I had no idea you were all this great at one time.

I could throw that pigskin a quarter mile.

If coach had put me, we coulda took state.

[WiregrassTiger]

I could throw that pigskin a quarter mile.

If coach had put me, we coulda took state.

Well, I have all your equipment in my locker. You should probably come get it cause I can't fit my numchucks in there anymore.