GannonFan wrote:After watching an inning or two last night and losing count of the number of breaking ball pitches thrown, I'm putting in my obligatory Dr. Andrew's piece in here.
"If you throw it with good mechanics, it doesn't have any greater force on your shoulder than throwing other pitches, but you've got to throw it correctly," Andrews said. "It's misleading to say it's OK to throw the curveball with good mechanics because the rub is, most kids don't throw it with good mechanics.
"My rule of thumb is, don't throw the curveball until you can shave, until your bone structure has matured and you have the neuromuscular control to be able to throw the pitch properly."
I saw that article earlier. I'm not exactly sure what a properly thrown curveball is.
Yesterdays games had a bunch of "junk" throwers and I was commenting to my boys on how many pitchers had poor mechanics (limited use of legs, poor strides, poor arm angle, etc.)
tribe_pride wrote:That's crap that you can play with people who live outside of your area. I know the Pennsylvania team is following the rules, but you should be required to live in the area of your team. We are not talking about a school team here.
By the way, how can you go to a charter school outside your district (nevertheless outside your state)? Charter schools are supposed to be like public schools for enrollment purposes since they receive per pupil funding from the district.
Little League adopted new rules that have gone into effect for the current season. Before this season you were ONLY allowed to play in the little league that your residence was in. Now the rule has another clause with it, that if you attend a school outside the little league boundary of your residence the family can CHOOSE which Little League their children would play in - the Little League based on residence or based on the location of the school. Charter schools that encompass multiple school districts are commonplace here. The new rule has had a considerable effect in PA as kids that go to Catholic schools or charter schools now have options to play in "stronger" Little Leagues. Philadelphia has long been a mess educationally - the Philly school district is historically one of the worst and chronically financially mis-managed districts in the country. A large majority of people that live within the Philly school district goto charter, Catholic or rather expensive college prep schools in the area if they can afford it to escape the Philly school district.
There are a few people as well that work in Philadelphia & for childcare reasons send their kids to Charter schools in the city, which may be how you have a NJ kid playing for the PA team - I'm not up to speed with this specific kids background.
Newark National is where I played and GannonFan started Little League. 4 state titles in a row, 3 MidAtlantic championship games in a row. Don't count out NNLL!!!
bluehenbillk wrote:Newark National is where I played and GannonFan started Little League. 4 state titles in a row, 3 MidAtlantic championship games in a row. Don't count out NNLL!!!
bluehenbillk wrote:Newark National is where I played and GannonFan started Little League. 4 state titles in a row, 3 MidAtlantic championship games in a row. Don't count out NNLL!!!
Congrats, man. TRLL is the league I played in. The other TR league (Toms River East LL) was the one that went to the WS in 95, 98, and 99. But my league has 3 state titles since then (05, 10, 14) with a trip to the WS in 2010. Pretty amazing with over 300 LL systems in the state.
Montana beat DelaWHERE today 5-1 to advance to some sort of Women's softball fast pitch championship tomorrow at 10am MST.
"What I'm saying is: You might have taken care of your wolf problem, but everyone around town is going to think of you as the crazy son of a bitch who bought land mines to get rid of wolves."
SeattleGriz wrote:
Yes! Our junior lesbians battered the crap out of the Delaware junior lesbians!
They licked them for sure.
Really rubbed their faces in it.
Had them crawling on the carpet.
Made them eat humble pie.
So...WC(b) for the win?
"What I'm saying is: You might have taken care of your wolf problem, but everyone around town is going to think of you as the crazy son of a bitch who bought land mines to get rid of wolves."
