Recent content by Cumberland Blues

Yeah...it happened at least twice this past season - and probably should've happened more - I have no idea why it's a thing with this kid. He is otherwise a pretty smart player. I know the coach has talked with him about it and told him not to do that.

There's a kid on my son's HS team who has the bad habit of starting to walk to first before ball 4 reaches the plate. He's a RHB and a couple times he's been called back because he walked into a pitch.

I watched this game w/ Mike F and yecul at the Vermont Pub & Brewery...Mike had some superstitions about watching extras in the pub, so he went home to watch after the 9th...yecul & I stayed till the end. I would argue for this game as the best game of all time. Someone above likened ot to a...

I would likely participate in a group effort as well.

I live in Vermont and use a VPN to watch the Sox on MLBtv since I don't have cable/satalite. It mostly works fine - but this year I've not been able to watch Sox/mfy unless they are on Fox/ESPN. Anybody else experience this and figure out a workaround?

I of course remember Ellis Burks coming up with the Sox and playing here from '87-'92. But until he was in the booth for NESN a few weeks ago I had completely forgotten that he came back and played a few games for the '04 team and has a ring.

The Pirates have 4 HS kids left to sign in their top ten, and enough money left to give each of them significant over slot bonuses. I'd be shocked if Kellington doesn't sign. That - and my kid tells me that Owen has changed his profile on one of the social media platforms from "UConn Commit"...

This is spot on. Getting kids to all these various commitments is a huge time suck - it is a chore for parents. If they're doing it for any reason other than that their kid loves being there, they should stop. I only have one kid - but live in the middle of nowhere so every sport felt like...

Do UDFA's who get a bonus above a certain amount count against the bonus pool? I'd think yes, but do not know.

I think so...slot is ~$570K - that's plenty more than a UCONN education. I gotta believe they had a number in mind and communicated that to teams. PIT can't afford to squander the pool money (or the year of development on the pick), so I imagine they had a pretty good understanding of what it...

Yeah, this is a pretty big deal for Vermont baseball, it's been forever since a VT kid went this early (if ever...I think Tyler Pelland was like a 7th rounder 20 years ago and we had a couple guys in the 13th/14th a few years ago). I watched Owen play in the state championship game - he can hit...

When I coached young kids - was a level below u-10 that I did this but should be fine there too - I explicitly asked the parents to watch a few innings of a game on TV with their kids just so that they could get a feel for how things are supposed to work. Because every team has 3-4 kids who are...

VPN Unlimited is working for me to stream the Sox on MLB.tv

Yeah - that's good re the HBP. We used tennis balls - but anything they can get plunked with a bunch of times w/o getting hurt until they just instinctively turn the right way will work.

Yeah - this. One year I had three kids named Jackson...the one who played hockey I called Skates....the one who's family were (otherwise very nice people but) Yankee fans was Reggie...I didn't know the third kid before this season and he picked his own nickname...."Ultramosh" - I still have no...