Yea...why not?
I just actually needed a place to put this report from the East Coast Showcase, because I laughed out loud:
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I just actually needed a place to put this report from the East Coast Showcase, because I laughed out loud:
Quote:Ahhh....youth sports.
No offense to the players, but the Reds/Padres nightcap was one of the worst displays of this game Ive ever witnessed. It featured 19 walks, 11 wild pitches, five passed balls, three hit batsmen, 22 strikeouts and six errors. And I was one of probably 100 scouts and coaches to sit through every merciless pitch. In the bottom of the sixth, half of a splinttered bat came pinwheeling right at me and a scout who were standing down the third base line, and I barely had the energy to move out its way. Actually, I was hoping it might hit me, knocking me into (or out of, at that point) a coma. (Managed to get the run-time, by the way, after sidestepping the barrel4.63). After arriving at 7:28 a.m., I left at 11:31 p.m. So, youd like to get into amateur scouting?
The Reds/Padres game should have ended in the second inning, the last time something noteworthy occurred. One of the players this week who made a nice move up follow lists was Tyler Yockey, just ask his mom. The outfielder from Duson, La., population 1,651, deposited a Chris Matulis (Park Vista High, Lake Worth, Fla.) fastball over the wall in right field for a grand slam that awoke the exhausted group of scouts and coaches still in attendance, and sending the proud Mrs. Yockey into quite a fit of exultation. My son just got a scholarship! she squealed as Yockey was greeted by his teammates at home plate.
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