Chester86

Chester 40 - HI - 23

I understand bro, Pee Wee WOS is playing the early game also. I have to be careful posting this because someone will retaliate and say that I am a crybaby or that I am a sorry coach but if you wanna know sorry, sorry is what took place at the meeting to decide the playoff bracket and seeding. I heard the whole story from 3 different coaches and all three schools told me the exact same thing, and I just think that all of this stuff just gets silly. The comments that I have been reading about my team taking cheap shots or us teaching kids immoral play is absurd. Last time that I checked these are kids and do you honestly think that a coach can control everything that a kid does? No, so don't discredit my team or any other team for what a 7 year old did on the field, they will be reprimanded but that does not make me or anyone else a bad coach. I have 3 children that I love and I teach them the love of Christ and how we all are one in his eyes. I hope that we as coaches can begin to turn this all around and refocus on what's important because I believe that this league has lost site of that. These kids are a reflection of us as parents and if they see us always argue and bicker than what kind of example are we setting, I love every kid out there no matter what team it is, now do I want to win yes, but never by disrespecting or mistreating a child, their supposed to have fun and when I see coaches hollering and telling kids they suck or can't do anything right maybe those coaches need to be removed because as long as that continues to happen then we are only producing football players that will never know or understand the fun of the game! Congrats to all on a wonderful season and I hope that the playoffs are as exciting as the matchups seem to be! ICEWATER.....excellent post.

Homecoming......was a great night for football and visiting with old friends. It was a great game, and both teams were really leaving it out on the field. Burkeville played a great game and congratulations on the win. I hate to lose, but those jackets played hard tonight.

We (GTB 11U) haven't started yet but I can't wait to get into some tourneys soon. We are shooting toward playing three this Fall, and having the first tournament in toward the first of next month.

Golden Triangle Baseball ([Hidden Content]) has some great young men that have just completed college and are starting their coaching careers so you might try them at (409) 697-1086. Also, John Patterson works out of Grand Slam in Little Cypress and he is an excellent pitching instructor.

Vidor @ PNG Anahuac @ East Chambers West Brook @ Baytown Lee THURS Baytown Sterling @ PA Memorial Barbers Hill @ Dayton Central @ Nederland Livingston @ LCM Lumberton @ Ozen Diboll @ Center Jasper @ Huntington Bridge City @ Silsbee Hamshire Fannett @ WOS Orangefield @ Hardin Jefferson Hemphill @ Kirbyville Newton @ San Augustine Shelbyville @ Woodville Deweyville @ Warren Hardin @ Kountze High Island @ Evadale West Hardin @ Sabine Pass And do not forget: Chester over Burkeville

Saturday at beautiful Aubrey Bradley Stadium, for homecoming, Chester will come out and take a hard fought game. I am thinking 14 - 10, but the score will be less than a touchdown difference. Burkeville put it on us for a lot of years, upwards of 77 - 0, so hopefully the little stadium between the hill and the pines will be kind and let the 'Jackets have a victory.

I love the win Silsbee got last week, but I'm thinking upset here: Cardinals - 21 Tigers - 17.

Looking forward to homecoming next week against Burkeville. I thought HD would take this, just hope we can finish out the season strong against a tough remaining schedule. Would be great to finish better than .500.

Sorry, I left out the Rockies in the National League and the Angels in the American League. Sorry!

I love this time of year. We have football on Friday - Monday (college on Saturday my fave), and best of all the playoffs in baseball. I think back to being a kid and watching the games with my dad, with all our friends over and mom making pizza. Who are you pulling for this Fall? Who are you rooting against? We have the National League: > Cardinal, > Dodgers, and > Phillies, and the American League: > Yankees, > Twins, and > Red Sox. I think I'll be pulling for Torre (can't stand Manny) to face off against the Yankees in the Fall classic. The Twins get my sympathetic vote, but I think they are emotionally drained. Just thought I'd throw the question out.

The word from the coaches meeting last night is the ragball tourney has been postponed a ween due to weather. If you haven't made plans to play and attend, that gives you an extra week to get a team together.

I've got a lot of friends from WO-S, but I'm hoping Silsbee can pull this one out. I'm going to say Silsbee - 21 WO-S - 17. Don't really care either way, but it would be nice to see an upset.

I was close last week on my prediction, bu this week is a whole lot tougher. HD is usually pretty tough, and they were always a bigger 2A back in the day. I know the 'jackets will come out stinging, but this will be a close game. I think Chester strings some wins together, and the final will be Chester 14 HD 13.

The Astros are sort of like the Aggies.....every year I get my hopes up only to have them dashed early and often.

The Tigers will have a long off-season. That had to be one of the best games I have ever seen. I am amazed that you get runners in scoring position, late in the game, and you do not try to squeeze them in. I know there are risks associated with this, but the Tigers didn't score not trying it. I think there were several times in the late innings when they had runners at third with less than 2 outs, so they had the opportunities. I am not sure who I will be pulling for now, because after watching that I am pretty impressed with the Twins organization. Wow, what a game.

# 6 isn't too bad, and I'm sure hoping it will be a little higher next week. That Cardinal line continues to improve, and they will be in for a big test this week from "Stang Blue. Here's hoping that Saturday will be overcast and cool. While your en route to the game you can come by the Little League field in Bridge City, which is right by STJFL Cardinal Stadium and participate in the GTB ragball tournament. The game isn't til 1:00, so get a team together and come compete with teams from around the area in the 1st Annual GTB Ragball tourney.

No information? Anything would be helpful, perhaps something your brother's girlfriend's sister told her aun-t, which was overheard from your preacher's deacon's son up in Fargo, North Dakota don't you know.

We played both last year, as I'm sure everyone else did, and I preferred staying in Texas at Ford Park. For some reason, it seemed like we played more tournaments in Lake Charles, and always seemed to complain when we went over there. I'm pretty easy going though and we will probably try to even it out and play both venues again this year. It is a benefit to qualify for both world series, never knowing exactly which one your parents would prefer playing in. I wish we could have played in both last year, but it worked out that both were in the same week. Last year we stayed close to home knowing that we had so many families trying to recover from Ike, but I'm hoping 2010 sees us taking a trip to let the kids play somewhere different. Personally, my vote will be Omaha so I can watch the CWS, but I'll let the parents make the decision. Can't wait until February gets here, and we can get things going.

Pure luck, but I wasn't too far off.

That's awesome, we were never any good when I was in school, so a win... any win is always a welcomed thing.

When someone gets a final please post it.

Does anyone know about this organization? Tryouts were advertised for several weeks in the local papers and we went to Spring, Tx for tryouts. The guy running the tryout was a scout for the Dodgers, and everything seemed pretty legitimate. He ended up making one of the 12/13 year old teams and we're making plans to go to Puerto Rico early 2010. I have asked several people about it and no one has heard anything about them. I think they are based out of Missouri. I've done what research I can on the internet, and we're excited about taking the trip. I would just like to hear from y'all if you have any information, positive or negative.

Explain ragball to me......I know it's a stupid question, but I'm ignorant on the ways of the world. I don't need the entire set of rules, but give me the quick scoop.

The 'Jackets will take this 34 to 10. This will be played at Aubrey Bradley Stadium in beautiful downtown Chester. Sabine Pass won't know what to do without the mosquitoes.