Bud Kilmer

I think the difference is the sun devils have a roster at the beginning that is the same at the end correct? Or do they between every tournament pick up new players ? The way  I see it is if you pick a team at the beginning then it should pretty much stay the same the whole summer unless you have injuries or whatever..advertising for players and getting the twitter handles of all the hot shot prospects and then asking them to call to come play for them is a little over the top. The Houston Heat and the Angels both posted rosters the day after tryouts and those kids are the same kids on the roster today. They are not out there begging for others to come play for them at the next PG tourney. In addition, who do you think pays for those kids that get picked up? They certainly are not paying, its the kids on the "banditos northwest 16u" team that have taken they bait...those gets are not getting exposed except on the diamond. One of the 15U teams they sent to PG a few weeks ago went 0-7 but I bet all of those kids paid in full LOL and get to strut around with their "B" hat on to act like they are apart of the 17u black team which I guess is exactly what they want. The sundevils were also paid in full by Chip correct? I dont think he was making any money off the group, now thats true exposure and its his money, he can recruit and do what he wants. My beef is the creation of all these below par teams to basically pay for the recruitment of some of the best talent out there from all over. I understand that the banditos have had some great underclass teams and some of those kids have stayed with the program...so why not let that same team continue to play together as the move along...surely someone is getting dropped at some point for the kid from the valley that throws 95 or whatever. Being in tomball they are surrounded by great players and Houston obvioulsy has a lot of talent so just by the numbers they are going to have some studs. Also by winning one of these national tournaments it just drives the parents more delusional into thinking if there kids weres a B on his shirt and pays the 1500 player fee then he will be drafted high too...I see it all of the time, my kid takes lesson from roger clemens therefore he is a great pitcher! Not! Some select ball is all about taking the delusional parents $$$$ and the banditos feed off of that IMHO. And like I said above, Im not talking about having teams all over the state, Im talking about having 8 teams in the 15u and 16u ages from the houston area...these are nothing more than profit centers for those guys with maybe 2 of those teams being legit top to bottom. Queston on the 28 kids with D1 rides...are you saying those kid would not have gotten the rides without playing for the banditos? I'm pretty sure if you can throw 93 and are a stud at your high school you are going to get seen and exposed without playing for the banditos....do you think hawkins wouldnt have been a first round pick if he had played for say the corpus christi waves instead of the houston banditos?  Im pretty sure Josh Beckett would have still went to the marlins and been named world series mvp even if he had not played for the angels right? What about Naquin with the heat, maybe him being a stud at A&M had more to do with his draft position then what select group you play for? My thought is select ball helps with some exposure but it isnt going to make or break you....it lets you play against  better top to bottom talent then you would on the high school level in most cases but if you can play, you can play and you will be found. Now if you are fringe player than maybe it helps more but even then with todays PG profiles and video its pretty hard to be missed. I think players like hawkins give way too much credit to the banditos and not enough to themselves. [quote name="falconfanatic" post="1236025" timestamp="1342376335"] [quote author=Kenny Powers link=topic=100967.msg1236010#msg1236010 date=1342370903] Perfect example of banditos operating procedure, posted on twitter just a few min ago: Bandito Baseball‏@BanditoBaseball Looking for a few gamers to go to PG WS in Az. In 2 weeks and Jupitar in OCT Call me 713 819 XXXX Thats not developing talent, thats buying it for high profile national tourneys for your own benefit. Banditos are in it for their own $$$$, one of the coaches I know that over there told me he makes $2500-3500 a week from lessons and coaching a team. In my opinion these guys have way too many teams that fund their pockets and then use that extra cash to buy (pay for, Ie recruit) the best players from all over to show up to national tourneys to get the pub to rake in more teams and cash. If you look at their rosters, they have a northeast, southwest, north, texas, houston etc blue black white, about anything they can call a team most of which are just there to pay for the one elite teams recruiting. I guess people are willing to pay it to wear the hat to act like they had something to do with the elite team winning. Its sick. [/quote] The Banditos develop plenty of talent. Cory Gieser, CJ Hinojosa, Austin Dean, Courtney Hawkins, Nick Williams, Cody Poteet, and Jovanni Hernandez have all played for them for years some have been there since they were 12 and 13. There is a reason that almost every year the Banditos have some of the best 12 and 13 year old teams in the country. A couple years ago they had a 13u team that won 155 games in a row. All those kids stay in the Bandito's program as they get older. So what if they have a bunch of different teams from all over the state? They do that so kids all over the state have the opportunity to play for an elite program, and get college and pro looks. Just look at how many kids from the 2012 class that are going to play D1 ball. There are 28 of them by the way. why would you not want to play for a program like that? [Hidden Content] The main team the Banditos black is made up of almost all Houston kids with 1 kid out of state. How is that any different than the Sun Devils that have kids from Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma, and other places? I think someone is just jealous of the Banditos ;) [/quote]

Perfect example of banditos operating procedure, posted on twitter just a few min ago: Bandito Baseball‏@BanditoBaseball Looking for a few gamers to go to PG WS in Az. In 2 weeks and Jupitar in OCT Call me 713 819 XXXX Thats not developing talent, thats buying it for high profile national tourneys for your own benefit. Banditos are in it for their own $$$$, one of the coaches I know that over there told me he makes $2500-3500 a week from lessons and coaching a team. In my opinion these guys have way too many teams that fund their pockets and then use that extra cash to buy (pay for, Ie recruit) the best players from all over to show up to national tourneys to get the pub to rake in more teams and cash. If you look at their rosters, they have a northeast, southwest, north, texas, houston etc blue black white, about anything they can call a team most of which are just there to pay for the one elite teams recruiting. I guess people are willing to pay it to wear the hat to act like they had something to do with the elite team winning. Its sick.

Lol they had a dude from Georgia on their roster. Regardless Houston was well represented.  1st place with banditos going 11-1, angels going 10-1 finishing 3rd, heat silver finished 6th with 8-1-1.    Also of note the heat black was  4-1-2 and Kyle chapman going 4-2.

Clemens jumped ship to the banditos for some reason. Petitte is on heat black who didn't make it to the playoff round. The silver with biggio lost to banditos in final 8. Angels had bad first inning and also fell to banditos in semis. Banditos won it all, my least favorite Houston team....they tend to hire guns to come into tourneys where heat and angels are local kids. Regardless just goes to show that baseball in Houston is the best in the country.

Bhs Denny and Thames are on the Columbia angels who just made the final 4 in the 17u bracket. Biggios , Clemens and pettites kid are playing in the other final 8 game, winner to face the angels in the semi finals. Pretty impressive 3 Houston area teams in final 8 with 2 in final four and one to be in the title game. There was 250 teams in the tourney with the talent being the best of the best if you have never been.  [Hidden Content]

The posting doesnt say varsity assistant, it says varsity baseball and freshman football which is exactly what Rupp did. Ive already said Thames should get it but the posting is in no way an indication that it has happened.

Hopefully Thames takes over at GCM. He is going to be a good one IMO.

Should be interesting , when do they publish a list of applicants?

Or make one of them a 9th grade campus (LEE)

Thats the point "dude", the more free bases you give up it only takes a hit here or there for disaster. I would much rather a pitcher throw strikes and give up hits while giving your D a chance to make a play then give up 9 free passes. It didnt cost them this time but thats exactly what gets you beat against teams this deep in the playoffs....dude [quote name="faulkje" post="1223534" timestamp="1337307820"] [quote author=Kenny Powers link=topic=100050.msg1223522#msg1223522 date=1337307284] [quote author=Smoking Baby link=topic=100050.msg1223514#msg1223514 date=1337306921] Letting starter get rest for possible game 3. [/quote] lol the starter that had 6 walks and 3 Hit batters? Sounds like he was flirting with disaster all night. [/quote]So how many runs did Brehnam score off of this "flirting with disaster dude"?? [/quote]

[quote name="Smoking Baby" post="1223514" timestamp="1337306921"] Letting starter get rest for possible game 3. [/quote] lol the starter that had 6 walks and 3 Hit batters? Sounds like he was flirting with disaster all night.

Both pitchers pitched well in this game, but the little things costed GCM.  Down 2-1 with runners on 1st and 2nd, base hit to LF fairly shallow, the runner attempted to score and fell down...got into a run down and was tagged out. I dont know if Rupp was sending him or if he was just trying to draw a throw and the runner lost his balance but huge play. Also not sure what GCM was thinking with runners on 1st and 2nd and no outs in that same inning, runner on 2nd stole 3rd while runner one 1st did not go....a couple of pitches laters the runner on 1st was stealing second and would have been safe but the batter bunted it anyway right back to the pitcher for a free out that did nothing. Bizarre...next batter hit a shot to 3rd base base who knocked it down but didnt have a play so run scored and had 1st and 2nd with one  out  which led to the play above. Also in the last inning, mag west walked #9 hitter . Mag west made a pitching change and brought in a kid throwing slow. GCM called for a bunt and the #1 hitter fouled 2 off..but instead of letting him swing away he bunted another foul for the 1st out. Bizarre, again the kid pitching was like 6'4 but throwing BP. Next kid K'd before a basehit had runners on 2nd and 3rd. Pop to right on the 1st pitch ended the game and season...Tough way to go out for the SRs. Got robbed by going to a 1 game series and with a couple of questionable plays. If Mag west #2 was the kid they brought in for relief they would have been in big trouble in a series and even if the game had gone extra innings.

PNG only has 3 losses all year and two were to BH? and BH isnt ranked?

13-5 final Pasadena won

score?

didnt clay hit one against baytown lee last week? the baytown sun had it in the paper?

He is an asst at Houston Christian now. I havent seen or heard anything about BCA this year other than someone posting on here that silsbee beat them 17-0 a few weeks ago.

Sounds like you are in luck as this year you may be able to get revenge. That coach is gone as are all the players, as far as I know only one of the good ones stayed.

yikes thats a close one !

i was wondering if bca stil even had a team

[quote name="GCMPats" post="1192901" timestamp="1331001937"] Bot 7 ST.      8 GCM. 0 Fairchild goes 6 innings. Allows 2 walks and 1 hit (A Gonzalez). M. Martinez started for GCM and left in the 3rd with an injury to his throwing arm. [/quote] I thought MM was already hurt ?

[quote name="CGull8" post="1191660" timestamp="1330815892"] HAWKS JV go 4-0 at WestBrook tourney.  8) [/quote] You guys know you were playing the freshman teams from the other schools right? Does HJ not have a freshman team?

Not sure about RSS's varsity group but the CB stars along with the two studs at gentry are all playing on the frosh A team although they could all be on jv easily....probably just want to keep them together as they have a new system and first time to play together. This is a group to watch, lots of speed and talent.

What was wrong with Chance?

Reed Seely was just named first team all greater houston by the chronicle based on being 21-5a's mvp last year as a Jr.