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OL/DL Josh Herndon from Tazewell

The whole state exhibits a "lack of respect" toward baseball.  Virginia is one of the only states still playing a 20 game regular season.  Every other state has mastered the 30 game schedule.  North Carolina even plays the entire Final Four as a best of 3 game series!

Today’s generation of athletes are guided by the social media culture. The fear of being on a losing team overrules any school or community pride or love for the sport. Throw in an overinflated sense of entitlement and that’s a recipe for a couch potato. The fact that there are an alarming rate of sports related transfers each year shows the lack of patience and loyalty that high school athletes have today. The common trait between the superstars that sit at home and the superstars who move on to greener pastures is that they are afraid of looking bad. The lazy kids just have less options so they choose to not participate.

I’m beginning to think my childhood was wasted

I LOVED Pitfall! Q-bert was another favorite of mine. I hated that damn snake!
The game was actually called Oregon Trail. It was the first popular desktop computer game that I was introduced to in my library class in elementary school. My parents could never afford a computer back then, so the only time I was able to play it was at school.
Oregon Trail has developed a cult following in recent years. I’ve actually seen kids wearing t-shirts today with the old-school green computer graphics of the big covered wagon with the infamous slogan “You have died of dysentery” captioned underneath.
The object of the game was to take your family on a winter-long trip on the Oregon Trail, to relocate from whatever town you were living in at the time. At the beginning of the game, you could choose your character’s strengths, like being an efficient hunter, or being good with tools, or good at bartering. 
During your journey, a million different things could go wrong to slow you down, like one of your oxen dying that’s pulling the wagon, or your wagon could be attacked and your food and few personal items stolen, or an axel or wheel on your wagon could break. The longer it took you to reach your destination, the more likely it was that bad things would happen to you and your group, like hunger, pneumonia, and the most popular, dysentery lol.
For the time, it was so much fun. I’ve seen a few recent mobile versions of the game, but the ones I tried just never compared.

Pitfall was the bomb. What game was about the Oregon trail? I’m sure I would’ve remembered a game where you died from drinking stagnant water.

I know several players who are of that mindset, playing on a average/poor team is worse than not playing. They want to be superstars on winning teams, not players. They "like" football but they don't "love" football.  

A lot of truth has been shared on this thread, and I agree with most of what has been said, but one thing has been overlooked.  Kids use to want to "Be Like Mike", or whoever their sports hero was, and tried to emulate them on sandlots, outdoor basketball courts, cow pasture football fields, and anywhere a ball could be tossed around.  Today, they can set in air conditioning, sip on a soda, push buttons, move toggles, and become whoever they desire to be without sweating one drop.  How many kids do you see playing pick up games in the summertime. Instead they are picking up a controller.  Sad but true, we're creating a generation of lazy children who don't give a squat about playing sports and a lot of the players we see in high school sports are there because their parents have been there before them.  What is missing, or in decline, is a desire to "Be Like Mike" where it counts, putting in the time and effort, pouring out the sweat and using up the stored energy, not flopping on the couch with controller in hand, living in dreamland, believing they are going pro, screaming into headset, and all the while poised in front of a high def Xbox monitor.

I have seen that happen too and that is a just sad for the kids honestly. I think is good to have a summer job in high school but a 14-17 year old kid shouldn’t have to quit a sport to put food on the table. 
As far as fumes go those vape pens and juuls are probably the worst thing to happen to high school kids. You can’t keep them away from it