Why are these kids playing travel softball during their high school softball season? Absolutely crazy
Because some parents only care about themselves and don't care what happens with their school team as long as their kid gets theirs. Plus, there is a lot of drama with that program.
I would've agreed completely with this a month ago. But maybe only slightly now. They have a lot of young freshman in the lineup that are starting to hit their stride. Over half the lineup is hitting over or near .300. Also over half have went deep this year. So bats are coming alive.
The Eastside game they were off. Not taking anything from Eastside. They're solid. But coach started the freshman on the rubber that hadn't seen action in a while. I think the first game was more indicative the level they're on. Was tied in the 7th. They were also missing a key bat in first game. Again not saying Richlands will make ot to state. But i think they should give any team they face a hard time
The freshman might not had pitched for Richlands for a little bit, but she threw over 230 pitches in travel ball two days before. Richlands will be a factor, but it will be because of Rife.
Even after an uncharacteristically bad game by Richlands (softball) yesterday, I still think they have a good shot of coming out of the region and maybe going pretty deep in the playoffs.
You're right, physical abuse of a child is far less egregious than driving drunk. What was I thinking? /s
I'll say it again because you seem to be pretty dense. Two wrongs don't make a right!!! Whataboutism has no place in the discussion of child abuse.
By the way, justifying the physical abuse of a 15 year old kid based on something that happened in a college basketball game 32 years ago is pretty absurd!
Don't reach too much further. You might hurt yourself
Appropriate behavior for public school employees when dealing with public school students, whether those students belong to them or not, is something that is clearly defined by state law within the public school ecosystem. Kevin Clifford was fired instantly from Patrick Henry - Roanoke more than 20 years ago for grabbing a football player in a similar fashion.
Does a drunk driver get a pass when he crashes into a family of four because he's never crashed into anyone before? Maybe a better analogy, would the Algebra teacher be forgiven after grabbing a student by the chest, screaming in that students face, shaking them, and slap punch them in the back as they shove that student down the hallway? Why should rules differ because one is in a classroom setting while the other is on an athletic field? Rules are in place to handle these situations and shouldn't be ignored based on who the child/victim was or who the aggressor was. As I stated above, two wrongs never make a right!!!
I'm not going to advocate on a meaningless message board for someone losing his job . But if I were a member of that community, I would be questioning those elected to govern the public school system in Bristol pretty hard.
You're right, a better analogy was the one with the Algebra teacher because using the drunk driving analogy was absurd.
The video I posted is full of 18, 19, and 20 year old boys. Not "grown men".
Has Gobble had a history of doing things like that with players that aren't his son? Him grabbing his son by his jersey and getting into his face for acting like a jackwagon isn't like the Woody Hayes incident, or the incident at Ridgeview last year. There was no violence whatsoever in the video of Gobble.
The video I posted is full of 18, 19, and 20 year old boys. Not "grown men".
Has Gobble had a history of doing things like that with players that aren't his son? Him grabbing his son by his jersey and getting into his face for acting like a jackwagon isn't like the Woody Hayes incident, or the incident at Ridgeview last year. There was no violence whatsoever in the video of Gobble.
Sorry for the lack of clarification. Every thing I said before “on the softball side” was referring to baseball. And to answer the other question yes they brought her in later and I don’t exactly know how much of the damage was done off her except for the “home run”
Lebanon scored all of their runs before Compton entered the game
After a couple of games in the season here are some of my thoughts. If abingdon and Lebanon can both clean up their game a little bit I feel like they are state contenders. Marion is solid, tazewell is solid, Virginia high is decent but they should get better as the season goes on, Central is decent, and Richlands could probably beat just about anyone in the region if hale is having a good day on the mound. On the softball side i feel like Lebanon and Richlands are competing for the region and then everyone else is playing for 3rd place
On the softball side, you seem to be discounting the Mountain 7 teams awfully early in the season
We should be solid if we can stay healthy. Return all but 1 player from a team that made the Region 2D semifinals last year. The Mtn 7 should come down to us and Battle.
Pretty good friends with a former Lee High player. Her son plays for D-B now and made first team all conference this year. I think they were really good back when she played for them back in the mid 90's.
Jessica was a pretty good ball player in her own right. Cam had no choice but to be a good athlete lol. He has a bright future in baseball!
Pretty good friends with a former Lee High player. Her son plays for D-B now and made first team all conference this year. I think they were really good back when she played for them back in the mid 90's.
Jessica was a pretty good ball player in her own right. Cam had no choice but to be a good athlete lol. He has a bright future in baseball!
Pretty good friends with a former Lee High player. Her son plays for D-B now and made first team all conference this year. I think they were really good back when she played for them back in the mid 90's.
Jessica was a pretty good ball player in her own right. Cam had no choice but to be a good athlete lol. He has a bright future in baseball!
What has happened with that program? I remember when Stephanie ward coached there, they were tough as nails,
We are a team full of guards. Have no size whatsoever. Tallest player this year was possibly 5'4. It's difficult to win in the toughest district in the state when you are getting outsized by 4-5 inches every game.
We did win 5 games this season though, so there has been some progress.
Abingdon has 3 coaches, what did they do, stand there too?
Why would you expect your opponent to help your player off the court?
I swear people look for anything to knock Wise.
I can't stand them either, but they didn't win all them banners by being nice.
Maybe if some other girls and their coaches got mean around here they would beat Wise.
Abingdon's coach went on the court to help. Nobody was expecting the opponent to help her. He was saying Central didn't have a trainer or EMT on site in case of a significant injury, and nobody from Central seemed to be concerned about getting one.
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Because some parents only care about themselves and don't care what happens with their school team as long as their kid gets theirs. Plus, there is a lot of drama with that program.