bassmaster

I was just wondering because after next year I am sure Ashland will drop us and probably Russell will too. Who would be good candidates to pick up in case this happens? Would a regular season matchup against Beechwood be impossible?

Do any Raceland fans think this matchup is in our future. I would love to see this game.

I have to agree with you on that comment. You don't see many good arms in baseball anymore, but there are a bunch of kids out there with very strong thumbs. I wonder if a lot of training is involved in pushing the a or b button?

Mike Yeagle: Beechwood 8 state titles.

How diplomatic of you. I think I will let it rest. Besides what good would it do me to talk to coaches, faculty, and administration who are all football oriented?

I don't have a problem with our football coach coaching every sport boys and girls in the entire system if he wants. As long as he gives them ALL equal time. I do have a problem when you say a school with many sports is one sport oriented. Who is being one sided with that comment? I guess what's good for the goose is not good for the Gander? Beechwood is a football school. They have 10 state titles. Until we win some of those I don't know how we can be football oriented. I hope we win a 100 state titles, but we haven't. As far as our football coach goes, he's the hardest working man in highschool sports in this country. I have nothing but respect for the man.

Maybe we should have a group hug instead of practicing against the zone? I hope that the players that are ill have a swift recovery. We need them. This is one of the deepest groups we have ever had, and they play extremley hard. I think Coach Floyd is an exceptional coach. GO RAMS!!!!!:

You totally avoided the question. The question was: What would people think if the football coach ran fall baseball practices during football season? Can you answer that question? Put yourself in the other persons shoes. If we are going to be football oriented then lets get rid of the other sports and be football oriented. I'm not trying to start anything. I wish it would go back to the old days where you played a sport and moved on to the next one. You didn't practice or play all 3 year round like today. I am a huge football fan. I come to every game, and I can't stand it when my school loses at anything.

I don't get where you are coming from. The baseball team is coming off of 3 20 win seasons and the best record in school history. If that doesn't drum up intrest somethings wrong. Yes the JFL is doing very well. Take the 5th grade class at Worthington for example. There are over a hundred kids in that class. People say it's the largest class ever to come through the school system. For football they only had 21 kids come out, for basket ball 7, and for baseball 3. I just can't figure it out.

I am just curious Ram. What would the people from Raceland think If our football coach ran a fall baseball practice for 2 weeks During crucial practice time for the football team? Keep in mind that I know he's not allowed to do that because of KHSAA rules, but what if he could? I think 2 weeks of fall baseball practice 5 months before the season starts would also be benificial for the baseball team. What are your thoughts?

You have to admit, If you could find another lead-off hitter you would put martin in the 3 hole....wouldn't you?

I personally think he should give up baseball, because he's not very good at it as far as hiting goes. He's a pretty good outfielder. Other than that baseball is his weakest sport.

Not only that, but I'm sure Lewis remembers how poorly the Rams played against the zone that they threw at them the first time they played. Rams have played poorly against the zone all year. Maybe we should run the offense that Shelby Valley ran that ripped our zone to pieces.

Mr. Lewis is all about Mr. Lewis. It sickens me when all of these kids who are playing college ball get their name put on the Post 76 website as kids who he put in college, and that's just not true. They are only put on there so he can say "Look what I did, I'm the greatest coach alive." All I can say is....I have a son playing little league right now, and I will do everything in my power to make sure that there is another summer program in this aera within the next 5 years. He will not play for Mr. Lewis Ever!!!!

I have talked with some of the AABC people and they are saying that they won't have a baberuth team this year.(We had four at one time.) They are saying they possibly may not have an 11-12 year old team this year. I don't know about you guys, but this lack of intrest doesn't seem to be paying off. Something has to be done to get the numbers back up. A parent told me that there are 8 kids for 11-12 year old baseball 2 of wich are from Wurtland and one kid from South Point. That means you only have 5 kids from Raceland in 2 age groups playing baseball.

I know this will be a stupid question, but what effect does spring football practice have on a season that doesn't start for atleast 5 months after spring practice? I personally would not want my baseball players playing in a spring game so they can get thier neck broke before the season starts. It all seems a little anal to me.

No sir I don't. I do remember him pitching a little bit his freshmen year. I think he was thrown into a season opening game against East not last year but the year before. I think we got mercy ruled 14-0. which in my opinion was not his fault. 1) he should not have been throwing that game as a freshmen.2) the umpire had a strikezone as big as a thimble. and 3) The team did not produce hardly anything as far as runs or hits.

I will have to agree about the spring football deal. When you have as many assistant coaches as he does(And very knowledgable assistants at that) Why would you need to be there. As far as the girls basketball thing goes he has one daughter in college and one soon to be in college. I think he is trying to make some extra money for their education. I can't blame him for that. If I'm not mistaken They only have one JV coach as of right now. Who's going to help that poor guy this year? From what I hear the Morris guy is out of work right now. I'm sure other than looking for a job he has nothing to do. Why doesn't anybody ask him to help out a little bit?

Mr. Lewis gets kids only because he has a monopoly on summer baseball. There is nowhere else for them to play. Otherwise I suspect a lot of them would not play for him. As far as putting kids in colleges most of them were already going to play for a college before they ever started playing for him. The ones that have gotten into college from his team is simply because of exposure(ie the schedule he puts together) it's definitely not because of his wealth of baseball knowledge. He's probably been responsible for blowing just as many kids arms out as has put people in school. I hope Mr. wilson isn't one of them.

I don't have a kid on the team. I am just a fan and have been since the early 80's. The last person I would ever ask a baseball question to is Paul lewis. I would rank his opinion right up their with that white stuff that collects in the corner of your mouth when you are thirsty. Like i said before I am not bashing the boy. He has good talent, and he will have to be the man on the mound this year for Raceland to get out of the district. Wilson is the only kid in that list with any real varsity pitching experience. Like I said before, you have a lot of kids that can throw, but only two who can pitch. Look...I hope the win the State tournament, but it ain't going to happen with the list of pitchers you just named. I'm not bashing anybody. I am being realistic.

I don't think it's that they take football more serious than baseball. I think their are 3 problems with baseball at Raceland. 1) Most of the kids that play baseball have to play all 3 sports at Raceland which means they don't get to practice all year round like other schools. 2) their is more involvement from the parents in football for example raising money, fixing and improving the field, things like that. I have never seen any parents get really involved with things like that as far as baseball goes. football has their own boosters. They run around like a bunch of little army ants over their raising money for football and taking care of the field. Why doesn't baseball start a baseball boosters? 3) I think the coaching staff should take a little more intrest in the AABC league at worthington. For example how about a preseason camp for the little guys over their. Get them intrested in the sport. Have a coaching clinic for the AABC coaches over their. The Darby and the Morris guy over their have done more for that program than anybody as far as developing talent, but we need for all of the AABC coaches to be able to do the same thing, but so far nobody from the highschool has ever really taken an intrest in their feeder program. Numbers are really rising in the younger age groups over their. I hope somebody steps up and takes an intrest over their. Coach Vanderhoof is a good coach from where I stand. He has done great things with not alot of real good talent. Before you judge me and say that I am a football guy because of some of the things you've read here. I just want to say that my kids have never played football for Raceland.

I am with you to a certain extent. I played in the 80's under Jody hamilton. We didn't even have a field to play on. We had to play in worthington on the Baberuth field. We called it the launching pad. As far as the facilities go now, The lights are the best thing about the place. The playing surface and the field itself are in sad shape. The backstop could fall on the press box at anytime, and last year the home dugout facade was rotting. Again though like I said before to me It's lack of parent involvement. When the work starts you can't seem to find anybody to help, but when the games start people come out of the woodwork.

I don't think it's that they take football more serious than baseball. I think their are 3 problems with baseball at Raceland. 1) Most of the kids that play baseball have to play all 3 sports at Raceland which means they don't get to practice all year round like other schools. 2) their is more involvement from the parents in football for example raising money, fixing and improving the field, things like that. I have never seen any parents get really involved with things like that as far as baseball goes. football has their own boosters. They run around like a bunch of little army ants over their raising money for football and taking care of the field. Why doesn't baseball start a baseball boosters? 3) I think the coaching staff should take a little more intrest in the AABC league at worthington. For example how about a preseason camp for the little guys over their. Get them intrested in the sport. Have a coaching clinic for the AABC coaches over their. The Darby and the Morris guy over their have done more for that program than anybody as far as developing talent, but we need for all of the AABC coaches to be able to do the same thing, but so far nobody from the highschool has ever really taken an intrest in their feeder program. Numbers are really rising in the younger age groups over their. I hope somebody steps up and takes an intrest over their. Coach Vanderhoof is a good coach from where I stand. He has done great things with not alot of real good talent. Before you judge me and say that I am a football guy because of some of the things you've read here. I just want to say that my kids have never played football for Raceland.

I agree RamCat. to me he is the top player in the region this year. He does play shortstop, but I think his natural position would be 2nd base. I think he is definitley taylor made to say....play at a morehead or a marshall. Especially morehead. His lefthanded bat is Taylor made for Moreheads short porch in Rightfield. That's why I would bat him in the 3 hole if Raceland could find another lead-off hitter. He is definitely better than NAIA or d2 or d3. I will be dissappointed if he doesn't get looked at by some of the small d1 schools.

Mr. pickoff....I have had a child on the team since 2002. I know for a fact Mr. wilson has not been pitching for the varsity since he was in the 7th grade. And just like I said, I have heard that he done well in summer ball, but the fact still remains.....It hasn't happened at Raceland yet, and yes I am at all of the games and I have considerable knowledge of the game of baseball. You say from what you have heard he has done well....Maybe it is you who hasn't been to many games. As far as Raceland goes I don't have to hear, because I am their watching. And as I have stated in a seperate post I'm not bashing the kid I'm just simply stating that he is going to have to be the man this year if we are to have any hope of beating Greenup in the district assuming we draw them.