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If South Laurel can score score in bunches lt can be a very exciting game, I'm an East fan and have seen what their hot bats can do. Will be honest though I haven't seen SL and don't know much about them.

Alphin may have done the wrong thing by not sliding. However he could have hit the catcher harder had he been swinging a feather pillow. Lot of trashtalking going on, so I can completely understand why it happened. But I'd be lying if I said my heart wasn't in my throat... Would have hated to have seen him ejected on that.

Some also said E-Town's pitching staff was loaded. East rolls!

Bullitt East beat Butler, 0-2 but I've got faith that you can turn it around.:thumb:

It is very true that it's all hitter preference and style, and while I agree the trampoline effect isn't as useful in baseball, my younger brother used one of his teammates Stealth flex bats while playing this summer, and absolutely loved it. Says he hit the ball further than with a stiff bat and claimed a few balls he put out he didn't catch near solid at all, but he relies mostly on strong hands, so it seems the technology worked in his direction. I personally agree with you, but I was never a longball hitter.

Not to toot the East horn too much, but if anybody gets a chance to watch them this year I think Jimmy Hoffman would be considered a top 2B, has all the tools and has a very nice bat. East has some very solid pitching, nice fundamentals in the field, and I don't think they'll have a very hard time putting up runs.

McCarthy at East may be getting some work as a lefthanded closer this year...which is only mildly impressive until you realize he plays RF righthanded!

Bullitt East in the 6th. Some of these kids played in very big tournaments and very big situations at very young ages...together. 4 current starters, Alphin, Bowles, Jones and McCarthy all played together as Central Kentucky Comets, all four of them have ice water in the vains, they aren't intimidated. Jimmy Hoffman is one of the smoothest 2nd basemen I've seen, before he came to East he was invited to try out for the Junior Olympic team as a SS, solid hitter. Not many holes on defense, 1-7 can hit the deep ball...this team can put up some runs, and they have the majority of their innings pitched returning. No knock on PRP, they are the perinnial power in Louisville baseball no doubt, but I think this is the year the "little guy" will take down the giant. Can't speak too much for the other regions, I primarily follow East and the 6th, but I can't wait to see if this baseball team follows up on the football teams run.

The main issue here is not whether we think kids should strive for a good education. Let me ask you this, if your chosen profession was to be a lawyer, so you go through years and years of schooling, pass the exam, you're now a lawyer. Then somebody tells you the schooling was unnecessary to become a lawyer, all you have to do is pass the bar. Think of time a athlete can spend in a college getting what can be an unnecessary education if he succeeds playing baseball. Don't get me wrong, in no way am I saying education isn't important in life, but it doesn't take a degree to play a little stick ball...In the case in which this thread was originally intended, education is not the biggest of concerns, as was mentioned earlier, a player signing with the MLB has the ability to have an education paid for later by the team in which he signs. That's the great thing about baseball, even if you fail, you can still succeed.

You've all definately helped shed some light for me. Thank you all, and if anyone else has any comments every little bit will help.

With D-1 schools only being able to give 11.7 scholarships per team, and JUCO being alotted 24, I was just curious if anybody had some insights on wether taking a ride to JUCO as apposed to maybe a 30% scholarship would hurt a players chances come time to enter the draft. Any info would be much appreciated. Any past experiences anyone could share would be very helpful, my younger brother is entering his senior season, and some third party people have told us he's expected to be a pretty good recruit, so we're facing a lot of these decisions, hoping the bluegrass faithful can help educate us some.

What would Brian Boitano do if he were here right now?

Yes, he is a senior. He was a RB through youth league, they felt his tools could be better used at TE, and while I agree he made a good TE, good runblocker, good reciever, he was still in an offense designed to get him the ball only a few times a game. I do thank Coach Preston for giving him a shot, I know for a fact it made his senior year and their playoff run that much sweeter for him personally.

I'm a little biased, but Zack McCarthy of Bullitt East had 1250, entered the backfield around wk 6, but never had more than 10 carries in a game until the final week of the regular season. Would like to have seen what he could have done being the primary ball carrier throughout the season.

Thank you both, I was going to try to keep anonimous, let that one go huh. As far as his future entails, it's all still kind of up in the air, no college offers, but getting some letters and things, has gotten a little attention from MLB, but again like I said it's all kind of still up in the air.