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| Author: | Hatchetman [ Mon May 23, 2016 1:15 pm ] |
| Post subject: | High School Baseball Playoffs? |
Help me out here. where/how can I catch some action? Am I too late? |
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| Author: | doug - evergreen park [ Mon May 23, 2016 2:08 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: High School Baseball Playoffs? |
Regional Finals for 3A and 4A are later this week. http://www.maxpreps.com/playoffs/bracke ... l&state=il |
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| Author: | badrogue17 [ Mon May 23, 2016 2:15 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: High School Baseball Playoffs? |
Hatchetman wrote: Help me out here. where/how can I catch some action? Am I too late? For starters Hatch, I'd probably start hanging out with Abbatacola. Sadly though, it indeed does look like you may be a little late. |
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| Author: | formerlyknownas [ Mon May 23, 2016 2:22 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: High School Baseball Playoffs? |
Hatchetman wrote: Help me out here. where/how can I catch some action? Am I too late? It ended in tragedy last year when Mount Carmel blew it. But you might follow the twitter feeds of any schools you know are playing--they often have people periscoping the games. It's a great tournament to watch in person, too. |
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| Author: | Hatchetman [ Mon May 23, 2016 2:33 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: High School Baseball Playoffs? |
I just want to show my son that he'll never be that good, so he might as well give up baseball now. |
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| Author: | Keyser Soze [ Mon May 23, 2016 2:56 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: High School Baseball Playoffs? |
Starts Wednesday. Brother Rice is the best team in the state. Plainfield North and Mt Carmel are really good too. |
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| Author: | conns7901 [ Mon May 23, 2016 3:07 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: High School Baseball Playoffs? |
Play-in games start today. http://ihsa.org/SportsActivities/BoysBa ... es/ba4.htm |
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| Author: | Hatchetman [ Mon May 23, 2016 3:11 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: High School Baseball Playoffs? |
I can't go Weds, but maybe Sat. Lane Tech? Times? Tickets? where the hell is this info? no wonder nobody likes baseball. games are held in secret. |
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| Author: | Regular Reader [ Mon May 23, 2016 3:19 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: High School Baseball Playoffs? |
Hatchetman wrote: I can't go Weds, but maybe Sat. Lane Tech? Times? Tickets? where the hell is this info? no wonder nobody likes baseball. games are held in secret. Go on the IHSA website, click on either 3-4A Brackets and scroll down to the regional games listed lower on the page to get the matchups & times. Tickets are generally about $5 for adults. |
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| Author: | Hatchetman [ Mon May 23, 2016 3:28 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: High School Baseball Playoffs? |
OK. we will see the situation come Saturday. OPRF any good? |
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| Author: | Regular Reader [ Mon May 23, 2016 3:34 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: High School Baseball Playoffs? |
Hatchetman wrote: OK. we will see the situation come Saturday. OPRF any good? I haven't seen them this year, but I presume they're pretty much what they always have been. Solid baseball players with a good amount of D1 talent sprinkled around. The few I know/know of were really pretty good kids, easy to cheer for. |
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| Author: | formerlyknownas [ Mon May 23, 2016 5:02 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: High School Baseball Playoffs? |
Hatchetman wrote: OK. we will see the situation come Saturday. OPRF any good? You can always go to Edgy Tim's site as well. Probably the best place. https://edgytim.forums.rivals.com/forum ... -board.12/ |
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| Author: | Edward Dickman [ Mon May 23, 2016 5:06 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: High School Baseball Playoffs? |
Baseball is very complicated and difficult to understand. You better bring Jorr with you so he can explain everything to you. |
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| Author: | Hatchetman [ Mon May 23, 2016 6:12 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: High School Baseball Playoffs? |
Edward Dickman wrote: Baseball is very complicated and difficult to understand. You better bring Jorr with you so he can explain everything to you. Its quite simple when he explains it. the starting pitcher is the only player that matters. you can ignore eveyone else. |
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| Author: | Keyser Soze [ Thu May 26, 2016 7:49 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: High School Baseball Playoffs? |
Coal City beat Joliet Catholic 1-0. Littleton over Fellows. Hell of a game. |
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| Author: | formerlyknownas [ Thu May 26, 2016 10:45 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: High School Baseball Playoffs? |
Mount Carmel plays Lyons Saturday at Mount Carmel for the regional title--this has turned out to be a good playoff rivalry over the past seven or eight years. |
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| Author: | Hatchetman [ Sat May 28, 2016 5:39 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: High School Baseball Playoffs? |
Went to the OPRF / Lane Tech game today. Pitchers dominated. 1-0 in 8 innings. OPRF starter Hank Christie overcame multiple miscues by his fielders. Guessing he was in the 88-90mph range. I heard he is going to NU but not sure. |
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| Author: | formerlyknownas [ Sat May 28, 2016 5:43 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: High School Baseball Playoffs? |
Hatchetman wrote: Went to the OPRF / Lane Tech game today. Pitchers dominated. 1-0 in 8 innings. OPRF starter Hank Christie overcame multiple miscues by his fielders. Guessing he was in the 88-90mph range. I heard he is going to NU but not sure. Great book concerning (in small part) Lane Tech: One Shot at Forever by Chris Ballard |
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| Author: | Keyser Soze [ Thu Jun 02, 2016 7:49 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: High School Baseball Playoffs? |
Brother Rice knocked off Rita. Now they play the winner of St Laurence vs Mt Carmel. Hell of a sectional when all 4 teams are good enough to win it all. |
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| Author: | DannyB [ Thu Jun 02, 2016 9:26 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: High School Baseball Playoffs? |
Hatchetman wrote: Went to the OPRF / Lane Tech game today. Pitchers dominated. 1-0 in 8 innings. OPRF starter Hank Christie overcame multiple miscues by his fielders. Guessing he was in the 88-90mph range. I heard he is going to NU but not sure. OPRF has to be the most consistently excellent program in the state--I think they have a tremendous youth program. I saw Ben Shelton hit a ball what had to be at least 450 feet. The guy was like an adult Darryl Strawberry in HS (minus the coke one presumes). Kaiser was a psycho screamer though, made the games unpleasant. And they wore these ferkakta 70s uniforms well into the 80s |
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| Author: | conns7901 [ Thu Jun 02, 2016 11:17 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: High School Baseball Playoffs? |
Keyser, Thoughts on this? Quote: Jeff Newton @Jeff_Newton847 Matt Burch @WTHSAthletics baseball quit the team two days before sectional final Saturday. Word is he believes he'll be drafted in 2 weeks I may head out to STL/MC tomorrow. |
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| Author: | formerlyknownas [ Fri Jun 03, 2016 2:16 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: High School Baseball Playoffs? |
conns7901 wrote: I may head out to STL/MC tomorrow. I'll be there. Should be a great game. |
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| Author: | Keyser Soze [ Fri Jun 03, 2016 8:07 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: High School Baseball Playoffs? |
conns7901 wrote: Keyser, Thoughts on this? Quote: Jeff Newton @Jeff_Newton847 Matt Burch @WTHSAthletics baseball quit the team two days before sectional final Saturday. Word is he believes he'll be drafted in 2 weeks I may head out to STL/MC tomorrow. I don't think that's true. Be sure to keep an eye on #19 for MC. |
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| Author: | Hatchetman [ Fri Jun 03, 2016 8:53 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: High School Baseball Playoffs? |
I hadn't seen a high school game since I was in high school in the late 80s. I was pretty surprised how good these kids are - big, strong, picture perfect strokes and deliveries. Being groomed from age six to be a baseball star does produce some really good players. I doubt the wear and tear on arms is a good thing though. |
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| Author: | leashyourkids [ Fri Jun 03, 2016 8:57 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: High School Baseball Playoffs? |
Hatchetman wrote: I was pretty surprised how good these kids are - big, strong, picture perfect strokes and deliveries. Take it down a notch. You're creeping me out. |
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| Author: | formerlyknownas [ Fri Jun 03, 2016 9:35 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: High School Baseball Playoffs? |
Hatchetman wrote: I hadn't seen a high school game since I was in high school in the late 80s. I was pretty surprised how good these kids are - big, strong, picture perfect strokes and deliveries. Being groomed from age six to be a baseball star does produce some really good players. I doubt the wear and tear on arms is a good thing though. Ran into a Mount Carmel baseball player from the early 90s. They had a pretty good team then, ranked between 6-10 in state. Shame they didn't go downstate, I said. So close. He said, "Ah, we were happy. I mean, I was a football player who liked to play a little baseball. Today's kids are strictly baseball players. A few play football, but they've been raised to get a B+ average and turn double plays since they were eight years old. It's all they know, and it's kind of weird." He's a high school principal now at a Catholic school in Cincinnati. |
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| Author: | conns7901 [ Fri Jun 03, 2016 9:41 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: High School Baseball Playoffs? |
formerlyknownas wrote: Hatchetman wrote: I hadn't seen a high school game since I was in high school in the late 80s. I was pretty surprised how good these kids are - big, strong, picture perfect strokes and deliveries. Being groomed from age six to be a baseball star does produce some really good players. I doubt the wear and tear on arms is a good thing though. Ran into a Mount Carmel baseball player from the early 90s. They had a pretty good team then, ranked between 6-10 in state. Shame they didn't go downstate, I said. So close. He said, "Ah, we were happy. I mean, I was a football player who liked to play a little baseball. Today's kids are strictly baseball players. A few play football, but they've been raised to get a B+ average and turn double plays since they were eight years old. It's all they know, and it's kind of weird." He's a high school principal now at a Catholic school in Cincinnati. I believe MC best baseball kids play football. |
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| Author: | rogers park bryan [ Fri Jun 03, 2016 9:47 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: High School Baseball Playoffs? |
Co Workers kid is a pretty decent pitcher for Lake Park. They gave St Charles all they could handle but lost 5-4 in 8 in a stomach punch type situation. LP loaded the bases with nobody out in the 8th. 4-4 at the time. Strikeout, then 1-2-3 double play. Then in the bottom of the inning St Charles loaded the bases (walk, hbp, balk, intentional walk) with nobody out. Kid hit a fly ball to center, not deep enough to tag up. Runner on third got too far off the base though so the catcher fired down to 3b and they had em in a rundown. Third baseman ran him toward home and threw to the catcher at the last second. Off his mitt. Runner slides in safely to win the Sectional. My guy says 3b could have caught and tagged the kid without the throw. Not sure. That's a tough one though. |
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| Author: | formerlyknownas [ Fri Jun 03, 2016 9:52 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: High School Baseball Playoffs? |
conns7901 wrote: I believe MC best baseball kids play football. Today, most don't once junior year rolls around. A few do, though. But it's not like it was in years past. The baseball program has its own prestige, if that makes sense. Plus, so many kids go there now for baseball only. |
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| Author: | Hatchetman [ Fri Jun 03, 2016 9:53 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: High School Baseball Playoffs? |
rogers park bryan wrote: My guy says 3b could have caught and tagged the kid without the throw. Not sure. That's a tough one though. the kids will be scarred for life now. |
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