John Van Benschoten

@JFarfsing1980 I don’t disagree.

@JohnnyVanBee Conference tourneys are garbage.

Tired of watching northern teams get snubbed in favor of popular teams with losing conference records. Don’t care, your season sucked if you have a losing conference record. Reward seasons, not rankings.

@JFarfsing1980 It’s obvious that they try to split up SEC teams to maximize their chances. It’s garbage. We reward perceived rankings a week long tourneys and not the season. When you get to pro level sports, they ONLY reward the seasons. What gives?

@JohnnyVanBee Mississippi St has a losing record in quad 1/2 games but they're hosting a regional 🤦‍♂️

@BaseballDudes48 @throwleather @DanDicke Exactly. 😆

@JohnnyVanBee @throwleather @DanDicke It’s a secret but the same pitch sequence is thrown to every batter. 🤦‍♂️

One of my favorite people to talk to and pick his brain was Marcel Lachemann. Asked him one day what one of the biggest mistakes coaches make and his answer was… “Trying to attach their name to a players name.” In other words, try to claim some responsibility for a players success.

@DaWalkingScorer @BaseballDudes48 @DanDicke 😂

@JohnnyVanBee @BaseballDudes48 @DanDicke I would let my kids invest my retirement money before I let them call pitches.

@ASJ_42 @DanDicke @BaseballDudes48 It’s fun right? THAT’S the fun too many adults are denying these kids.

@DanDicke @JohnnyVanBee @BaseballDudes48 We are just starting to talk about pitch sequences in practice with our 13’s.

@throwleather @DanDicke @BaseballDudes48 Everything is a big giant secret. 😂.

@DanDicke @BaseballDudes48 @JohnnyVanBee Played a game this weekend vs a team using both an earpiece (coach calling pitches) AND wristbands with numbering system for the defense. Even my kids thought it was stupid. 14U.

@Cerk26 @BaseballDudes48 😂. Right?!?

@JohnnyVanBee @BaseballDudes48 Me me me me...me. ME...check me out everyone! You've done it coach. Youve outsmarted the 10 year olds. 😅

@BayerRuss23 @BaseballDudes48 The best pitching staff in college right now lets their catchers call the game.

@JohnnyVanBee @BaseballDudes48 Sadly its brutal in HS +college as well. Not only do they call pitches, you can’t shake or swipe location without being berated. I’ll echo you-never had mine called through college or A ball either..and ironically we magically got outs and played past college 🤷🏽

@Cerk26 @DanDicke @BaseballDudes48 It’s common sense. It really is.

@JohnnyVanBee @DanDicke @BaseballDudes48 💯 Yep exactly. And they learn so fast. And it betters them in every aspect of the game. Not just behind the plate.

@Denherder17 @BaseballDudes48 The player that’s not allowed to think for themselves.

@JohnnyVanBee @BaseballDudes48 With a walkie talkie? Who is on the other walkie talkie?

@BaseballDudes48 I’ll be at Cane Ridge Park south of Nashville here in a couple hours. I’ll see at least a dozen bucket boys on my way to the back field. 😝

@BaseballDudes48 The coach that sits on a bucket outside the dugout with a walkie talkie is just the worst to me.

@Cerk26 @DanDicke @BaseballDudes48 If you don’t make them think, they’ll never learn. Love it. And people would be surprised how fast they’d develop THEMSELVES if you just leave em alone. It’s a game right? Let em play it.

@DanDicke @BaseballDudes48 @JohnnyVanBee My 12yo son calls every pitch. Every cut. Every situation in the field. He makes mistakes. He learns. He gets better. Development > winning Development = winning

@BaseballDudes48 @DanDicke 100%. “Fun” is when my kid/team does well.

@JohnnyVanBee @DanDicke “Fun” has a different meaning depending on who you talk to.

@DanDicke @BaseballDudes48 I love the adults that claim they want their kids to “have fun” are the same ones that don’t let em call pitches. Calling pitches as a kid is prolly the most fun thing to do. lol. 🤷🏻‍♂️. People have no idea what they’re talking about.

@JohnnyVanBee @BaseballDudes48 My 13 and 14 yr old catchers call pitches. They love it and learn from it.

@BaseballDudes48 Yeah Greer stadium I think is a “campground” now. 😆.

@JohnnyVanBee Sorry, meant the Nashville field. Running in Colorado wasn’t fun for anyone!!

@BaseballDudes48 lol. I remember that series. That was the series when the “vets” decided to haze me. Yeah that field wasn’t the best from what I remember. I do remember the 30 minute run around the outfield was a struggle. That altitude. 😆

@BaseballDudes48 Too many coaches coach to win, they don’t coach to coach. The dead give away is not letting catchers call pitches. I played baseball till I was 32 and a coach NEVER called any of my pitches. Ever. It’s wild to see in every single game I watch in PG.

@thevannzee This happens every year. The selection committee has no idea how hard it is to win 40 baseballs games in a collegiate year. But…..we have to have a certain amount of ACC/SEC teams because they bring money with em. It’s just the way it is.

MAC Baseball cannibalized itself. One team will go to the NCAA Tournament and it won’t be Miami or Kent State.