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@CoachDavidKlein IMO - They should do away with "age" vs. "season age" and move to grade level. They also should not allow kids to "play down" below the level(s) or division they normally play with. Unfortunately, there are tons of orgs in it for the $$$ and they are all about winning.

I’m looking for standard travel ball. USSSA. Genuinely, I don’t think anyone really understands it. At least not enough to be able to explain it simply. 15+ replies on my post yesterday and nobody nailed it. Like it’s always missing something. It’s easy to say it’s their age on April 30 or May 1 but of what season? Of what year?

Help needed still… For the upcoming travel ball season which apparently runs from August 11, 2026 to August 10, 2027… how do you determine a players travel ball age for that season? Explain it to me like I’m a dumb parent. Which apparently I am…

Great weekend for LH Panthers Select Baseball. Annual fundraiser golf tournament was a huge success. Thanks to all the sponsors and attendees. 11U went undefeated and took 1st place 13u battled from behind all weekend & took 2nd place at VTool Rodeo Roundup. Way to go Panthers!!

@CoachLisle Bingo!

Parents poisoning team culture through their kids. Your whispers in the car become their words in the locker room. Choose wisely.

LH Panthers Select Baseball is off to a great start. 11U took GOLD last weekend. Great pitching and hitting! 13U took GOLD yesterday playing up at 14U. Great defense and baserunning! Congrats young men. Keep grinding. @LibertyHillBB @FroemkeKyle

@jmw1818 Ouch!

Nice bomb, but is the outfielder ok???

2nd Annual Golf Tournament supporting LH Panthers Select Baseball!! This tournament supports a great group of boys who love baseball and their spring capstone tournament in Omaha. Sponsorship opportunities available and appreciated!! docs.google.com/.../1FAIpQLSds…...

LH Panthers Select Baseball Hard to believe it’s that time again!! **Annual Post Season Football Squares** A chance to WIN in 3 different games! facebook.com/LHPanthersSele…

@BarryRoland19 I don’t claim 20k is normal, but coaching gets me there regularly.

Don't understand people who claim to walk 20k steps a day. Occasionally, on the weekends, when I tell my wife "let's go on a long walk", and we walk all day, and I look at my phone after hours and hours of walking, I'm at like 16,230 max. Is everyone just a liar?

@nut_history Wiffle or sandlot ball in those conditions is one thing. Being an organized event in those conditions is ridiculous and dangerous.

I remember being a kid and playing baseball in my friends front yard rain or shine. I miss it everyday even though my mom wasn’t happy with me or my brother when I left puddles on her clean floors. Watch this for old memories that will hit you right in the feelings. Best thing you’ll see tonight

@iris_seraphina Agreed! Bet that mesquite on the tank didn't feel good though. That's hardcore.

Horse is a badass. 🐎 Heeler is a badass. 🐾 Rider is a badass. 🤠 Whole video is badass 🔥

@MoosesFelix Good Lord!!! Tank!

Little fella got him a monster......

@Brendougherty Interesting! Seems like most guys (at that level) would be really close in those categories. Maybe not. Too many guys are focusing on data. It's still the ability to be on time and dominate routine plays.

Spoke with an MLB Infield Coordinator today. Asked him what defensive stat/metric was important to them. 1. Catch Rate-Simply securing the ball 2. Arm Accuracy-How accurate are there throws. 3. Prep-step timing-How efficient they react to batted balls. Never mentioned Velocity across!! #noneedforPGshuffle

@KurtSupeCPA I'm no tax strategy guy. What about the sale of her practice? Can she live off that $ for a while? Most professional practice sales involve an "earnout" over a few years. Can she structure the sale so it pays over time? Does she own the real estate where the practice is located?

Michelle came in to talk about selling her dental practice. 57 years old. $2.8M in retirement accounts. Completely burned out. She had it all figured out - live off her $340K brokerage account for a couple years, then start pulling from her IRA when she hits 59½. Pretty standard plan. I pulled up her numbers and something jumped out immediately. At $125K/year in spending, that brokerage account runs dry before she can touch her IRA without penalties. Not by much, but enough to be a problem. But honestly? That wasn't even the main issue. Her real problem is hiding in her $2.8M IRA. That money's going to grow for another 16 years before required distributions kick in. By then she's looking at forced withdrawals around $170K per year. Add in Social Security and she's over $200K in taxable income every year. Which puts her in a way higher tax bracket than she needs to be in. I showed her a different approach. Right now, her income is about to drop to basically nothing. For the first time since her twenties. That's actually valuable. We can convert portions of her IRA to Roth over the next few years while she's in the 12% bracket. Pay a little tax now instead of a lot later. Plus there's this thing called the Rule of 55 - since she's leaving her job after 55, she can actually access her 401(k) now without the penalty. Which means her brokerage account doesn't have to do all the heavy lifting. She wasn't jumping up and down excited, but she got it. The difference in lifetime taxes? Around $600K. Most people who retire early just wing it on the tax stuff. Then they hit 73 and wonder why they're paying so much to the IRS. The move is to use those low-income early retirement years wisely. They don't come around twice.

@Rainmaker1973 Another level? Those are standard rolls. Good, but normal.

Taking wakeboarding to another leve [📹 zahrakell]

@TwoFiveBaseball $$$ = yes Weather = bad Bad baseball = false Crap comp = false Every team brought it. Competition was legit. We placed 3 out of 79. Last time on a small field. Memories will last a lifetime. Graduated to a full field & BBCOR bats. Most kids will never have that much fun again.

Possibly unpopular opinion… The 12U Cooperstown tourney is a waste. - Thousands of dollars to go - Questionable weather - Generally not good baseball - Crapshoot of competition - And Barry Bonds isn’t in the hall of fame, so there’s no need to go 🤷🏻‍♂️

@LibertyHillBB @chanfreeman_ Nice! Looking forward to seeing him out there.

Excited to welcome Coach Freeman to @LibertyHillBB as the new Assistant Baseball Coach! @chanfreeman_

@NatureChapter Does the bird fly off after this, or just lay down and digest fish for a couple days?

@wiscoboy1982 @CoachSwit Bingo!

@CoachSwit The only scouts at 12-14U tournaments are other travel organizations poaching kids for their National or Elite teams. Then at 14U the kid can travel all over the place for the same competition as tournaments within 50-75 miles of home.

Last few years have had several players & parents not choose my travel team because of the lack of national travel we do. I asked why do we need to travel nationally? Answer from all of them was the same, exposure to College Coaches. FYI this was for 12u, 13u & 14u.

@gunsnrosesgirl3 if you're 5 foot 3, and you're 300 pounds, taxes ought naught to pay for your bags of fudge rounds.

What’s your first thought when you see this shopping cart