Doc Fox

Great summary ! NFHS just started a national campaign addressing this a couple of weeks ago. A couple of years late, but still started it. It's hard to slow the HS game antics down. So I started with the LL and 14u and below teams. 6 tournament games on Saturday full on noise bugs the shit out of me. I say so at the plate meeting. Who wants an annoyed ump. Then I reference the NFHS rule book Rule 3-3-1 My observations. The coaches that aren't yelling and shouting at errors and mental mistakes are the one's with the best dugouts. Kid's follow the leader. If you have well intentioned daddy-ball coaches loosing their shit at players and umpires it follows in the dugout. Ex-college and pro youth/HS coaches know the game and keep their voices minimal during games. If they do get mad it usually shows up in after game running where they still don't raise their voices. The difference? You can't demand respect while loosing your adult ass shit in public. You command respect through your emotional maturity and understanding the game. My recommendations to parents looking for a good travel team? Go watch the coaches in action. Watch their response to errors, and listen to them speak when they disagree with umpire calls. Emotional coaches means emotional kids without muzzles. Bad recipe....move along.

HS Baseball Players ⚾️ I’ve been around this game a long time, and something’s changed... We’re losing respect for the game. • Chirping after every pitch. • Celebrating routine plays like it’s Game 7 • Trying to embarrass opponents instead of beating them. That’s not toughness. That’s insecurity. 💯 Somewhere along the way, being loud became more important than being good. And the worst part? It’s being allowed. When I came up… • You showed up early. • You handled your business. • You played hard. • You shut your mouth. • If you had something to say… you said it with performance. • And if lines were ever crossed, the players took care of it. The truth: 👇 • Baseball is hard. • You’re going to fail. • You’re going to struggle. • The game doesn’t need more noise… • It needs more respect. • Nobody remembers who chirped. • They remember who showed up. • Who competed. • Who handled adversity. • Who left the game better than they found it. Want to separate yourself? Stop talking. Start working. Respect the game. 💯⚾️

Players under 25 have incomplete brain myelination. That means they lack ability to filter out the distractions. That's why your kid can't rent a car until they are 25. That being said, it is effective at it's intent. It is waived off as building "energy". Bullshit ! It is intent to disrupt. What the offensive team doesn't realize is that it also affects the batter's neurological processing. In the end, it is a game of honor. The Japanese treat it such. So this is a cultural degradation in sportsmanship. What comes out of your mouth shouldn't be how you speak. What comes out of your level of play should be how you speak. The behavior has roots in tribal war, where noise overwhelmed the adversary. We really haven't evolved. Kinda curious if MLB dugouts promote this behavior ?

When did chirping get this bad in Baseball? Travel. High School. College. Feels like every year it gets worse. Playing with edge is one thing… constant noise is another. Any Ideas? Thoughts on why?

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This is the biggest mistake I see baseball parents make👇

@3leftsbaseball Stellar perspective drilling down 3 layers.

The Sound of a Losing Culture. I hear it in the dugout during games. A player strikes out looking on a borderline pitch. He walks back to the bench tosses his bat and starts the script: "Blue has a flight to catch," or "The sun was right in my eyes." The coach nods just to stop the noise. The teammates shrug because they do it too. But the standard of the program just dropped another inch. You think you’re just "venting." Everyone else sees a player who is too soft to own his failure. The 3 Lefts Mental Audit: • The Excuse Subsidy: Every time you blame the umpire, the sun, or the mound you are paying a tax on your own development. If it’s someone else’s fault you don't have to fix anything. And if you don't fix anything you stay exactly where you are Average. • The "Main Character" Delusion: The sun is hitting the pitcher’s eyes too. The umpire is missing calls for both sides. The game isn't out to get you it just doesn't care about you. Stop acting like the world is conspiring against your batting average. • The Respect Gap: You want your teammates to trust you in the 7th inning. Then stop acting like a victim in the 2nd. Real leaders don't look for someone to blame they look for a way to adjust. The game doesn't reward the player with the best reason It rewards the player who makes the most adjustments. If you want to be treated like an elite ballplayer, start acting like one when things go wrong. High-level players don't have bad luck they have short memories and a plan for the next pitch. Average players want the world to be fair. Ballplayers realize the dirt is dirty and they keep digging anyway. Stop auditioning for the victim role. Nobody is buying tickets to that show. #3LeftsBaseball #BaseballIQ

What the kid said wasn't heard, and with the pointing of the bat was most likely provocative. Since the umpire responding that quick points to that probability. (Probably a life changing educational moment for that young youth, that may prevent him from doing that to someone that has a weapon, later in life.) Next, slow the video down and watch the ball cross at the letters. High fastball strike call. Ump has responsibility to not only the batter, but to the pitcher. Don't want to put it in his hands, swing that bat when the count dictates "protect mode". Be the predator, or be the prey. Additionally: there is a minimum of $3,000 dollars worth of bats in that dugout. Bats only work if they are swung. Strike zone reflects this. Pitcher's team complains about a "coffee can" stike zone, batter's team complains about their 2 dimensional flawed observation of "pitch tunnel", that is only truly observed by the pitcher, catcher, and umpire. Put a muzzle on those sitting in the stands observing a pitch tunnel from a perpendicular perspective. Finally, the role modeling by the coach will not create better players, but better criminals.

This just makes me really sad. How do we stop this type of thing from happening? Parents. Please. Think about your kids. They are watching everything you do and say. This guy should never be allowed on a field again let alone coaching young athletes.

@CoachDavidKlein 1-Player missing LL games for travel ballRegulation IV(a), Note 2 2-Travel team entering LL as a unit Regulation V(d) 3-District Travel scheduling conflictsDistrict Travel Program FAQs / DA guidelines 4-Roster size and eligibilityRegulation III(a)

@docfox33 Can you help me dig this up?

If you were a head coach of a Spring Little League team… You had the Little League presidents son on your team. The Little League president coaches his own travel team and takes his son and a handful of other players on your team to play in their tournament over the weekend leaving you short with 7-8 players. How would you handle this?

@CoachDavidKlein I believe it is in the paper rule book. I don't have access to the most recent. Mine aged out. Back then, I was on the board, and this issue was brought up, and at that time the rule book had address this topic, though some argued it was vague.

There is an inherent human observation that lends itself to calling down and away more regularly. Down and away Puts the responsibility on the hitter to be "hunting and protecting" Up and in usually creates a reaction by the batter that serves as a visual that complicates the zone analysis by the umpire. Umpires have the plate visual and "the river" that area between the plate and the box line. This is the gray zone. When you facture in a visual reaction by the batter to a "up and in" pitch in the inside "river" it ads a new element to the rapid umpire decision. When batter "safety" enters the analysis factors in the umpire decision, subconsciously. My personal observation is more batter complaints are about being rung up on down and away. That observation goes with my observation as a score keeper that umpires ring up more on down and away than inside pitches. Just my observations in the high school realm.

Additionally, You are on deck as #6 Ask yourself this: If batters #1-4 barreled the ball, and batter 5 struck out. Which pitch was barreled by #1-#4 batters ? If you can’t answer this question then you aren’t paying attention. Asking #5 “what is he is throwing” is kinda of a mute point. By letting a first pitch strike go by, batter #5 enabled the pitcher to start his next pitch sequence. That sequence become predatory.

High School Hitters: There is ZERO excuse for not knowing the umpire's zone! They aren't perfect. They're human. Your job is to figure this out on the bench or in the on-deck circle/hole. Communicate with your teammates. Let them know what you saw. Don't complain. Be prepared. Make the necessary adjustments!!! #TheMoreYouKnow💫

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Amen !!!. College coaches know most GC stats are not clean. That's why they want film. Fudging stats at a young age, creates a facade as the younger divisions progress. They are awarded that "trophy" game by game, season by season, which actually focuses them against their teammates with corrupted data.

GameChanger stats… Pitch counts, strike outs, walks and runs scored are the only basic stats that can’t be manipulated. Unless of course the person running GC forgets to change pitchers or has the lineup wrong. If the person running it struggles to differentiate between hits and errors, passed balls and wild pitches, stolen bases and indifference, almost everything you see will be inaccurate. Batting average, ERA, hits, hits allowed, earned runs, RBI’s, they will all be skewed and sometimes in a big way. GC has become a source of tension in our youth game. If this is happening on your team, the easiest solution is to stop using it. If parents and coaches want stats, let them keep their own book.

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@BluebookBeede Your kid gets faster on the basepaths each year after soccer season. His steal breaks improve after basketball season. You're either a one sport "player", or you're an athlete. Josh Allen, Bo Jackson, Deon Sanders, Michael Jordan, Russel Wilson, Tom Brady.

College Baseball Recruiting 2026: Should Youth Players Specialize in Baseball Before High School? 1. Yes, early specialization gives the biggest edge. 2. No, multi-sport athletes develop better long-term. 3. Only after age 12-13 4. It depends on the athlete. 👇 I’ll share the results + my take in the next Coaches Corner! #CollegeBaseballRecruiting #YouthBaseball #BaseballParents”

@coachzblair10 It is all about the Plate meeting. Telling the coach that dugout etiquette will be enforced. Inform of warning structure and NFHS rule infraction and applicable actions. The rulebook addresses this issue

Watching a HS game here in Ohio and I had to leave... The things these kids are doing & screaming from the dugout are absurd. The crazier thing is the coaches/parents do nothing about it. ▪️Telling the other team to "miss it" on an infield pop up. ▪️Constantly swearing loud enough for everyone to hear. ▪️Getting out at 1B and yelling "F@&%" as they run past 1B. ▪️Heckling the pitcher while he is on the mound. ▪️Watched a kid walk from the 3B dugout all the way to RF. ▪️Multiple players arguing calls with umpires. While these players spew all this classlessness and disrespect the coaches sit back and let the prisoners run the prison. The parents just watch and laugh because they think their son and his buddies are funny and it's just boys being boys. All I see are coaches and parents that are afraid to step up and set a good example. Adults afraid to parent and lead these young men in the right direction. How soft do you have to be to not confront a player about the actions above?

@hjluks Again! Absolutely stellar commentary. So many outdated approaches to this issue that are continually promoted on the front line.

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