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@CoachDavidKlein Essentially treating kids like assets in a fantasy league.

@CoachDavidKlein Our league went away from this recently. Parity was an issue. Lack of coaching continuity too. Final straw was coaches trading players, plus tanking and recruiting kids to the park when they had top pick the following year. Hard to find enough quality adults, year over year.

Can we revisit the conversation around the Little League re-draft? When I was a kid, if you were really good at 9 or 10 years old, you got drafted to a Majors team. You sat the bench. You looked up to the 11 and 12 year olds like they were GODS. And eventually… you became the dude! The coaches were mostly the same every year. It felt like a real family. Real continuity. Real community. I understand why so many leagues moved away from this. Parity. Exposing kids to different coaching styles. I get it. But as a coach right now, I cannot tell you how much I would love to have the same kids back season after season. The development would be enhanced. The relationships would be deeper. The experience would just be better IMO. At the younger ages, 5, 6, 7 and 8 year olds, wins and losses don’t even matter. Many leagues don’t even keep standings. And most of those head coaches are coming back every season anyway. So why are we re-drafting? Why not just keep the same kids together and let something real grow? Give the last place teams first picks in the draft to keep parity. I’m not saying it has to be this way. I just miss what it was and think it should be a conversation again. Especially in leagues where retention is good and boards are capable of intentional design. Anyone have thoughts on this? Any history on how it all changed? First time I’ve really thought about it in years. #baseball #youthbaseball

@LateRoundQB I’m trying to package Hampton and BTJ. What would be fair return? Trying to bolster RB as I only have Dowdle, KW3 and Tracy. 12 team; .5 PPR

If you have any non-start/sit questions for this week's mailbag episode, send them my way.

@jake_burns18 Hey Jake. We appreciate your content and commentary so much. Being a Browns fan has been a slog since they came back. Totally feel you. It’s an emotional investment with no ROI.

@bradford_hardin @KHendersonCo For me, it’s not an issue of curly versus straight quotes. It’s about document uniformity — pick one for the document and use consistently. Same with defined terms (underlined, italicized, boldfaced, some combination or nothing).

@KHendersonCo I already filed a bar complaint against this lawyer

This is what high end legal work looks like:

@TampaElectric So in response to this, @TampaElectric removed my outage ticket. As in removed it from the outage list without restoring power. That helps the PR stats but leaves real people and kids without power.

@TampaElectric 57% is a failing grade for my kids. It’s 3 days without power and no assessment has been made about our outage.

As of 7:30 p.m., our hard-working crews have restored more than 57% of our customers who lost power due to Hurricane Ian. We’ll continue to work 16-hour shifts around the clock to get to 100% as safely and quickly as possible: ow.ly/MEuM50KYN7F

@PatrickHwuMD @MoffittNews Make an early decision today to keep Moffitt employees safe. We are being forced to evacuate but cannot do so as a family because one of us is employed by Moffitt.

Moffitt continues to monitor #HurricaneIan and will provide updates as new information arises. Please visit Moffitt.org/Hurricane for the most recent updates regarding the storm's impact on patient appointments and business hours @MoffittNews.

As #HurricaneIan intensifies and poses a potential threat to our state and the #Tampa bay area, I want to echo this message of safety to my friends, family, colleagues and importantly, patients and team members @MoffittNews.

@CharlesRobinson @leahslevel As a Browns fan, I am an aggrieved party. 😂

@leahslevel The Browns aren’t complaining and also traded for him and paid him willingly, so I don’t think there is an aggrieved party here.

@CharlesRobinson question. From my knowledge, nothing new has come out since Deshaun was traded. Why did the nfl allow a trade (benefitting one franchise) instead of just placing him on exempt list and making a suspension decision then move forward. Texans massively benefit

@PitchingNinja 🔥but more youth options too please. 🙏🏽

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@GeorgeOFM Thank you for another educational Friar Musings. You are missed at Sacred Heart (Tampa, FL).

Metaphor? Sacramental? friarmusings.com/2021/07/31/met…

@FrontierCorp your automated help lines are the worst. I waited 25 minutes then the system hung up on me. Now I’m waiting again. Your call back system doesn’t work. And you keep suggesting online chat when internet connectivity my issue.