Wow, Cal has some terrible ideas. Read the link.
Cal Ripken Jr. is one of the best players ever to play baseball, rightfully enshrined in the Hall of Fame. That does not mean he has good ideas about how to make the game appeal to kids.
Source: Cal Ripken wants to bring Poochie to baseball, but there’s a much easier solution
Insanity. Lets have baseball for baseball fans. We don’t need Baseketball to appeal to people who don’t like the game.
At the youth level what’s broken is that many youth leagues are run by what I call The Baseball Mafia. These are the 5 dads who run the league, coach, and thus their son is the pitcher, and they are scheming to get in every last third of an inning under the weekly innings camp. Maybe if a game is 104-2 and they want to save little Matty to get one out on Thursday, then maybe perhaps Skippy the right fielder will get to face two batters, but god forbid he walks someone.
Better coaching. Teach some more kids how to put it over the plate. A nice WIDE and HIGH strike zone (to make kids swing and put the ball in play).
If a coach has a kid steal home on the throw back to the pitcher, the coach should be arrested, spend the weekend in Guantanamo, and be forever banned from coaching again.
And no stealing. The point of the game isn’t to walk and then steal three bases. Let’s play baseball kids. Hit the ball and see if someone can catch it.
And don’t even start me on the Youth Sports Arms Race of town ball, travel ball, Super Elite Baseball School SERIOUS TRAVEL and beyond.
Let’s discuss on Facebook, shall we?
