[dawgbyte02]

to answer both you and your new best friend, i will just reply to your post. no coach has forced players to quit. no coach at all. players quit for their own reasons. the turner kid seems like he is going to be really good. the reason he wasn't up with the varsity all year could have been because he needed to play more and being up with the varsity may have meant less time early in the year. the way i always thought was that you give your veterans the chance first. i believe that was what the coaches did. that's fine. make changes when you need to. the regular season is for what? nothing. changes were made heading in to the post-season. one decision was to dismiss a certain player for things that were being done the entire year and finally the straw that broke the camel's back was him walking away from his team during a double-header to attend another school's prom. this is not debatable. i spoke to a few parents who were not too thrilled with his decision. this information was something nobody can debate as being untrue charlie. it happened. even though i was just told about it and didn't witness it doesn't mean it wasn't true. i'm sure the coaches told him this wouldn't be a great idea. he decided that those kids were more important to him.

as for "just riding one pitcher", what are you talking about? so you don't think that having steve blevins or chandler shepherd is an advantage? they shouldn't pitch as much as others? i'm not sure i understand this logic. the pitching staff this year was not the problem. the defense was OK. the offense struggled. why is that? well most of these starters had ZERO varsity at-bats coming in to this year. that could have been the problem.

too many parents and fans have more answers than the coaches. :eyeroll: fact is that next year should be a fun year for lawrence. i hope i get to watch a bit more of them than i did this year. a lot of young players should see time on the field next year and i'm sure they will produce. not to mention the younger middle school kids that are 2 years away from being up at the high school. and they are really good too.

The current staff does not and will not tolerate any fun what so ever. It is all about hard work, discipline and practice year around. Fun was little league this is serious business.