[ChillyWilly]

Ouch!!!!, you guys never cease to amaze me with the way you guys constantly go back and forth at each other. The bad part is that you have to make it personal and bring the names of the innocent kids into it. Shame , Shame , Shame....If things have not changed much over the years then the really truely funny thing about Paintsville baseball is all of the expert mommies that sit in the stands and make pure fools out of themselves.:lmao: It's hilarious to watch all the coniving, the complaining and the ploys out of mom . The dads aren't to bad, but oh watch out for mommy. I wouldn't be in Tucker Howards shoes for a million bucks.

I guess that when you all are talking about this state championship experience, that you are not talking about Tucker Howard's days as a player. I assume that the junior league deal is what you are refering to. Some of you people are in for a real rude awaking when you get into the real world of baseball. You will see that Junior and Senior League titles are really not all that big of a deal when you consider that nobody in the state plays in it any more. We have won two junior League state titles ourselves in Lawrence Co. the last 7 or 8 years ourselves. It used to be nice to brag about, but it's not that big of a deal anymore. Junior League and Senior League is about the weakest of all the youth baseball leagues. Most good players dont play in it any more. The really good players are playing on some sort of a traveling team. Junior and senior league teams now are usually only made up of kids that are not good enough to play high school ball or with players not good enough to make a traveling squad. An average traveling team would kill a junior or state league champion 9 games out of 10.

I think Tucker will do a good job at Paintsville, but it will be interesting to see how he handles things with all the nutty moms. Charlie would tell them all to jump in a lake.

And yes Paintsville will be rebuilding this year, just like everyone else in the 57th district. They better find somebody that knows how to throw it off the mound and someone who knows how to catch it behind the plate and throw it back to the mound. They are in the same boat as the rest of us this year. Everybody lost tons of talent.