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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.

You never cease to amaze me either. Not only do you have it out for the adults of Paintsville, you have it out for the kids of Paintsville. No one said oh they are world beaters, they won the state title. I think any time any team on any level wins a state title it is something to be proud of. Let those kids enjoy it instead of always riding them down. Those are the same teams, players and coaches from Paintsville who have been so close or in the championship every year down at state. They fell short a couple of times so the kids keep playing until they finally acheive the goal of state champs. I can't remember of too many teams around this area beating on a Paintsville All-Star team, yes they have lost a few but it's rare they lose before state tournament. So these kids keep on playing, other decide to just focus on playing high school ball. Know what that shows me maybe the kids of Johnson County may have a little grit in their crawl, and aren't going to give up until they acheive their goal. Many of these same kids who play on these All-Star teams play High School baseball. For instance, let's look here Grimm, Vanhoose and Sublett from Paintsville all played on the Senior League all-star team but yet played high school as well seeing significant varsity action. Same thing with Johnson Central they had a few who pulled double duties for All-Stars. Fyffe and Richardson are the two that come to mind. These kids are not scrubs, and even in the real world of baseball. Fyffe is one of the most dominating pitchers in the 15th, has a good bat and a glove in the field and Sublett is considered one of the top power hitters in the 15th and a very good fielder. You know I think traveling leagues are good and yes they would kill any all-star team. Think about it this way, they pull players from various areas to play and they are usually good players. So of course they would dominate most all-star teams. Maybe some kids have other obligations where they can't be on a traveling squad or maybe their family doesn't want to dish out the cash to travel that much or maybe they just want to be close to home where they can relax before they go back to school. It seems to me you got a chip on your shoulder against the folks of Paintsville. YOu can laugh at the mommies, make fun of the daddies and rag on BMR and Tucker Howard all you want but don't bring the kids of Johnson County down. We're proud to have two state champs in the same year, even if it were in hopscotch. Get over it.