[Mr.Kimball]

Nobody doesn't care? I guess we can tell you're from the mountains. But I'm pretty sure that baseball is pretty important to those who play. So now is the time to begin. Football starts back in may DURING baseball season. Basketball is the same, it gets started early before the dead period. Does the word head start mean anything to you?

For the most part area baseball coaches are the ones that dont really care. Even the more successful ones from the mountains are just content to win their region or semi state tournaments. For the most part, kids in the mountains really dont have a clue as of what it takes to be successful at the next level, and how competetive it gets for playing time . That is why you see so many kids that come from the mountains end up quitting if they do per chance happen to make it to the college level. They just cant handle the culture shock of being on teams full of players that have busted their hind ends year round their entire careers. It is up to the high school coaches to indoctrinate the kids on a work ethic of what it takes to make it at the next level. It takes a rare breed of player and one who truly loves the game to do something on his own during the offseason to make himself an athlete or player.

Is it no wonder that teams such as Dunbar or PRP are in the championship hunt year after year after year? Baseall is a year round sport for just about all of the players at those type of programs.

Of course kids in the mountains think and get told they are basketball players too. That's THE BIG LIE.