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I've been thinking about your statement all weekend and in to this week now. Way too early to mock the cards. I feel like this thread was the reason we got pounded two days ago! I'm not superstitious but I'm a little stitious.

Thanks for all the information everyone. OWBC - that's a great story. I'm so excited to visit this stadium and feel the history. I did splurge on some good tickets between home plate and the Red Sox dugout. Fingers crossed for good weather!

Yes getting any sort of involvement from the high school coach and kids is so huge. We are lucky enough to have that with our baseball coach and his players. We've had no involvement from the basketball coach and I bet you can guess which program does way better. Well the high school coach got fired this year so I'm hoping for a little change on the youth basketball front. Glad to hear things are going well!

I agree with you on Burnes..... but what's your number? 😉

Get in your May Predictions so you can give us a "I knew it," on June 1st. COL 3 SF 3 LAD 3 KC 3 STL 3 TB 3 HOU 3 SF 4 TOR 2 Total = 27 My prediction - 13-14 staying alive

I wanted to bump this to see if anyone had any advice. We are taking our oldest son (10) as a surprise for his birthday. We are going to do several things around Boston but we will attend a game as well. I've never been to a game at Fenway and I love old baseball parks, so I'm really excited! Any advice for things to do pre or post game around Fenway, please let me know.

I thought I'd check in to see how the start of the season is going. Bobahunter, how was the volunteer turnout?

Louis Ely - Son of two teachers, I think we count! That's amazing that there are so many teachers on here. Thanks for what you all do! Crazy this thread just popped up because I was crunching numbers on our retirement accounts just this weekend to see how we are doing. We are a little ahead of where we should be using some basic rule of thumb calculations, so that was nice to see. I think what we are struggling with is what do we want in retirement. That is obviously a big part of understanding where you need to be at certain ages. Also when do we want to retire. I feel like that all could change depending on what our kids end up doing and where they end up. As others have said, just put that money away and start right away. It's so important. Madbad2000 - That's a great way of looking at things. Don't keep chasing more as your career progresses. We've started to pull back on things like cars. I'm going to try and follow that mindset!

I too have been questioning this a bit. I do think there will be a draw to go watch your team when they play in Vegas. I would love to do that. But my question is, will it be an annual thing for people or just something people will want to do once. We shall see. I hope it works because I think it will be cool. I'm sure the stadium will be bonkers and cater to the people looking for a higher end experience.

That West Coast swing went way better that I could have hoped for. What a blast. Keep it rolling!

Didn't realize he's still only 26..... possible person to trade, maybe a change of scenery helps him out?

First off, I do like BA and Rock. I don't want BA to leave, he's so good. I don't care if he's only there for a partial schedule, we are lucky to have him. I think Levering does a good job and is a professional broadcaster. I didn't like Vinny when he started working on air. Two days ago I thought to myself, "boy Vinny is getting pretty good, I kind of like him now." You can tell he's working at it and becoming more comfortable. I think it's good what we have going right now. A good mix of talent. It keeps things fresh. It should keep the people who get super annoyed by the repetitiveness of a daily broadcaster and their sayings happy.

That was a fun win. Fingers crossed for Burnes. Love what this team is bringing every day. Go Brew Crew!

That was a wild play and when they sent him I yelled "WHAT!" Great send, great send.

Yes I was initially relived it was his left peck but a pitcher does use that muscle quite a bit ripping their glove hand through on the throw. Fingers crossed.

NOOOOOOOOO. Burnes!!!!

OWBC - I thought you lived in Seattle but wasn't positive. That's awesome you have season tickets. I've been to Seattle once and we walked around near the stadium. I loved the city! Well I hope we can make it there the next time they play. Thanks for the info.

Anyone on here ever go to a game at Seattle? I said to my wife yesterday, next time the Brewers play in SEA, we should go! She agreed. Curious how the experience is at their stadium.

Thanks for the recap! I like all the added media in here.

Boy this team has been fun to watch so far! I love having the young kids up and making an impact. Hope they can keep up the great work. Go Crew!

I would say our league is really well run. As for coaching, we have volunteer hours that everyone has to do. You write a big check, maybe $250 per kid, at the beginning of the year. If you don't complete your volunteer hours they cash the check. Coaching takes care of the full amount, and for multiple kids. I think that's smart because the coaches put in a lot of time. Other things to do are concessions, field prep, they used to have umping on there, volunteering for uniform and equipment distribution, and then of course clerical things. If you make that check big enough, you'll get plenty of volunteers!

Cool, just wanted to clarify. I'd add to that, most people should keep a good mix of equity stocks (with fixed income) in retirement because hopefully most people will have 20-30 years of life left and will want their money to continue to work for them.

Are you saying financial planners know when the market will peak and then sell off all your equity investments when you retire?

Spot on MrTPlush!!! Excellent idea to start a thread on little league coaching. I've been coaching my two oldest kids the last several years and took the jump to head coaching last year, which included All Stars for the oldest. I was hesitant because I thought I needed to wait until they got older but it was a lot of fun! If you have any specific questions, go ahead and shoot, I'd be glad to help the best I can. This will be a good place to come back to as the season gets going. As for videos to watch, I'd maybe start with the little league YouTube channel. They have a lot of basic how to videos on there. I've also found some good content from this page, but he has a lot of videos. There is so much online content and beliefs on how to do things that it can get confusing. https://www.youtube.com/@UltimateBaseballTraining/featured The biggest thing is there are going to be so many different skill levels in little league. Some kids at the kid pitch level will still not be able to catch a ball well, while others are starting to figure things out and need more detailed instruction. Last year was my oldest's first year of kid pitch. My middle son is going from rookie ball, which is machine pitch (they use a tee if they miss the first 3 times and everyone hits every inning, no rules or scoring because everyone scores every inning), to A ball which is machine pitch but they are playing baseball rules. Best of luck with coaching this year!

Can we run this back with a worst of list for each position? It would actually be very entertaining. Maybe you could have a minimum games played to qualify.