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re: Little League World Series: LSU Related
Posted on 8/9/24 at 5:03 pm to nicholastiger
Posted on 8/9/24 at 5:03 pm to nicholastiger
1 with Arizona State, 1 with LSU, 1 with UNO and 1 with LSU Eunice. Sounds pretty good so far.
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Posted on 8/9/24 at 5:16 pm to Endorphins
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IIRC the travel ball kids would wipe the floor with the LLWS series kids. I hear the travel teams have way better talent.
And all the poor kids from the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Puerto Rico wipe the floor with all the LLWS kids and Braxton and Braylon when it matters
Posted on 8/11/24 at 1:02 pm to AmericanLegionLSU
Poor kids form the DR? 
You realize the ones you see in the league are the ones that get picked to move to training facilities at like 10 and live, go to school and train 6 hours a day right? It’s like travel on steroids but the idiots like yourself lap it up thinking the little kid in the streets hitting bottle caps is making mlb
You realize the ones you see in the league are the ones that get picked to move to training facilities at like 10 and live, go to school and train 6 hours a day right? It’s like travel on steroids but the idiots like yourself lap it up thinking the little kid in the streets hitting bottle caps is making mlb
Posted on 8/12/24 at 8:22 am to shadyone2
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These are travel teams. NOLA little league is from all over NOLA and up river parishes. Drawing for large population of people.
Yes and no on this. Ascension does the same thing. The “majors” are teams made up of travel ball players. But it isn’t full travel ball teams playing on one rec team. It’s 4-5 travel ball teams with about 4-5 kids from each on teams. East Bank was able to get waivers from kids not living directly in the district. That’s getting harder now with more and more cities and parishes going to little league.
And the star of that team was Louque who is steadily climbing the prospect list.
This post was edited on 8/12/24 at 8:23 am
Posted on 8/15/24 at 9:44 am to SEC Doctor
I think Prather is going to Loyola, not LSUE.
Posted on 8/15/24 at 10:26 am to jrobic4
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These people are largely OOC.
This is the truth! Everyone thinks their child is a superstar that should play SS.
In West Monroe, though, Dixie Youth is absolute trash, so most people go to travel ball. I would love for my son to play Dixie ball, but it’s disorganized and chaotic.
Posted on 8/15/24 at 4:01 pm to Pleasenewdc
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In West Monroe, though, Dixie Youth is absolute trash, so most people go to travel ball. I would love for my son to play Dixie ball, but it’s disorganized and chaotic.
It’s changed to Diamond Youth Baseball. Ascension is about to dominate it again (barring a deal gets done)
Posted on 8/15/24 at 4:05 pm to BallChamp00
Dixie diamond whatever it is sucks
Posted on 8/15/24 at 4:17 pm to DRock88
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I think Prather is going to Loyola, not LSUE.
Looks like he switched a couple of days ago.
Posted on 8/15/24 at 8:00 pm to BallChamp00
Jefferson Parish dominates Dixie Youth or Diamond Youth or whatever they call it now. It's almost guaranteed that JPRD East or West (or Girard, Pontiff, Lakeshore for the younger kids) wins state and makes a run at the World Series, even though all of the kids in the parish don't still play it like the old days. It was never guaranteed as much as it is now. Jefferson Parish is just really deep.
Little League has never really been a thing in Jefferson Parish until Eastbank Little League. The GNO Little League that started this year should make it interesting in coming years.
Little League has never really been a thing in Jefferson Parish until Eastbank Little League. The GNO Little League that started this year should make it interesting in coming years.
Posted on 8/15/24 at 8:06 pm to DRock88
The two best players on that LLWS team were from Lutcher
Posted on 8/15/24 at 8:10 pm to lsugradman
I'm well aware. Eastbank Little League draws from other places. They're now based out of Butch Duhe in Kenner, still draw from elsewhere.
Posted on 8/16/24 at 12:01 am to jmh5724
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The fun part about baseball, I’d say more so than other sports, is you never know how these kids will progress. The best 10 year old usually isn’t the best 14 year old. The best 14 year old usually isn’t the best 18 year old and so on.
It’s a game of failure. Most people don’t have the mental makeup to endure. You have to be one stubborn SOB to loose >70% of the time and keep coming back.
Posted on 8/16/24 at 12:04 am to lsusteve1
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Many of these kids play on travel ball teams. Think the rule is they’ve got to play 50% of league games to make LL All Star Team.
8 games, but LL keeps changing the rules.
Posted on 8/16/24 at 12:12 am to Endorphins
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IIRC the travel ball kids would wipe the floor with the LLWS series kids. I hear the travel teams have way better talent.
LL must pull from a specific footprint, and it’s often quite small. If a league has enough kids to form more than 10 regular season teams in a division, they actually must form separate divisions with different All Star teams. It’s impressive the talent some of these leagues have in such a small footprint.
Posted on 8/16/24 at 11:51 am to Endorphins
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IIRC the travel ball kids would wipe the floor with the LLWS series kids
Some of these LLWS teams are literally all star teams of travel ball players.
Posted on 8/16/24 at 12:55 pm to pelicanpride
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LL must pull from a specific footprint, and it’s often quite small. If a league has enough kids to form more than 10 regular season teams in a division, they actually must form separate divisions with different All Star teams. It’s impressive the talent some of these leagues have in such a small footprint.
That’s why you seperate skill level. Our Major little league division have 3-5 teams. These are the kids chosen to play in travel all stars. Most little leagues do this so they can choose the best 12. AP has a minor and major division. They are two seperate leagues. You have to try out to be on majors.
Posted on 8/16/24 at 12:57 pm to DRock88
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Jefferson Parish dominates Dixie Youth or Diamond Youth or whatever they call it now. It's almost guaranteed that JPRD East or West (or Girard, Pontiff, Lakeshore for the younger kids) wins state and makes a run at the World Series, even though all of the kids in the parish don't still play it like the old days. It was never guaranteed as much as it is now. Jefferson Parish is just really deep.
JPRD joined GNO in little league this year and they made the regional finals.
Posted on 8/16/24 at 1:00 pm to DRock88
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I'm well aware. Eastbank Little League draws from other places. They're now based out of Butch Duhe in Kenner, still draw from elsewhere.
You need waivers if you do not live in the district. The state director has to sign off. He normally signs off if you’re a neighboring parish or city and that is the closest little league league to you. GNO had over 300 waivers so they joined with JPRD and made a deep run this year. Not sure if they will continue that tho.
Posted on 8/16/24 at 1:05 pm to Endorphins
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IIRC the travel ball kids would wipe the floor with the LLWS series kids. I hear the travel teams have way better talent.
Not quite. A lot of those all star kids play in AAA and Major divisions of travel ball. Also it’s totally different. Travel ball takes leads at 9. LL takes leads at 13. They also use wayyyy different bats.
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