Baseball - best private school in area ?
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Anonymous
Everyone stop the sports war. Baseball and lacrosse are two great, but very different, games. I for one would love seeing Bryce Harper pick up a lacrosse stick (!) -- can you imagine! -- but until MLL is paying in the 8 figures instead of in the 5 figures it probably won't happen. (But with all the TV exposure and interest, a high paying lacrosse pro league could emerge one day.) |
Anonymous
| Team sports have evolved into a niche for those gifted with freakish height, speed and hand eye coordination. High School Baseball is still popular in some regions of the country (mostly red state regions), but in the DMV and East Coast, baseball (for boys) and softball (for girls) plays a useful role for those who aren't freakish athletes or in superb physical fitness. There is something for everyone! |
Anonymous
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Baseball is dominant in Texas where I grew up and among the good southern boys of NASCAR country. But baseball also has a big following among the up athletic WASP Crowd of the NorthEast (think George Will). Even the WASP crowd doesn't enjoy watching baseball played by their spawn, they want to see the Bryce Harper and Stephen Strasbourg types play, but not in their schools.
Until recently, Lacrosse has been a sport for kids who didn't need a sport to escape the barrios (like those in the DC private schools). The lacrosse played in this area is elite level, the baseball is not. |
Anonymous
True- as MD and. VA really d drive national sporting events. Geez- you are a bitter moron. |
Anonymous
| You've got to love those who hate the area they choose to live in. How pathetic. |
Anonymous
| Has any DMV private school ever produced an elite professional baseball player? |
Anonymous
| Proud baseball mom here. I don't care about lax VERSUS baseball. I can only tell you that the boys my son plays with are stand up guys. There is a humbleness to baseball as it's one of the few sports that is a team sport but where there is so much focus/stress at the individual level (at the plate, pitching, etc.). I went to a big LAX school for college, and I just found the baseball boys to be a more laid back set (in the best sense of the word). BTW, without sounding too nuts, I have a son who could likely play most sports at a reasonably high level. He chooses baseball. |
Anonymous
Yes=st alban's http://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/nationals/2011-mlb-draft-virginias-danny-hultzen-is-taken-no-2-overall-by-mariners/2011/06/06/AGFBvdKH_story.html |
Anonymous
| SJC and DeMatha have had guys in the show recently. If you count Balt, Yankees' Mark Texeira from Mt St Joe's. |
Anonymous
Completely agree. I also think that the perceived slow pace of the game, the length of the season, the realization that it's day after day slogging through, anyone can be up one day and down the next, a marathon not a sprint ... contributes to that humbleness. It's a very, very difficult game to handle mentally. |
Anonymous
Danny Hultzen is an elite professional baseball player? He's missed the last two seasons with injury and hasn't played a major league game yet. |
Anonymous
Mark Texira is an elite player and he is from Baltimore - never played for a DMV private school (unless Baltimore is now in the DMV). |
Anonymous
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There are at least 8 current MLB players born in DC, and that's not including the DMV.
If you like lacrosse you don't have to trash baseball and vice versa. Signed, Former College Lacrosse Player/Eternal Red Sox Fan |
Anonymous
| Brett Cecil (DeMatha) pitches for the Blue Jays and was an all-star last year. LJ Hoes (St. John's) plays for the Astros. |
Anonymous
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Half of the Washington Post's All-Met players this year had been signed by a pro baseball team. The other half were getting college scholarships.
Quick: name a single professional lacrosse player in the history of the world that a non-lacrosse fan would know, much less a non-sports fan. Even soccer has Pele and David Beckham. |