lax culture from an insider
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Anonymous
Maybe if you worked on your left hand a little more (and your whining a little less), you wouldn't be so bitter about the lax boys getting a lot of attention. |
Anonymous
| Baseball if you can stay awake? Tell that to the millions glued to Game 6 of the Series this year - baseball and other sports can transform a town. Can heal the rift of a punk terrorist attack. LAX? Does anyone even broadcast it? I bet there are more bowling or poker shows on TV at any given time. |
Anonymous
| Baseball dwarfs lacrosse - there is no debate about that. But there is a reason why lax is the fastest growing sport in the country for the past 10 years. These kids need immediate gratification, and fewer kids want to stand in right field for a two hour game and have 5 balls hit to them. There is a reason why youth baseball numbers are consequently dropping every year. |
Anonymous
Actually baseball TV ratings --- even for the world series --- are way, way down. The 17 million that watched the world series games were eclipsed by an awful Monday Night NFL game during the same week. In 1978 the TV audience for world series games was 80 million each. Hispanics are increasingly dominating the sport. You aren't in St Louis or someplace where there is still a lot of baseball interest. In Baltimore and Washington, DC baseball continues to fade. That is, if fan interest is any barometer at all. Go to UVA when there is a lacrosse game and a baseball game being played simultaneously. You'll see thousands watching one of these events and dozens watching the other. Guess which one has the big crowd. |
Anonymous
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http://www.csosports.org/baseball-in-decline-for-children-and-youth
http://nexuslacrosse.com/2012-us-lacrosse-participation-survey/ Baseball vs Lacrosse doesn't look good going forward for baseball |
Anonymous
Baseball is booming in many places. Cuba, The Dominican, Venezuela, etc, etc and in Texas, Florida and California. It's dying a slow death in Maryland, the District and Virginia. Of course it's still bigger than lacrosse nationally. But in this area, when lacrosse is available, that's the marquis sport. |
Anonymous
How did those asian kids get let in? |
Anonymous
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I never played lacrosse, and only became interested in it because my undergrad is a top program. Looks like a fun sport to watch and to play though. The culture of substance abuse and entitlement surrounding the sport has to be dealt with, but the sport is growing fast and isnt going away. So to say it isnt a real sport is ridiculous. It requires strategy, speed, toughness and endurance. Deal with the problems but dont bash the whole sport.
Plus, women that played tend to have nice asses. |
Anonymous
Baseball is good for non athletic kids though. That is why the less athletic schools have good baseball programs. |
Anonymous
| Baseball is a nice spring sport for cross country runners who font want to do track |
Anonymous
| Lacrosse Insider - Can you recommend a good summer camp for 9th grader to get college recruitment exposure? |
Anonymous
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Baseball is good for non athletic kids though. That is why the less athletic schools have good baseball programs. You are a foolish little man |
Anonymous
I agree. In fact, that's my takeaway from watching First 48. |
Anonymous
Read thru this thread, there's stuff on camps. And talk to your child's HS coach. |
Anonymous
| Does the high school team matter for recruitment purposes? My son was just accepted to one of those schools that is considered a lacrosse powerhouse. Will going to that school get him more exposure for college recruitment? |