Georgia Raiders Baseball

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COACHES CORNER

FINALLY!!!!!!!!!! Baseball season is back. There's nothing like America's Pastime. I get chills through my body watching baseball highlights. From Jackie Robinson stealing home under the tag of Yogi Berra to Kirk Gibson pumping his fist after his homerun in the World Series to Willie Mays' amazing over the head catch to Sid Bream rounding third base and sliding home safely to take the Braves to the World Series, whew!!!!!! You have to be from another planet if you don't love this sport..... I LOVE watching young men play this sport for pure fun and excitement. The GEORGIA RAIDERS baseball organization has garnered National recognition in only three years, and the future looks even brighter!!!!

One thing that my late mentor used to tell me that I will never forget. "People always wanna walk in your shoes until they see the corns on your feet"..... And people hate you for 1 of 3 reasons. 1) They want to be you 2) They hate themselves 3) They see you as a threat

I've been coaching for years, well before I had a son and the key to having a smooth running team is the PARENTS. They can also be the downfall of any team or organization. Every year I make make the majority of parents happy and then there are the ones that don't talk to me anymore. A coaching colleague once told me this about negative parents. He said "When a dog growls at everyone, its not about who's passing by". Its sad that when you have willing people in the community to help parents expose their kids to things outside of the norm, things that 99% of them would never experience, you have parents that will turn on you because they can't manipulate their way into power. Nevermind the fact that the child is having a ball and reaping some positive and life changing benefits while building solid relationships with boys that will be their friends for life. Recently, I just heard the parents of a 5yr old baseball player say that their son is a stud, but he's on a team full of rejects. WHAT??? And we wonder what's wrong with society and the youth being in turmoil. Yes, we lack mentoring in the community, our kids listen to unsavory lyrics in songs, play violent video games and watch questionable movies, but the REAL problem is US parents. As Bernie Mac once said "We're some punk a$$ parents!" Ignorance has become a plague and our youth are catching it like wildfire. Our society has been hijacked by a NOW mentality. If you want to meet a group of the most insecure men on the planet, just stop at your neighborhood ballpark. These are men/dads trying to live vicariously through their sons while undermining every decision and move that the coaches make. Get in the game DADS!! Literally.. Volunteer and become a coach, since every decision you make from the bleachers is the correct one. Don't get out there and just coach your son, coach the whole team. We need more male figures to step up....

Parents, what are we really teaching our boys? If they encounter a situation where they have to compete for anything and its not handed to them, then it's not the right situation. We are not teaching our youth that "LIFE is a COMPETITION". They'll have to compete to get into the college they want to attend, they'll be competing to get that dream job, they'll even compete to get the spouse that they want. But from an early age we tend to give our BOYS a pass. We pacify these young men because we want our kids to have it easier than we had it growing up. We live in the suburbs in our nice houses, nice cars with good jobs, but all we talk about is our sons going to the LEAGUE. And we wonder why academics isn't priority #1... It's US parents!! What happened to using baseball and athletics as a tool to teach good sportsmanship, respect and teamwork. If you have a child that's talented/gifted enough to play at the collegiate or professional level, then that's great. Winning on the baseball field seems to be more important than Winning in life. With more and more males filling up America's jails and African-American boys dropping out of school at an alarming rate, we ALL need to re-focus...

I love watching these 9 year old Georgia Raiders baseball players. Its amazing what you can learn from kids. These boys are incredible!! They NEVER stop having fun and fighting through obstacles that the average kid doesn't encounter. Are the 9U Georgia Raiders special? YES they are. The boys say "they can show you better than I can tell you". America's Team.... #1 in the USA

"You can try and stop a Revolutionary, but you can never stop the Revolution"

RAIDER NATION!!!!!!!!!! Silver & Black Attack

Jerry Clark aka Papa Raider

DAD/Coach/Disciplinarian/Mentor

Monday, June 8, 2009

Update from this past weekends games 6/6-7/09

RAIDERS WON 5 Games

Miles was our Jackie Robinson Team Captain this weekend. Boy oh boy, with that home run he hit into another field, he truly wore that jersey well. Good Job Miles!

This weekend the Raiders played in the HB Boys of Summer 7u Coach Pitch Tournament.

We were the 1st on the field Saturday morning. When we have early morning games, we usually have a slow start and this game was no different. By the second inning, the Raiders woke up and started playing some ball. We gave up 6 runs to the 7u Georgia Select.
Final score GTR 14 vs 7U Georgia Select 6.

The next game was against the Sharpsburg Twins. We've played this team in several tournaments, not sure if their name changed......Final Score GTR 10 vs Sharpsburg 0.

We were #1 seed in Pool A.

Sunday Games
Our 1st game on Sunday was against the Winston Bandits. Our boys played very well. Our bats were on Fire! We had several big Hits. Final Score GTR 17 vs Winston Bandits 6.

Our 2nd game was against the Rockdale Raptors. This game was very intense. The game started with the Raptors batting first. They got off to a good start. But those Raiders SHOWED UP AND SHOWED OUT! We had several Home run Hitters in this GAME-JADYN, COLE, PEETEE, JAYCEE, and JAYLON. This was a close game until the very end. In the last inning the Raiders put them AWAY. Final Score GTR 18 Raptors 17.

The Championship Game was against the AL Bandits. This was our 5th and final game for the weekend and fatigue had set in but not much. We played very well against a very good team. Our Coaches pitched Great! Final Score GTR 20 vs AL Bandits 12.

The Raiders Never Gave Up and they continued to stay Focused. These "LITTLE MEN" played Silver and Black Baseball. Congratulations Raiders On a JOB WELL DONE!