Twelve year-olds suck balls at sports, especially baseball. Batted balls are a rare occurrence while put-outs are even more scarce. If one of these jabroni's is actually able to make contact with the ball it is either a homerun or a disaster.
All it takes to win the series is a good pitcher. No one knows the fundamentals; they barely understand the fundamentals. The bats they use are always too heavy; they cry entirely too much; and, worst of all, they are constantly looking to their coaches for direction. Never have I seen a team succeed in “grown-up” sports that is constantly looking to the bench for directions. These kids don't play enough pick-up because of all the AAU tournaments, which are creepy, so they are never able to develop instincts. There are waaaaaay too many old men waaaaaay too involved in youth sports. These kids are built into machines and they only know how to do what they are taught. If anything out of the realm of what they practiced during “situations” in practice happened, they freak out. I know this is extreme, but remember the Jeter play against the A's; that is all instinct. There has never been a coach to tell his player to cut off a throw halfway down the first-base line (luckily for the Yanks, big fat Jeremy Giambi was truckin' home). Instincts are what make players good. Think of players in the NBA, NFL, and MLB—not always the most athletic or best players make it. It's the guys who know how to play. Look at Chuck freakin' Hayes. He has no business being on a team in the NBA and he started for a playoff team.
If you ever want to see this theory in action, go to a high school freshman baseball game and watch them try to field/execute a bunt. It looks like the first time you play a baseball game on Nintendo and you aren't sure what all the buttons do yet. Except St. X. Their freshman team is infallible.
OK Card fans, it's too much now. I've heard about it too much. First off, there is no guarantee that UL will be great this year. Sure they have the players. But Kragthorpe is a crap-shoot. A “Krag”-shoot, per se. Petrino was an offensive genius. This guy may also be an offensive genius; or he may end up looking exactly how you would expect the ex-coach at Tulsa to look. I guess we will all just have to wait and see.
Secondly, Andre' Woodson is not overrated. This is the praise that comes with being the best returning QB in the SEC. He threw for 31 touchdowns and was very efficient last year in a tough conference. Which brings me to my next point—you would not have beaten Florida last year. You won the Orange bowl which is impressive, yet you beat a very unimpressive team with a QB named Riley Skinner. That is the name of a child on a soap opera. Has to be.
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