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By the way my kids are hard core Buckeye fans so that will be tough. Luckily OSU graduates so many each year that the alumni associations are large in just about any city (I am not an alumni) so they can at least find some non-gator fans in the area.

OSU plays Miami the next two seasons… I think this year in Columbus and next year down in Miami so we might be able to make the game. The Rose Bowl was an amazing experience this year, and I don’t think at this point they’ll ever flip and become Gator/Seminole or Hurricane fans.

I am so glad we were lucky enough to attend a Rose Bowl before leaving. Now I need to come up with some more bucket lists of things to do (if we can squeeze it in with Baseball). Wife hasn’t seen San Francisco yet, that is a must.

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Thanks for all the well wishes. sdrealtor we’ll have to have a beer for sure. I should probably watch a Cavs-Lakers NBA finals game with TG as well if the darned Magic don’t get in the way again.

My wife is in some ways getting a slight raise, and my pay decrease is minimal at best (from a cash flow perspective $130/month or so). Considering the State Income tax that is wiped out that is not much. I understand Car insurance will be higher, food will be higher, and possibly car registrations. Also another big one is not having access to Kaiser which has made health care pretty affordable. I’ll have medical it’s just going to cost more. Stay healthy.

I like the homes with the screened in pools and apparently that’s called a Lanai. My current rent is $2250 and I am frankly inclined to buy rather than rent, but there is no way I am going to try and beat the deadline to get the 8K. In my case it makes no sense to break my lease or have dual house payments as it wipes out the benefit. Still there is a part of me that thinks, ehhhh I don’t know about buying out there. They’ve had a small uptick no doubt but there is a ton of inventory not moving due to the tax credit. People don’t want to take chances on short sales because they could lose (err spelled loose on the internet) their tax credit if it’s not all finished by the end of June I think.

Next to San Diego it seems like such a depressing place, but my friends in Ohio think I am lucky as hell. All about perspective I guess. The average midwesterner has never traveled much outside of going to South Carolina or one of the Florida coasts. Thus they cannot not understand why I don’t consider this a step-up.

[CardiffBaseball]

Thanks for all the well wishes. sdrealtor we’ll have to have a beer for sure. I should probably watch a Cavs-Lakers NBA finals game with TG as well if the darned Magic don’t get in the way again.

My wife is in some ways getting a slight raise, and my pay decrease is minimal at best (from a cash flow perspective $130/month or so). Considering the State Income tax that is wiped out that is not much. I understand Car insurance will be higher, food will be higher, and possibly car registrations. Also another big one is not having access to Kaiser which has made health care pretty affordable. I’ll have medical it’s just going to cost more. Stay healthy.

I like the homes with the screened in pools and apparently that’s called a Lanai. My current rent is $2250 and I am frankly inclined to buy rather than rent, but there is no way I am going to try and beat the deadline to get the 8K. In my case it makes no sense to break my lease or have dual house payments as it wipes out the benefit. Still there is a part of me that thinks, ehhhh I don’t know about buying out there. They’ve had a small uptick no doubt but there is a ton of inventory not moving due to the tax credit. People don’t want to take chances on short sales because they could lose (err spelled loose on the internet) their tax credit if it’s not all finished by the end of June I think.

Next to San Diego it seems like such a depressing place, but my friends in Ohio think I am lucky as hell. All about perspective I guess. The average midwesterner has never traveled much outside of going to South Carolina or one of the Florida coasts. Thus they cannot not understand why I don’t consider this a step-up.

[CardiffBaseball]

Thanks for all the well wishes. sdrealtor we’ll have to have a beer for sure. I should probably watch a Cavs-Lakers NBA finals game with TG as well if the darned Magic don’t get in the way again.

My wife is in some ways getting a slight raise, and my pay decrease is minimal at best (from a cash flow perspective $130/month or so). Considering the State Income tax that is wiped out that is not much. I understand Car insurance will be higher, food will be higher, and possibly car registrations. Also another big one is not having access to Kaiser which has made health care pretty affordable. I’ll have medical it’s just going to cost more. Stay healthy.

I like the homes with the screened in pools and apparently that’s called a Lanai. My current rent is $2250 and I am frankly inclined to buy rather than rent, but there is no way I am going to try and beat the deadline to get the 8K. In my case it makes no sense to break my lease or have dual house payments as it wipes out the benefit. Still there is a part of me that thinks, ehhhh I don’t know about buying out there. They’ve had a small uptick no doubt but there is a ton of inventory not moving due to the tax credit. People don’t want to take chances on short sales because they could lose (err spelled loose on the internet) their tax credit if it’s not all finished by the end of June I think.

Next to San Diego it seems like such a depressing place, but my friends in Ohio think I am lucky as hell. All about perspective I guess. The average midwesterner has never traveled much outside of going to South Carolina or one of the Florida coasts. Thus they cannot not understand why I don’t consider this a step-up.

[CardiffBaseball]

Thanks for all the well wishes. sdrealtor we’ll have to have a beer for sure. I should probably watch a Cavs-Lakers NBA finals game with TG as well if the darned Magic don’t get in the way again.

My wife is in some ways getting a slight raise, and my pay decrease is minimal at best (from a cash flow perspective $130/month or so). Considering the State Income tax that is wiped out that is not much. I understand Car insurance will be higher, food will be higher, and possibly car registrations. Also another big one is not having access to Kaiser which has made health care pretty affordable. I’ll have medical it’s just going to cost more. Stay healthy.

I like the homes with the screened in pools and apparently that’s called a Lanai. My current rent is $2250 and I am frankly inclined to buy rather than rent, but there is no way I am going to try and beat the deadline to get the 8K. In my case it makes no sense to break my lease or have dual house payments as it wipes out the benefit. Still there is a part of me that thinks, ehhhh I don’t know about buying out there. They’ve had a small uptick no doubt but there is a ton of inventory not moving due to the tax credit. People don’t want to take chances on short sales because they could lose (err spelled loose on the internet) their tax credit if it’s not all finished by the end of June I think.

Next to San Diego it seems like such a depressing place, but my friends in Ohio think I am lucky as hell. All about perspective I guess. The average midwesterner has never traveled much outside of going to South Carolina or one of the Florida coasts. Thus they cannot not understand why I don’t consider this a step-up.

[CardiffBaseball]

Thanks for all the well wishes. sdrealtor we’ll have to have a beer for sure. I should probably watch a Cavs-Lakers NBA finals game with TG as well if the darned Magic don’t get in the way again.

My wife is in some ways getting a slight raise, and my pay decrease is minimal at best (from a cash flow perspective $130/month or so). Considering the State Income tax that is wiped out that is not much. I understand Car insurance will be higher, food will be higher, and possibly car registrations. Also another big one is not having access to Kaiser which has made health care pretty affordable. I’ll have medical it’s just going to cost more. Stay healthy.

I like the homes with the screened in pools and apparently that’s called a Lanai. My current rent is $2250 and I am frankly inclined to buy rather than rent, but there is no way I am going to try and beat the deadline to get the 8K. In my case it makes no sense to break my lease or have dual house payments as it wipes out the benefit. Still there is a part of me that thinks, ehhhh I don’t know about buying out there. They’ve had a small uptick no doubt but there is a ton of inventory not moving due to the tax credit. People don’t want to take chances on short sales because they could lose (err spelled loose on the internet) their tax credit if it’s not all finished by the end of June I think.

Next to San Diego it seems like such a depressing place, but my friends in Ohio think I am lucky as hell. All about perspective I guess. The average midwesterner has never traveled much outside of going to South Carolina or one of the Florida coasts. Thus they cannot not understand why I don’t consider this a step-up.

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Russ I have a strong heart for kids just out there playing a sport and not trying to get to college. So I’ve coached Rec YMCA basketball in two states, rec soccer and rec baseball. I also have managed and run a travel baseball team since our kids were about 9 (meaning the guys that stuck with me). Even on the competitive travel baseball I’ve carried one or two kids who really shouldn’t be on the team, but they are loyal and work hard so we keep them. For me it’s not about cut-throat winning but about trying to get them to love the game since most of the kids are clearly above average skill-wise. Meaning if we have a bunch of potential college players here don’t chase them away screaming about mistakes in some meaningless 12 year old ball game.

But with the rec kids I bust my butt to make sure these kids have some good hits and have a good season, because most kids never play baseball again after 12. My dad used to manage and this guy I know in LA who played on our 8-9 year old team was telling me all these great stories about my dad and I was just dumbfounded, I didn’t remember any of it. For this kid though if those were the last years he played baseball he remembers it well, so that’s the impression I hope to leave on some of these kids.

Now this being the internet and me choosing to have fun with my words I am not nearly the blowhard I am coming across here on the macho stuff. The reality is I want to play with my kids, I only have two, and these are the last years I get to be a boy with them. Naturally they wanted to play with dad and learned to play the things dad was good at. I had a basement in Ohio and by the time they were 6 they could dribble with two hands, go between the legs and around the back (with one of those small balls). I thought for sure my kids would be basketball players like daddy, I am a 6’1″ PG, and my wife is 5’10” so they’ll be big kids. We even had 10-game passes to Cavaliers games, and I watch hoops all the time around the house. Neither one plays basketball anymore. So it’s true the kids will choose what they like. Mine have a knack for baseball so I educated the hell out of myself to help them succeed. And I get to play with the kids even longer because as I stop coaching them I can still pitch BP.

Now bringing all this back to the girls, notice I said I’d probably expose my girls, heavily to basketball and softball. Mostly because it’s what I know. I can help my kid in those sports. If my girl is Dance, I am a spectator. If she is a tennis player, same thing, I’ll master the tennis clap and that’s about it.

I just had a long talk with my 7th grader we were out hitting this afternoon with one of his buddies and the father is a PGA golfer that lives in Encinitas. My son asked me why I don’t golf since many of the dad’s do. I told him look I basically said once I have boys I am not golfing anymore. If I went and shot 18 somewhere by the time you get on, play through, have bite to eat afterward you’ve shot 8 hours on a Saturday. I’ll be damned if I am not going to miss my kids YMCA basketball game to chase around a golf ball. Plenty of time for that, I won’t even be 50 as both are finishing their bachelor’s degree. Now to be fair at this point in my life, not golfing is purely financial I just don’t have the means to golf a whole lot, but initially it was not wanting to take away time from the kids. The reality is if I had just a little more scratch, it would be a good time to get them into golf, so we can keep playing once I am too old to throw to them.

[CardiffBaseball]

Russ I have a strong heart for kids just out there playing a sport and not trying to get to college. So I’ve coached Rec YMCA basketball in two states, rec soccer and rec baseball. I also have managed and run a travel baseball team since our kids were about 9 (meaning the guys that stuck with me). Even on the competitive travel baseball I’ve carried one or two kids who really shouldn’t be on the team, but they are loyal and work hard so we keep them. For me it’s not about cut-throat winning but about trying to get them to love the game since most of the kids are clearly above average skill-wise. Meaning if we have a bunch of potential college players here don’t chase them away screaming about mistakes in some meaningless 12 year old ball game.

But with the rec kids I bust my butt to make sure these kids have some good hits and have a good season, because most kids never play baseball again after 12. My dad used to manage and this guy I know in LA who played on our 8-9 year old team was telling me all these great stories about my dad and I was just dumbfounded, I didn’t remember any of it. For this kid though if those were the last years he played baseball he remembers it well, so that’s the impression I hope to leave on some of these kids.

Now this being the internet and me choosing to have fun with my words I am not nearly the blowhard I am coming across here on the macho stuff. The reality is I want to play with my kids, I only have two, and these are the last years I get to be a boy with them. Naturally they wanted to play with dad and learned to play the things dad was good at. I had a basement in Ohio and by the time they were 6 they could dribble with two hands, go between the legs and around the back (with one of those small balls). I thought for sure my kids would be basketball players like daddy, I am a 6’1″ PG, and my wife is 5’10” so they’ll be big kids. We even had 10-game passes to Cavaliers games, and I watch hoops all the time around the house. Neither one plays basketball anymore. So it’s true the kids will choose what they like. Mine have a knack for baseball so I educated the hell out of myself to help them succeed. And I get to play with the kids even longer because as I stop coaching them I can still pitch BP.

Now bringing all this back to the girls, notice I said I’d probably expose my girls, heavily to basketball and softball. Mostly because it’s what I know. I can help my kid in those sports. If my girl is Dance, I am a spectator. If she is a tennis player, same thing, I’ll master the tennis clap and that’s about it.

I just had a long talk with my 7th grader we were out hitting this afternoon with one of his buddies and the father is a PGA golfer that lives in Encinitas. My son asked me why I don’t golf since many of the dad’s do. I told him look I basically said once I have boys I am not golfing anymore. If I went and shot 18 somewhere by the time you get on, play through, have bite to eat afterward you’ve shot 8 hours on a Saturday. I’ll be damned if I am not going to miss my kids YMCA basketball game to chase around a golf ball. Plenty of time for that, I won’t even be 50 as both are finishing their bachelor’s degree. Now to be fair at this point in my life, not golfing is purely financial I just don’t have the means to golf a whole lot, but initially it was not wanting to take away time from the kids. The reality is if I had just a little more scratch, it would be a good time to get them into golf, so we can keep playing once I am too old to throw to them.

[CardiffBaseball]

Russ I have a strong heart for kids just out there playing a sport and not trying to get to college. So I’ve coached Rec YMCA basketball in two states, rec soccer and rec baseball. I also have managed and run a travel baseball team since our kids were about 9 (meaning the guys that stuck with me). Even on the competitive travel baseball I’ve carried one or two kids who really shouldn’t be on the team, but they are loyal and work hard so we keep them. For me it’s not about cut-throat winning but about trying to get them to love the game since most of the kids are clearly above average skill-wise. Meaning if we have a bunch of potential college players here don’t chase them away screaming about mistakes in some meaningless 12 year old ball game.

But with the rec kids I bust my butt to make sure these kids have some good hits and have a good season, because most kids never play baseball again after 12. My dad used to manage and this guy I know in LA who played on our 8-9 year old team was telling me all these great stories about my dad and I was just dumbfounded, I didn’t remember any of it. For this kid though if those were the last years he played baseball he remembers it well, so that’s the impression I hope to leave on some of these kids.

Now this being the internet and me choosing to have fun with my words I am not nearly the blowhard I am coming across here on the macho stuff. The reality is I want to play with my kids, I only have two, and these are the last years I get to be a boy with them. Naturally they wanted to play with dad and learned to play the things dad was good at. I had a basement in Ohio and by the time they were 6 they could dribble with two hands, go between the legs and around the back (with one of those small balls). I thought for sure my kids would be basketball players like daddy, I am a 6’1″ PG, and my wife is 5’10” so they’ll be big kids. We even had 10-game passes to Cavaliers games, and I watch hoops all the time around the house. Neither one plays basketball anymore. So it’s true the kids will choose what they like. Mine have a knack for baseball so I educated the hell out of myself to help them succeed. And I get to play with the kids even longer because as I stop coaching them I can still pitch BP.

Now bringing all this back to the girls, notice I said I’d probably expose my girls, heavily to basketball and softball. Mostly because it’s what I know. I can help my kid in those sports. If my girl is Dance, I am a spectator. If she is a tennis player, same thing, I’ll master the tennis clap and that’s about it.

I just had a long talk with my 7th grader we were out hitting this afternoon with one of his buddies and the father is a PGA golfer that lives in Encinitas. My son asked me why I don’t golf since many of the dad’s do. I told him look I basically said once I have boys I am not golfing anymore. If I went and shot 18 somewhere by the time you get on, play through, have bite to eat afterward you’ve shot 8 hours on a Saturday. I’ll be damned if I am not going to miss my kids YMCA basketball game to chase around a golf ball. Plenty of time for that, I won’t even be 50 as both are finishing their bachelor’s degree. Now to be fair at this point in my life, not golfing is purely financial I just don’t have the means to golf a whole lot, but initially it was not wanting to take away time from the kids. The reality is if I had just a little more scratch, it would be a good time to get them into golf, so we can keep playing once I am too old to throw to them.

[CardiffBaseball]

Russ I have a strong heart for kids just out there playing a sport and not trying to get to college. So I’ve coached Rec YMCA basketball in two states, rec soccer and rec baseball. I also have managed and run a travel baseball team since our kids were about 9 (meaning the guys that stuck with me). Even on the competitive travel baseball I’ve carried one or two kids who really shouldn’t be on the team, but they are loyal and work hard so we keep them. For me it’s not about cut-throat winning but about trying to get them to love the game since most of the kids are clearly above average skill-wise. Meaning if we have a bunch of potential college players here don’t chase them away screaming about mistakes in some meaningless 12 year old ball game.

But with the rec kids I bust my butt to make sure these kids have some good hits and have a good season, because most kids never play baseball again after 12. My dad used to manage and this guy I know in LA who played on our 8-9 year old team was telling me all these great stories about my dad and I was just dumbfounded, I didn’t remember any of it. For this kid though if those were the last years he played baseball he remembers it well, so that’s the impression I hope to leave on some of these kids.

Now this being the internet and me choosing to have fun with my words I am not nearly the blowhard I am coming across here on the macho stuff. The reality is I want to play with my kids, I only have two, and these are the last years I get to be a boy with them. Naturally they wanted to play with dad and learned to play the things dad was good at. I had a basement in Ohio and by the time they were 6 they could dribble with two hands, go between the legs and around the back (with one of those small balls). I thought for sure my kids would be basketball players like daddy, I am a 6’1″ PG, and my wife is 5’10” so they’ll be big kids. We even had 10-game passes to Cavaliers games, and I watch hoops all the time around the house. Neither one plays basketball anymore. So it’s true the kids will choose what they like. Mine have a knack for baseball so I educated the hell out of myself to help them succeed. And I get to play with the kids even longer because as I stop coaching them I can still pitch BP.

Now bringing all this back to the girls, notice I said I’d probably expose my girls, heavily to basketball and softball. Mostly because it’s what I know. I can help my kid in those sports. If my girl is Dance, I am a spectator. If she is a tennis player, same thing, I’ll master the tennis clap and that’s about it.

I just had a long talk with my 7th grader we were out hitting this afternoon with one of his buddies and the father is a PGA golfer that lives in Encinitas. My son asked me why I don’t golf since many of the dad’s do. I told him look I basically said once I have boys I am not golfing anymore. If I went and shot 18 somewhere by the time you get on, play through, have bite to eat afterward you’ve shot 8 hours on a Saturday. I’ll be damned if I am not going to miss my kids YMCA basketball game to chase around a golf ball. Plenty of time for that, I won’t even be 50 as both are finishing their bachelor’s degree. Now to be fair at this point in my life, not golfing is purely financial I just don’t have the means to golf a whole lot, but initially it was not wanting to take away time from the kids. The reality is if I had just a little more scratch, it would be a good time to get them into golf, so we can keep playing once I am too old to throw to them.

[CardiffBaseball]

Russ I have a strong heart for kids just out there playing a sport and not trying to get to college. So I’ve coached Rec YMCA basketball in two states, rec soccer and rec baseball. I also have managed and run a travel baseball team since our kids were about 9 (meaning the guys that stuck with me). Even on the competitive travel baseball I’ve carried one or two kids who really shouldn’t be on the team, but they are loyal and work hard so we keep them. For me it’s not about cut-throat winning but about trying to get them to love the game since most of the kids are clearly above average skill-wise. Meaning if we have a bunch of potential college players here don’t chase them away screaming about mistakes in some meaningless 12 year old ball game.

But with the rec kids I bust my butt to make sure these kids have some good hits and have a good season, because most kids never play baseball again after 12. My dad used to manage and this guy I know in LA who played on our 8-9 year old team was telling me all these great stories about my dad and I was just dumbfounded, I didn’t remember any of it. For this kid though if those were the last years he played baseball he remembers it well, so that’s the impression I hope to leave on some of these kids.

Now this being the internet and me choosing to have fun with my words I am not nearly the blowhard I am coming across here on the macho stuff. The reality is I want to play with my kids, I only have two, and these are the last years I get to be a boy with them. Naturally they wanted to play with dad and learned to play the things dad was good at. I had a basement in Ohio and by the time they were 6 they could dribble with two hands, go between the legs and around the back (with one of those small balls). I thought for sure my kids would be basketball players like daddy, I am a 6’1″ PG, and my wife is 5’10” so they’ll be big kids. We even had 10-game passes to Cavaliers games, and I watch hoops all the time around the house. Neither one plays basketball anymore. So it’s true the kids will choose what they like. Mine have a knack for baseball so I educated the hell out of myself to help them succeed. And I get to play with the kids even longer because as I stop coaching them I can still pitch BP.

Now bringing all this back to the girls, notice I said I’d probably expose my girls, heavily to basketball and softball. Mostly because it’s what I know. I can help my kid in those sports. If my girl is Dance, I am a spectator. If she is a tennis player, same thing, I’ll master the tennis clap and that’s about it.

I just had a long talk with my 7th grader we were out hitting this afternoon with one of his buddies and the father is a PGA golfer that lives in Encinitas. My son asked me why I don’t golf since many of the dad’s do. I told him look I basically said once I have boys I am not golfing anymore. If I went and shot 18 somewhere by the time you get on, play through, have bite to eat afterward you’ve shot 8 hours on a Saturday. I’ll be damned if I am not going to miss my kids YMCA basketball game to chase around a golf ball. Plenty of time for that, I won’t even be 50 as both are finishing their bachelor’s degree. Now to be fair at this point in my life, not golfing is purely financial I just don’t have the means to golf a whole lot, but initially it was not wanting to take away time from the kids. The reality is if I had just a little more scratch, it would be a good time to get them into golf, so we can keep playing once I am too old to throw to them.

[CardiffBaseball]

There are no boys at tennis or golf matches flu.

Or if you are into chicks (not that there is anything wrong with that), they aren’t there either. Kids tend to congregate where most of the other kids are hangin’ out.

When I wuz a 3-year starter at PG about 120 lbs. ago in HS, we had a group of farmers that would come to the game as the rowdie rooters. They went to the games and screamed their fool heads off, and I loved it. Not sure why the girls cheering on the boys is any different.

Look I am the anti-russ in this case, my kids live on COD Modern Warfare, and they also play the macho team sports. In reality kids tend to go where their parents influence them so guilty as charged…. dad just doesn’t care about golf or tennis so the kids were never really exposed. (could we have lost the next Sampras?) Lacrosse, we didn’t mess with because rarely does a kid who hits the snot out of a baseball quit playing, but it’s a cool game too.

So yes I agree that if I had a daughter I’d probably be pushing something like softball/basketball not cheer. I just think these cheerleaders are getting a bum rap here. Sorry to the original poster, I seem to have hijacked… The competitive cheer squads are athletic as hell. How do we measure a great male athlete? Vertical leap, 40 times, how many times you can bench 225, what is your power clean, agility cone drills, etc.

I am guessing if you devised some kind of similar athletic test at the high school level I’d be willing to wager money on the competitive cheerleader over the most high school tennis players. Look at the legs, who do you think will squat or deadlift more? Now if you are talking about really pushing tennis, living at the club, using personal trainers and the whole prodigy thing, that’s different.

[CardiffBaseball]

There are no boys at tennis or golf matches flu.

Or if you are into chicks (not that there is anything wrong with that), they aren’t there either. Kids tend to congregate where most of the other kids are hangin’ out.

When I wuz a 3-year starter at PG about 120 lbs. ago in HS, we had a group of farmers that would come to the game as the rowdie rooters. They went to the games and screamed their fool heads off, and I loved it. Not sure why the girls cheering on the boys is any different.

Look I am the anti-russ in this case, my kids live on COD Modern Warfare, and they also play the macho team sports. In reality kids tend to go where their parents influence them so guilty as charged…. dad just doesn’t care about golf or tennis so the kids were never really exposed. (could we have lost the next Sampras?) Lacrosse, we didn’t mess with because rarely does a kid who hits the snot out of a baseball quit playing, but it’s a cool game too.

So yes I agree that if I had a daughter I’d probably be pushing something like softball/basketball not cheer. I just think these cheerleaders are getting a bum rap here. Sorry to the original poster, I seem to have hijacked… The competitive cheer squads are athletic as hell. How do we measure a great male athlete? Vertical leap, 40 times, how many times you can bench 225, what is your power clean, agility cone drills, etc.

I am guessing if you devised some kind of similar athletic test at the high school level I’d be willing to wager money on the competitive cheerleader over the most high school tennis players. Look at the legs, who do you think will squat or deadlift more? Now if you are talking about really pushing tennis, living at the club, using personal trainers and the whole prodigy thing, that’s different.

[CardiffBaseball]

There are no boys at tennis or golf matches flu.

Or if you are into chicks (not that there is anything wrong with that), they aren’t there either. Kids tend to congregate where most of the other kids are hangin’ out.

When I wuz a 3-year starter at PG about 120 lbs. ago in HS, we had a group of farmers that would come to the game as the rowdie rooters. They went to the games and screamed their fool heads off, and I loved it. Not sure why the girls cheering on the boys is any different.

Look I am the anti-russ in this case, my kids live on COD Modern Warfare, and they also play the macho team sports. In reality kids tend to go where their parents influence them so guilty as charged…. dad just doesn’t care about golf or tennis so the kids were never really exposed. (could we have lost the next Sampras?) Lacrosse, we didn’t mess with because rarely does a kid who hits the snot out of a baseball quit playing, but it’s a cool game too.

So yes I agree that if I had a daughter I’d probably be pushing something like softball/basketball not cheer. I just think these cheerleaders are getting a bum rap here. Sorry to the original poster, I seem to have hijacked… The competitive cheer squads are athletic as hell. How do we measure a great male athlete? Vertical leap, 40 times, how many times you can bench 225, what is your power clean, agility cone drills, etc.

I am guessing if you devised some kind of similar athletic test at the high school level I’d be willing to wager money on the competitive cheerleader over the most high school tennis players. Look at the legs, who do you think will squat or deadlift more? Now if you are talking about really pushing tennis, living at the club, using personal trainers and the whole prodigy thing, that’s different.

[CardiffBaseball]

There are no boys at tennis or golf matches flu.

Or if you are into chicks (not that there is anything wrong with that), they aren’t there either. Kids tend to congregate where most of the other kids are hangin’ out.

When I wuz a 3-year starter at PG about 120 lbs. ago in HS, we had a group of farmers that would come to the game as the rowdie rooters. They went to the games and screamed their fool heads off, and I loved it. Not sure why the girls cheering on the boys is any different.

Look I am the anti-russ in this case, my kids live on COD Modern Warfare, and they also play the macho team sports. In reality kids tend to go where their parents influence them so guilty as charged…. dad just doesn’t care about golf or tennis so the kids were never really exposed. (could we have lost the next Sampras?) Lacrosse, we didn’t mess with because rarely does a kid who hits the snot out of a baseball quit playing, but it’s a cool game too.

So yes I agree that if I had a daughter I’d probably be pushing something like softball/basketball not cheer. I just think these cheerleaders are getting a bum rap here. Sorry to the original poster, I seem to have hijacked… The competitive cheer squads are athletic as hell. How do we measure a great male athlete? Vertical leap, 40 times, how many times you can bench 225, what is your power clean, agility cone drills, etc.

I am guessing if you devised some kind of similar athletic test at the high school level I’d be willing to wager money on the competitive cheerleader over the most high school tennis players. Look at the legs, who do you think will squat or deadlift more? Now if you are talking about really pushing tennis, living at the club, using personal trainers and the whole prodigy thing, that’s different.

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