Dave Riske
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard Jan 2025
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And they said, well, we're afraid that our kid, little Johnny or whatever, is going to be behind if we don't play as much. I'm like, what do you mean behind?
know what i mean so these parents are so worried that they're not playing every single weekend so they'll jump to teams and go to not even not play with if their team's not playing they'll go to play for another team because they feel like the more they play better they'll get better again that's not true it's not true at all well if you've ever seen me play golf you know that that's not true same with me yeah which you have you can be a 10-day layoff man i'm gonna smoke it right
And baseball and throwing a baseball, there's nothing better than rest.
The rest and go, like I say, go play another sport. Yeah. Go play rec basketball just for fun as a kid.
So I've been on both sides, parent and a coach in high school. So I'm kind of in the middle of all of it. So I've always tended to want my kids to go to a better team or where there's better players, even elite players, because I think if my kids are not elite, I think they could get better.
I was always against going to a high school where they're terrible and then you being the best player on the team. Yeah, because you don't get any better. I don't think you can get better that way. But so many people play summer ball, and summer ball is very important because that's when you get seen by all these college coaches.
It is. I love high school baseball. It is, but the college coaches cannot go and see them play in high school.
Right. So that's the tough part. So summer, summer ball is you get looked at and you get recruited way harder in the summer.
There's, there's so many different teams, especially in town here. Oh my gosh. There's so many different teams. And then like my kids would travel outside of state and they'd go play in Arizona for a team. They'd go play in Ohio for a team, Utah for a team, and they would just travel that way.
um well it's almost like these summer ball teams coaches they like call they kind of recruit okay so they'll they'll know if somebody there see video somebody or seen them play before and they'll call they'll call me i'm like hey can your son play play for us this summer and they kind of reach out let's say you live in a weird sort of place like uh
saskatchew tune canada whatever right do you just send stuff out to these guys yeah now nowadays there's so much video out there so now you just send your video or you or you just make calls if you want to come in the state like you come in the states and play or whatever but they my kids played a lot of canadian teams that would come over and play did that yeah yep okay so let's talk about now you got a point so you're playing summer ball which is where you really get noticed that's where stuff starts to happen
Yes, but I think high school baseball is great. And you can still get noticed. A lot of pro scouts go to high school baseball if there's a kid that they're looking at.
For sure, yes.
And I would hope that parents would – their first option should be like let the kid enjoy the sport. Yeah. You know what I mean? Don't force it on them because that's – it actually happened to me. My oldest son was – And I can say this now because he's in college and he's a pitcher, but shortstop-wise and defensively was unbelievable.
And I would never say this out loud to him and let him hear this. You know what I mean? This is the kind of dad I was. But coaches from around town, defensively, he was unbelievable. But he didn't hit. He didn't like to hit. He didn't want to get better at hitting. He was just not a very good hitter. So he became a pitcher.
Right. So he became it. And now he's pitching in college right now. Yeah. But I'm just like, I just, you know what I mean? You just can't. And he actually stopped liking baseball. I think he took baseball off from 9 to 12 or 9 to 11. He's like, Dad, I don't want to play baseball anymore. So I felt like I almost like got him to hate the sport. Dude, what was that like? Oh, it was, I was crushed.
Absolutely crushed. And that was my biggest fear, like me pushing them too hard in the sport and then them not wanting to play. But after the fact, and even with my younger son, I was just like, you guys can do whatever you want.
Well, they, I didn't get that, but that would be awful. Like, I don't, I don't even know how I would respond to that because baseball was my life. That's all I, that's all I know is baseball. Yeah. You know what I mean? So, and knowing all the, um, all the attention they were getting from all these schools and pro scouts and all, they're getting a ton of attention.
So I was just in there going, you got in, I tried to push them harder once all that came in, but they never, at that age, um, I was hoping that didn't happen. At what point did it click for them and they wanted to get a D1 scholarship? Kids, you know what's funny? Kids at that age, they just, results. If they have good results, they love it.
And then my oldest was like, if he doesn't have results, he hated the sport. He hated baseball if he doesn't have good results. And if you're playing baseball, it's a game of failure. It's all about, you know what I mean, results.
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