Not a fan of a lot of the comments in this thread. I realize we were all upset after that game.
1. About Dion yukking it up with his opponent after the game. The game was over. Leave it on the field. Don’t teach your kids that it’s okay to be an ####### to your competition when you lose. (That 13U coach one of the posters was talking about, who would cut the poster’s kid just because he fraternized with the other team after a bad play/loss? Yeah, that coach is an #######. The poster needs to find another team. Speaking as someone whose kid played baseball all the way through college, I promise you 13U travel ain’t the place for that kind of *****.)
2. About Dion “quitting” on his blocks. If he re-engaged there, he’s absolutely getting a holding call. Sucks, but Josh needed to get that ball out as soon as he slid up in the pocket.
3. About how Josh has other things in his life besides football and a SB isn’t the most important thing to him, and how he’ll force a trade to a better organization that can give him a chance to win one. Which is it? Both can’t be true.
4. About how the players don’t want it as much as the fans do. Well, no *****. That’s always been true. Fans are ***** nuts. And we can’t fathom the amount of work players put in to get where they are and to stay there year after year. The coaches too. I promise most of us have never put in that kind of time and energy to be at the top of our profession, all the while knowing the next game - hell, the next play - may be our last. It may look easy to us sometimes. It’s not.
Take a breath, guys. Dion and Josh are not the problem.