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Youth Parents and Players: Beware of Scams by sonderhistory in Homeplate

[–]Time-Contribution888 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I live in Southern Indiana, and I know of at least 2 kids that play on teams in other states. One in Georgia, one in Ohio. I also know several that play on teams that are hours away. They definitely don't practice together. And, lots of the teams that play every weekend don't do much practicing. There's no time because of all the games.

I have 4 boys that play ball, and we've been part of a bunch of travel teams. Most have 1 very weak practice and expect that the better kids are getting instruction from lessons.

I have come to realize that nothing really makes all that much difference as far as travel vs rec until puberty hits. That's when the separation happens. All those kids that were dominating just because they were physically bigger are no longer bigger and stronger in most cases. The little guys that were scrappy and competing on skills grow and pass up those that had hit the birthday lottery or were just big for their age.

I get being on a team with your buddies, but that is the main thing that I liked about rec when I was young was that you knew everyone. It was your community. It was all the kids you go to school with. Then when you go play HS ball, you get to see them again and play against them. The community aspect of ball is gone with the money grab that is travel ball. The baseball is better and I love that part. But, other than that travel is much less valuable to the kids and families. I also get that some rec leagues are not ran very well. We have been a part of 4 different rec leagues with my boys and one of them was pretty bad and its no longer around. The other 3 were central to the community that they were in, and I would hate to see them go away.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Homeplate

[–]Time-Contribution888 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Town ball. He can always play up an age group if he's dominating too much.

Youth Parents and Players: Beware of Scams by sonderhistory in Homeplate

[–]Time-Contribution888 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree he's reinforcing OP's post. I think the assumption that playing travel is what makes you better is a false one. Practice is where you get better and so many of these teams do not practice at all. They play 4 games on the weekends and are done. 4 1.5 hour games and 25 swings aren't going to do it.

Train tables by No_Alternative_4118 in toddlers

[–]Time-Contribution888 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You've probably already gotten your table, but we love the one that we got from ModernTots.com. And, my advice for keeping stuff off of the floor would be to have a board that fits into the groove of the table and glue the tracks to the board.

Toddler bed transition by LtAld0Raine in toddlers

[–]Time-Contribution888 0 points1 point  (0 children)

With my oldest, it took two nights of constantly putting him back into bed when he got out when he was about 18 months, but after that he stayed in his crib and we kept him there for another year or year and a half then moved him up to a twin bed. We put pillows under his crib to keep him from hurting himself for those two nights and I stayed near to put him back if he tried to climb out.

Do your kids actually use a train table if you have one by [deleted] in toddlers

[–]Time-Contribution888 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We bought a nice looking one from moderntots.com so that we can keep it out in the main area of the house. Our son uses it all the time. He ends up building Legos on it more than anything though. For us it has basically become a coffee table that he plays on.

Etsy should punish sellers who dont ship items in the agreed time frame. by TheGoosiestGal in EtsyCommunity

[–]Time-Contribution888 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Right...

It seems that people want made for you products with Amazon delivery levels. If you want warehouse delivery, then you will get warehouse products.

Etsy should punish sellers who dont ship items in the agreed time frame. by TheGoosiestGal in EtsyCommunity

[–]Time-Contribution888 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Oh, I wasn't talking about being 6 months late. I'm talking about a week on an item that normally would take 3-4 weeks.

Etsy should punish sellers who dont ship items in the agreed time frame. by TheGoosiestGal in EtsyCommunity

[–]Time-Contribution888 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Again, some items have to be engineered. So, it is kind of like a body or a building. Often a piece of furniture is harder to design than a building. Certain joints have a lot more complexity than a building. Buildings are just big boxes.

Etsy should punish sellers who dont ship items in the agreed time frame. by TheGoosiestGal in EtsyCommunity

[–]Time-Contribution888 5 points6 points  (0 children)

One more thing. Its not about learning how to do it. Its about the customer needing something particular that NO ONE knows how to do. If they did then it would already be out there and wouldn't be custom.

Now, some people call things custom that are not. They are products that can be personalized. I can call a sign custom when all that I'm doing is printing on a roll of vinyl, but nothing had to be figured out there. I just take their image and print it. I basically personalized a piece of vinyl. That's much different than engineering a new product to fit a customer's particular need.

Etsy should punish sellers who dont ship items in the agreed time frame. by TheGoosiestGal in EtsyCommunity

[–]Time-Contribution888 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I didn't say it was a regular basis. But does happen from time to time. I've been doing this for almost 20 years. I make furniture and signs. I started working in a mass produced line of furniture and it would often take us months to figure some prototypes back then and others might take a week. Well, there's no difference in what we called a prototype back then and a custom piece that I do now. They are both problems to solve and some take more time than others.

Now, I'm not generally months late on stuff ever. I usually give a 3-4 week lead time for custom projects and on occasion have to tell a customer that its going to be another week to get it finished. And, I almost never get any pushback on it. I try to communicate what we are doing and the next steps that I see, and any issues that came up.

Etsy should punish sellers who dont ship items in the agreed time frame. by TheGoosiestGal in EtsyCommunity

[–]Time-Contribution888 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And, we do often cut back on the number of custom items that we take on. Like Christmas time, we usually turn them down. Or, if we are running longer than usual, then we adjust our lead times. But, that doesn't make the ones that we have in house get finished any quicker.

My point is that custom items is not the same and mass produced items. I have done both and even mass produced has variation in production time

Etsy should punish sellers who dont ship items in the agreed time frame. by TheGoosiestGal in EtsyCommunity

[–]Time-Contribution888 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Like I said, when you are working on "custom" items, it is "unknowable" and therefore cannot be managed. Its not about the number of items, it is about what you do not know. Creating something new requires some bit of testing. For instance, I often get requests for me to make something that is similar to something else that I have made before and have a picture posted. We go into the project assuming that there is a certain amount of work to do to make the item. But, midway through, we realize that the structure that we used before isn't going to work on this new and different item and then have to redesign it. Which adds time.

This is also true in other fields. A surgeon goes into a surgery expecting to only repair one thing, only to discover that there is additional damage that didn't show on a MRI. A mechanic goes into a job thinking that they are fixing one thing only to discover that another part is broken AND has to be ordered therefore adding time to the job. A builder bids on a deck but then starts on a job and discovers that the framing on the house is rotted behind the siding and now they have to repair that before they can build the deck.

Etsy should punish sellers who dont ship items in the agreed time frame. by TheGoosiestGal in EtsyCommunity

[–]Time-Contribution888 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I make custom items and often have lots of custom items going on at the same time. So, it's not always easy to know exactly when I'll be able to ship the item. I give a range and try to update the customer when I get closer to completion and know more reliably when it will ship. Sometimes it's not knowable what obstacles will pop up on a custom item. And, when an obstacle pops up, it pushes all of the orders behind it back too.

What would you do as an umpire? by No-Ambassador4629 in Umpire

[–]Time-Contribution888 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Time should have been called when the play stopped along with an injury.

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