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Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Backyard Baseball 2007

Backyard Baseball 2007 combines the friendly playground atmosphere with your favorite MLB players. Play with or against the kids and pros! Create your own team, and control every wacky pitch, clutch hit, and sprint for home. Play with or against pros like Alex "A-Rod" Rodriguez, and unlock secret pros and amazing power-ups. You'll have big-league ball right in your own backyard. Multiple modes of play - Single Game, Season Play, Batting Practice and Home Run Derby All-new Fielders' Challenge mini-game Full stats and standings in Season Play
Customer Review: Two Thumbs Down, Get Backyard Baseball 2005 Instead
Plainly put this product blatently sucks, sorry, I can almost always find something positive to say about a game but this is just a sorry excuse for a game. You cannot play with a controller on PC? What kind of baseball game doesn't let you use a controller, I mean a baseball game is perfectly in sync with the layout on a controller, to use a mouse or keyboard to play is ludicrous. I'm sure the other versions (PS2, GBA) use controllers why the heck can't they incorporate that feature into PC? I love Backyard Baseball 2005 and only bought this to upgrade a bit, thinking they would have improved a few things, but no improvements whatsoever. The field isn't fully visible when you hit the ball, it's near impossible to control fielders with a mouse, using the keyboard to hit a ball is a clunky interface at best, still no network support for multiplayer games?? C'mon it's BB 2007 not 1997. And what is this business of playing the game direct off of CDROM ? That means updates/patches are never gonna happen, you can't patch a CD Disc, UGHHHH! Pity to the peeps whose CD Rom drives poop out from whirring away for an hour to play this game. I wish I would have read the other reviews on amazon before I bought this stinker. Please listen to me, the only thing this game would be good for is a birthday present to a kid you don't like very much : ) Sorry I wish I could say better
Customer Review: great for car trips
I recommend this fun and creative game with just a couple of caveats: it can burn a lot of time and it eventually becomes boring (i.e. after some months it will collect dust on the shelf). I bought this game for my 7-year-old son after he thoroughly enjoyed Backyard Soccer. I noticed that the soccer game increased his desire to play the actual outdoor game and his performance on his real soccer team visibly improved. The baseball game has peaked his interest in trying out baseball and he is yearning for summer when he can join a real little league team. Each game can take a lot of time, and I like to limit my son's time on video games, but I think it is perfect for long car rides. We often drive for 12 hours, and my son can spend much of that time playing just this one game. It is hard to find anything else to occupy his attention for that long. I think it is fairly challenging, even at the beginning level, but with sufficient practice you can put together a winning team at any level. We also enjoy examining all the statistics, which is what makes baseball an interesting sport.

Tee Ball is the most popular youth baseball program in Little League, including other youth baseball leagues around the country, and has the most participants. As the 5- and 6-year-olds whom participate in Tee Ball get older, there is a drop off in youth baseball participation each year. Traditionally the largest drop off of players in most youth leagues occurs after players reach their twelfth birthday. Soccer is almost a year round sport and youth lacrosse is growing, which are both in direct competition with youth baseball. Baseball parents, coaches, and leagues are almost compelled to make the first baseball experience for young kids a positive one.

Youth baseball leagues can develop certain positive philosophies that will maximize the chances of retaining baseball players in their leagues. Ill touch on just few that I feel most appropriate. First of all, Tee Ball leagues should strive to make it as non-competitive as possible. Some overzealous parents who are very competitive will look upon their own childs first tee ball experience as the Major League World Series. Leagues must set a standard with this non-competition philosophy. Not keeping score is an option leagues try. But, from my experience with my own kids, as much as parents and coaches try, some of the kids themselves will be keeping score and reminding the coach and the other teammates every time a player crosses home plate. This will also lead to the kids keeping track of wins and losses. One option leagues might consider is to mix the teams up every 3rd or 4th game. This option affords tee ball teams to still have a team concept because they will practice with their team, and 75% of their games will be together. One thing they will have to overcome is two sets of different colored uniforms playing on the same side. Maybe one way to overcome this is to have players come to these games in white tee shirts and the leagues supply cheap colored vests. Maybe we call these games All League Games, or another positive term that everyone can accept.

The other part of the game that needs to be addressed is that at the age of 5 & 6, the skill level will vary tremendously. Leagues need to treat the tee ball season as a progression type situation. In a 20 or 25 game season, maybe use a larger ball when hitting off the batting tee for the first five games. In practices, coaches should use a larger ball on a tee early in a season. One thing I did when coaching tee ball is to take a bathroom plunger, turn it upside down and place it into the batting tee. Now a coach can rest a beach ball or a kick ball on top of the tee for the kids to hit.

When teaching fielding, coaches need to make the task as achievable as possible. I used to start the season using a Velcro ball and Velcro paddle to catch a fly ball. The kids love this. On ground balls, teach the players to make contact with the ball with their glove, keep it in front of them, and not necessarily catch it.

On throwing, keep the distance short, spreading the players out very liberally and moving them back after every five throws.

These are just a few ideas that leagues should address, keeping in mind that we must start with baby steps and progress as the season goes on.
Parents must realize that they will have their fair share of competition as their kids move up in age. Tee Ball should be a positive experience in every sense of the word. Skills should be the theme of tee ball and less competition. In the world of youth sports, which includes playing time problems, parental sniping, and on the field arguing, youth baseball Tee Ball should be immune to this problems as much as possible.

http://www.YouthSportsClub.com

http://www.VideosForCoaches.com

Marty Schupak has coached youth baseball for 18 years and is the video creator of "The 59 Minute Baseball Practice", "Backyard Baseball Drills", "Winning Baseball Strategies", "Hitting Drills & Techniques", Pitching Drills & Techniques, and author of the popular book, "Youth Baseball Drills". He is a principle with Videos For Coaches and is also President of the Youth Sports Club, a group dedicated to making sports practices and games more enjoyable for kids.

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