Pushing
Today I took the kids to the park. It was hot, but they had a good time swinging and playing on the equipment.
While we were there, a dad and son showed up on the baseball diamond next to the play area. They took out a bag of balls and a bat and the dad started pitching balls to him. I didn't think much of it.
But when I sat down for a few minutes I was able to overhear the dad's instruction to the boy. He was talking to him about situational hitting - moving the runner over, hit and run plays, changing your stance and choking up on the bat with two strikes, fairly advanced stuff. The kid looked like he was 6 or 7! Give me a break! What ever happened to "put some bat on the ball?"
If that's the current state of kid's baseball, well, it looks like AYSO soccer for my kids.