Another Nailbiter: Bonita holds on, wins 5-4 to assume control in the Miramonte League

FOB, I shouldn't be surprised that you don't own a dictionary so I'll help you out on the definition of "perspective." It is "the capacity to view things in their true relations or relative importance." It is probably asking too much for you to actually have any perspective...your problem, not mine.

brad

I hear the fat lady singing at charter oak. Nice game with la.

ken,i cant make kids,maybe thats a good thing,ex wife got the my family jewels,she had a great lawyer,linda lovelace.am not the clown type,more of a joker.thanks buddy,wanted looking for a 6-8 lefty 16 year old,up for adoption. let me know if anybody knows of one up..GREAT IDEAL KEN>>you got me thinking now, thanks again
one hung low

Ken

then adopt a boy

Ken, kudos for your comments. I want to add that in addition to being one of the best baseball players in the SGV, Jio should also be admired for having the grades and test scores to be admitted to USC. The problem with a lot of kids that wind up signing for a few grand is that they lack the grades to go to a 4 year college so their only option is JUCO. If he stays healthy, Jio is going to be drafted again in two years and at that point he has a lot of leverage in demanding a bigger signing bonus or just staying in school for another year of a $40K education. A baseball career is short lived but a college degree lasts a lifetime.

people should stop trying to worry about the s.s. at bonita,saying he needs work on hitting.needs to do this,needs to do that, my god, he just one of gods childred playing a kids game ,leave it at that ..and at 18 years old, who dosent need extra help hitting.. but iwill tell you one thing from experience..theres no helping kids at the next level of pro ball. coaches are just like the players trying to move up the ladder, if and when hes a high rounder all the coaches will take a little extra time with him ,so they can say ,,i was a part of the kid going up the ladder..if it was me and i could do it all over again ,theres no doubt i would go to u.s.c. learn more so later you will have a better way of handling things in a more muture out look..plus it helps you with the minor leagues traveling. and if you go to the big time college you go straight to the higher single a clubs,in a half season you can be brough up too AA. next season AA to AAA to the show.. if you sign out of high school, players go to extened spring training for 2 seasons.. maybe three season to get to high A ball. see it takes the same time to get to AA ball out of college or h.s. plus in college you get to play for a college world series ring three times .pro ball is over rated ..its a job, the fun gone..acouple games you go o for 14 on the road at 18 years old with no friends or family to come home too. it sucks..easy to find bad habbits to get into. over sleeping, bad eating,drinking it gose on and on ..nobody watches you. your on your own..see you tomorrow at the park. like the late, Al Canpanis of the dodger,told my boy one night at the angel staduim,he signed a ball for k.c. it said on it K.C. go to college, we still have the ball i was the last person al signed after the dodgers fired him for a comment he made about some races that play the game. he took a job for the palm spring sun ind. team. he signed me to his last ever contract,,so we will repect his wishes and K.C.. will go to college thats it for now...and kevin donald dont ever call my son a daughter again.ken go bombcats where starting to flex are muscles.

brad

finely yuor over the good call at first. Have a great year.

FOB, for the record, CO and Bonita played 4 times this year with each winning twice...so its a push so far. And, they didn't kick my butt as I do not play on the team nor do I have any need to live vicariously through it. I'm just a fan of good, clean baseball and ALL the young men that are playing...including two of the Bonita players that you are bagging on which I have had the privilage to watch or coach when they were growing up. Maybe I'm just stupid because I just can't understand why some people have a need to verbally attack the abilities of young athletes who practice long and hard and then go out and play the game to the best of their God given abilities. In my mind, even these as you would say LOSER kids and teams are still winners in the big picture of life. You need some perspective pal.

Is walnut even a team at the high school level.
one and out if gio doesn't play well in cif. You won't see the pony level pitching like walnut.

Brad

Enough is enough Bonita kicked your butts this year. Get over it.
LOSER

fob,
its was nice to see the team break out and put up 12 runs in the first.and guess what, it back fire on them ,,they pitched around gio,like most teams do. the rest of the team hammered the ball.one man army has never won a war..its seams like your back peddeling on your comet..baseball gods will get you again, just like they did oattie when mr.pres. changed the l.l. rules after 60 years,cant mess with mother nature.the last lines dont worry about it . inside quote..

kevin donald couple of us boys had a exact brown sack waiting for you down the rt. field line..somebody said you called k.c. a woman .thats to much.have fun, but dont cross the line.hes my boys a cif wrestler and varsity football as a soph.have a nice day kevin

FOB, I have no personal stake in the outcome of the game and are merely commenting upon what I know. Nothing that I've said is untrue or even remotely a biased personal opinion. A suggestion is that you look up the phrase "ad hominem", take a Logic class and then maybe you can learn to back up your boisterous opinions and comments with logic, not off-the-wall opinion and personal attacks against those that point out their shortcomings.

Let’s try and put Jio into perceptive. This kid is a true talent and will go high in the draft.

The kid truly makes some exceptional plays at short, maybe some big league plays right now. Defensive skills, size, height, and ability to play catch are why this kid is on the radar...

But he's bat needs alot of work. I would imagine a good hitting coach at the next level will straighten him out. It will be a big adjustment to make from high school BB to the next level(s) Hope he works hard and doesn't let this stuff go to his head.

brad

What kleenex do you use? I want to buy some stock
You have used at least 10 boxes since the game. I
would hate to be your kid after a bad game. Grow up.

FOB, I don't need a clue because I merely speak the truth. And, be careful what you wish for because the realignment starts in the fall of 2010 which means that CO and Bonita are still in the same league next season. So, if you are right that the varsity stinks without Jio then it is you that is predicting that CO is going to hammer Bonita next year. And, in the 2010-2011 season Bonita is going to have to deal with South Hills, Diamond Bar and Los Altos so you may be looking up from 3rd or 4th place. Relax, bad calls by umps are an UNFORTUNATE part of the game that sometimes cheat the team that deserved to win. And, this wasn't just a bad call, it was incompetence by the field umpire as he somehow forgot to perform his assigned duty. Does anyone really belive that the home plate umpire was able to watch the runner from 3rd step on the plate and then in the blink of an eye look to first base to make the disputed call? Unless he's Superman, no way.

brad

Ken is exactly right. K just being a good guy.
Hope you enjoy many more second and worst finishes in your new league. Enjoy cif this year might not see it for awhile. Get a clue or go back to pony.

Ken / Brad - I was not there so I don't know if it was a bad call or not. If it was, bad calls are part of the game and your team must fight through them. Last year, a bad call probably cost Bonita a win over NV in CIF, but you have to give NV credit for capitalizing. If this was a bad call, then give BHS credit for capitalizing.

Brad - everyone knows CO has a great program and is well respected by anyone that knows baseball. You guys should do well in CIF and it would be great if the CIF championship could be all Miramonte. You are right in that your freshman team would be very tough, if impossible to beat if Santiago was pitching. That kids is going to be good. All varisty teams are a combo of all the classes and freshman and JV competition is vastly different than varsity. Only time will tell if the freshman and sophomore classes will be successful at the varsity level. Having said that, it will be very difficult for both classes to match the senior class at BHS this year but I am sure they will continue to work hard and be a credit to their school.

Future - you have made your opinion crystal clear. Clearly, Jio is a great player, but I think most people would disagree with you that BHS does not have many talented players capable of making CIF playoffs (this will be the 3rd straight year the team makes CIF playoffs). Most great teams have a go to player. Having said that, no need to beat a dead horse, your opinion is known.

Hope everyone has a good day and remember to keep things positive!!

brad i was there in the bonita side,behind home plate talking to my scout friend fred. hes with the mets . was with philles twenty plus years,he came off the bag to get the ball watch short hoped him,the throws was in line,not to his right or left.so i wasnt a first basemen but have played it many times, if you come to get a short hop your bodys moving forward ,,thats how the foot came off the bag, from my angel easy call brad safe...as far as coach k,first of all witch coachk head coach or third base coach,he coach d.k. was coaching in the third base box give me a break,have you ever heard of good cop bad cop, there all good cops.but in coach k case he was being the good cop telling coach q what he wanted to here,,thats all.this is a small group of coaches.there all friends, hopefully the two teams will meet again in cif and we can beat them for the third time this year..
FUTURE IS BRIGHT; nobodys saying your wrong about are man gio,hes the man love watching him play..but if he was to get hurt coach knott has a couple players on the bench,one of them is a baseball moster, just being a team player waiting for his time to come.like a said no one player makes or breaks a TEAM.

Future is Bright, or should we call you FOB for full of bull@#$%? What part of your own coach admitting to the ump's mistake don't you understand? Why don't you go ask Coach K yourself, er, can't do that after all the trash you've been talking about the varsity players, can you? My kid wasn't on the mound for the home run but if he was I'd be proud of him nonetheless. There must be some kind of ego boosting glacier water, er, Kool-Aid, that the Bonita Freshman Baseball parents drink each spring as the Freshman team last year had the exact same attitude after winning the rubber game from CO to take league. Last years Freshman team proclaimed that they were the greatest thing since the 1929 Yankees and predicted they will win league every year. You do know that if they stay together for four years then this means that your kid's Freshman team will be playing JV as Juniors. That is, if the next best baseball team since sliced bread doesn't show up next year or the year after. If CO does wind up in a different (better) league next year, one thing that I will miss is seeing the internal cat fight that is going to expload when the parents of the JV and Freshman team get a dose of reality in the next year or two. Good luck FOB, I think you're going to need it.

brad

Sounds like your kid was the kid that gave up the home run. I think ken got the call right. Good luck next year co

Hey Ken Huth, you remind us that many people watch baseball games but only a few really see the details. You may want to clean your glasses because after the game Bonita's Coach K admitted to CO's Coach Q that the umps blew the call. Is Coach K or you wrong? And for you Future is Bright, why don't you just come out and say that you think that your Freshman kid is better than every varsity player except Jio. My experience is that parents who promote their own kid by knocking others usually have a kid that isn't really all that talented. Let's see how your kid does next year sitting the bench on the JV team.

Ken

I don't know who plays right just using him as example. Would never name a kid and put him down.
Just proving a point you could take any kid off
this team except gio team would be right where they are. Take gio off out of cif. Just a parent with a kid at different level and clear eyes.

geezz gark.
you have no case on the c.o. bonita umps call...
i was there and the call was right,,get over it . your not turning japanness on us,,checking out the umps positions.haha

future is bright.
please stop, you make zero sents.the yankees have won many world series after babe ruth moved on.no one player ever makes the team .its the team that makes the players.as far as the comment about the rt. fielder couldnt make anybody elses team,hes hitting 346 ave. with 8 2b and 1 hr 15 rbi, watched him get robbed of a couple hard hit balls .why cant you just say gio the bomb.we all love g. leave it there,,stop singling out other players not cool.

Future is Bright - maybe you should get your perscription checked.

baseball fan

just a parent that doesn't have a kid on the team. So I am looking through real glasses.

Future Is Bright - You are one ignorant person

keep it real

One day you'll look back and see how lucky your kid was. Take gio and the jv team would be in same place.

So In your opinion, if you remove catcher, the ace, 1st,2nd, 3rd, lf,cf,rf. ss can win the game by himself? Players receive scholarship on their own merrits and talent!!!!!! I Do believe that you maybe experiencing a wave of ignorance regarding this "TEAM" Keeping it real.

keep it real

You just don't see it. The right fielder on bonita could not start for any team in the sgv.
Because of gio bonita gets away with the lack of talent. Every kid who has a scholarship owes gio
and the ones that don't are lucky to be playing.

message: Is for bright future.

Don't just single one person out.It's the hole team! everyone has there own god given talent in this game!!! Some have it more then others. Don't exclude other postion who are just as good and without them may not win the game!!!!!!!!! Let's not forget that. Feel so sorry for you, you think one person is the team. If i recall there were 9 on the field ready to play for there school. Keeping it real!!!!!!!!!!

Bad call or not, Ramos came up with the big HR when it mattered most and capitalized.

Bad call or not, Ramos came up with the big HR when it mattered most and capitalized.

Hey Future is Bright, Charter Oak's freshman team split the first two games against Bonita and did lose the rubber match but, do you really think that Charter Oak's Freshman would have lost ANY games if Travis Santiago was pitching for them instead of for the varsity team? Get real. As for the call at first base, the field umpire was totally out of position and, despite the fact that first base is his responsibility, he could not even make a call. And, the home plate umpire wasn't even watching first as he was focused on home plate. Plus, everyone admits that the kid was out at first. Unbelieveable incompetence that cost Charter Oak the game and maybe league.

future
u must never have been to a bearcat game
#1,2 rarely get on base leaving gio up wit no one on. normal coach has his pitcher try n beat him.
if he gets on #4 sees mainly curve balls. u must not know baseball.

hahaha

You must be a tee-ball parent. The number 3 batter always on base thats the only reason number 4 batter sees a picth. With number 3 batter having so much speed and the great potenial to steal everytime on base number 4 batter sees mostly fast balls. Like I said he makes everybody better. Just be happy your kid is
playing with him he is a lot better because of it.

future is bright,
ur a joke look at the rest of the team
plowman 6 hrs 19 RBIs - leads the league with hr
hare with 15
and mier with 15
right there thats 49 of their 116
so if u say jio is the only one who scores. uve got ur facts wrong.
dont be hating on all of the Bearcats.
i will say look at that gellalich kid, going to ucla and has a whopping 7 rbis.
come on now.

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Hey Joe Ump
First of all, I have forgotten more of the games that I've umped than you'll ever do!!! Secondly, how many plays with two outs and a runner on third are there going to be that requires an ump to be closer to third than first? If that umpire was closer to that play he wouldn't have had to ask for help! However, my whole point was that the Trib stated that the base ump called the runner out and and was asked to appeal to the home plate umpire. He was never asked to appeal the call because after a few moments of indecision he "Then" went to plate umpire for help. It wasn't a high throw where you have to watch the ball go into the glove high in the air while at the same time see if the firstbasemans foot is still on the bag and the runner touches first! If the base ump was closer to the play he wouldn't have had to ask for help!!!

Can't win without scoring. Get a clue. He is the team. Can you say the rest of the team OVERATED.

FUTURE:
u dont even know wht ur talking about.
jio doesnt even pitch. somebodys gotta keep the team from losing. oh n didnt he miss play a bround ball in the lose against los altos then give um the winning hit.
sorry

Thank goodness for the freshman at bonita...league champs. They will be replacing the overated underachieving varsity boy's. Future looks good. Only one player on varsity and we all know who that is. Without him they would miss cif.

keep talkin,
thank you. everybody counted out chino from the beginning, even fred did. just because they have a young team i think that just motivated them. so keep up the negativity on them everyone so they can thrive to higher goals

Keep talking...please don't ever never ever ever never say the Sierra League isn't the "strongest league in CIF. That might force people to look outside the San Gabriel Valley!!!! "Friends playing friends and neighbors playing neighbors"...I mean "birthday parties must be a hoot!!!!

I'm just joking guys....but I never understood parents who say this? Have you see ever walked on Mater Dei's campus and seen their programs...across the board!!!!

Some some Div 1 schools have player that look like "men" !!!

The best "leagues" don't have half their league as dogs!!!

Look at the SL in football baseball and basketball...half of the league needs to be put out! Is that a tough league?

Where did this line of thinking get started?

My opinion is always the same...compare yourself to the BIG DOGS..or at least play them and then we'll see. talk is just talk...don't the playoffs determine a league's strenght?

Baseball Man

Hate to pop your bubble, but the SL is average at best. Didnt Glendora get beat by Bonita? Where has Damien been all year? Glendora beats Damien 2 out of 3 this year, DB gets beat by CO, and Ayala we'll there horrible losing to DR and Monrovia.. Go figure!

the only team worth any salt in your league is Chino..

WHY OUR PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT THE UMPS..WENT TO S.D. NV. LAST WEEK SAME THING UMPS CANT GET THERE CALLS RT. HAVE TO ASK FOR HELP..WHATS NEXT ARE THEY GOING TO OPEN THE YELLOW PAGES..IN BOTH CASES THE UMPS WHERE RIGHT. BOTH KIDS CAME OFF THE BAGS I HATE TO SAY IT ..GOOD CALL BLUE..,NOW BACK TO YOUR EGO TRIPS..WAS HAVING ALITTLE FUN AT THE C.O BONITA GAME LAST WEEK AT C.O. WHICH C.O. WON .AND THE UMP HAD HIS EARS IN THE CROWND,PAY ATTENTION BETWEEN THE LINES.AND YOU WONT HAVE TO ASK FOR HELP EVERY GAME.. SO HE THE ALBERT THE GREAT TOLD ME TO F--- O-- I THAUGHT THATS WHAT HE SAID ,FRIEND TOLD ME, HE DID FOR SURE. LIKE A WARRIOR,I FIRED RIGHT BACK..HE THE UMP.ALBERT THE GREAT STOPPED THE GAME MADE HIS BEST CALL OF THE GAME .AND I WAS GONE.. FELT GOOD.UMPS STICK TO THE BASIC, ITS NOT ABOUT YOU GUYS,,YOUR DONE, AND AS FAR AS MAKE UP CALLS.THATS WHAT SEPERATES THE GOOD ONES FROM THE BAD ONES,,THEY DONT DO IT..QUIT TRYING TO KEEP GAMES CLOSE.ITS TO BAD MOST OF YOU GUYS DONT OR WONT GET TO THE NEXT LEVEL.LIKE I SAID BEFORE ALL UMPIRES USED HAVE TO BE UNDER A AGE LIMIT AND BE TAUGHT BUY A PRO UMPIRE SCHOOL.AT THE MLB ADCADMEY IN COMPTON.H.S. SOLD ASK FOR YOUNGER IN SHAPE UMPS WITH COLLEGE OR PRO DREAMS,,HAVE NO PROBLEMS WITH THE OLDER OUT OF SHAPE WEEKEND WARRIOR WITH THE BIG CHIP ON HIS SHOULDERS,, BUT THE PLAYERS AND COACHES NEED BETTER WORKING GROUP.. YOUR OUT..GAME OVER MILLER TIME...

#1 team in valley

Great job Bonita C/O is a tough team and you guys played up to the challenge keep up the good work

Fly on the wall,
You could not be more wrong. with a runner on third the base umpire should be in the "C" position which he was. he had the call at first but wanted to be sure that the first baseman kept his foot on the bag. He was in perfect position.

Regarding yesterdays Charter Oak vs Bonita game. The Trib erroneously stated that in the fourth inning when Mike Hernandez weak throw to first that short-hopped into Kissels glove for the third out of the inning was "Appealed and Overturned", resulting in a 3 run inning for Bonita. The fact is the base umpire never made a call but instead deferred the call to the plate umpire who wasn't even watching the routine play because he was watching the runner from third touch home plate with his mask still on!!! In fact, the base umpire was out of position to begin with! With two outs and a runner on third he should have been on the right side of the infield prior to the pitch because there is a 90% chance that if there is going to be a play in the infield it would be at first base! He would have been closer to the play! Instead he was on the third base side of the infield. He couldn't make the "Big Call" because he was out of position!!! So he never made one at all!

tye your right,,cant play baseball with the buns to tight,have to stay losie jucies.now lets get your awning done.take a look at chucks youill love it.see the blog good for more then talking crap ,,we can talk business too. go bombcats.. baseballman from sl. you must like are league some what, your always talking about us.have any first rounders in your league,i would love to come see them play. what team do you or your son play for ..love baseball...like seeing all the northveiw players and coaches at the game yesterday ..great program.win another rings boys keep the sgv stronge..we need to put some stronge players back in the babe ruth summer leagues ,and win the world series,,stop haten and keep lovin the boys k.h.

Ok, then let me try this again. Bonita is overrated. they play in a weak league as does Northview and Amat, yet every time I come to this blog I see some story about their two team leagues. That's it! Each of the these teams has themselves and one other team that is respectable at best in their league yet they consume 90% of the pictures and blog headings. Fred did you attend each of these high schools? Give some love to the Big 3 from the Sierra League, your own words. The SL is the toughest league from top to bottom and they go virtually ignored by you. The SL race is down to four teams and three of those team are in the SGV. The team you have the biggest hard on for, Amat, got beat by the SL's last place team. I know it was early in the season, but come on,, it tells you how hard the SL really is. Give up some love.

Cudos to Bonita The difference thru my eyes was relaxed thats right the players and the coaches all seemed to be relaxed and played like the are capable of This team has a lot of talent and I think they may just be beginning to play like a team Keep that relaxed attitude and just have fun the rest will happen Best of Luck going forward

thank u baseball spectator
great game both ways
BONITA HELD ON with a WIN

What are you talking about, anyone can comment

Fred,

Whats up? Why don't you post my comments about the weak leagues and the Big 3? To much truth to handle?