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| Oct. 9, 2004 RunDMc | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: ratings DMac thanks for your message supporting HMR being placed in the AAA division in Las Vegas. I am the player/manager of the HMR 55‚s and feel the need to explain our situation in further detail. We wore FrankNSteins shirts, (with HMR on the sleeve), because I had them left from our last season which was ‚03. We disbanded because we couldn‚t compete @ the Major plus level, and merged with AMR out of Cleveland in‚04 in a final attempt to compete, but this experiment was also unsuccessful. None of the 4 Cleveland starters could make the trip to Vegas, along with 2 Pgh starters. (With those players in place we were a Major team because we had 1 legitimate HR hitter.) I sent a letter to Terry and followed up with a phone call and discussed our situation in detail. To Terry‚s credit he took our situation under advisement, talked to some tournament officials out east and made the decision to place us in the AAA division. I challenge anyone to lose 6 starters from their lineup and not ask for some concessions. All of our players are from the immediate Pgh area within 50 miles of my home. I put up the entry fee myself and entered under my company name of HMR. We have participated in the SSWC every year since ‚96, and we paid our own air fare, car rental, and hotel expenses in order to make this trip. Of the 11 games played, we hit a total of 7 HR‚s. We pride ourselves on solid defense, team speed, and hitting behind the runner, (all key ingredients to a successful AAA team). All of the games were close and it was refreshing to compete against teams that had similar talent to us. The final 2 game scores against Theraldson were the only games we scored over 20 runs. This was due mainly to the „blinding sun‰ on Field #1, and fortunately we were home team, and whoever batted last had a significant advantage. Although the goal of all teams is to be successful and win a championship, my teammates and myself would never „bend the rules‰ to win. |
