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Jan Schiffmann
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Newbury Park, CA
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Men's 65
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| Sept. 13, 2010 Jano23 | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Dbax, Please advise Dbax, in previous years you have been a valuable source of information regarding safe neighborhoods in which to stay while at the Phoenix worlds. This year, I will have my wife with me, so I will not be interested in the hotels with the hookers, drug dealers and missing personal vehicles in the morning. :-) Would you please give advice regarding hotels near the Arizona Mills Mall on Baseline Rd.? Thanks, Jano |
| Sept. 3, 2010 Jano23 | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: tournaments for league bats only Omar, E4E6/ Mad Dog, It's ridiculous to claim that you are not the ones wanting change. What have you been whining about the last (almost) 2 years? I respect all of your opinions, even though I don't agree with them. If you don't want change, what are you talking about? |
| March 31, 2010 Jano23 | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Spring Worlds Mesquite / St George Dave, Tremendous job getting the scores posted so quickly! It was an honor meeting you this past weekend. Jano |
| March 31, 2010 Jano23 | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Sunglasses In Mesquite, my team had games on Friday and Saturday at 5:00pm on the same field with the sun low in the sky in right field. Right-handed batters, like myself, had trouble seeing the pitch, even though the sun was not directly behind the pitcher. Some of the guys on the other team seemed to be able to see the pitches okay, and attributed their success to the polarized lenses in their sunglasses. I prefer not to wear sunglasses at the plate, since they seem to affect my depth perception. But I guess in cases like this, I either need to wear glasses or learn to hit left-handed. Do you guys have any recommendations? What do you do in situations like this? What sunglasses do you like? Thanks, Jano |
| Feb. 11, 2010 Jano23 | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Favorite Team Names I have a friend ("TK") who always talked about a hypothetical team with a proposed name of "Master-Batters". Their motto would be "You can't beat us. We beat ourselves." :-) |
| Feb. 1, 2010 Jano23 | Topic: Bats Discussion: SPA survey Mad Dog, I, too, was wondering what you were talking about when you stated that "well it also looks like mostly hitters responded,no real responses from fielders or pitchers that i can see." It seems to me that everyone who responded was either a DH, or a fielder/pitcher. Are you saying they were all DHs? Doesn't seem likely. Jano |
| Jan. 15, 2010 Jano23 | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: What are some of your favorite Famous quotes, lines or sayings? Yes, but there is an "m" and an "e". :-) |
| Jan. 15, 2010 Jano23 | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Elderly Care Thanks for that careful explanation, Omar! BTW, I think I AM in California, but luckily the person I am concerned about isn't. :-) |
| Jan. 15, 2010 Jano23 | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Elderly Care Yes, it does help. Thanks again to all of you who responded! |
| Jan. 14, 2010 Jano23 | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Elderly Care Thanks a lot, TT. That's helpful. Jano |
| Jan. 14, 2010 Jano23 | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Elderly Care Thanks, E! I'll look into that. Jano |
| Jan. 14, 2010 Jano23 | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Elderly Care Thanks for the info, Tad! I'll talk to you about this 'offline'. Jano |
| Jan. 13, 2010 Jano23 | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Elderly Care I hope some of you 'old' guys can help me. An acquaintance of mine seemingly has an increasing need for 24 hr/day care. The family is horrified at the costs of nursing homes ($6000/mo.). Also, the cost of having someone come to the family's home to help is a few grand a month. This person's spouse is going crazy under the pressure, and being old themself, doesn't have the energy to do all the needed work themself. We don't know much about all of this, including getting govt. (or other) assistance. Can any of you guys help steer us to some useful information or give some useful advice? By the way, this person probably played softball at some point in their life (if you were wondering what the connection was). |
| Jan. 4, 2010 Jano23 | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Waiver or not to waiver... The way I see it, the bats and balls we use now in SSUSA tournaments are perfect. Pretty much everything in life is a compromise. You can’t say that “safety is the number one priority” and mean that it is all-important, because if it were, we would be using rolled up newspapers to hit nerf balls. Obviously, there are lots of priorities that need to be balanced. Clearly, having fun is an important one. Most people I have encountered don’t have fun hitting a sock, even if the other team has to hit it also. As a matter of fact, they will usually moan and complain about how crappy the ball is. All of this has been covered ad nauseam in previous threads on this message board. I don’t know what has started this obsession with changing things. There have been numerous authoritative-sounding guys on here quoting statistics indicating that, of all the injuries that occur in softball, the class of injury in which the pitcher is harmed by a batted ball is very small percentage-wise. Of these injuries, there is the question of how many of them would be mitigated by using other bats or balls. Also, it is currently perfectly legal for the pitcher to armor up. I don’t buy the argument that this should be mandated because some guys won’t do it otherwise, out of a fear of looking like a sissy. Such guys ARE sissies. I also don’t buy the technology-is-hitting-your-homers argument. Even with an UltraII and a good ball, you still have to hit the ball well to get it over the fence. I played on a 50AAA team in Phoenix last year. By my recollection, our team hit 18 homers in the tournament and 17 of them came from 2 guys. Clearly the bats and balls are not turning ordinary men into supermen. We have been playing for years with this same equipment and we like it. To whatever extent that it is obvious that our game is unsafe, people who elect to play are aware of this and accept the risk when they play. SSUSA please don’t “fix” what ain’t broken. |
| Dec. 5, 2009 Jano23 | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Nashville meeting Where are these new rules revealed? |
| Nov. 14, 2009 Jano23 | Topic: Tournaments Discussion: Phoenix Worlds I would like to pay respect to the crew who provided the nice field maintenance we had in Phoenix last month. The field maintenance crew wet and dragged the infields of our fields before every single game we played. Nice job! Also, I was honored to meet Mike Macenko at that tournament. |
| Oct. 31, 2009 Jano23 | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: At last, A Ball Solution Mad dog, My position is that things are very nice the way they are. Your position is that things should be changed. Why should _I_ have to leave and start an "extreme softball assoc."? I suggest that if you don't like SSUSA softball, it would be more appropriate for _you_ to start a new association or join a wood bat and sock league. It seems I disagree with almost every post you make. Your desire to eliminate courtesy runners because it is annoying for you to try to throw out fast runners all the time is ridiculous. Also, for a person whose "number one priority" is safety, why would you want to force people who are unfit to run to run the bases? Your drug testing idea was incredible! Things ain't broken. Please stop trying to fix them. We have enough of that going on in the country generally. Hope your rain ends soon. :-) |
| Oct. 29, 2009 Jano23 | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: At last, A Ball Solution Mad dog and Garocket, I apologize for the jackals "blast". |
| Oct. 28, 2009 Jano23 | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: At last, A Ball Solution Gary19/TheNextGeneration/Dirty: It seems that since some jackals (e.g., mad dog & garocket) happen to temporarily agree with you (inexplicably, since you don't play in senior tournaments), you feel empowered to attack the status quo. By the way, why do you have a history of at least three screen names? Is there some revealing history that explains this? I think that SSUSA's current bat and ball combos are excellent, but I am open to Einstein's suggested modifications. |
| Oct. 28, 2009 Jano23 | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Nice job, SSUSA Nice going, SSUSA, on getting the results of the Phoenix Worlds posted so quickly. |
