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Nov. 25, 2012 Jawood	Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Thoughts for the upcoming SSUSA Rules Committee meeting! DC, you have a good competitive attitude. We could use more teams willing to play Major+. One rule I am pretty sure they are going to implement is 70' bases, other than that, your guess is as good as mine.
Nov. 25, 2012 Jawood	Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Thoughts for the upcoming SSUSA Rules Committee meeting! DC, did you really win the games or just "win" because of the gifted runs given to your team? I have seen your team play and doesn't surprise me that you have competed well against those Major+ teams, but that's playing your HR and runs per inning rule. It gets tougher when the rules are expanded.
Nov. 23, 2012 Jawood	Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Thoughts for the upcoming SSUSA Rules Committee meeting! Looks like runs per inning is going to go to 7 for Major+, so the difference would be 6. Your HR idea is interesting, but I don't know that Major teams would be enticed to play Major+ teams just to count over the fence hits as HR's when they still could swing away with no penalty, albeit for one base instead of four.
Nov. 19, 2012 Jawood	Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Thoughts for the upcoming SSUSA Rules Committee meeting! Tim, so if a 50 team wins at Major+, they have to play 40 Major+ the next season? Wow!
Nov. 19, 2012 Jawood	Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Thoughts for the upcoming SSUSA Rules Committee meeting! Mango, what happens when Major+ plays Major? DBO's? You may be kidding but as you know there are so few Major+ teams, that 90% of our games are against Major and AAA teams.
Nov. 18, 2012 Jawood	Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Thoughts for the upcoming SSUSA Rules Committee meeting! Your comments are well thought out, I agree with some, but you can't have it both ways. You state how many times there is no one to play at the Major+ level, yet you want all the rules (unlimited HR's, 9 runs per inning and players outside your borders) to favor the more powerful Major+ teams. Giving more runs is not a good equalizer, most teams don't even consider it a "win" if they "out score" the opponent say, 25-22, but were "gifted" 5 runs, they really lost by 2 ... talk about artificially keeping the game close! 90% of all tournaments are played with combined divisions in some way. If you are okay with playing the best 2 out of 3 against the only other Major+ team that may enter the tournament after a couple of pool play games, then play with these almost unlimited rules. If you want to play against a variety of teams and get more teams willing to play at the Major+ level, then SSUSA needs to go back to some of the rules from the past, because the current model IS broken for most teams and I believe that's what they will be looking at.
Nov. 15, 2012 Jawood	Topic: Tournaments Discussion: WESTERN WORLDS 2013 Play EVERYTHING in Vegas ... only (half) kidding!
Nov. 14, 2012 Jawood	Topic: Tournaments Discussion: WESTERN WORLDS 2013 I had heard it was Aurora again, but a couple of weeks later than it was this year. We will see!
Nov. 14, 2012 Jawood	Topic: Rules of the game Discussion: Update from USSSA National Convention USSSA has senior softball?
Nov. 12, 2012 Jawood	Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: How many active 60 Major Plus teams for 2013? Hopefully the rules committee is taking notice of what is going on here! This is what happens when it was decided to make the playing rules basically wide open after the merger! Too restricted in 2010 & 2011, then too wide open in 2012. Here's hoping they will find common ground for 2013.
Nov. 5, 2012 Jawood	Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Dates on 2013 vegas tourney Probably the same weekend. 2013 dates will start to appear after the convention.
Nov. 3, 2012 Jawood	Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Senior softball summit Hi Stick. It would be great if you guys came to the Rock n Reno next year! Although Golden Eagle is a GREAT facility, there is a chance that we would get stuck playing in Carson City or some other place. You are right that it is exactly the same teams you see at the world tournament, but the only one other than the worlds that there are enough teams at the Major+ level that it doesn't need to be combined with Major.
Oct. 29, 2012 Jawood	Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: SSUSA - When do you think the 2013 ratings will be finalized? Allan55, It's done!
Oct. 28, 2012 Jawood	Topic: Tournaments Discussion: I AM LOOKING TO PLAY SENIOR TOURNAMENTS ASAP. You stated on another thread that you will be 49 next July. You are not eligible to play 50+ team until 2014, although the 2014 season starts in November 2013, strange as that is. You could play 40+ for a year until you ready for the 50's.
Oct. 27, 2012 Jawood	Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: SSUSA - When do you think the 2013 ratings will be finalized? Dave Dowell is the guy who usually does this and I'm sure he will get to it soon.
Oct. 25, 2012 Jawood	Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: SSUSA - When do you think the 2013 ratings will be finalized? They have said that they rate teams 4 times a year ... in January, June, August and November.
Oct. 22, 2012 Jawood	Topic: Tournaments Discussion: LV World Tournament Discussion I have actually like the idea of 11 players as the norm, instead of 10.
Oct. 20, 2012 Jawood	Topic: Rules of the game Discussion: 70' bases at Las Vegas If we are going to continue to use the hot bats and balls (and we are), 70' bases make it much safer and a better game ... at least for 65 and younger. Most fields now have pegs for 65' and 70'. It takes no time at all to switch them if it is determined that the older divisions just can't play at 70'.
Oct. 19, 2012 Jawood	Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: One pitch We have a few guys on our team who think we ARE playing one pitch! LOL. I have always liked 1 and 1, but probably in the minority on that.
Oct. 18, 2012 Jawood	Topic: Rules of the game Discussion: AAA Home Runs Why 3 HR's, it seems low. Sure they went overboard this year letting it turn into "homerun derby" as some say, but the majority of AAA teams that I see can hit 3 HR's easily. Put it somewhere in between where it is now and where it was, that is probably the best solution. Everyone has their limit on where they would like to see it. Progressive gets a bit confusing at times, but does keep teams in check when one has way more power than another.

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