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| Jan. 29, 2018 Jawood | Topic: Tournaments Discussion: 1 and 1 with courtesy foul new rule for younger guys The major consideration by SSUSA to get more game action out of the time that's allotted to play. Pretty simple. Most teams would like to play 7 innings rather than 6, there's your percentage! |
| Jan. 28, 2018 Jawood | Topic: Tournaments Discussion: 1 and 1 with courtesy foul new rule for younger guys Last season, 36% of our games went the full 7 innings. I'm quite sure our percentage will go up from that this year with the 1-1 count. Dave stated in the first tournament, EVERY game went 7 innings. I'm not a math wiz but I believe that is 100%! |
| Jan. 15, 2018 Jawood | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Drum Roll...the Starting Count decision results. Well said, chico senior (and Dave, of course!) I'm sure some will continue to argue the issue! |
| Jan. 11, 2018 Jawood | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Drum Roll...the Starting Count decision results. Hey txnighttrain, we played 7 games at World's (50+ Major) and none (zero) of them went 7 innings so your point is? I think we'll get to play 7 inning games this year! Maximize the innings in the allotted time we are given to play. |
| Jan. 10, 2018 Jawood | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Drum Roll...the Starting Count decision results. OZ40, How is this for reliable stats? We played 52 games last year and a total 19 of them went into the 7th inning. I could go back and check other years but why bother? More game action in the allotted time we are given to play ... that's what we are getting, it's that simple! |
| Dec. 14, 2017 Jawood | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: survey And in other words...just trying to get more game action in the amount of time we're given to play. The 1-1 count will do this! |
| Dec. 2, 2017 Jawood | Topic: Rules of the game Discussion: 1 and 1 count Tabled again? Really? Excellent explanation from HAT MAN! |
| Nov. 27, 2017 Jawood | Topic: Rules of the game Discussion: 1 and 1 count Forget the 2nd place hat altogether! If you're not first, you're last ... Ricky Bobby. |
| Nov. 26, 2017 Jawood | Topic: Rules of the game Discussion: 1 and 1 count NYGNYY, It looks like I may be the same age as you and played with the 1 and 1 count since 1982 (until senior ball) so I guess I am one who DID grow up with it. For the umpteenth time, we are not looking to get the game over with quicker, rather to get more game action in the allotted time we have. Basically, as the staff is presuming, the groups that played mostly USSSA back in the day favor 1-1 and the groups that played mostly ASA favor 0-0. |
| Nov. 25, 2017 Jawood | Topic: Rules of the game Discussion: 1 and 1 count Math was never my best subject in school but 58 for 58 seems like a pretty good percentage for playing 7 inning games! |
| Nov. 23, 2017 Jawood | Topic: Rules of the game Discussion: 1 and 1 count I would definitely agree with the suggestion of one courtesy runner per 1/2 inning but probably not the older levels. Eliminating the "coaches" conferences on the mound is another way to help the pace of play. Regarding the 1 and 1 count, some people even question simple math! |
| Nov. 22, 2017 Jawood | Topic: Rules of the game Discussion: 1 and 1 count OZ40, The things you speak of that slow the game down are true but most of them are not enforceable. The 1-1 DOES help pace of play! USSSA has been using the 1-1 count forever, I think it's worked pretty well there! |
| Nov. 19, 2017 Jawood | Topic: Rules of the game Discussion: 1 and 1 count Limit the pitcher to one warm up pitch at the start of the inning. Yes, hustle but that's tough to enforce. Another thing that can help the pace of play is ELIMINATE the ridiculous mound visits. This is slowpitch, "strategy" doesn't need to be micro managed at the mound by a Sparky Anderson wannabe! It can wait until you're in the dugout or yell out "hey walk this guy". |
| Nov. 18, 2017 Jawood | Topic: Rules of the game Discussion: 1 and 1 count How can a 1-1 count NOT speed up the game? Wouldn't it be mathematically impossible not to with less pitches to get to the run limit? The answer is it DOES speed up the pace of play and that's what we're looking for ... more game action, less standing around and more of a chance to play 7 innings! |
| Nov. 13, 2017 Jawood | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: SSUSA thank you Come on Smooth01, we've been over this before .. the 1 and 1 count is not to shorten the games, it's to get more game action in the allotted time to play. In other words, players will be moving rather than standing! |
| Nov. 11, 2017 Jawood | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: SSUSA thank you Would prefer the 1 and 1 count WITH the foul ball, obviously, but we did not play a 7 inning game in Vegas. The 1 and 1 count allows approximately 10 more minutes of game action in the time allotted to play. Hey, at least there would be plenty of cases of beer to drink if you went with the 1 & 1 with no foul ball! lol |
| Nov. 11, 2017 Jawood | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: SSUSA thank you Dave pretty much explained the need to go to four days in Las Vegas ... it's VEGAS and 11 months away, I'm sure most people can get an extra day of vacation with this long of notice! It will be real nice not having to hang around for hours to see if we have to play a bracket game after the pool games are done. Now, if we can get away from the local tournaments having us play on Fridays when there are only a handful of teams and none coming in from out of the area! ric56 & r4pitch ... Agree with the 1 and 1 count! |
| Sept. 17, 2017 Jawood | Topic: Tournaments Discussion: BP in Vegas There aren't many and even fewer on Fridays because of a school day and then thousands on the soccer fields on Saturday! |
| Aug. 23, 2017 Jawood | Topic: Teams looking for players Discussion: New 80's team Awesome! |
| April 7, 2017 Jawood | Topic: Tournaments Discussion: Tournament seeding The higher seeded team should be getting the advantage of being the home team ... no question! |
