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| March 23, 2024 Don5 | Topic: Players looking to join a team Discussion: 77-year-old AAA player looking for NorCal tournament team Dr Bob, Please call me, The Animals 75 are still looking for 75 year old players and we play in the Nor Cal tourney's also. We are based in Manteca/Modesto area Don Angle 209 573 3369 |
| Jan. 17, 2024 Don5 | Topic: Teams looking for players Discussion: Animals 75 needing a few good players FYI- Under SSUSA rules, I can players from any state west of the Mississippi River. |
| Jan. 17, 2024 Don5 | Topic: Players looking to join a team Discussion: Don Wheeler Don, please call me Don Angle Animals 75 Major 209 573 3369 |
| Jan. 7, 2024 Don5 | Topic: Teams looking for players Discussion: Animals 75 needing a few good players To those interested in winning, the Animals based in North Central California has moved to 75’s, this team has a strong tradition of over 40 years of winning. The Animals won the Worlds as seniors in the 50, 55, 65 and 70 age groups. Now it's time to win the 75s. if you are interested in becoming an Animal, please contact me. Don Angle 209 573 3369 don.angle@aol.com |
| Sept. 12, 2022 Don5 | Topic: Tournaments Discussion: Worlds 70 Major Bracket Logic? That seems to be just what is going on. Providing sound logic is not enough? Seems like a good non-answer that does not benefit any team except the 70 Major Plus team. What does "entitled" mean? en·ti·tled /inˈtīdld/ adjective 1. believing oneself to be inherently deserving of privileges or special treatment: "kids who feel so entitled and think the world will revolve around them" Powered by Oxford Dictionaries |
| Sept. 12, 2022 Don5 | Topic: Tournaments Discussion: Worlds 70 Major Bracket Logic? I'm not sure about the logic of placing the lone 70 Major Plus team in the 70 Majors bracket. My team won the worlds 70 Majors in 2020 and we played that team several times in 2021 and got run-ruled almost every time. So then, with nobody to play, they played down(?) to the 65 Major Plus and won many of those tourneys also. They just played in the Westerns as a 65 Major Plus team taking 2nd place. Now the 70 majors have to deal with a team that can beat 65 major Plus teams regularly, seems to be something wrong with this logic. It's not fair to the 14 70 Major teams who may have to play against that team in the Worlds. Let them play where they have been playing since last year, 65 Major plus. Don Angle Animals 70 |
| April 16, 2022 Don5 | Topic: Tournaments Discussion: Southwest softballs? What balls are going to be used in the Southwest Championship? |
| Oct. 9, 2021 Don5 | Topic: Tournaments Discussion: major plus Kudos to Doug Robbins for the Timberworks team, 2022! they will get probably be better. More power to them, and good luck to anyone playing against them,, wherever they play. Why would anyone suggest that they should play 60’s. Ridiculous to penalize a team and manager for playing within the rules. Time cures everything, just go out and play and take your lumps if they come your way. Doak!! Love ya pal 😃 always a pleasure playing with you or against you! See you in Phoenix, just hope we are on different fields😎 Don Angle Animals AA |
| Aug. 22, 2021 Don5 | Topic: Tournaments Discussion: major plus Major Plus is still a badge you can wear proudly, the Animals won that privilege during the last World Championships. We had a great run of 7-0 to win, but in the year of COVID, we did not see any teams from the East other than Venom 70 Major Plus. Our team knew going into the championship game against the Sidewinders that if we won, we would be playing Timberworks every time we played the following year. Winning was the most important thing, the Animals have never ever sandbagged for anybody and never will. Our team is comprised of mostly local players and we are proud that we compete at a high level and win against some of the top teams in the Country. Thank you Doak for suggesting that we packed it in, that’s not really true. My core group of guys will play anyone at anytime, but you can’t get some guys to commit to getting run ruled every time out, so you just can’t play with 8-9 guys. As a self sponsored team, the cost per player for travel and expenses is large and spending $500 or more for some guys to get a 2nd place cap every time out and I understand that. We didn’t even get a cap for the Rock n Reno tourney, Timberworks got 1st place in the 70’s, Texas Crush got 1st place for the 65’s and we got 3rd place??? It was just a three team bracket and I don’t really care about the cap, second place is for losers.😃 It’s not my intent to change the chemistry of the Animals just to play M+, this team has a 40 year history of friends playing ball together. If you have the ability to win, you must also have to be gracious to lose too. If the Animals get lucky enough to play Major again, we will strive to win that title again. I don’t see a reasonable outcome regarding the disparity between M+ and M. It would be nice to see sponsored and non-sponsored divisions but that’s not going to happen. There is really nothing different now than years back when these same M+ players were playing younger, they dominated those age groups too. I know the Major associations like SSUSA have problems getting equitable opponents for the M+ teams and I think they are the ones that need to work harder to fix the problem. Hope to see everyone again at the Winter Worlds with a healthy Animal team, good luck to all during the Worlds in Vegas Don Angle Animals |
| Nov. 7, 2020 Don5 | Topic: Rules of the game Discussion: Intentional Walk The defensive may request that the next two runners be walked, if done at the same time, the first batter can go directly to second base without touching first base. This happened during our Masters Championship game in St George. Correct ruling was clarified by The UIC Tom Bussey. Don Angle Animals |
| Oct. 13, 2020 Don5 | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Updated Ratings WAIT!, WAIT!, you mean I have now play a combo team of Doug & Otis? |
| Aug. 22, 2020 Don5 | Topic: Players looking to join a team Discussion: 70 Major looking for team in Saint George Please call me 209 573 3369 |
| May 29, 2020 Don5 | Topic: Tournaments Discussion: Northern Cal. State Championships on June 12-17 in Sacramento Nor-Cal Championship cancelled |
| May 17, 2020 Don5 | Topic: Players looking to join a team Discussion: Looking to join a team for Huntsman and/or Reno event can play 70s or 75s Please call me. 209 573 3369 Don 5 |
| Dec. 19, 2019 Don5 | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: 1 and 1 curiosity The NCSSA Board of Directors are not a bunch of 70 Major plus guys that all play together, far from that. Its a group of softball dedicated guys that want to help the Association grow, the guys work hard to provide a place for you to play. Its far from perfect, but it serves its purpose. A lot more input from the general members would be fantastic, getting some younger guys on the Board of Directors is needed. The actual vote was 14-8 in favor of keeping the 3-2 count, at the meeting I told of a study I did in Modesto a couple of years ago, in over 60 games with a 1-1 test, only 3 games didn't go 7 innings. 1-1 may not save time but it helps get a full 7 innings. Stanislaus Senior Softball Association didn't change to the 1-1 count either. For you guys that don't want the 1-1 count, when you go the Reno or Sacramento or Vegas, make sure you take that first pitch. It's just a fact that Old Guys don't want change! Don Angle NCSSA Director |
| Oct. 27, 2019 Don5 | Topic: Tournaments Discussion: Why 2-day Outlaws! years ago most typical tourneys were 2 and Q, if your team wasn't very good, the NCSSA tourney guarantees 5 games played over a 2 day period, SSUSA does the same but usually over a 3 day period. Don't be confused about the 60's and 55's, believe me, most all of them work and are not retired like you think. NCSSA is geared for "recreational play" and/or to get ready for the major/national tournaments, and 5 games in 2 days does well for us. Come to our meeting on Dec 7th and voice your opinion, we would love to see you there and hear what you have to say, the Team managers at the meeting decide our rules by vote. If you are a manager you have a vote. There are other organizations that will let you play 4-5 games in one day, go for it, but we would love for you to stay and play in NCSSA. |
| Oct. 26, 2019 Don5 | Topic: Tournaments Discussion: Why 2-day Todd, the “ Nor Cal” tourneys that are 2 days are probably NCSSA sanctioned and they are always 2 day tourneys and use team skill levels instead of strictly age to match teams in tourneys. And they rarely exceed 6 teams in a bracket, the format is different than SSUSA and NCSSA minimum age is currently 50. Hopefully you will continue playing in these tourneys, NCSSA is quite unique, with around 100 teams in N. California, Nevada and Oregon and the NCSSA is a “not for profit” association, where the rules are made by the teams at a yearly meeting, this year the meeting is on Dec 7 at the Manteca City Council Chambers Don Angle NCSSA Director |
| Oct. 15, 2019 Don5 | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Huntsman 2019 Congratulations Larry, next year maybe Major? |
| April 28, 2019 Don5 | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Winners of 65 Majors -Vegas I'm sure Timberworks sets their schedule up well in advance like many teams do. When your players purchase non-refundable airline tickets for a specific tourney and then no other teams in your classification show up, you need to play someone. There are many factors to consider when participating with a traveling team, hotel costs, air travel, time off from work, etc. Even if a team is fully sponsored, changing flights and hotel rooms can be quite expensive, especially if you cancel out altogether. There always can be an alternative, it seems that with 16 teams entered into the SW Championship, 2 sets of awards should be given out. Timberworks could have been awarded the Championship for Major+ with awards by being declared an exhibition team. Then the Major teams could have an outright Champion with awards. I'm wondering why last years Timberworks was giving 5 runs to other Major+ teams and for this event, the Major team had an option to take 5 runs or 11 defensive players, they should have gotten both. I suggest that SSWC needs to develop a set method and stick by it for each tourney. The Major Plus "super" teams are just playing within the rules they didn't create. I remember an old saying, "Let's just go and play whoever shows up" Don Angle Animals 65 |
| Jan. 23, 2019 Don5 | Topic: Players looking to join a team Discussion: 65 Major Plus Players from Texas Looking for a Team Murray, don't worry! Dave Never looks at the board. |
