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Bruce Fairchild
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Marietta, GA
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Men's 60
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| , June 17, 2016 BruceinGa | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Awards Good post Wood! I agree. |
| , June 16, 2016 BruceinGa | Topic: Tournaments Discussion: Price Went Up? Worlds You would never know Coop3636 and tg69 were teammates! lol |
| , June 13, 2016 BruceinGa | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Hope this doesnt get taken down. Please give your opinions. SPA had a message board at one time but it wasn't maintained. Their staff never responded to any and all questions asked of them. It never really worked. |
| , June 13, 2016 BruceinGa | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Awards Brett, who was hit in the mouth? |
| , June 13, 2016 BruceinGa | Topic: Tournaments Discussion: would like an explanation Tugboat, I haven't read all posts on this thread but to answer your latest post, the tournament in Salem (I assume you mean the one in a couple of weeks) is an ISSA tournament. The roster for that tournament is not necessarily the same at their SSUSA roster. So, teams could load up with different players in Salem. |
| , June 13, 2016 BruceinGa | Topic: Bats Discussion: AD Starr Nightmare Thanks Kevin. I feel proud to be 66 and be able to hang with the "young" guys! Charlie Brown and Curt Mauer did a great job at pitching. Btw, Charlie was MVP. We actually went 6-0. :) I am happy to be able to hit the Nightmare with success. It has taken me a couple tournaments to adjust my swing to it but I am now very pleased with the results! |
| , June 7, 2016 BruceinGa | Topic: Tournaments Discussion: What do you expect? Very good Dave! Paco, I agree. At least the patches should contain the year and division. |
| , June 7, 2016 BruceinGa | Topic: Tournaments Discussion: What do you expect? After reading BigE's post I got to thinking, at minimum, what do you expect of a tournament? I'm seen tournaments that really don't publish rules, awards, officiating etc. You show up and aren't really happy with what you get. If everything is published somewhere and you accept that's one thing. If things change due for circumstances (weather, teams dropping out etc) do you feel that you are due some kind of reimbursement? Some of my minimums are prepared fields every morning, concession stand, water in dugouts in summer, two umpires in bracket play and official score keeper. I'm sure that I've missed many more. |
| , June 6, 2016 BruceinGa | Topic: Tournaments Discussion: ISA / SSUSA Southeast Championships In all or our 5 games we only had one umpire for each game. I can't remember a time our umpire came out from behind home plate to make a call. Runners on first and second, no outs, popup hit to shortstop about 15 feet in the grass, no infield fly called. Umpire didn't think grass is infield I guess. Last three games we played 40 minute/5 inning games, because of rain, not fun. The last time I played there all 8 or 9 fields were packed, cars, spectators and players everywhere. This time, only 4 field. What a change. I agree with BH21. The best part of the weekend was eating at Top Hog!! |
| , June 6, 2016 BruceinGa | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Arrogance can hurt a pitcher We also aren't required to stay behind the screen. One learns when you need the protection of the screen and when not. Our only requirements are that one leg of the screen must touch the rubber or be that distance from the rubber and at least the edge of the screen must be within the two edges of the rubber. |
| , June 2, 2016 BruceinGa | Topic: Bats Discussion: AD Starr Nightmare I'm now a rep for AD Starr's Nightmare. I will be in Gallatin, Tn. this weekend and will have a 26 and 27 demo. Look me up, I'll be playing 55 Major with Tn Connection. Bruce |
| , May 28, 2016 BruceinGa | Topic: Rules of the game Discussion: flip flop and one up in league play That might be an option. I'll mention it to our board. |
| , May 26, 2016 BruceinGa | Topic: Rules of the game Discussion: flip flop and one up in league play You got it LL! To make things worse, he is a teammate on our 50 team. After the game I asked if he was trying to run the clock down and he said he has a ritual that he goes through after each pitch. He then said that he didn't step out of the box. I laughed and said oh yes you do. |
| , May 26, 2016 BruceinGa | Topic: Rules of the game Discussion: flip flop and one up in league play I seem to remember a few years ago someone clocked several games, 1-1 and 0-0. The results were that the 1-1 count only saved a couple of minutes a game. What I see are batters not ready to get into the box, leadoff hitter in the first inning or others later and batters that step out after every pitch and adjust their batting gloves (much like ML baseball. |
| , May 25, 2016 BruceinGa | Topic: Rules of the game Discussion: flip flop and one up in league play We already have the 1-1 count. I have proposed we do away with 4 hrs and 1 up, make it unlimited hrs. That should end each at bat pretty fast. |
| , May 25, 2016 BruceinGa | Topic: Rules of the game Discussion: flip flop and one up in league play We potentially had a situation last night in our league game. We are trying to shortening our games so the last game ends before 11:00pm. We have moved game times up 30 minutes to 6:30, 7:30 and 8:30 and decreased the game clock to 50 minutes and then open inning. Personally I have suggested make the open inning one pitch rather than the other options. Our home runs rule is 4 and one up and we have just changed our flip flop rule to 5 runs instead of 10. We also have the rule that the home team can't go one up to win in the last inning. Last night we were leading by 9 runs and were visitors. Our team had 4 hrs and the home team had 4. We flip flopped and I heard someone on the home team say they could go one up. I said the couldn't because there would be no way we could tell if that was the winning run or not since we hadn't batted in the last inning. The didn't hit one but I still wanted an official ruling. The league director is on our team so I asked him. He said the home team becomes the visiting team on the flip flop and as the visiting team could go one up. I also asked the umpire and he said he had run into the same question at another league in a different park and they said the same, the home team becomes the visiting team. I'm ok with that, as long as everyone knows the rule. It just didn't make much sense. Has anyone else run into this in their league? |
| , May 24, 2016 BruceinGa | Topic: Rules of the game Discussion: Player touches batting mat after home run This has been discussed here in the past. If it was hit and sit that it doesn't matter if the runner touched the wrong plate. |
| , May 24, 2016 BruceinGa | Topic: Bats Discussion: Boombah bats I bought a couple about 5 years ago. I don't recall the name but they were $99 and not worth the money. I believe the Boombah Cannon is much better. I haven't heard anything about the new Boombah Boss. |
| , May 23, 2016 BruceinGa | Topic: Teams looking for players Discussion: Looking for outfielders or best available That's all the other 60 major teams need, a better Houston Fire! Your team was pretty good to begin with. Good luck, hope you find some players. |
| , May 23, 2016 BruceinGa | Topic: Product review Discussion: Best Batting Glove for Pratice I agree with nitrile work gloves, especially for cooler games/bp sessions. I have to put up with the usual remarks, ("you working in the garden after the game?") but that's ok. |
