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| Jan. 8, 2016 MudDawg1063 | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: SSUSA Opens Northeast Region Never mind the answer to my question...... I just "Northeast Region" change as part of the Rules Committee changes as of Dec 1, 2015. |
| Jan. 8, 2016 MudDawg1063 | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: SSUSA Opens Northeast Region When did this "Northeast Region" come to fruition? Being from MA/RI area this totally makes sense. Currently there are not many teams from New England playing SSUSA. Tatooball: MA borders NY, however RI does not. RI borders MA and CT only! |
| Nov. 20, 2015 MudDawg1063 | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Appeals Deadline? Can anyone tell me if there is an appeals deadline? |
| Oct. 1, 2015 MudDawg1063 | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Shadow Rock & Hollywood Field Conditions Crusher, just curious how was the wind on the grass fields? The last 2 years that I played there the wind was a steady 25-35 mph directly in the hitters face. I happen to like the 2 turf fields at Shadow Rock. Agreed, the ball bounces high, but you just have to adjust to it. 4-5 inch high grass on the other fields is unacceptable. |
| Sept. 28, 2015 MudDawg1063 | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Player Reclassification I understand that a Major team can have 3 AAA rated players on a team but the problem is that there are no teams to play on up here in New England. Maybe Sobs3 is onto something when he said his team was forced up after one tourney. How do you force up a team before they accomplish or win anything? In the case of our team... "numbers don't lie". I still don't understand the move-up. Maybe USSSA is shooting themselves in the foot in terms of getting more interest from teams in New England to play travel. Throughout the entire country the Travel team numbers seems to grow every year. Maybe based on that SSUSA could less about generating more interest from New England teams. They continue to "hit the numbers" and that's all that matters. That's just speculation on may part. Bottom line, we have players on our team that can't play travel ball because we are tagged as "major" players even though we are truly not "major" players. I am soon to be 52 and still in good shape and I still have a lot of competitive juices flowing but I am stuck in "no-man's" land. I realize SSUSA is doing the best job they can but in my opinion they missed the mark. SSUSA staff please free to comment with any suggestions that I could follow. |
| Sept. 24, 2015 MudDawg1063 | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Player Reclassification How does an individual player get reclassified? Our team, in my opinion, was unfairly re-classed to Major on June 29th. The "move-up" letter stated the following: “**Based on performance of +5.5 runs per game in 12 games against AAA, your team has been moved to Major. “ The SSUSA findings are completely in error. Based on SSUSA own “ratings guidelines” we do not meet any other criteria that necessitates a move-up. We did not finish in the top level of any Worlds or other major tourney’s. Our team has since disbanded because we are in no way a Major team! Rather than breaking apart our team, adding new players and trying to compete in majors, we decided to disband completely. It did not make sense to spend thousands of dollars to travel to Vegas. There are no other AAA travel teams in our state of Massachusetts and none in RI or CT that play travel ball….it appears that for the time being I no longer have the opportunity to play tourney ball until I am able to get re-classed back down. A list of our last four tournament scores against AAA teams was compiled and we scored 254 runs and gave up 241 runs. That is a plus .80 runs on average per game (point 8 runs…rounded up that’s a 1 run average advantage per game). That is hardly +5.5 runs which the letter states. In the letter we received from SSUSA it stated that if we thought there was a mathematical error to contact George Moreno by email. The compiled spreadsheet was sent to Mr. Moreno along with a letter seeking additional reasoning as to why we were moved up. To the best on my knowledge, Mr. Moreno has never responded. As a paying customer of SSUSA I would think we would at least be entitled to a verbal or written response, that did not happen! To the best of my knowledge based on a phone call made by our manager to SSUSA the only response we received was “we will tell you when you are moved back down.” Furthermore at about that same time the Bad Seeds from California were re-classed to Major. Someone from the Bad Seeds posted a message on the board asking why they were re-classed and someone from SSUSA responded on the message board with an answer. Shortly thereafter someone from our team posted a similar question and we did not get any sort of response. The next day SSUSA deleted their response to the Bad Seeds. I find that to be inappropriate on the part of SSUSA. Once again, I could understand if we finished high in the worlds and we were re-classed or we were winning lots of tourneys in our class or beating teams by the “so-called” plus 5.5 run margin. If that were the case I would have no issues with the move-up. However, that is not the case. Prior to the move up our team has won 1 local AAA tourney in 3 years of being together AND we get moved up for that? I apologize for the rant but as the World Tournament approaches I am disappointed that I and many of my teammates have no place to play and for some reason it appears that we have been unfairly singled out by SSUSA. Brian LaSalle Silva Advertising |
| Sept. 23, 2015 MudDawg1063 | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Opinions about custom glove makers.... Check out Diaz gloves. My nephew has one, as well as, a bunch of his softball buddies and they love the glove. |
