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Greg Broeckelman
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Men's 80
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| April 1, 2023 Brock | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: nicest softball complexes I have to give a plug for the Aurora Sports Park 12 field complex in Aurora, CO. This is a grass complex and I don't recall playing on better grass fields anywhere in the country. Plus teams like playing there because they can go watch their other teams play without getting in a car and drive to another complex. Great fields. Those are reasons that the Rocky Mountain Championships continue to grow almost every year. |
| March 25, 2023 Brock | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Cancellation of Tournaments due to weather They have already done that. As an example, I'll use the Rocky Mountain Championships. They raised the fee $100 and reduced the game guarantee to four. When after a majority vote to go back to five, they raised the fee another $75. The two increases came to 31.2% increase. Inflation is less than 10%. My guess is that most TOC tournaments have similar increases. At some point we, their customers, are going to say enough is enough. |
| March 25, 2023 Brock | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Cancellation of Tournaments due to weather I can agree with both messages but in this case, SSUSA needs to do the right thing and reimburse all teams who cancelled because the weather forecast was accurate or teams that decided to show up anyway. Session 2 was cancelled due to weather and the right answer is to reimburse all teams. Our team waited until Sunday night before deciding to cancel. It was already raining in St. George and the forecast indicated rain thru Thursday. I advised Dave D we had decided to cancel Monday morning. Terry, you and your staff need to look at this and do the right thing for your customers. Like I told you when the debate was gouing on about the five game guarantee or four, I realized your expenses were going up but you needed to realize that travel expenses for teams were also going up. We can live with forfeiting our entry fee but based on all of the facts in this situation, The right thing to do is to reimburse all their entry =fees for Session 2. Thanks for listening...Greg Broeckelman |
| March 25, 2023 Brock | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Pitching Net We use a screen in all of our senior leagues (over 40 thru over 70) in Colorado Springs. We place the screen measured 40 feet from the back of home plate and the pitcher can pitch from as deep as 55 feet. The pitch must be delivered OVER the top of the screen which basically eliminates calls of illegal low pitch since the screen is six feet tall. Any hit ball that hits the screen is a foul ball unless it's the 3rd strike then it's an out. Any hit ball up the middle that misses the screen may be fielded by the pitcher but the pitcher must stay behind the screen until the ball is hit. We've been using the screens for several years now. Some pitchers were against it in the beginning but now love having it there. Using a screen eliminates the pitcher having to wear any protective gear. |
| March 20, 2023 Brock | Topic: Tournaments Discussion: Notice on changes to Spring Worlds Session #2 due to rain forecast For Dave Dowell. I assume you'll hear from Ron Howard/Dennis Lutz but the Scrap Iron 80s decided to cancel last night. With the rain forecast at 40 to 90% every day for five days from Sunday through Thursday we decided it was a lot cheaper to forfeit our entry fee than everyone paying to get to St. George with chances of playing slim and none. |
| March 1, 2023 Brock | Topic: Tournaments Discussion: 5gg spring championships Hawaiians Makes a good point. I just checked the Rocky Mountain Championships. Last year the entry fee was $560 for five game guarantee. For 2023 you raised the fee to $660 and reduced the guarantee to four games. Now the fee has gone up to $735 and back to a five game guarantee, the same as last year. Bottom line is that you've raised the fee $175 or 31.25% over last year. My guess is that if I check the other TOC qualifiers that I will find similar results. Talk about inflation! Somebody needs to sharpen their pencil. |
| Jan. 10, 2023 Brock | Topic: Tournaments Discussion: Virgin Rivers Reservation Code I called the number, gave them the code and booked a room for $32 plus tax. Total $36. So the code works online or by phone. I did it about a week ago now. |
| April 2, 2022 Brock | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: website It's been really slow to load and as of yesterday I was told the site doesn't exist. However, I can sign onto spasoftball.com, click on HOF link and then the SSUSA link and it loads instantly. That's what I did just now to get on. I'm no techie so I have no idea what's going on except that I know how to get to this website by other means. |
| March 30, 2022 Brock | Topic: Tournaments Discussion: Spring Worlds St. George Glad to hear this. Dave, you mentioned to me when I checked in that you will be coming to the Rocky Mountain Championships this year for the first time. That was great to hear also. I was hoping to talk to you again on another suggestion but I never saw you again at Little Valley. I note that you're doing more round robin brackets and I'm suggesting to consider doing even more of them. For instance, the 75 major/major+ bracket had four teams so we played each other in the round robin and then had a double elimination bracket. Instead, why not just do a double round robin and best record wins. Again, the major+ team, if there is one, would have to win to get the goodies for major+. That way when the schedule is released, every team, no matter where they finished, would know when they would be finished for planning purposes. Just a thought. |
| Dec. 30, 2020 Brock | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Elite Sports jerseys I don't post very often but I post here to applaud jimperry19's thoughtful comments. And he's right. No such thing as free shirts. When one adds up the expenses to go to a tournament and win a shirt, it will be the most expensive shirt in the closet. It's been over a month since Phoenix. I'd be inquiring also if my team had won a set of shirts. |
| Aug. 10, 2020 Brock | Topic: Rules of the game Discussion: 70s Senior League Situation Situation is bases loaded, one out, 5th run on third. Batter hits short fly ball to right center. Fielder catches the ball and throws toward home but runner beats throw. However, the runner on first led off before the catch and never returned to first base. Throw goes to first which is the third out and is a force play, no tag needed. Inning over and the fifth run should not count as the play continued. Or so we thought. Both teams have former umpires. One says the fifth run should not count and the other says it should because force plays only happen going forward, not going back to the base. Comments.... |
| May 8, 2020 Brock | Topic: Tournaments Discussion: Reno Tournament This week's newsletter appeared to indicate this may or not be a go yet. They indicated a final decision would be made two weeks ahead of tournament date and suggested that you not make flight and hotel arrangements now. Some of us have made those arrangements but both can be cancelled with no penalty. I hope we have something concrete in next week's newsletter. |
| May 1, 2020 Brock | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Reno Tournament I reserved a room at the Sands sometime ago after they closed. They had to call me back but when they did they gave me a reservation. After receiving the latest SSUSA newsletter I called to change my reservation to the following week since SSUSA hopes to play the 60s - 85s from June 2 -4. No return call so far from the Sands and now the SSUSA website says the Sands is not taking reservations until July 1. Not sure what other hotels/casinos are doing but it appears to me the tournament is going to have to be rescheduled and/or cancelled this year. I agree with Wood_1966. |
| Sept. 11, 2018 Brock | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Cheyenne Park Then I guess we won't know whether all of the field and other issues will be taken care of before we play. If I read Dave's post correctly the 70 majors will not be moved to other facilities. |
| Sept. 11, 2018 Brock | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Cheyenne Park LVSSA/SSUSA still has almost two weeks to make some changes. Mike's (Scrappy) post of yesterday I assume is being heeded by the powers that be. The 70 major tournament should not have to be played on what used to be and appear to still be terrible fields. I note SSUSA Staff, in their Sept 9 post, did not address the Cheyenne fields, only the Lorenzi issue. Here's hoping for some changes before Sept 24th!! |
| March 7, 2018 Brock | Topic: Tournaments Discussion: Field Assignments Changed for 70's and others No Fear, if your guys want to move to a hotel In St. George, there are a number of places that you can still get a room for $50 to $75 per night. Check Hotels.com or Choice Hotels.com websites. A number of these hotels, especially at Choice Hotels.com have a full hot breakfast also. You still have plenty of time to cancel rooms in Mesquite and get your first night's payment back. They won't be as cheap as the Virgin River but will be as cheap or cheaper than the Casa Blanca. |
| Oct. 28, 2017 Brock | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: When did our generation become such cry babies Personally, I agree with Duke (Andy Smith), at least for the higher age levels. Do away with major plus, combine it with majors and play the current major rules at age 65 and up. I believe they're already doing that at age 80 and above except they only have two divisions if my memory is working for me, AAA and major. |
| Sept. 30, 2017 Brock | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Are you staying at AZ Charlies on boulder? We stay at Arizona Charlie's most of the time when in Vegas. In our case this week, we had a third person in our room and initially, the person at Registration said we could not get tickets for the third person because the tickets were "for two people per room. Later, we stopped by and she gave us a third set of tickets because someone had called and cancelled their room. That's excellent customer service and their food is really good in my opinion. I'll continue staying there. |
| July 24, 2017 Brock | Topic: Players looking to join a team Discussion: 70 Major or Major Plus Actually there is. Tharaldsons is out of Vegas and is a 70 major team. Coach is Gary Tharaldson. Don't know whether they're looking for players or not but they're usually a little short on numbers. Gary is very well known in Vegas. Good luck. |
| June 21, 2016 Brock | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Awards Dave, I'm good with what you're saying also but you at least hinted here that my suggestion might bear fruit going forward which is a plus. You might read the part about "caring for your customers" again. I didn't say you don't care about them. Thanks. One other question. I asked via email twice if you could give us (Scrap Iron 70 Legacy) an idea where we might be playing in the Western Nationals that we are attending this year so we can try to make hotel arrangements somewhat close by. I know it's early but sometimes you have an educated guess as to what fields will be used during the week. With fields from Elk Grove on the south to Lincoln on the north and hotels expensive in Sacramento, we're looking for something nice that's reasonable but may be outside Sacramento. Thanks for any insight you might have for us. I sent the email to the only email address I have for you and it didn't come back so I assume it's a good address but it might be an email you no longer use. If you want to email me rather than answer here it's gjbroeckelman@earthlink.net . Thanks, Dave |
