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| April 11, 2007 E. Ness | Topic: Players looking to join a team Discussion: Looking for a team in KC They start play next Thursday April 19th at Community Park. Game start at 1830. Go out there and let people know you want to play. Most teams are set on players but there is always someone looking. There are 4 divisions. Bronze, Silver, Gold, and tournament teams. |
| April 11, 2007 E. Ness | Topic: Bats Discussion: Do bat warmers really work ?? You may want to be careful on buy a bat warmer. I understand that ASA rules state that using a bat warmer is considered altering. I am not joking on this one. It is the current buzz around the boards. |
| April 3, 2007 E. Ness | Topic: Bats Discussion: Bats?? Have We Sold Out or Been Taken? Or Both Gary USSSA has been changing the rules and almost everything else since it came to be. I would not say it is only the hot bats. In the past 33 years that I have played ball here are some of the rules changes I can remember. 46 foot mound to 50 (because of the Poly core softball) Late 70's 50 foot mound to box in senior and USSSA and 53 foot in NSA because of bats. (2004 +?) 60 foot bases to 65 Late 70's early 80's (ball) 65 to 70 middle 90's (USSSA) balls and bats 65 to 70 (NSA) 04? balls and bats 70 to 75 (USSSA SUPER) talent, bats, speed up the game Time Limits late 70's early 80's BALL and talent Middle hitting in my opinion has to do with the home run rules in the younger divisions, the new WWE attitude that has spread thoughout the younger divisions, SANDBAGGING in all divisions, and it being allowed by all associations and even forced by some just for the almight buck, bats, balls, talent, and the lack of respect. Halo and screens I have not played anything with those rules and I don't understand why they are needed now with the dead softballs but that is my opinion. |
| April 3, 2007 E. Ness | Topic: Bats Discussion: Bats?? Have We Sold Out or Been Taken? Or Both Yes those balls were out of site but they were not the ones that forced the bats to change. If you remember we we hitting bats with 80+ thick walls. At the time the Steeles bats the Easton CU 31, the TPS grey and black bat and the worth power cell were the top bats of the time. They were heavy and had very little flex. After Dave got caught using a worth ball that was being redone in China for Steele ball his softballs went to crap as did everyone elses (except for the balls used by the Steeles team in their barnstorming tour). I remember playing them in Hutch on Friday night before the tournament. Those balls flew and then the next day we hit socks in the USSSA tournament. The balls supplied by the tournament were a far cry from those used by Steeles the night before. We also had the T 4000 Gary but those lasted as long as the Ti bats did. In the end we got stuck with crappy balls when you played in a NIT or World. What you did in league and local tournaments was another story. I knew guys who bought dozens of T 4000's softballs and then changed the covers so they could use them in NIT's and such. They would just change them out when the umpire was not looking. In the end it was the ball and we all know it was. But getting people to admit it is another story. Everyong wants to blame the bat companies. What I don't understand is why people are so against the new hot bats? The majority of softball players have done nothing but ask for this since I started playing softball back in the early 1970's. We finally got what we asked for. I remember in 1995 when I was playing for a TPS team that year hearing Harold from TPS stated they were going to make the TPS Ti bat too hot so it would be banned for a second time (the Ti was legal for 6 weeks in 1995 because of Ray's law suit). I asked why and he said "if the Ti bat was legal then no one would need new bats after they bought it. The perfect bat is a hot bat that could hit the crappy softball's well and it would only last one season." Harold was just telling us what the future held. |
| April 3, 2007 E. Ness | Topic: Bats Discussion: Bats?? Have We Sold Out or Been Taken? Or Both That is an easy question. The ball!!! When I started we used fastpitch balls in the early 70's, then Worth came out with the Poly Core (great ball) to off set crappy bats. The Howards bats were great for their time but still not what they could have been as later demostrated by Ray's bat. In the 80's ASA decided to go to a 44/ who knows what the core was restricted flight softball. A pos if you will. It was this ball that in my opinion started the change in bats. In the 90's we see the 47/525 ball as the ball of choice but the bat revolution had already taken flight. This was also the decade of the Ti and double wall. So to combat the new composite bats the associations have gone back to crappy softballs but actually they never really stop using them. The ASA has always used the 44/375? softball in it world tournaments in the upper division. In 1995 in Waterloo Iowa at the Super Major Worlds they used a 44 core Worth that I believe was a cork centered softball on baseball fields. The scores were low and very few homeruns were hit. In fact WR won the homerun championship with 6. From that point on it was crappy balls. That year in the ASA tournaments that is all we used crappy softballs. So in my opinion it was the use of crappy softballs by the ASA that started the bat revolution. The balls will not change and so in order to play a game where the scores are suppose to be high and the balls hit hard one has to have the very best bat available. Some guys say I would go back to metal bats if we had good softballs. I ask this question can you really trust ASA and other associations to keep their word and use good softballs if this were to happen? I for one cannot.They have burnt me too many times. As have some of the senior associations. |
| March 29, 2007 E. Ness | Topic: Associations Discussion: SPA website Here is the one that works now. http://spasoftball.com/ |
| March 14, 2007 E. Ness | Topic: Bats Discussion: FACTS on Bat Standards F2219 & F1890 Stoneman I will give you another soon to be fact. The ASA has already told the bat companies to start working on the 96 and 94 mph bats. I hit a couple of prototypes of each and fact is the bats suck and in the end people will alter them. Pandora's box has been open and like anything else once you taste the honey no one wants to go back. I am just glad I play in senior softball where we have not lost our minds (as of yet) on bat standards. LIVE ON SENIOR BATS. |
| March 6, 2007 E. Ness | Topic: Bats Discussion: LET'S REALLY GET STUPID! Who gets banned for 5 years if the ball is found to be illegal? The TD? The head of the association? The ball Company? Does this fall on the player also? Too many bad things can come from this new rule and Stoneman is right how about those teams and players that only want to get a good players bat out of the game or just slow down the game? Shouldn't they be punished. I am all for cleaning up the game and getting rid of the illegal bats but this is way over the top. One last thought. How about the one guy who has money and is swing a legal bat but accussed of using an illegal bat. He gives the bat up in front of the whole softball world and for the next 2-3 weeks is dubbed a cheater (actually the rest of his playing career as is the manager. Some people do not know how to let things go). The bat comes back and found to be legal. Who will step forward and admit they were wrong about the bat and the player? My guess is no one . So our man with money files a law suit to get his named cleared. Who wins then? |
| March 2, 2007 E. Ness | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Stoneman Please E-mail me at sg550223@yahoo.com I need some information on the LVSSA. Like who is in charge. I need to contact this person so I need either an e-mail address or phone number. Thanks |
| March 1, 2007 E. Ness | Topic: Tournaments Discussion: SSWC Spring World The SSWC uses the ASA approved bat list only. |
| Feb. 28, 2007 E. Ness | Topic: Bats Discussion: Remedy for Altered Bats Ken, To be fair you would have to supply bats in all weights. The Combats come in a balance and End Loaded model in these weights; 26,27,28,29, and 30. So that means you need at least 10 of those and the U2 comes in 26, 27, 28, 29, and 30. How are you going to tell a guy who uses a 30EL he now must use a 28 or 29? Can you picture the complaints? I can. But lets say you go with the 9 bats at each field because that is what it would have to be then the price tag on that for the Reno tournament would be at least $10,800 and that is saying you get the bats at $100 a piece. Add to that the back ups needed and you are still looking at a $12,000 price tag. This still does not address the knob cuffs and other items guys like. The machine is a good idea but then again it will kick out bats that are well used and with this program that could be a lot of bats We have addressed this before and I still believe we should let the associations weed out the altered bat users. I agree that supending the Manager is not a good rule but it may not be as bad as the NEW USSSA RULE which is even worst. |
| Feb. 28, 2007 E. Ness | Topic: Bats Discussion: Remedy for Altered Bats Don't get me wrong with what I am about to post. I am against the rule that is now in place but this is not going to work. Let take the next big SSUSA tournament which is Reno. It is played over two weeks and at least three 4 diamond complexes are in use all the time. That means the SSUSA would have to supply at min 15 senior bats per field if you are going to do this the correct and fair way. They would have to have 5 U2 advance and 10 senior Combats. Now add to that not everyone like either of those bats and may want to use a USSSA or even an old U2. So at best you are looking at each diamond having 20 bats. So that is 240 bats at least. (You have to be fair and have each bat in each weight at each field because just as soon as you don't you will have problems) Which means the SSUSA is asked to spend at least $24,000 in bats for that one tournament and that is if they can get the bats for $100 a piece. You also might as well add to these numbers another $2000 for back up bats because everyone knows the U2A breaks like glass. Then add to this the problem of those teams and players who have to use these bats first before they are broke in those who like knob cuffs, grip and rips, and taped handles. Boy, I can hear the complaints now. Hell we can't even get a new ball every game so how are we going to get these bats? Tater your heart is in the right place but the idea will not work. I do agree that suspending the manager is stupid and another way should be found but supplying bats to all fields at every tournament will not work. |
| Feb. 20, 2007 E. Ness | Topic: Bats Discussion: walk or pitch So let me get this straight a Major Plus player is going to play AAA. Anyone else see a problem with this? |
| Feb. 17, 2007 E. Ness | Topic: Bats Discussion: Great price on a COMBAT X-3. Stone man here is another note on that. If Combat is out of the X3 when the bat needs return within the year you may get the Virus or AV. They are great people to work with. Also where did you find the AV for $210? That is a great buy. |
| Jan. 25, 2007 E. Ness | Topic: Bats Discussion: The new combat The bat you speak of from Sports diamond does not have the 1.20 on it. Only the Anaconda bat is legal. |
| Jan. 17, 2007 E. Ness | Topic: Bats Discussion: Ulta II replacement? It is the new Rip-it and it will come out in Feb. It will be legal in USSSA, NSA, and ISA but not ASA. The bat will come in all weights. |
| Jan. 9, 2007 E. Ness | Topic: Bats Discussion: senior combat How a report about the Wood demise got out is beyond me. It is my job to keep him safe (As well as everyone else) and I am very good at my job.:) I think once players start to trust the senior Combat more then you will see them. I know it is hard to get guys to put down the U2. |
| Dec. 23, 2006 E. Ness | Topic: Bats Discussion: Rit-it ASA 26oz Back at you. |
| Dec. 23, 2006 E. Ness | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Happy Holidays Merry Christman everyone and I hope y'll have a great New Year and a great season. |
| Dec. 23, 2006 E. Ness | Topic: Bats Discussion: Rit-it ASA 26oz taits, e-mail me at sg550223@yahoo.com I know a guy who can hook you up on the black ASA bat. |
