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| June 28, 2026 TooOldToFight | Topic: Players looking to join a team Discussion: Pitcher looking to play t What state do you live in? |
| June 25, 2026 TooOldToFight | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: 150lb. 62 year old works Rotation & Extension hits 1st HR Very useful video. Good explanation of what the various body parts should be doing, as well as how the body parts should work together. Thanks for sharing. |
| June 16, 2026 TooOldToFight | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: steve simmons memorial in Mn. Hitting10th, just an FYI that the SSUSA office put the Steve Simmons results out yesterday (Jul 15). You'll find them under the Steve Simmons tournament listing. It's very complete, they provided all the pool and bracket results. |
| June 14, 2026 TooOldToFight | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: steve simmons memorial in Mn. I was told the updates were supposed to be made real time via WhoIFollow and the SSUSA office isn't sure why it didn't happen. The office plans to make the updates online as soon as the receive them. |
| March 22, 2026 TooOldToFight | Topic: Tournaments Discussion: Ifollow Scoring I second that, Berger! As a player and a fan it's fun to see all the pool and bracket results almost as they happen. Kudos SSUSA and I hope you're able to convince the few laggards under your association's umbrella to get onboard soon. Real time updates were the only SSUSA negative worthy of note and you folks are putting that negative behind you. Well done. |
| March 21, 2026 TooOldToFight | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Player Rating Question FireGuy, you can email SSUSA at info@SeniorSoftball.com and they will tell you your SSUSA rating. It might take a day for a response, but they're really good about responding to inquiries. |
| March 19, 2026 TooOldToFight | Topic: Tournaments Discussion: Ifollow Scoring I've been enjoying following the St. George Spring World results and have been impressed with the timeliness. Sbsoftball30, based on my previous comment I was surprised when I read your critique. Is it possible you're not actually in the WhoIFollow results section and you're looking somewhere else, or possibly you need to do a page refresh? Just a thought since our experiences seem to be very different. |
| March 17, 2026 TooOldToFight | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Equalizer Rules John, like you, definitely not looking to start an argument, just responding with my thoughts as you requested. Over the years I haven't heard many complaints about the equalizer rule. It seems fair and reasonable to me, so I from my standpoint if it ain't broke, don't fix it. |
| March 7, 2026 TooOldToFight | Topic: Tournaments Discussion: Gold Glove Spectacular Tourney Format Interested to hear from anyone who attended the recent Gold Glove Spectacular. When I looked at the results I was surprised and a bit confused by the tournament format. For example, there were eight 70’s teams: seven 70-AAA and one 70-Major. Instead of putting them all in the same division, they put two 70-AAA’s and the 70-Major in a division with four 65s teams. Then, they took the other five 70-AAA teams and put them in a division with two 70-AA’s and a 75-Major (BTW, there were plenty of other 75 teams.). The 1st group played three seed games, then they played a 3-team round robin where best record won. The 2nd group played three seed games, then divided into two separate brackets of four teams each and played a single elim. bracket round. Seems like a bizarre format for a tournament. For anyone who played there, is this how the “Tournament Sports-AZ” organization always runs their tournaments? Do you know why they didn’t let the 70’s team play in the same division? Any insights would be appreciated. |
| March 2, 2026 TooOldToFight | Topic: Tournaments Discussion: Tidewater Classic Got Wheels, SSUSA usually posts within a couple days after the entry deadline passes. The Tidewater entry deadline is March 4. |
| Feb. 21, 2026 TooOldToFight | Topic: Rules of the game Discussion: Curtesy Runner Rule Question Thanks Dave, your comments make complete sense, especially the pieces about "the runner is already deemed to be on third" and, "trying to avoid making a mockery of the game". I appreciate your knowledge of the rules, and that you always look at things from the perspective of what's fair and practical. Really interesting that a team won Phoenix some time ago under those circumstances. In our game we were all impressed that our scorekeeper caught the issue, but she felt horrible when it backfired, even though it absolutely wasn't her fault. |
| Feb. 21, 2026 TooOldToFight | Topic: Rules of the game Discussion: Curtesy Runner Rule Question Could use input from someone very rule-savvy… Game situation: - Bottom of the 7th and my visitor team is up by 3 runs. - Home team has bases loaded with 2 outs. - Curtesy runner comes in for runner at 1st base. Our scorekeeper recognizes that after the next 2 batters the curtesy runner will be up to bat. - Our manager tells our pitcher to walk the next 2 batters, which would make it a one-run game and the curtesy runner would be on 3rd base when it’s his turn to bat. Theoretically he would then be called out and the game would end with my team up by one run. - Our pitcher puts the next batter on intentionally, which moves the curtesy runner to 2nd base. - When our pitcher motions to the umpire that he’s walking the next batter, the curtesy runner on 2nd base sprints toward 3rd base and halfway there falls down and grabs his hamstring. - The umpire allowed the home team to replace the curtesy runner with another curtesy runner, due to his “injury”. What we thought was a great catch by our scorekeeper turned out to bite us. In the case of a true injury to a curtesy runner, I recognize another curtesy runner can run for him. Here’s my question: For the actual game situation I spelled out is it up to the umpire’s discretion to determine if the injury was feigned or real, or does that situation always allow the curtesy runner to be replaced. |
| Feb. 15, 2026 TooOldToFight | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Eyeglasses vs Contact Lenses Geo, for years I wore prescription glasses while playing softball. When I played under the lights a beam would reflect from the lights onto my glasses making it hard to follow the ball. During the day battling the sun with regular glasses was a nightmare, so I got a pair of prescription sunglasses that worked pretty well. I wanted something that would work during the day and night so I finally broke down and tried contacts. I had been resistant bcuz I didn't like messing with putting things in my eyes. That issue lasted for less than a week, afterwhich I got very comfortable putting them in and taking them out. I'm 69 now and I've been wearing contacts to play softball for the last 20 years. They work great and I couldn't imagine trying to play without them. Everyone is different, but contacts have been the right answer for me. Hope that helps a little. |
| Feb. 13, 2026 TooOldToFight | Topic: Tournaments Discussion: Tournament Score Updates Thx Dave, appreciate that update. Hopefully if enough of the tournaments that aren't required to use WhoIFollow, choose to use it, others that aren't required might be guilted into using it. |
| Feb. 13, 2026 TooOldToFight | Topic: Tournaments Discussion: Tournament Score Updates SSUSA Rep, I have some friends playing in the Gold Glove Spectacular and I didn’t want to bother them so I was hoping to see Who I Follow online updates, but they don’t exist. I’m a big SSUSA supporter so I’m certainly not looking to cast stones here, and I love what SSUSA is doing this year with online/real-time updates. Wondering if SSUSA has any plans to require all tournaments under their association’s umbrella to use Who I Follow to make real-time updates? Looking forward to your thoughts back. As always, thank you for all you do to support our great game. |
| Nov. 12, 2025 TooOldToFight | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Atta boys The real-time update system is excellent. I have friends playing in the Winter Nationals and I'm able to follow every pool play and bracket result. My friends are telling me it's been very helpful to them in terms of knowing when and where they play next. An all-around major success. If you can require every tournament under the SSUSA umbrella to use this system you will indeed be the premiere senior softball association, head and shoulders above all others. Great job so far! |
| Nov. 8, 2025 TooOldToFight | Topic: Tournaments Discussion: posted scores I just looked at the Winter Nationals tournament and I'm loving seeing all the pool and bracket scores and results! Thank you SSUSA and the SSUSA Winter National's Director. Well done. |
| Oct. 20, 2025 TooOldToFight | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Illegal Pitch Rule John, there's not much left for me to say other than, "I agree". Your comments were spot on. |
| Sept. 30, 2025 TooOldToFight | Topic: Bats Discussion: Compression testing Bats must test at 140 or higher. Anything below 140 fails and can't be used in SSUSA tournaments. In Vegas if a bat failed the test an SSUSA rep grinded the SSUSA acronym off the bat to show it wasn't legal. (Except for the bat of one person whose bat failed but he grabbed his bat and ran out of the room. It was rather comical.) |
| Sept. 29, 2025 TooOldToFight | Topic: Tournaments Discussion: Bracket Updates John, if you go to the tournament page at the top you'll see "Draft Game Schedules & Brackets", then each age group listed. Is it possible that's where you're looking for updated results? If scroll down you'll see "Final Results Session One" and it lists each 55 division separately. Each of those show the updated brackets. Hope that helps. |
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