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| Aug. 25, 2021 Webbie25 | Topic: Tournaments Discussion: major plus Walt and Don, Having played with Doak for 2 years, I can tell you he is a true gentleman of the game. I KNOW he meant no offense. Doak, I looked at the list for 70 M+ in worlds. One Team-Timberworks. I thought Clatterbough was going to bring his team, Superior, but I guess not. So here you are-70M+ World and Triple Crown champions again and you have to make the trip, spend money and show up to get it, and maybe play the Texas Crush team or other 65 teams as an 'exhibition', which unfortunately, is all it will be. And so my proposal, supported by Bogie in a slightly different way, gains a little momentum. Having a division with one team nationally leaves an empty feeling. I know SSUSA is trying hard to make this work. Their move last year about having teams that could recruit from the entire nation, unfortunately, created the situation where those teams end up in a division of their own, spot EVERY team they play, and still does not solve the problem. Has anyone one else got any ideas? |
| Aug. 25, 2021 Webbie25 | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Looking for opinions and or thoughts All of you are so correct. We played Steele's 2 exhibition games in Albuquerque. They beat us 48-1 on Friday night, but Saturday we played our game and they beat us 33-24. No equalizers. I hated when we did take it. Play the game. |
| Aug. 23, 2021 Webbie25 | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Looking for opinions and or thoughts Hi Benji-Your post is a takeoff on the post I made regarding major plus after 65. It comes down to one team, maybe 2 and they have no competition and no one to play during the year. They end up going to 5 tourneys-Mesquite, Vegas, Reno, Sacramento, and Vegas and too often playing a best of 3 with the same team.My post proposed to eliminate those 5 tourneys and only have one-at Vegas for world's to determine a M+ champion. Bogie proposed only an open major division with no World's playoff for M+ teams. I find there are a lot of people out there that agree with me and don't post, too. This needs some serious thoughts. |
| Aug. 16, 2021 Webbie25 | Topic: Tournaments Discussion: major plus Hi Doak. You have hit on the curse of being M+ after 65 years old. I loved the 2 years I played on Timberworks. I had never won a World Championship before, having two 2nds and a third. To win twice was amazing. However, with all due respect to the teams we beat, it became almost anti-climactic to win. The fact that we could hit 18 guys in Worlds and interchange almost any one person with another with no falloff ended up creating major plus divisions with Timberworks and whatever teams got moved up to face them for a year like Walt did with Ancients, The Animals, and the Rebels did playing 5 best of three series in 5 cities with the same team. Omen and Venom faced the same in 70's Major Plus. This year Timberworks played Texas Crush in a combined 65/70 Major Plus bracket many times. Mesquite, Vegas, Reno, Sacramento and Vegas again cost a lot of money to make those trips especially with your wife. It was about $1200 per tourney for me 3 years ago and was a major reason I stepped back from Timberworks. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ Last year I put forth an idea to SSUSA that I would now like to put here on the board for comment. !. Dissolve Major Plus as we know it for all players 65 and over. Allow all major plus players to play on 65 Major, 70 major or older rosters during the year. This will strengthen the Major divisions and should help create more team participation during the year. And it will give those that still have the Major Plus 'DRIVE' to compete at that level for a Championship. 2. All Major Plus Players will still retain their Major Plus status as before and only 3 players with Major Plus status can play on any one Major team, just as it is now. 3. At Worlds in Vegas, there will be a time set aside for a Major Plus Worlds at each age group over 65. Judging from participation for the last two years, one day would be all that is needed to conclude the tourney, which would have no seeding games, but would be seeded by a coin flip. Teams will submit a roster at the beginning of they year for their Major Plus team, but World's will be the only time they will be used. I'm sure the rules as to the eligibility to play would be a bit different as far as eligibility with no tourneys to qualify for it. Dave, Terry and the others will be much better at coming up with a usable set of rules for this.However, players that do participate during worlds one year retain their label for 3 years after that. This could help keep teams from stacking their 65 major teams, or 70 Major, etc. 4. Many Major Plus teams could compete in tournaments outside SSUSA so they can play tourneys together during the year. They do this already so no difference there. 4. I have a sneaking suspicion that a few more teams might take a crack at the end of the year world's at Major Plus over 65. After all, we ALL realize that anyone can beat anyone on a given day. And it's only one tournament. This is a work in progress and all suggestions are welcome. If the idea is well received here, I would be happy to submit it to SSUSA officially. Thanks for reading. |
| Aug. 13, 2021 Webbie25 | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: no respecting to softball players He played one tournament with us. We pulled him out one game as he was getting shelled, just to give the other team a different look. After the game he informed us he would pitch every inning of every game, or else. We chose the or else. |
| Aug. 12, 2021 Webbie25 | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: no respecting to softball players Einstein, or Dirty, or Gary, or a few others. I have to admit I had a bit of fun trolling them until they happily disappeared. |
| June 30, 2021 Webbie25 | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Belted shorts, my kingdom for a pair of belted shorts By the way, these shorts replaced a couple pair that dated back into the early 80's and were still wearable. Senior Moments, I know I will order again around ....oh.....2060 or so when I start playing in the over 110 age group. Thanks. |
| June 30, 2021 Webbie25 | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Belted shorts, my kingdom for a pair of belted shorts Senior Moments-these shorts are great. I bought 4 pair. Thank you! |
| June 21, 2021 Webbie25 | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Belted shorts, my kingdom for a pair of belted shorts Franjan-who makes the coaches shorts. My last pair is 30 years old and finally falling apart. Thanks.And I will email you also, senior moments. |
| June 9, 2021 Webbie25 | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Which Ball travels further: ASA or SSUSA Murray, if I sound negative, not at all. I have all the respect in the world for you. I did talk to Imlay today. He said they hit 1 only-Jeff Hacker. One is an awful small number for a team with Doak, Lud, Imlay and many others with power into their 70's. And I guess I just cannot see you guys ever scoring 7 runs unless the wind was blowing in at about 80 mph. I( also understand that they are unable to get the microcell Trump now. We can't find them anywhere, either. And no other ball holds up to the heat except the Rock. |
| June 9, 2021 Webbie25 | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Which Ball travels further: ASA or SSUSA I didn't mean to hit post yet. But I also noticed you guys had a 22-7 loss to Timberworks and Timberworks had 11-2 and 17-2 wins. Unusually low scores for Timberworks and major plus teams. I guess I was just surprised. |
| June 9, 2021 Webbie25 | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Which Ball travels further: ASA or SSUSA I get that, Murray. How many did Timberworks hit out in the Tournament? Just curious. They should have hit a bunch. |
| June 9, 2021 Webbie25 | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Which Ball travels further: ASA or SSUSA MurrayW-I've seen you hit. You look like you are playing on a 225 foot fence. The rest of us human beings are different!LOL Congrats on your win. I was very surprised at the 15-12 back to back scores against my old team-Timberworks. Low for both teams. |
| June 5, 2021 Webbie25 | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Umpires Making the Right (or Wrong) Call Umpire's call stands. You can't have Umpire by Committee. If he changes this one, the next time there is a close call, they will have to vote on the call again. And again.He missed it. Move on. |
| June 3, 2021 Webbie25 | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Pitchers. A bit insane? The best pitchers I have played behind have had a different way of handling life... and pitching. Kenny Sheffield is one of the best out there. He fields his position as well as any pitcher, even diving for many balls. His pregame preparations start hours before the games start. He wants to know exactly how much each pitch that missed the mat missed by, to the inch. He asks his catchers to stand a certain way to help him zero in. It's not a show. I have watched him nip corners in a 25 mph wind. And he gets in batters heads a LOT. That, and an unusual way of batting that usually results in a .700-.800 or higher batting average, in my mind, makes him one of the best. |
| May 31, 2021 Webbie25 | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Another play I've never seen before Stick-we all were screaming at the runner on first to go. We knew the call. Senior moment, for sure. |
| May 30, 2021 Webbie25 | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Another play I've never seen before We were in league a couple weeks ago. Bases loaded, ONE out. Fifth run on third. Batter hits a clean line drive single to center which just missed our runner, who had to go down to avoid it. The outfielder got the ball in quickly and they tagged him out laying on the ground. However, our runner on first failed to go to second when he saw the lead runner on the ground. Double play-no run. |
| May 30, 2021 Webbie25 | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: you make the call I knew it was a rule in softball that a batter-runner cannot do that, so I looked in the Major League rule book and was surprised they can do that. There is always something new in this wonderful game of ours. |
| May 22, 2021 Webbie25 | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Total Knee Replacement.."A Softball Athlete's 3 month Video Diary" Sm 165 Thanks, Dave, I thought I was the only one that remembered his tv name was Steve Austin. |
| May 21, 2021 Webbie25 | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Total Knee Replacement.."A Softball Athlete's 3 month Video Diary" Sm 165 Ocden-contact Steve Austin about that. I think the price of 6 million might be a bit high for most people....... |
