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John Beasley
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| March 1, 2017 Beasley | Topic: Rules of the game Discussion: Flip-Flop Rule I thought that since I mentioned this in a previous post, I'd expand on why I disagree with this rule. We recently had this rule imposed on us at the Tournament of Champions. We were the only 50+ Major+ team so we played our bracket games against two 40+ Major teams that are very good. We're visitors and headed to the bottom of the 6th inning leading by 14 runs (I believe that's what it was). Considering the level of play and this this is a 40+ team, that wasn't a whole lot of runs (IMO). The umpire, rightfully so, announces that if the 40+ doesn't score at least 4 runs then the flip-flop rule comes into play and they'll (the 40+ team) will become the visitors and bat in the top of the 7th inning. As manager, I went to the umpire and asked if it was set in stone or whether we had a choice. I explained that we were playing a team that's 10 years our junior and that if they got to 10 runs, they would head into the open inning with an excellent opportunity flip the momentum and leave us trying to catch them in the bottom of the inning. The umpire called the field director over and we discussed the rule. There wasn't yelling and screaming but I wasn't real happy. I also knew the field director wasn't going to cave in so I walked away after telling him I thought it was a bulls#$5 rule. The 40+ team scored 3 runs in the bottom of the 6th, flipped to Visitors and we fortunately got them out without any more runs. So, we came ahead in this one. So I'm interested to see what others have experienced with regards to the flip-flop rule. Thanks for allowing me to rant. |
| March 1, 2017 Beasley | Topic: Tournaments Discussion: TOC 2017 @Mitch1414 - I agree with what you're saying in regards to the fields. I live in Florida and as far back as I can remember the fields at Loyce Harper were never considered good. But there's very little SSUSA can do about the fields when you take into consideration the long term contract and sponsor ship by Central Florida Sports Marketing. And I have to agree with you when it comes to the umpires. We were benefactors of a couple calls that made us scratch our heads. But we got through it. Although I got into a bit of a "discussion" with the Field Director over the flip-flop rule, he made sacrificed staying on time to pause our Saturday afternoon game due to the pitchers being blinded by the sun. And overall I think the TOC is one of the better tournaments of the year. As so many have pointed out there are many extras that SSUSA goes the extra mile to put together. I personally haven't managed to participate in the extras, but I figure that might happen sometime before I'm dead. And SSUSA goes the extra mile to make sure that it's truly a Tournament of Champions (unlike other knockoffs). I'm sure you kinda feel like everyone is kicking dirt on ya at this point, but I wanted to let you know that I can partially stand with you. |
| July 29, 2016 Beasley | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Player Ratings @ SSUSA Staff, Has any thought been given to adding a player's rating to their profile. Or making it available to the managers when they build their team rosters? The reason I ask is because then I, as a player would know what I could and couldn't do and police myself (don't laugh). I've kind of read through how the rankings are generated but it still gets a little confusing at times. At least for me anyway. Plus if a team is looking at picking up a player then the player could tell the manager what their rating is and prevent an unnecessary call to your office. Not that I've heard you guys complain about it. Being a little bit of a computer geek, you might even be able to write some rules into your roster program that will look at the ratings and not allow a manager to add a player that will cause them to move up in divisions, unless they want to. Anyway, just food for thought. Beaz |
| May 20, 2016 Beasley | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: What do you use to track league stats? Hey Bruce, There's a website out there called ClubTeams.org. I think they're still trying to get off the ground but it looked promising a little while back. The Big Cat is also involved with them and I don't think Mike loans his name out lightly. You might want to check that one out. |
| April 4, 2015 Beasley | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: What do you use to track league stats? Mac33, No, it's on a web site that I own. Please email me at jrbeasley@jbeaz.net and I'll send you a link. I can't advertise the sit here because it would violate the rules. John |
| April 4, 2015 Beasley | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: What do you use to track league stats? Someone said that you should always go back and check your work before you turn it in. Apparently that wasn't something that totally sunk in. Needless to say there was some info missing from the original web pages so I've corrected that and have re-published the corrected pages. |
| April 4, 2015 Beasley | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: What do you use to track league stats? I finally got my review of the Team 1 Sports Spring Training up. If you have any feedback, either drop me a note here or send me an email. Thanks, John Beasley |
| March 30, 2015 Beasley | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: What do you use to track league stats? Doerbaum, I was there on Saturday and took a bunch of pictures. I'm working on getting in touch with Alan and gathering some information so that I can create a web page or two on my web site. Alan probably has everyone's email address so as soon as I have something ready we'll pass the word by email. John Beasley |
| July 8, 2013 Beasley | Topic: Players looking to join a team Discussion: looking for local league play @23L - If I could only read I'd be dangerous. I totally missed "azle area of texas,". Good luck in finding a team. |
| July 8, 2013 Beasley | Topic: Players looking to join a team Discussion: looking for local league play @23L-SS - Lake Worth? As in Lake Worth, Florida? |
| June 28, 2013 Beasley | Topic: Tournaments Discussion: Major Plus @Rightrj Yes, we're planning on being in Dalton this year. We've had a rough year with some injuries but we're going to pull things together and give it a shot. We don't have much of a 40+ program here in Florida. At least from what I've been able to find anyway. I guess I'll have to look a bit harder. Thank you for the info. |
| June 28, 2013 Beasley | Topic: Tournaments Discussion: Major Plus Yeah but Clatterbaugh could hit line drives into the trees with a broomstick. And don't think you're going to shift around on him or he'll "dink" it to left and just smile at ya from first base. |
| June 28, 2013 Beasley | Topic: Tournaments Discussion: Major Plus Hey Cal, I didn't take it as a bad thing. I was just trying to clarify before the NCAA imposed sanctions on us. It's bad enough my Hurricanes can't get a straight answer after 3+ years of investigation. |
| June 28, 2013 Beasley | Topic: Tournaments Discussion: Major Plus One last thing while I'm thinking about it. I heard there's only a hand full of teams in the 50+ Major+ in Dalton. Where the heck are all these teams that want restrictions? No team can have more than 6 impact players so you'd think the teams would have been beating the doors down trying to get into the tourney. Isn't this exactly what they've been asking for? I guess this would be the latest example of how imposing restrictions at the Major+ level isn't the answer either. |
| June 28, 2013 Beasley | Topic: Tournaments Discussion: Major Plus @Cal50 I don't know if you can call what we do recruiting. We look for talented players within our area that we feel will get along are representative of the rest of the team. We ask them to play, sometimes more than once, and explain things a thoroughly as we can. I guess you can classify that as recruiting even though the only thing we're able to offer them is the opportunity to play on what we think is a good team. We've been turned down more than once with the excuse that they didn't want to go play 2 or 3 teams. I don't think there's an easy solution to this otherwise something would have been done by now. But I sure am glad that I'm not on the SSUSA staff or any other association staff and have to listen to the whining. |
| June 28, 2013 Beasley | Topic: Tournaments Discussion: Major Plus Did the East Bay Oldies win all their games when they first started playing - probably not. Did they stick together and play well enough to be considered one of the better teams - it appears so otherwise they wouldn't have gotten bumped. So IMO the latest example doesn't carry any weight. |
| June 28, 2013 Beasley | Topic: Tournaments Discussion: Major Plus @ Rightrj I agree with you about the Vegas and Dalton tournaments. I think you could also throw in the ISSA World and maybe the Huntsmen Games. But I wouldn't limit it to just the Major+ division. SSUSA tabs almost all their tournaments as Nationals (east coast) and World (west coast) but are they really National/World tournaments? They're pretty much just another tournament that gives you a place to play in turning up for one of the true World Tournaments. By the way, why are tournaments west of the Mississippi classified as World Tournaments and the ones east of the Mississippi National Tournaments. It almost gives us east coast guys an inferiority complex knowing that we're only playing in a "National" tournament. Sorry SSUSA staff, I just had to throw that one out there. Sorry, I don't want to hijack the thread. The thing is regardless of the plan chosen (unless you merge Major and Major+) it's going to take a couple years before we actually seen an impact. |
| June 27, 2013 Beasley | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: SSUSA Player Hannington/ Bay State Bombers 55 Bill Curry Dies in Ireland Paul, I don't know if any of the guys from Team 1 Sports has played against or knows Bill but he certainly sounds like an excellent ambassador for Senior Softball. Please pass along our prayers and condolences from all the member of Team 1 Sports. John Beasley Team 1 Sports Softball - #3 |
| June 27, 2013 Beasley | Topic: Tournaments Discussion: Major Plus I think Major+ is just fine. It's the lower divisions that are broke because too many teams are allowed to play down which disrupts the true skill level within that division. If you broke the talent levels up into 4 groups with 1 being the least skill level and 4 being the best skill level where would teams/players fall. Go through your lineup and rate your players. If you say that Jimmy is one of the best in the game then he belongs at the highest level. Sometimes individual players aren't necessarily the best but when you put a group of them on the field they come together and bring out the very best in one another. The team is considered one of the best in the game and therefore should be playing at the highest level. I mean, playing or being bumped to Major+ should be taken as an achievement not a punishment. A team was moved there because the sanctioning body felt your team was one of the best in the nation. But that doesn't seem to be the case for teams when they receive this honor. Do I wish there were more teams - sure. But until someone makes the Major teams move up they're going to sit down there and play where they're allowed to play. This is the same problem that has gone on for years in younger softball and guess what - those same guys are getting older and pulling the same stuff in senior softball. The question has been asked - why aren't the Major+ Champions bumped like the lower divisions? Answer - because there isn't anywhere to bump them to within the same age group. Having them play guys 10 years younger isn't the answer. Neither is breaking up a team because other teams haven't learned how to beat them. But if Tim wants me to show my "guts" by getting on the field with them then lets go. Heck, bring on Resmondo, Dirty, AJD or any of the other big teams. What do we have to loose. It's a game, it's competition, it's the feeling of hitting a screamer only to have someone take it away from you. The feeling of playing a team that's going to make you put all your years of softball experience together in order to beat them. I really need to remember some of this stuff for our next team meeting. My bloods pumping and I'm looking for my glove. Put me in coach, I'm ready to play..... |
| June 27, 2013 Beasley | Topic: Tournaments Discussion: Major Plus You're right Cal50, guts was probably a bad choice of words. I don't mean to offend anyone. A more appropriate word would be drive or desire. |
