I'm not criticizing since I'm at those levels. Just saying you don't see that as often higher up at least not of bats that they paid for.
I am not really sure who this is directed at. I am not crying about playing in OF or any sanctioned tournament. I like those better than $$$ tournaments. My only complaint is that you charge that much to get in and then make it a single elim. after a round robin. That is not getting equal value. That's all I am saying..
I never directed it to anyone on here. Most guys on here also frequent the MO board and see all they whining that goes on. Most of you guys know me fairly well, and I am not a combatant type of person, but I have been around the game long enough to see how it has evolved from 20 years ago to now, and how the lower teams get catered to, which leaves the upper teams with now where to play. So then those upper players split up, and go to a lower level team, and then that team is no longer allowed to play in tournaments. Its a viscous cycle and pretty soon it will be D and E only, and the E teams will consist of quality D level players. I dont think that E class was designed for guys that have bat control, and can hit gaps at will, hit bombs anytime they want. On the comment about the pool play into single elim, I would say we never had that early on in my career, and sometimes it sucked, being home by noon, so getting a 3rd game would be appreciated, however, I see your point, that you could win your pool, play a good team in single elim, and get beat, and be out of the tourny with one loss. That also is a bit frustrating.
I never directed it to anyone on here. Most guys on here also frequent the MO board and see all they whining that goes on. Most of you guys know me fairly well, and I am not a combatant type of person, but I have been around the game long enough to see how it has evolved from 20 years ago to now, and how the lower teams get catered to, which leaves the upper teams with now where to play. So then those upper players split up, and go to a lower level team, and then that team is no longer allowed to play in tournaments. Its a viscous cycle and pretty soon it will be D and E only, and the E teams will consist of quality D level players. I dont think that E class was designed for guys that have bat control, and can hit gaps at will, hit bombs anytime they want. On the comment about the pool play into single elim, I would say we never had that early on in my career, and sometimes it sucked, being home by noon, so getting a 3rd game would be appreciated, however, I see your point, that you could win your pool, play a good team in single elim, and get beat, and be out of the tourny with one loss. That also is a bit frustrating.
Using HR limits to reduce sandbagging has worked equally as well as the war on drugs.I never directed it to anyone on here. Most guys on here also frequent the MO board and see all they whining that goes on. Most of you guys know me fairly well, and I am not a combatant type of person, but I have been around the game long enough to see how it has evolved from 20 years ago to now, and how the lower teams get catered to, which leaves the upper teams with now where to play. So then those upper players split up, and go to a lower level team, and then that team is no longer allowed to play in tournaments. Its a viscous cycle and pretty soon it will be D and E only, and the E teams will consist of quality D level players. I dont think that E class was designed for guys that have bat control, and can hit gaps at will, hit bombs anytime they want. On the comment about the pool play into single elim, I would say we never had that early on in my career, and sometimes it sucked, being home by noon, so getting a 3rd game would be appreciated, however, I see your point, that you could win your pool, play a good team in single elim, and get beat, and be out of the tourny with one loss. That also is a bit frustrating.
Using HR limits to reduce sandbagging has worked equally as well as the war on drugs.
I know we are talking E in Utrip....but I'd like to point out that E in NSA (known now as Bronze) has nearly no teams in IL or MO.
Problem fixed???
They didn't change anything other than rename the divisions in NSA. the HR limits are the same (the penalties are changed).
Like you've told me though, Bronze and Silver always get lumped together in tournaments, so why not take the 2 homeruns? E will often have enough teams to be their own separate entity in a tournament.
How did everyone do today?
We won the southern fried early bird in ofallon. How'd u guys do?
Anyone playing the midwest conference tournament this weekend?
We won the southern fried early bird in ofallon. How'd u guys do?
Way to hit, but damn, you didn't have to rub it in!! I said at the beginning we were going to have to score 20, turns out that wouldn't have worked either..
Congrats CJ, we shall meet again!!! :thumb:
Thanks, looking forward to some more good games. And I was terrible all day at hittting, so those guys running up the scoreboard was all on them, lol! We know we can't stop scoring against most of the teams there, you are all capable of 20 run innings. And if we get bumped to gold then I'm gonna snap!! Heard a couple rumors from some umps that Demo and Gund had a very close eye on us, that's bullsh**! We had a close game with Uline 24-20, those guys are very solid, we came from behind 14-7 in the 5th, then same thing against dawgs we were down 14-7 and came back and short gamed 25-15 with 2 big innings. Had a close won with adrenaline/dirty dawgs also and won 18-14 i think. Same thing against u guys, we were playing from behind all the way till the 5th until we had 2 big innings. So each game we basically had 2 big innings that pushed us to the wins, but consistency is key in this game
Yes there are a few teams that I have talked to that are.
Considering this weekend had 20 something teams @ Bmac I'm sure it will only thing else going on is Worth Bats at SV I believe? But majority of the teams will play at bmac I would think
How did everyone do today?
There wasn't anything we could do.. You guys just hit it every where we weren't.. We did that this weekend last year vs Bohica in the semis, down 16-3 going into the 6th and end up winning 26-13... Anything can happen in this game..
You guys need some defense lol. Most runs scored on us were 10. Lost to thick n thin 8-7, just didn't hit in the first game. Beat X factor 15-2 and lost to gridiron grill 10-8 ( a few drops in the outfield in that one )
Once our regulars are back and healthy we'll be gtg.