This is why you don't invite bad players to begin with. If they are long-time friends and you cut them at this point you are a total jerk. Another reason why you need to play on multiple teams to pull the best players together for tournaments. This way your tournament team is not your league team, so you are not obligated to invite everybody.
When to cut players?
- Thread starter nblase1
- Start date
That's what I was thinking too. Just put word out and make some subtle inquisitions...
Ferrari1
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this is great advice if you like goin 2 an a Q on the weeknds
SMAC
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If the intention is playing C with the goal of eventually moving to B and making a conference team, then you gotta be realistic and level with everyone. If he is trying to win at D or E selling out your friends is pretty ****ty. It's far more satisfying being the underdog and winning a tournament with buds you've been competing with for years then going in with a bunch of free agents or ringers when winning is expected. Or worse yet, not winning, and have to deal with a ton of drama about who is to blame and who should be cut to make the ultimate D team ever
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Ferrari1
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2 loses and then have a team barbeque...so do you kno what the **** your talking about????? never heard that terminology be for i take it????
Ferrari1
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what r u talking about???? u must me on some good LSD watching ur av go round an round
undertaker2012
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cut two this past weekend and team voted cause they showed up for our first game at 10:00 am drunk and nearly passing out on the fence
niteshadow
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This is gtg. I would cut anyone who tried to pull this crap.
softballin101
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Start cutting players and all of a sudden the game isn't fun anymore. Not to mention that you yourself have to start being on P's and Q's because what if the team decides to get together and want to cut you? Why not just keep them around. They may not mind being benched and you never know when you might need them. You should keep stats and whoever is sucking at the time ride the bench. Unless those guys really suck, Ie. can't even throw to a cutoff or from 1st to third, or can't hit out of the infield
This exact same thing happened to my team our first season. We were terrible and I mean terrible we won 1 game the first season it was ridiculous but we put the team together to drink and have fun. Luckily for us all of our friends that werent very good quit and we have been just replacing people as they leave so we didn't have to cut any friends.
johnny fitz
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If the intention is playing C with the goal of eventually moving to B and making a conference team, then you gotta be realistic and level with everyone. If he is trying to win at D or E selling out your friends is pretty ****ty. It's far more satisfying being the underdog and winning a tournament with buds you've been competing with for years then going in with a bunch of free agents or ringers when winning is expected. Or worse yet, not winning, and have to deal with a ton of drama about who is to blame and who should be cut to make the ultimate D team ever
love to know what d and e tournaments youre playing in wisconsin bro!!! got 6 guys on my team that played pro baseball and were an e team. and were all in our late 20s / early 30s so its not like were playing softball for the first time ... things must be way different out there !!
SMAC
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LOL. Whatever man and it's MN by the way. I notice you got a USSSA bat, go play C worlds then. Last year 3 teams in MN finished 5-2 or better in C worlds. In D, most NY teams went 0-2 or 1-2, a couple were 2-2. 6 MN teams were 4-2 or better. If you are as good as you think you are, enter C worlds this year and try your luck.
I'm not going to diss NY. It's the birthplace of baseball / softball and it's still very popular there. From what I hear from guys who played ball in NY say that most of the excellent teams play modified pitch in either slinging or non slinging leagues.