Worlds 2024
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stang7222
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My E team is going; Northeast Alliance out of NJ. But I'm not going this year bc this dude showed up last night.
@bigwignj how long have you been pitching for them? Trying to put a face to a name. After all of these years on SBF, I wouldn't know you if you were sitting next to me.
@bigwignj how long have you been pitching for them? Trying to put a face to a name. After all of these years on SBF, I wouldn't know you if you were sitting next to me.
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EAJuggalo
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@bigwignj were you pitching for them Saturday morning on White Easton against 7 W Cattle? I had the plate that game. And then ended up working two games Sunday also.
The wind was crazy for the first two days, it settled down on Saturday and Sunday was beautiful. I was on Red Rawlings Thursday and pop ups were flying out, had a team hit 4 HR in the first inning and lead off both the second and third with IEOs. Friday I was on White Easton and nothing went, I think I only had two HR all day on that field. Three lightening delays and only once did I think they might stop it for rain. But by the time bats started flying out of hands, the rain had slackened quite a bit.
The wind was crazy for the first two days, it settled down on Saturday and Sunday was beautiful. I was on Red Rawlings Thursday and pop ups were flying out, had a team hit 4 HR in the first inning and lead off both the second and third with IEOs. Friday I was on White Easton and nothing went, I think I only had two HR all day on that field. Three lightening delays and only once did I think they might stop it for rain. But by the time bats started flying out of hands, the rain had slackened quite a bit.
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Sorry just seeing this now but yes. Yeah the wind was insane early, our game Thursday night was crazy. You’d hit a ball to gap and it would end up in the stands. USSSA even made a video of our game titled “Trying to catch fly balls in an hurricane” and put it on the fb page.
EAJuggalo
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Nope, I get to go down one week a year, otherwise my day job gets a little upset with me. I didn't get chosen for either of the Majors, so I decided to work D this year. Very glad I'm not there right now.
I've been told if I up my number of Conference Events next year I've got a decent shot at being selected for the Women's Major next year.
EAJuggalo
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Quite a few teachers, and a lot of commission driven salesmen that can set their own hours is what I've been told. Half the Conference weekends they can just take Friday off, fly out early in the morning and get back Sunday afternoon. Duals or tournaments a long way from airports will take more. There were 14 weekends for the Conference this year, I-57 and Nitro both played 11 of them. It would be about three weeks of vacation to make all of those. Plus the week or week and a half for Worlds.
This of course doesn't include those that make their primary living through softball somehow, working for sporting goods stores, distributors, reps for manufacturers. I don't think there are any players that are still employed full time by USSSA. There used to be a few of them.