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| Nov. 28, 2016 Crusher23 | Topic: Bats Discussion: A Question 4 U Bat/Math Geeks It's a trick question, there's, not enough information to come to a conclusion here. Bat weight and swing speed are only 2/3 of the necessary information to be able to figure this out - you also need to know the distribution of the weight in each bat. This is important, as from what I can gather this is used to calculate something called Moment of Inertia, which from what I can tell from my limited physics exposure comes down to how much force is transmitted to the ball at the moment of impact with the bat. It is very possible that if each bat is swung at the same speed that the 26 ounce bat may transfer more force to the ball and thus produce a greater exit speed if it is end loaded enough and the 28 is balanced. That's as far as my physics knowledge goes boys. Hek, I'm probably wrong anyway but if you think about it, it makes sense. I do not know the actual equation to figure all this out, I'm sure it's on the web somewhere. |
| Dec. 14, 2015 Crusher23 | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: New Rules L - Turbo 34 addressed this above. |
| Dec. 14, 2015 Crusher23 | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: New Rules "If a participating team's roster falls below 12/13 players, the team MAY APPLY TO ADD players until it reaches the 12/13 player level. These players may be from the SAME (or older) age group in the SAME or LOWER skill level, pursuant to the player’s history over the current and two prior playing seasons. Managers must APPLY to SSUSA for approval of these players in writing. THESE PLAYERS ARE APPROVED OR DENIED ON AN INDIVIDUAL BASIS." The rule is clear, and it is fair to all teams. This rule allows many teams to be able to attend Vegas who would otherwise not be able to do so. The rule is intentionally written so there is some flexibility in it, as it indicates that SSUSA has sole discretion over who it approves or denies. I highly doubt that SSUSA knowingly allowed a team to hand pick and load up for the turny. It is totally against their philosophy of protecting the lower level teams. However, there is clearly a perception that perhaps this did happen. I am sure this was an oversight, and not anything intentional by SSUSA. Now, SSUSA has acknowledged that their approval process was somewhat lacking and they've indicated that they will be more vigilant going forward and take a closer look at add-on applications in the future so one would hope that this will no longer be an issue. Let's give them a chance. As always, thank you SSUSA for giving me the opportunity to continue playing against and amongst my peers as I grow older. |
| Dec. 9, 2015 Crusher23 | Topic: Players looking to join a team Discussion: Looking for a 50 or 55+ team tourney team in the NY/NJ/CT/PA area Where does Sweet play out of? What level are they? |
| Dec. 7, 2015 Crusher23 | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: New Rules Staff – I’ve been wondering this for a while now: I’m 55 and I now qualify to play both 55 major + AND 50 major and I decide to play on a separate team for each age group. So, for the “regular” season I play a few 55 major + tournaments with that 55 m + team, and I play in a few 50 major turnies with the 50 m team. BOTH teams qualify for, and go to Vegas. The way I understand it, I legitimately qualify to play for both teams in Vegas, correct? Not trying to stir up anything, just want to make sure I understand this correctly. I think you all do and excellent job of running this association and I have no issues with any of the rules. I’m truly grateful to have SSUSA as an option to still be able to play competitive ball in my elder years. Thank you for all you do. |
| Dec. 4, 2015 Crusher23 | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: 50's vs. 55's Ugh oh, sounds like an open challenge match invite to me....lol |
| Dec. 3, 2015 Crusher23 | Topic: Rules of the game Discussion: EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR RULING • WMC 50-Major Matter Heh heh. Just killing time with a smile brother... |
| Dec. 3, 2015 Crusher23 | Topic: Rules of the game Discussion: EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR RULING • WMC 50-Major Matter The tournament add-on rules are fine the way they are: What is important is that you cannot add a player from a higher skill level, regardless of whether they are from your age bracket or the next age bracket up. Plain and simple. This prevents, for example, 55 Major+ players from dropping down to play 50 Major as tournament add-ons. I think we need to take a moment and remind ourselves why the turny add-on rules even exist in the first place: They are there simply to help teams to be able to attend the tournament. They work, they’re good rules - without them, many teams would never even be able to attend, for example, the Vegas tournament – the turny would then be much smaller and subsequently less desirable. If that’s what you want, then go ahead, lobby for no add-ons and watch the Vegas tournament deteriorate from something special down to just another tournament. That would suck. However, I’m not oblivious to the fact that there are plenty of teams that take advantage of the add-on rules in an attempt to improve their rosters for the tournament. Personally I could care less, but hey I get it, and so does SSUSA - This is why the part of the rules that states “Managers must APPLY to SSUSA for approval of these players in writing. They are approved on an individual basis” exists. I don’t mean to speak on behalf of SSUSA but it appears that this part of the rules is in place so as to allow the SSUSA to police attempts to abuse the add-on rules, which is ultimately what everyone has been discussing on here since Tim started this whole debacle. It’s a good set of rules, it’s a good system, it does work. Now, if you think that the SSUSA is failing in its attempts to enforce/police the rules, then that is a different issue and perhaps should be approached as such. Maybe they just simply need an extra hand, it seems to me that they’re pretty overloaded with a ton of work and are having a hard time keeping up with things – we all know how it is when you’re crazy busy and understaffed, it’s easy to just “rubber stamp” everything that comes across your desk, such as player add requests. Just saying…. From what I can tell, all the frustration around this issue seems to center around the fact that certain players were approved by SSUSA to be added onto certain teams. If you feel these players shouldn’t have been approved as add-ons by SSUSA then why not simply address that point? Argue that these approvals were poor decisions. I do now believe that since this issue has been brought forward (and beaten to death) that the SSUSA will more than likely place a higher level of scrutiny on player add requests going forward. I would suspect this topic will probably be much less of an issue in the future… Disclaimer: THIS IS JUST A HUMBLE OPINION FROM SOMEONE ON THE EAST COAST. I AM NOT ATTEMPTING TO ARGUE WITH, OR SLANDER ANYONE AND I APOLOGIZE AHEAD OF TIME TO ANYONE WHO MIGHT BE OFFENDED BY ANYTHING IN THIS POST. Also, I do not know anyone on any of the teams involved in any of the prior posts on this topic, nor do I know anyone on this message board. I could care less who added who to what team. I am just bored at work, had too much coffee, and here I am thinking that I make sense. I will reread my post later and probably get a good chuckle out of it… |
| Dec. 2, 2015 Crusher23 | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: New Experimental Drug to expand life to 120 years of age Mango = Hilarious :) |
| Dec. 2, 2015 Crusher23 | Topic: Rules of the game Discussion: EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR RULING • WMC 50-Major Matter I had been observing the entire original "discussion" prior to it having been removed from the board. I kept my 2 cents to myself the whole time simply because argumentative logic had disappeared long ago from that thread. People were comparing apples to oranges - things just weren't making sense. Until... Mango came along. He must have finally grown tired of things and pointed out the obvious to all of us. He quoted the one caveat in the rules that leaves the final decision on ANY and ALL player adds up to SSUSA: "Managers must APPLY to SSUSA for approval of these players in writing. These players are approved or denied on an individual basis." That's it folks, "discussion" over. There is no need for "interpretation", or "intent" of the rule here. It's clear. So no rules were broken. Yeah, sure, some decisions won't always be popular with 100% of us, and we may disagree here or there (as Tim did in his original rant, err I mean post) and that is our right as members of this organization, but to accuse them of cheating as was done in that thread is simply ridiculous. I have only been playing in this organization for 4 years but from what I can see, SSUSA has been fair in all of their decisions and I trust that all their decisions are done with OUR best interests in mind. SSUSA does an admirable job of protecting the integrity of the game at the senior level and I for one am grateful for the opportunity they provide for all of us senior players to play a little extra ball against our own kind (other senior ballers). If you truly don't believe in, or trust this organization, then why are you here? There are other options for you, go make their lives miserable... |
| Dec. 1, 2015 Crusher23 | Topic: Rules of the game Discussion: EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR RULING • WMC 50-Major Matter Thank you. It's about time. Your tolerance of his antics is admirable, as I would have banned him long ago. Kudos to you and the staff for maintaining your professionalism throughout. |
| Aug. 12, 2015 Crusher23 | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: 2015 Ocean State Softball Classic list of participating teams So I emailed the turny director for this list and won't send it to me. I asked him why and am awaiting his response. In the meantime, anyone know why this list would not be made available to the SSUSA community, as it is not posted here either. Thanks. |
| Aug. 11, 2015 Crusher23 | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: 2015 Ocean State Softball Classic list of participating teams Entry deadline for this was a week ago. Is the list of participating teams available yet? Thanks. |
