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| Sept. 1, 2015 Silas W | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Using one ball for all games Teams pay a lot for entry fees......that's ok, especially when organizers run a good tournament. However, when organizers are supplied with balls from a sponsor, and those balls are 'dead', teams should always be allowed to use an 'approved' SSUSA ball. When you drop a ball on concrete from five feet and it doesn't bounce more than a foot, I'd classify that as a pretty 'dead' ball. I've seen this more than once in the past few years. Of course, this could be alleviated by sponsors not giving organizers crappy softballs in the first place. And yes, as written about previously, there is variation from lot to lot of the same brand. |
| July 16, 2015 Silas W | Topic: Rules of the game Discussion: ARC OF THE PITCHED BALL Reality is that there is umpire 'variability'. Always has been, and always wii be. Some think 10 is 12, or 6 is 4, or 12 is 12, or whatever. As a hitter, I don't care - it's slow pitch softball, so if what should be 6-12 is really more like 4-14, that's ok. However, as a pitcher, in hopes of ever getting anyone out and staying alive, I want 12, minimum, but I'm not always going to get that. The sport has given too much help to the hitters over the years. Why isn't it ok to win an all tourney with a .750 average? Why do hitters think they need to bat .900? We get the hottest bats, 4-3 count, the mat.....jez, could we tee it up any better for the offense? |
