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John OSullivan
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Oak Forest, IL
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Men's 50
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| Aug. 31, 2023 JohnO28 | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Session 4 Field Assignments Dave, Do you know when we will know which which fields the 50s will be playing for Vegas? |
| Aug. 24, 2023 JohnO28 | Topic: Players looking to join a team Discussion: vegas 50 AAA talk to you tomorrow |
| Aug. 7, 2023 JohnO28 | Topic: Rules of the game Discussion: Injury Rule Had a guy go down due to injury this weekend in the 2nd inning of semifinal game. We didn't have a sub and were told we had to take an out for the whole game which I always understood to be the rule. Had 2 different people tell me since then that only the first time through the lineup is an out. What is the official rule on this? |
| Aug. 7, 2023 JohnO28 | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Midwest Championships This Past Weekend Can we get some clarifications as to what happened this weekend in Wentzville and what is going to be done about it? Fridays games were delayed due to weather and we were given updates as to when the games would finally start and were told they would be 45 minutes or 5 innings whichever came first then the open. When we get there we're told they are now 40 minute games even though when we checked in the director said 45. It rained again Friday night and seemingly whoever takes care of the fields flat out refused try to even get the fields ready to play for Saturday even after the umpires offered to do it themselves if they unlocked gates and provided them with squeegees and field dry. The umpires told us the 1 and only person that came out to the fields said they didn't want their fields ruined by playing on them and their guys refused to come in on a Saturday to work the fields. The fields the rest of the tourney were played at managed to get their fields up and ready and played all day on Saturday while we were sporadically lead along via text with virtually no communication from our site director because she wasn't given any directions. Yet somehow some of the team Managers that were supposed to be playing at our complex that had nothing to do so they were watching games at the fields that were made ready were told by that site director that our entire tourney was canceled for the weekend and save ourselves money and just go home. Then after sitting around for 11 hours waiting to get some sort of factual information we get a text at 8 00 PM at night telling us in fact we are playing the next morning and what time. Only to find out our double elimination tourney has now turned into a single elimination game with 1 team that finally had enough of the circus and just went home and never showed. Some games and some fields had 2 umpires and some had 1 and there was no rhyme or reason as to who got 2 and who got 2. The 50AAA was the only division to get reduced to a single elimination as far as I know and I think it was the 55 or 60s that were also at that complex played that played double elimination and the managers there were complaining that they would rather just do the single elimination so they could put the shit show behind them and head home. We had a guy get hurt and tear his calf muscle and couldn't walk on Sunday and we asked if the grounds crew could put him in the back of the cart they and drive him to his car and were just given a flat no we don't do that from the director. She never made any attempt to talk to anyone to see if they could drive him out there. Almost $700 in tourney fees for a guaranteed 5 game tourney and we get to play 8 innings on Friday and 2 games on Sunday while the rest of tourney got their full 5 games. There needs to be at the very least some explinations given and some money refunded to those that didn't get anywhere near their 5 games. They knew the storms were coming in Friday night and Saturday night and no attempt was done to play games Friday night before the storms came in. The other complex played games until midnight to get games in before the rain. |
| July 27, 2023 JohnO28 | Topic: Tournaments Discussion: Midwest Championships Dave, It says 5 games scheduled, is there going to be 3 pool play games played Friday for the 50s? |
| July 24, 2023 JohnO28 | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Midwest championships A's, you have been registered as AAA in SSUSA since April of 2021.. This certainly can't be the first time you've shown up to a SSUSA event and played as a AAA team knowing you're supposed to be registered as a Major team. |
| July 24, 2023 JohnO28 | Topic: Tournaments Discussion: Midwest Championships Johnny44, interesting. I didn't get anything. |
| July 24, 2023 JohnO28 | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Midwest championships Midwest Championship isn't for a few more weeks, are you predicting the drama already? LOL. Assuming you meant ISA Worlds. Also assuming you are talking about the A's Reloaded team bringing Major+ players, we heard the same thing. We didn't see any bats get thrown out nor did we see a single player called out for being out of the batters box even though we were warned by a few umpires that it would happen. We did see some good officiating and some terrible calls by the same umpire over and over again. We did see some umpires enforce the pitchers can't wear shin guards while batting but most didn't enforce it or care when it was brought to their attention. The same ump who kept making bad calls tried to explain it away by saying if the abin guards are being held on by velcro as opposed to hooks or clasps the rules change but he didn't know which was they were allowed or disallowed. Not did he try to find out when pressed for an answer. There were far less HRs hit this year over years passed even though the teams were way lower than normal and very low humidity. We were assured the new ISA Baden Fire ball was as good as the ISA Hot Dot they have hit in the past and in everyone's opinion wre spoke to its not in the same league. Fields were in pretty good shape and gave times through early Saturday ran pretty much on time |
| July 24, 2023 JohnO28 | Topic: Tournaments Discussion: Midwest Championships Do we know which complex each age and division will be playing at? Kind of hard to book hotels when the complexes are 40+ miles apart, would prefer to book closer to where we are playing |
| July 20, 2023 JohnO28 | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: ISA 44 .400 Baden balls Has anyone his the new ISA Baden balls they are using now? They switched from the Worth Super Dots they have been using for years. |
| July 20, 2023 JohnO28 | Topic: Tournaments Discussion: TOC 5 GG Thanks for the clarification on that, at the time the letter was sent out I don't remember it saying only SSUSA events just all TOC events. |
| July 20, 2023 JohnO28 | Topic: Tournaments Discussion: TOC 5 GG I can't find the post anymore it was probably removed but there was a post about the fact that earlier in the year all the TOC had been moved to 4 GG games to keep the costs down. Then all the managers were sent an email asking whether or not they/their teams would like to keep it at the 4 games for the original posted pricing or bump it back to 5 games like it's always been but at a larger cost. If I remember correctly the vote was in favor of 5 games at the higher cost and then all the TOC would then remain 5 GG. If that's the case why is Columbus IN this weekend only a 4 GG? |
| July 14, 2023 JohnO28 | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Tournament Registration Wouldn't it be much easier for SSUSA to set up online payments for tournaments, is this something that is being discussed? If not it should be, it wouZld make it easier on everyone all around. We are already getting charged 4% fees for using CC if we call in to register and give our CC info over the phone. It would cut down on phone calls, snail mail into the main office and steam line everything. That way teams would have the option to pay via CC or even a cash app like PP or Venmo or Zelle instead of having to transfer money from team accounts like those cash apps. They could then implement it being "live" registration like most other associations have so you can see who has already registered to play that event instead of having to wait until registration is closed and then when and if the registered teams get posted. |
| June 30, 2023 JohnO28 | Topic: Teams looking for players Discussion: Pitcher needed for 50 AAA July 8-9 Sturgis MI Both of my regular pitchers are out of town next weekend and we need a pitcher for the weekend. It's One Nation and we have room for a 50 Major. If interested and available email me at Josulli681@gmail.com |
| June 30, 2023 JohnO28 | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Baden Senior Softball Tattooball, I know the spinnerz are lighter and are designed to cause less damage to bats and fly well. My question is have you done actual testing to see if they fly better or worse than the regular tourney balls we play with? |
| June 22, 2023 JohnO28 | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Baden Senior Softball As you've stated in other posts about smaller tourneys that aren't organized by SSUSA the smaller directors don't always follow protocols set in place by SSUSA. But when it comes to the ball why isn't the official ball of SSUSA used at all tourneys? One Nation uses strictly One Nation balls, NSA uses strictly NSA balls, ISSA uses ISSA balls, ISA uses ISA balls. So why is it that SSUSA the largest Senior softball organization in the world sets the standard of what their ball is but doesn't make the directors use the ball at all tourneys that come under the SSUSA umbrella? It's not like they aren't in stock and unavailable and are more expensive. They're at the same price point as all other top Senior balls on the market. |
| June 21, 2023 JohnO28 | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Baden Senior Softball Outside of Vegas I haven't seen these being used anywhere which is odd considering it's supposed to be the official ball of SSUSA... |
| June 9, 2023 JohnO28 | Topic: Tournaments Discussion: Quad City Qualifier JL1919, you know it happens more than you want to admit. |
| June 6, 2023 JohnO28 | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Chicago area 50 AAA team looking for a Pitcher for a few tourneys Due to some schedule conflicts we find ourselves in need of a pitcher for the upcoming Quad City tourney in Rock Island and possibly another down the road. Reach out if you are looking to play and are available to play. josulli681@gmail.com |
| May 31, 2023 JohnO28 | Topic: Tournaments Discussion: Quad City Qualifier I'm going to guess that since payments aren't due until next Tuesday that they won't be posted until the payments are actually received. |
