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Real name:
Donald Harder
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Murfreesboro, TN
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Men's 60
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| Sept. 18, 2024 Scott Harder | Topic: Players looking to join a team Discussion: 50+ Outfielder looking to play in Vegas Worlds 9/26-9/29 UPDATE: I will be playing in Vegas so I'm no longer available. Thank you for your interest |
| Sept. 17, 2024 Scott Harder | Topic: Rules of the game Discussion: Rule interpretation; just for fun!! We had an interesting call this weekend and I'm sure they got it wrong but for all you rule junkies I thought you would find this interesting: Bases Loaded, No Outs, inning ending 5th Run on 3rd base. Batter hits a ground ball to first baseman, who catches the ball, hesitates for a second (trying to tag the runner on 1st), then decides to step on the bag and throw home. The batter who is running to first is in the runner's lane and gets hit by the thrown ball. The other team contested that the runner has to get out of the way, even though he stayed in the clearly marked lane, and the runner coming home should be called out. The umpire agreed and called it a double play. For the record, I would never complain because the batter made a bigger mistake than the umpire and he never should have put the umps in the position to get involved. ATT Presents: "You make the call" Is he out or did they miss that one? |
| Sept. 12, 2024 Scott Harder | Topic: Players looking to join a team Discussion: 50+ Outfielder looking to play in Vegas Worlds 9/26-9/29 If you find your team needs a good outfielder who can run and also play infield, I would love to play in the Vegas world tournament. I'm from TN and in my humble opinion, would be a solid pick up for any team. Call or text me 615-439-5162 and I can share my credentials. |
| July 16, 2024 Scott Harder | Topic: Teams looking for players Discussion: 60 Major Team from Ohio Inquiring for shortstop ISA Wolrds Columbus Indiana Sad to see your team backed out of the Columbus IN tournament. Hope your SS gets back soon. |
| July 7, 2024 Scott Harder | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: ISA Worlds It's at the bottom, scroll all the way down to the last page. It shows 13 teams |
| July 7, 2024 Scott Harder | Topic: Teams looking for players Discussion: Player looking for team Hey Randy, can you share where you live and what positions you play? It matters because of the rules are slightly different in Sr. Softball and vary by association. You may be surprised to experience senior ball that is as or more competitive as young men version of today. |
| June 27, 2024 Scott Harder | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Coaches who are jerks? Dave, I imagine I may be biased but I am aware of my biases. I don't have a dog in this race. I'm looking at this from a "what's best for the game" perspective. My overall objective is to get and keep as many players in the game as possible. We all have seen softball in general deteriorate because of declining participation. Anything that takes healthy and committed players off the field should be avoided, if possible. I'm also familiar with the individuals involved on both sides and based on my personal experience it's a bad situation. Let's hope for everyone's sake that the threats of violence and vindictiveness will not be followed through on and people will do the right thing. It's hard for me to believe that grown senior men can be so petty. I suppose years of drug and alcohol abuse can do that to someone's brain. Just wish they would keep it out of the game. |
| June 27, 2024 Scott Harder | Topic: Teams looking for players Discussion: Need a good outfielder f Please join this team so the coach will release the players who chose to play with another team |
| June 27, 2024 Scott Harder | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Coaches who are jerks? Thanks Dave, that's helpful. Most managers wouldn't want players on their roster who do not want to be there, which would trigger #3 in your scenarios. However, I would think documented threats of violence and unsportsmanlike behavior may allow SSUSA to step in and declare his behavior unacceptable and apply appropriate penalties. What's worse is this coach posted on this message board that now he needs players; hopefully, no one will join his team without knowing what they are getting themselves into. |
| June 26, 2024 Scott Harder | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Coaches who are jerks? A couple friends signed a roster and played on a team that turned out to be a bunch of drunken fools and jerks. They want to move off of that team an onto another team, but in true dirt bag fashion the original coach will not release them from his roster. He has even put out text to suggest he trying to block them from being able to play in SSUSA. Surely, there has to be a way to get away from this really bad person who happens to be the coach. What do you suggest for my friend? We've asked the coach several times and now he's just being vindictive and evil. |
| June 24, 2024 Scott Harder | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Best pitcher shin pads that cover the knee A friend of mine says you might want to look at shin guards used for Karate/Jiu jitsu. They are super light enough to keep them on between innings and at bat. |
| June 24, 2024 Scott Harder | Topic: Tournaments Discussion: Columbus Indiana That's OK Tim, I get the same results when I buy a lottery ticket :). That's why I thought a link, rather than the actual schedule would be better, because it would still be on them to keep it accurate. |
| June 24, 2024 Scott Harder | Topic: Tournaments Discussion: Columbus Indiana I think I know the answer to this question, but I occasionally buy a lottery ticket just in case. The ISA tournament set for Columbus in July is listed on your tournament list even though it's ISA not SSUSA. Is there a way you could post a link to the schedule here? ISA seems to be Challenged with technology acumen and it would be nice to know the details before we arrive at the wrong park at the wrong time. I suspect you are going to tell me to contact ISA but maybe you can help them figure out how to post a schedule so players can see it? |
| June 11, 2024 Scott Harder | Topic: Teams looking for players Discussion: 50 AAA outfielder needed for TOC Assuming you mean Vegas world tournament. Can you share from which state your team is based? |
| June 10, 2024 Scott Harder | Topic: Teams looking for players Discussion: 50 AAA outfielder needed for TOC Can you clarify to which TOC you are referring? |
| June 3, 2024 Scott Harder | Topic: Rules of the game Discussion: Flip Flop rule The flip-flop rule is a good way to keep things from getting out of hand. No reason to spend another 20 minutes piling on. However, it is still a potential penalty to the team that was originally the visitors if there is a tie in runs allowed and it rolls to other criteria. But mostly, it's a benefit for the team who was originally the home team as their opponent just lost an inning of potential run scoring. It's the same effect on the team that was originally the visitors as being the home team from the beginning. It does happen once in a while, not super rare. |
| May 16, 2024 Scott Harder | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Asking for a friend; Individual Ratings My question relates to a circumstance where a new (not young) player who has never played senior ball just retired and moved into our area. He wants to play on the weekends and has found a AAA team that will let him join. However, there is a major team that wants to use him as a fill in player for one tournament. If he fills in or plays for the Major team in one or two tournaments, will that affect his eligibility to play on his committed AAA team? I've been reading everything SSUSA has posted about ratings and there is very little about how individuals are rated that I can find; rating information seems to focus on team ratings, not individuals. I'm willing to admit my ignorance and be directed to any information that may exist. |
| May 9, 2024 Scott Harder | Topic: Bats Discussion: Bat standards Can we test all bats before the tournament? I would hate to be playing in a tournament and someone who is getting beat without evidence, accuses someone else of using altered bats, (which happens all the time). So they stop the game confiscate the bat, have it tested, and it fails, not because it's been altered but just because it's been used; the penalties start raining down on the player and the team and no one has done anything wrong. If my bat is going to fail the test, I would like to know that before the tournament starts so I can get a replacement and not get put in softball jail. |
| March 22, 2024 Scott Harder | Topic: Tournaments Discussion: Music City results Please don't take this as a criticism, but I agree with JohnO28. The first thing I noticed about the Baden ball was that it takes on the color of the infield after the first inning. I play mostly in the OF and that ball moves like no other I've played with. It may be hot bats, but the other balls I have to catch don't seem to jump around, slice, and move like the Baden. Again, not complaining just offering an observation. |
| March 19, 2024 Scott Harder | Topic: Tournaments Discussion: Music City results I want to thank SSUSA for holding this tournament, last year was impacted by the weather and made it hard on everyone. This year's weather was much better and closer to what normal weather is for this time of year; it was nice and fun to play. In the spirit of providing input, I would like to share a few of my observations, which may be worthless, but I can try. 1. The game scheduled times are too short; needs to be 1:30 not 1:20. We had one field that was an entire game behind before noon on Saturday. This snowballed with every game getting further behind. This caused the tournament directors to move the later games into Sunday morning. First time in my life I can remember playing at 7:30am, made especially hard when we didn't get off the field until 10:30pm the night before. Maybe put a couple games on Friday evening to relieve the pressure on the Saturday schedule. Another problem was the delays between games. After a double extra inning game, the next game was delayed 15 minutes before it started. If we shortened the pool play time limit and made the rest period only 5 minutes before the next game, this may help keep games on time. That was the only real issue I saw and it impacted a lot of people and plans. 2. The Baden ball is a fair ball, you have to hit it to get it out, but it does fly when struck well. However, what I have noticed since Vegas 2 years ago when it first came out, finally became obvious to me yesterday; that particular ball knuckles and moves around on a line drive worse than anything I've ever played with. I saw dozens of examples this weekend of line drive that are normally caught are missed because it wasn't taking a straight trajectory. These kind of hits have been part of the game forever, but they used to be rare. The games ran long because the outfielders on every field every level were unable to make catches that would normally be caught. Not sure how to quantify it but I'm curious if anyone else has observed the same thing? 3. Not a big deal but I think you have the 50 platinum results wrong. MP left before the final game, they were undefeated and waiting for the losers bracket to finish. They were the ones who left so they should be made the losers of both championship games, which would make Texas Steel the winners. TX stayed and were ready to play but MP left. MP should not be declared the winners just because they left. It should be TX Steel first, MP second, 615 third |
