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| Aug. 7 JohnO28 Men's 50 107 posts | 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. |
