This guy probably rode the pine in HS because "His coach and his family didn't get along, and had a personal vendetta against him" thus keeping him out of the major leagues.
Anyone know this slow pitch softball player?
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Parks/Rec office: "The lowest league plays on Wednesdays."
Manager: "My team can only play on Wednesdays."
Parks/Rec office: "Your team hasn't lost a game in that league in 3 years."
Manager: "Yeah, I know...but Wednesday is really the only night that my guys can make it."
Manager: *shows up to C4/C5 ball with team full of C1/C2 players*
That has been my experience in both softball and basketball in ankeny. We stopped fielding teams because no one was interested in playing when the games weren't even competitive. There are definitely too many teams that sandbag, 1 game we actually had a shot at winning; so we purposely walked a guy that had hit 2 home runs already and he started freaking out cussing and saying he wanted to wait in the parking lot for the pitcher. It was insane, we still ended up losing like 25-23 but my god it is the lowest level option available and people still acted like that.
In basketball our tallest player in the rec d league (lowest level) was 6'4, we played 3 teams who had starting lineups with no one under 6'4. I get height isn't everything in basketball but in rec d league it makes a huge difference.
Sandbagging pissed me off in intramurals in college and I haven't gone back.
I’ve heard good things about the CF leagues but I have yet to really have a good experience in the waterloo league. We’ve played in it the last three or four years and average maybe 2 wins every year. We’re mostly just there to have fun but continuously play teams that take it way more serious than us (take walk after walk if our pitcher is struggling even if we’re already down double digits. Yell at umps. Etc.) it’s just not fun and I think this is our last year even though a couple umps have told us they want us to stick around cause they need more young people. We even “stacked” a team last year for an 8 week fall league and 7 of our 10 players were all conference baseball players and we still only went like 2-6 in the lowest league
This led me down his other rants of 'Corvette guy' and 'basketball guy'. Forgot how great these are
My overly competitive slowpitch story involved a men's league team playing an all female team. Here in the dirty, there was only one all female team, so they put the team in with our "C/D" league, which was pretty unfair to begin with because the female team was stacked, traveled to tournaments, had professional looking uniforms, the whole nine.
Well, their coach was a real ***hat rule Nazi, where our work team was mainly out to have fun, drink a beer or two, and enjoy the weather.
Apparently, I didn't substitute appropriately from one inning to the next, and the opposing coach called us out on it, I was called out, and disqualified for the rest of the game. I still think to this day he did it cause he wasn't happy we were keeping the game competitive and he was looking for a way to give his team the edge (which they ended up winning in the end).
Well, their coach was a real ***hat rule Nazi, where our work team was mainly out to have fun, drink a beer or two, and enjoy the weather.
Apparently, I didn't substitute appropriately from one inning to the next, and the opposing coach called us out on it, I was called out, and disqualified for the rest of the game. I still think to this day he did it cause he wasn't happy we were keeping the game competitive and he was looking for a way to give his team the edge (which they ended up winning in the end).
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Gee, that doesn't sound anything like the Great Des Moines Softball Complex leagues that I remember. 
I played out there for 2 years and never again. Its all a bunch of drunks who think they are playing for a championship every night. I remember running into 2 or 3 guys from high school who couldnt hit a baseball to save their lives were all of a sudden big shot softball players.
Everything everyone else has mentioned I witnessed in that league. I had a team that had won the Tuesday night league in Ankeny, next year we went to Des Moines and somehow got put in the best league because that was the only day of the week we could all make it. I remember alot of 25-4 type games, these d-bags would always get 3 singles in a row so they could load the bases before they "wasted" one of their home runs.
I played out there for 2 years and never again. Its all a bunch of drunks who think they are playing for a championship every night. I remember running into 2 or 3 guys from high school who couldnt hit a baseball to save their lives were all of a sudden big shot softball players.
Everything everyone else has mentioned I witnessed in that league. I had a team that had won the Tuesday night league in Ankeny, next year we went to Des Moines and somehow got put in the best league because that was the only day of the week we could all make it. I remember alot of 25-4 type games, these d-bags would always get 3 singles in a row so they could load the bases before they "wasted" one of their home runs.
This made me stop to laugh. I did not know there were coaches in slow pitch.
16 inch softballs are rock hard brand new and you don't use gloves. So using a new ball causes a pinky break that is pretty common in Chicago(the only place i really know 16 inch is played). They soften up as you hit them.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1986-09-03-8603050885-story.html
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CYEATHAWK, we did have some good times in the 80s playing fast pitch. George Davis was part of the problem. All he cared about was his beer sales and generally that is not a good combination. Beer + testosterone = bad judgement! Competitive juices flow during those games due to it isn’t easy to hit the really good pitchers. There was an ump that sometimes came drunk and did a terrible job. One night in a city championship game he missed pitches that were strikes and our pitcher was getting quite upset. Bases were loaded and our pitcher and catcher have a conference. The very next pitch was a rise ball and our catcher stays down like it’s a drop ball. The pitch hits the umpire straight in the mask and he takes two steps backwards and falls on his butt. He wasn’t hurt but I don’t believe he umped another one of our games drunk again.
I graduated high school with the guy. Never really interacted with him outside of a couple of classes, but he was nice enough. I'll never be surprised by something stupid a member of our class does though.
This makes me want to start umping slow pitch so I can **** talk some of these losers. I got knocked unconscious by a lineman once and it wasn't too bad.
Waterloo is definitely more competitive and they haven't solved the 'superteams' issue because most of their board is who is playing on those superteams. They also only have 3 umps that do tournaments and have done high level stuff. Once you get past those 3 of us, it gets pretty bad, pretty fast.
CF is much more laid back and better run overall. All umps are USA Softball certified and the city Rec Department backs it much better. The only downside is that the diamonds aren't as nice. Just older and don't get the constant maintenance that Waterloo does. Outside of Monday nights, it's truly a rec league out there. I'd recommend it!
