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.
I still umpire slow pitch (I gave up Fast Pitch) and the reason the sport is dying is because of crap like that. Sandbagging to play in lower leagues so you can dominate and then just being an ass the entire time.
I played in the lowest level league in Ankeny a few years ago and I had two college baseball players on my team and we lost every game and got 10 runned most of the time. I quit and haven't been 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 leagueI still umpire slow pitch (I gave up Fast Pitch) and the reason the sport is dying is because of crap like that. Sandbagging to play in lower leagues so you can dominate and then just being an ass the entire time.
Waterloo and Cedar Falls basically went to a zero tolerance policy with arguing about 4 years go and it's really worked. We've weeded out the true ******** and rec teams come out and just have fun and drink beer. It's worked well.
LOSERI’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
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Ya there's a really distinctive break in the pinky people in Chicago get from new 16 inchers
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).
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.I have no idea what this sentence means could you please translate.
George and the guys he hired gave as well as they took. I started playing fast-pitch in the mid/late 80's and one of my first tastes of how intense sub-state tourneys were was when I was called out on strikes. I turned around looked at the ump...held up my index finger and calmly state "you missed one". Well, on my way back to the dugout the manager and a few players came flying out telling me not to turn around. Of course with that and being young and stupid I did and found out the ump had thrown down his mask and was pursuing me to KMA! He thought I had flipped him off. After the game we had a good talk but man......was that intense!
soft16" is played in Marshalltown and they wear gloves.
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