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whits23
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 Posted - 02/28/2010 : 18:01:34
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| You should keep the bat and wear it as a necklace IE flav a flav and everyone will know your crackedbats from the nwba board |
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buzzworthy
19 Posts |
Posted - 02/28/2010 : 18:44:37
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| to BBmaniac, I can assure you that there's no lack of confidence in the "real" Stallions team as you call it. The fact is, like many 14U teams they have freshman on their roster who are not allowed to play with the team until school ball is over. They also had at least one injured player out. So they were down at least 4 players for much of the weekend. Unlike some other teams, they don't carry 16-18 players. The fact that 3 Astros played with them this weekend is nothing more than the result of the good relationship between the two teams and their coaching staffs. Those 3 are 8th graders who basically don't have a team to play on until after school is out. Considering that the Stallions hadn't had one single practice game and had a total of 2 field practices before this tournament, I think they have every reason to be fully confident. |
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mammabee
95 Posts |
Posted - 02/28/2010 : 19:49:23
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well sir the titans none a less found there way around those stallions pick-ups to go play a whale of game against vipers for the finals.
its cold fun for all in febuary !
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Originally posted by buzzworthy
to BBmaniac, I can assure you that there's no lack of confidence in the "real" Stallions team as you call it. The fact is, like many 14U teams they have freshman on their roster who are not allowed to play with the team until school ball is over. They also had at least one injured player out. So they were down at least 4 players for much of the weekend. Unlike some other teams, they don't carry 16-18 players. The fact that 3 Astros played with them this weekend is nothing more than the result of the good relationship between the two teams and their coaching staffs. Those 3 are 8th graders who basically don't have a team to play on until after school is out. Considering that the Stallions hadn't had one single practice game and had a total of 2 field practices before this tournament, I think they have every reason to be fully confident.
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jaguars18
245 Posts |
Posted - 02/28/2010 : 19:53:37
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| Not that i care either way but if you have 15 players in the dug out you are not short on players. |
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mikewells
45 Posts |
Posted - 03/01/2010 : 00:04:58
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Originally posted by 6-4-3
The TG Squad was thrown together last minute from the 2 squads on Friday night. Basically used it to get some work in and get some game experience for those who could be there.
Holy Winter Tournament, Batman !
Ma and Pa of a TG player said most of team "A" was to be there
I didnt go cuz couldn't bring my space heater ! |
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sandlot
21 Posts |
Posted - 03/01/2010 : 10:17:42
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| Did anyone see the Champsionship game?? What happened?? PC seemed to be dominating until then! |
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Alter-Ego
802 Posts |
Posted - 03/01/2010 : 12:20:39
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The Titans had a great weekend and show they will be right in the mix this season. It was good to see and play them this weekend. They deserve a big congratulations for winning the tournament. Chance is a really good coach, and the players executed his plan very well. It showed in the results.
Jaguar,
15 players in the dugout does not mean 15 players are available to play. Also, if you are trying to keep pitchers to around the 30 pitch each, having only 3 or 4 won't get it. I am sure there were some teams that chose to throw pitchers 70 or 80 pitches but it was not our intention to do so at this early stage, with the weather the way it was.
All in all it was a great weekend, with great ball, and a great time seeing a lot of baseball friends we had not seen since the end of last season. |
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baseballbob
7 Posts |
Posted - 03/01/2010 : 13:36:25
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| Always here the same excuses of why a team lost. Give some props to Homeplate Chili Dogs for battling and not giving up and coming from behind. Says a lot about their character this earlier in the season!!! |
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baseballbob
7 Posts |
Posted - 03/01/2010 : 13:38:31
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| Congrats to Homeplate Chili Dogs for battling back and winning the silver bracket!!!!! |
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jaguars18
245 Posts |
Posted - 03/01/2010 : 17:26:07
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Chili dogs played it right and the path was layed out for them. nice job
Alter i agree with you; but to say they had to pick up players because they were short is a bad point as they had more players there than almost any team there from what i could tell. Would they have picked up worse players to save their arms? I think not. It is what it is and no complaints but no need to apologize for picking up the best players possible. All is fair in love,war and travel ball. |
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coachdan06
433 Posts |
Posted - 03/01/2010 : 19:11:24
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Originally posted by baseballbob
Always here the same excuses of why a team lost. Give some props to Homeplate Chili Dogs for battling and not giving up and coming from behind. Says a lot about their character this earlier in the season!!!
And congrats to yourself too Baseball Bob for calling it the way it is :
A team lost because the other team was better. End of story.
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14U ECB Stallions
16 Posts |
Posted - 03/01/2010 : 22:03:45
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Since everyone seems to be SO interested or upset about the Stallions having additional players from the Astros this Spring, let me clear up a few things.
We (the Stallions) have several of our 14 man roster playing JV Ball, one playing on his high school team in Alabama until May. The Astros have all but three. So that we could have a full practice squad and an ability to play in March and April, Coach Roberts (the Astros coach) and I agreed to pool the available players so that we could potentially play each week until our summer teams were at full strength. Many of our players like getting exposure in front of Coach Roberts, and he is a tremendous teacher. I’m learning each practice and game from him myself,
We don’t know from week-to-week which players will be available because some of the JV teams have games or call practices on the weekends at the last minute. So we have a total of 16 players available in the pool, and no clue each weekend who might be available, or who is injured, but confident we will have at least 10-11. This weekend, we actually had more than we had anticipated earlier in the week (which we welcomed). Every family contributed financially to provide us an opportunity to practice and play some tournaments in this early Spring. So we didn't "pick up players" for the tournament. We are playing as a team until mid April.
I’m sorry this upsets so many of you. I do think it is ridiculous that some of you have jumped to the conclusion that we are trophy hunting, or doing this for anything other than the aforementioned reasons. I know that my coaching friends understand, so I guess I’m just addressing those behind the fence that get WAY to caught up in all of this.
Congrats to Chance and the Titans. As I told Chance in my congratulatory email this morning, they just played a better game in every facet than we did Sunday afternoon. And it provided us some things to work on at our next practice. Those kinds of games are a blast to play in, and even more fun to coach.
Scott Pederson
Manager
14U East Cobb Stallions
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Alter-Ego
802 Posts |
Posted - 03/02/2010 : 11:17:49
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6-4-3,
The first tiebreaker is run differential. But differential for any one game is capped at 7 runs. All three teams lost by more than 7, but were all capped at 7 so the differential of their wins became the tiebreaker. Chilidogs won by 2, 13U Astros won by 5 and the Sharon Springs Spartans won by 6. Hence why they were seeded as 11, 12, and 13. |
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mammabee
95 Posts |
Posted - 03/13/2010 : 12:50:16
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were searching up n down dont see ecb titans on the new tripple crown next week ?
as the best team out of there park active dont they play each week ? |
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JimShwatz
34 Posts |
Posted - 03/13/2010 : 19:13:10
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mammabee-
After the Titans beat up on the teams in the spring frost,they dont have much more to prove. They may play all 15u tourneys with the Astros til the Elite. |
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crackedbats
160 Posts |
Posted - 03/14/2010 : 06:40:55
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| dont they kinda need to qualify first? |
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mammabee
95 Posts |
Posted - 03/14/2010 : 10:27:08
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O Yea I see
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Originally posted by JimShwatz
mammabee-
After the Titans beat up on the teams in the spring frost,they dont have much more to prove. They may play all 15u tourneys with the Astros til the Elite.
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13udad1234
34 Posts |
Posted - 03/14/2010 : 10:41:20
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Originally posted by JimShwatz
mammabee-
After the Titans beat up on the teams in the spring frost,they dont have much more to prove. They may play all 15u tourneys with the Astros til the Elite.
1.They haven't qualified buddy.
2.Prospot came third in the atl super nit last year look what happened to them
3.They have a schedule posted on there website |
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BBmaniac
24 Posts |
Posted - 03/14/2010 : 13:02:42
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| JimS.......Titans beat up on Spring Frost Teams????? yeh they won, but do you really think that this one tournament proved they have no competition at 14U? This is a pretty arogant comment after just one tournament. They did best two quality teams but by just one run in each of those games. Many of the the teams in the Spring Frost were just getting going without a lot of practice since many do not have the off season facilities available to them that ECB teams have. some were short handed.....Let's give it a few weeks before making those reservation at Disney |
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Alter-Ego
802 Posts |
Posted - 03/15/2010 : 09:39:05
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I would think that any team that could be playing would do so with the limited amount of time teams have been able to get out on a field.
One tournament with a lot of rusty players does not prove anything for anyone.
Jim, I am not sure I would have used the words "beat up on...".
They should enjoy the win but not expect that one win early in the spring gets them ready for the season ahead of them. I don't think their coach is thinking that way. |
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jaguars18
245 Posts |
Posted - 03/15/2010 : 13:34:19
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| some where short handed and some loaded up when they were short handed |
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goyard
217 Posts |
Posted - 03/15/2010 : 15:52:10
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AND JUST LIKE THAT....HERE WE GO AGAIN...BRING OUT THE VIOLINS |
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JimShwatz
34 Posts |
Posted - 03/15/2010 : 18:04:40
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13udad1234~
Do you really think you have to qualify? Send USSSA a check for the entry fee and they will get you qualified. There were teams last year 13u,that did not make top 5 in most USSSA tourneys they played,not to mention SUPER DUPER NIT. |
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whits23
596 Posts |
Posted - 03/16/2010 : 09:59:13
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Sort of like last year when trip crwn said everyone who played in their tourney qualified as they found out global ws was same weekend.
The word qualify only means "you qualify to pay entry fee"
does anyone else hate the day before parade, get together and all that crap that is good at age 8? Last year at MB it was nothing more than a way to get you to pay for $4 water and $7 hamburgers for 2 hours. Requiring teams to show up in uniform or in any capacity for a non game event is bogus. Any bets on rain this weekend? |
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Alter-Ego
802 Posts |
Posted - 03/16/2010 : 16:15:25
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Jim,
I would say this year will be a little tougher, although not impossible. They have removed some of the "2 berth" events. Now that does not mean that some teams that qualify in states like CO, UT, etc will not decline their bids, but last year the at-large berths went to teams that went to at least 3 Super NIT's and played in their state tournament. It is not as easy as sending a check, like most other tournaments are. |
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