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Not a horrible summer but pretty darned close. Massive tournament down here this weekend (Buckeye Elite, one of the biggest in the midwest) lost all day Thur, went to 5 inning games with 1:30 time limit for ALL pool games on Friday - and still lost a bunch of games on Fri to rain, cut out all consolation games and cut bracket teams by 2/3, then ended up cutting most of those as well on Sun. LOTS of angry, disgruntled teams and people saying it was a money grab - but not sure what they could have done.
I felt the wrath from one idiot myself on Sat. Had the final pool game where the winner would move on. Still the same rules, 5 innings, 1:30 time limit (if no winner by then and tied, go to a shootout - man on 2nd, 3-2 count for everyone). Visiting team was going thru pitchers, being deliberate, etc., but they tie it in top of 4th. In bottom half, HT loads the bases with 1 out, 1 min left in time limit. VT coach changes pitcher, we tell him that will run out the clock, he's totally fine with it, understands. Blooper to LF, R3 takes off and would have been easily doubled off if caught. Alas, the LF dives and gets his glove on it but it bounces out, game over.
As we're walking away, a parent comes up to us and starts ranting at us about "Are you f@#%#% lazy??? 4 innings? This is #@%% bu@#%@#". Like we made the tournament rules.
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