Just curious... what does USSSA stand for with regards to it's baseball leagues?

Forever Youth Calling?

I wondered which one of you children would burst first. Turned out to be you. Lah, me.

BTW: Based on your "anal retentive" jab and your other derogatory comments about me and my association, perhaps you're the one who needs help with meds.

One thing I know, dear boy: With your vast knowledge of baseball, you've proved you belong on McGriff's.

Chiming in late (REAL LATE)...

Any umpire I would see chewing tobacco on the field while umpiring would have zero credibility. I would question everything they did. VERY unprofessional!

Do the umpires in the majors chew?

Say what you like about Roland, but he does answer this question: United States Specialty Sports Association.

I wouldn't say that his new article (http://baseball.officiating.com/x/article/4439, which is way above average) is flattering to the organization, though.

I can't find articles on the paid section by either Garth or Rich. Does anybody know if I should complain to the management? Were they any good?

-LL

That just goes to show how dumb Carl is.

He lets Rollie write TERRIBLE articles all the time, while he removes past writers' quality articles.

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Once again on the Officiating.com baseball page, 4 of the last 5 articles were written by our pal Rollie. Maybe Officiating.com should change its name to Rollie.com.

[Edited by LDUB on Jul 26th, 2005 at 04:23 PM]

I'm confident in my baseball knowledge. And apparently my knowledge of baseball was good enough for you when you asked me (more than once) to come back as a writer for the paid site.

Say what you want, Carl, but I have enough ego to say confidently that anything I wrote is better than what passes for the tyipcal tripe on the baseball side of the paid site. Same goes for Garth. The only thing there worth reading these days is Tee's column.

Children? Burst? Please. I have no emotional attachment to you or officiating.com. Haven't for quite some time, if ever. I liked you a heckuva lot more 6-7 years ago when you weren't quite the megalomaniac you are now.

Re: DG
 

There may be one USSSA tourney here a year for teams from everywhere to say they've been to Florida. I don't even know if there is one a year. I haven't seen one locally. I guess we aren't part of everywhere.

1. It wasn't, hence the editor's notes. 2. It isn't. 3. Not true. 4. My point, which went over your head, was I had bet you guys couldn't keep from calling attention to your sophomoric tagline. I was right. Amazing! 5. You've been upset since you were passed over for the news editor's job. 6. Remember (everyone else will), I never mention you or your buddy - first, I never attack you or your buddy -first. I only respond when you pull stuff liked "anal retentive." I wonder what your daughter will think about that in twenty years. You're ok with that?

BTW: I can play, too.

YFOS (This one is as easy as yours was.)

Re: Re: DG
 

According to a Dallas Morning News special report on youth baseball organizations I read this past weekend, USSSA Baseball was formed in 1996, sponsors tournaments leading to world series tournaments in ages 6 - 18, and is headquartered in Kissimmee, Florida.

1. So Rich's knowledge wasn't good enough, so you had to put in editors notes? Then why do you fail to put notes in Rollie's articles when he gives bad advise?

You admitted on the forum that Rollie's "Mikey" article was meant for "advanced" umpires, or something to that extent. But no where in the article does it say that. If a rookie umpire reads that, he may very well go out and do what that article says.

2 & 3. 4 out of the last 5 baseball articles are Wiederlanders. Carl, I know Officiating.com is your website, and you want it to do well. But, you have to realize, as much as you would like it to be, the baseball section is not up to par. All you have is two writers. Rollie writes 3 or 4 articles for every 1 Tee writes. Rich and Garth wrote good articles. It is a shame that you would pull a stunt like this and remove their articles. You should be thanking Tee every chance you get, for he is the only reason to ever check out the Officiating.com baseball page.

4. Whatever.

5. News editor? You mean the guy who types out the NF rule changes once a year?

Here is a quote from the article announcing the Officiating.com news section:



So Officiating.com is awesome because every weekday there are new news stories for us to read?

A news story titled "NFHS Announces Officers of the NIAAA" was put out on 1-26-05. The next news story, "NFHS Coaches of the Year" does not appear untill 3-14-05. (Remember the news section covers all sports) I really am glad that I made the news section the first stop on my surf every day. I really enjoyed no new stories for a month and a half. What happned to new stories "every weekday"?


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Rich, email me, I have something for you.

Just to clarify, Mickey Mantle, Connie Mack, and Stan Musial are different age divisions in a single organization - AABC. They're not separate "leagues."

Three of the last five were written by Rollie. The next month looks like this: Roland, Emerling, Roland, Tee, Roland, Muller, Gallant, Roland, Emerling, Muller, Roland, Carl, Roland, Muller, Hickey, Carl, Roland, Carl, Tee, Carl, Gallant, Tee, Gallant, Gallant, Tee. (Roland's articles are a series on summer ball that I wanted to publish while summer ball was still operating.)

The Google search for news goes dead whenever they change their parameters. We're working on that, and we expect the news section to be up and running within the week.

Be sure to read my article on 12 August. It might give you insight into how this operation works.

That is incorrect. Here are the last 5 articles, 4 by Rollie, and one by Tee.

Summer Ball Blues — Part I
A USSSA tournament snafu
By Roland Wiederaenders
July 26th, 2005

What's the Catch?
Where's the infield?
By Roland Wiederaenders
July 21st, 2005

Strikes & Outs — Part VIII
Oh yeah? I don't believe it!
By T Alan Christensen
July 20th, 2005

We All Live In A Yellow Submarine
By Roland Wiederaenders
July 19th, 2005

Pregame Meeting
By Roland Wiederaenders
July 15th, 2005

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Dave, I did not know that. Thanks for the info. I do know they rarely have tourneys in St. Pete/Clearwater, that I have seen or heard of. A.A.U Florida, out of Lakeland rules the travel ball circuit here. Chet Lemmon runs that group. The summer tourneys are usually sanctioned by I.B.C. (I believe that's International Baseball Congress)

Anyway, since he loves us so much, I was actually being a Smarta$$ to BlueDude and his blanket statement everywhere comment.