Protecting Our Nation's Youth

Thanks. I never knew that.

"Protecting Our Nation's Youth"

:D There's an echo in here, whoah :D

":D There's an echo in here, whoah :D "

Sorry...I just couldn't resist!:cool:

I can understand telling a pony whoah. But, how can you tell an acronym whoah? :cool:

Since PONY is an acronym, I guess their division names must be too.

Ok, what does MUSTANG mean? PINTO? COLT? BRONCO?

And, a gold STAR (Silly Tired Acronyms Reek) from the SEA (Society for the Elimination of Acronyms) to anyone who can tell us the meaning of the acronym PALOMINO! :D

Persons Against Linguistic Observations Made In Nice Overtones. :p

Asa vs PONY
 

Asa is an organization run by insurance brokers with the most significant dollar goal of getting insurance commissions and insurance administration fees. PONY started as a Pennsylvania organization called to protect our neighborhood youth. Thinking it was better to get kids onto ballfields as opposed to buying and selling drugs on town street corners. The PONY concept struck accord across much of America, particularly because of the old LL rules that made 12 the oldest age allowed of play Little League. Because of the nationwide interest, PONY is now know as protect our nation's youth.

In New Jersey, PONY is now an important organization for girls fastpitch softball. An organization not without critics and not without significant challenge from NSA and a couple of other newcomers. But, at least PONY is working to let girls play competitive softball in NJ. ASA is doing absolutley nothing in NJ for young girls.

Correct. USSSA requires the batter-baserunner to drop the bat prior to reaching 1st base, during a live ball. However, you can do a Pedro Cerranno and hit a homerun and then carry the bat around the bags with you.

Apparently this is a SP rule. I find no mention of it in the USSSA FP rulebook.

EdJW
 

This is so unnecessary and ruined what could have been an educational and informative post. I am not an ASA umpire (yet), but the education provided by the ASA to their umpires has been significant in terms of my education as an umpire primarily from this forum.
If your only reason to be registered in this forum is to slam ASA, you are probably wasting your time because most of the Blues here are loyal and you won't change their minds. I would suggest that you register with blogspot.com and set up an anti ASA blog so that those who care and want to read your rants will have an opportunity to do so. Blogspot also provides a comments section so that other umps who read your blogs can respond.
Even though you have only been here for a little over a year, at least you can say it was eventful. After you get your new blog set up, why don't you come here one last time and let us know what the web address is so that we can visit it and read what you have to say there.

Ed, it's been nice knowing you and farewell.

Yes it is a SP rule. I guess in my mind I cant see any reason to allow someone to carry the bat around the bases if they choose to. There just isnt any reason to allow it. I can think of plenty to not allow it.

And they would be?

EdJW's grammar...
 

Since you like to slam on the English of others, I would like to point out that it's "struck a chord" and not "struck accord".