What a way to win
 

16A last chance qualifier. Game time is forfiet time and the coach from one team made sure the TD call it. The other team's 8th and 9th player did not plan for Holiday traffic and a drive that normally takes under 4 hours took over 6 hours.

I have mixed feeling on this one. The rule is the rule and the coach is trying to give his ladies all the advantage he can to make sure they win the one birth. On the other hand, let them prove it on the field.

BTW the two girls arrived one minute after the games was called by the TD.

Why weren't they staying closer than 4 hours away? I feel badly for the girls, but it's their parents who screwed them over. I mean, hello? Fourth of July? Lots of people traveling? Traffic friggin' sucks?

I have a little sympathy towards the team, but not that much.

No sympathy here either, they should have adjusted their time or gotten a freaking motel room. However, a coach who is so overly anxious to needle the TD into following the policy like that is a coach who is ready for small college ball, and the scorn that comes with attitudes like that (channeling what happened in JUCO ball in Minnesota). :rolleyes:

Maybe the coach had the same thing happen to his team once.

To be fair to the coach that had the TD call it. His team flew out of Colorado at 2 am to make sure they made the first game.

Wow, one piss-poor planner taking it out on another piss-poor planner. Lovely world you fast-pitch folks are in. :rolleyes:

Actually, I think they are in a great spot. In today's tough economy, they have just increased the value of their investment. The loser's bracket can offer them a chance to play up to twice as many games for the same entry fee. :)

Assuming they can win one.

Boo Hoo
 

Thats the the way ball bounces. I'm late for a gig there are consequences.

Actually I'm compulsively early. :cool:

When I say I'll meet you there at noon I really mean 11.45 am.

I love my time thing.

That should be "berth", not "birth". I don't believe a softball team can bring a baby into the world. Dave

Well, then you've never seen some of the........nevermind!:D

I know a college team that did it three times in one year! :cool:

maybe 3 players on a team but not the "team"

It would be the team if all 3 were fathered by the same daddy. :cool:

On a related note (pun intended).
 

Years ago, I umpired a H.S. jr. varsity softball game involving two Toledo, Ohio, high schools (one Catholic and one public), in which the public school was mercied (I think that is how that verb's past tense is spelled). I will not name the public school in order to protect the guilty or innocent, but the public H.S. was the home team and their softball diamond was behind the parking lot which was behind the school.

After the game I was at my gear getting out of my plate gear when three members of the home team walked by. One of them was holding a baby about 18 months old. I told the girl holding the baby that I thought it was great that her little sister came to watch her play. The three of them started laughing very hard. The baby was not the player's little sister but her daughter, :eek:.

MTD, Sr.