On deck batters

JefferMC · #1 (**permalink**) Tue Jun 29, 2010, 11:09am

What I found ironic was a situation I observed Sunday morning. The drawn circles were less than 30 feet from the plate. One player from the 1B dugout apparently decided it was too close and drew her own circle with a bat about 20 feet further down the 1B fence. In fact, she turned her back on an active batter while drawing this "safer" circle.

She was not only only one who decided not to use the provided circles (I don't know that any of them did, actually), but the only one who I observed with her back to the batter while doing so.

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As many of you know, Dixie Youth wants the on-deck batter behind the batter. Many kids (and coaches) have trouble making the adjustment as they first venture out into ASA (and alphabet soup) play.

MD Longhorn · #2 (**permalink**) Tue Jun 29, 2010, 12:16pm

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Originally Posted by JefferMC

As many of you know, Dixie Youth wants the on-deck batter behind the batter. Many kids (and coaches) have trouble making the adjustment as they first venture out into ASA (and alphabet soup) play.

One of the many many reasons not to let your kids play Dixie.

Dakota · #3 (**permalink**) Tue Jun 29, 2010, 12:23pm

If safety is that big a concern (and with some of the fields, it IS a concern), keep the ODB in the "team area"... i.e. behind the fence.

JefferMC · #4 (**permalink**) Wed Jun 30, 2010, 09:02am

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Originally Posted by mbcrowder

One of the many many reasons not to let your kids play Dixie.

In most places you play what's in your town. Dixie Youth is in mine. Granted, Little League is in the next town, but half (or more) of rec is playing with your friends from school, etc.

MD Longhorn · #5 (**permalink**) Wed Jun 30, 2010, 09:08am

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Originally Posted by JefferMC

In most places you play what's in your town. Dixie Youth is in mine. Granted, Little League is in the next town, but half (or more) of rec is playing with your friends from school, etc.

Understood (and LL is not that much a step up.) I would suggest getting involved and trying to sway the board or tptb to change to a real softball organization.

JefferMC · #6 (**permalink**) Wed Jun 30, 2010, 09:30am

For a couple of years (2005, 2006) when the league had a fallout with Dixie, baseball went USSSA and softball went Babe Ruth. Not much (if any) of an improvement. The next year they decided to return to Dixie Youth. Babe Ruth softball is just about non-existant in this state.

By the time they were leaving Babe Ruth, one DD had aged out of rec and the other was lost to the dark side (soccer), so my involvement had reached about nil.

Bandit · #7 (**permalink**) Thu Jul 01, 2010, 02:37pm

NSA allows "either" circle to be used.

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